If the Papara family and people had any name, in European fashion, I suppose it would be Teva, for we are a clan, and Teva is our clan name. On the map of Tahiti the four southwest districts, from Papara to the isthmus, are always marked as Te Teva iuta, the inner Tevas, and the whole peninsula of Taiarapu, beyond the isthmus, is marked as Te Teva itai or outer Tevas. The island of Tahiti is shaped like an hour-glass or figure of 8; but as the natives...