I'll sing you a tale of a tropical sea
Subtitle: on board of the old Equator ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Apia, Samoa
Language: eng
Notes: Poem.

Title from first two lines.

Printed for the guests at a dinner given by Stevenson at the Tivoli Hotel, Apia, on 9 Dec. 1889, to celebrate the safe arrival of the passengers & crew of the schooner Equator.

Stevenson's authorship of these verses is not certain: according to Paul Höflich, one of the passengers on the Equator, they were written by Mrs. Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne.--Cf. Sanchez.

A facsimile was published (Philadelphia : A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1914) under title: Verses.

Sanchez, N. Life of Mrs. Stevenson, p. 159