Verses
By: by Robert Louis Stevenson ; facsimile of the original broadside presented to his guests at the Tivoli hotel, Apia, Samoa, to celebrate the safe arrival of the schooner "Equator", December 1889
Publisher: A.S.W. Rosenbach
Published: 1914
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Other titles: I'll sing you a tale of a tropical sea
Notes: Foreword by A.S.W. Rosenbach.

"Thirty copies privately printed ..."

The facsimile begins: I'll sing you a tale of a tropical sea,/ On board of the old 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. N. Van de Grift Sanchez.

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