In the South Seas / Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two Cruises on the Yacht "Casco" (1888) and the Schooner "Equator" (1889)

A travel memoir recounts voyages among the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands, combining nautical narrative with close ethnographic observation. The narrative sketches island landscapes and atoll life, daily routines aboard small vessels, and encounters with chiefs, kings, and local communities. The narrative records ceremonies, funerals, festivals, and social rules such as tapu, sometimes describing violent customs including episodes of cannibalism and depopulation. Plantation life, contact with European visitors and missionaries, and their effects on local manners and health receive reflective attention. Interwoven are personal reflections on recovery, friendship, and the pleasures and difficulties of extended travel in remote seas.