New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
A n ew an d
Alb sorbino
Account Of
Life in Realms
Where 1t Is AL
ways Summer

CIldQOWS III IQC SOUCn Co0S,
just published by the Century Com
pany; and it's an absorbing narra-
tive, rich in tropical beauty, full
of penetrating spirit of strange
ness and mystery, and constantly
touched by sense of the funda-
mental friendliness which distin-
guishes human nature taken by and
large.
The book carries us far into
warm, little known waters. We are
aboard the stanch Morning Star.
Here is picture:
r SLEPT on the deck. 1t was sick
Il eningly hot below. The squalls had
passed, and as we neared Hiva-oa the
sea became CLASSY smooth, but the
leagues long, lazy roll of it rocked the
schooner like cradle.
The night before the islands were
TO come into view the sea was lit By
phosphorescence so magniticently that
even my shipmates, absorbed in ecarte
below, called to one another to view it,
The engine took us along at about six
knots, and every gentle wave that
broke was a lamp of loveliness. The
wake of the morning star was a milky
path lit with trembling fragments of
brilliancy, and below the surface, be-
side the rudder, was a strip of green
light from which a billion sparks of
fire shot to the air. Far behind, until
The horizon closed upon the ocean, or
wake was curiously remindful of the
boulevard Of great city seen through
mist, the lights fading in the am
distance, but sparkling still.
| went forward and stood by the
cathead. The blue water stirred by
the bow was wonderfully bright, a mass
of coruscating phosphorescence that
lighted the prov like a lamp. 1t was
as If lightning played beneath the
waves, 50 luminous, so scintillating the
water and it's reflection upon the ship
En- Fete
The living organisms OF the sea were
On fete that night, as though to cele-
orate my coming to the islands of
which | had so long dreamed. smiled
al the fancy, we'll knowing that the
minute pyrocistis, having come to the
surface during the calm that followed
the storms, were showing in that glori-
ous fire the panic caused among them
by the cataclysm of our passing. But
the individual is ever an egoist. 1t
seems to man that the universe is q
circle about him and his affairs. II
may as we'll seem the same to the
pyrocistis
Far about the ship the waves
twinkled in green fire, disturbed even
by the rutfling breeze. drew up 8
bucketful of the water. In the dark
ness of the cabin it gave no light unit
passed my hand through it. That
was like opening a door into a room
flooded by electricity; the table, the
edges of the hunks, the uninterestec
faces of nay shipmates, leaped from thu
shadows. Marvels do no, seem mar
yellous to men who live among them.
Along comes a certain McHenry
with tale of Kanaka youngster
S. CNOW there was kid, a httl,
Penryn boy" he said sudden
iy- When ! was trader on Penryr
ne was there, and he used to COM
around my storc. That kid liked me
Why, that kid, ne was crazy about me
It's fact, he was crazy about me
that kid was"
His voice was fumbing back towar
'ts old assurance, but there was won
der in it, as though he was incredulou
OF this foothold he had stumbled upo,
He repeated. THAT Kid wss crazy abou
mel
"He used to hang around, and hel
me With the canned goods, and hc'
20 fishing With nc, and shooting. II
was 4 rcgular-what do you call 'cm
These dogs that 20 after things &c
you; He'd 20 under the water an
bring In the big nsh for me. An
he liked TO do it. You never "a,
anything Ike the way that kid wa,
Il used TO let him come into tn
store and hang around, you know No
That cared anything for the XII
myself, amt that Kind But +
tust give him eome tirncI hi.cu,,