The Mutineer: A Romance Of Pitcairn Island

By: Becke, Louis

IT was night at Tahiti, in the Society Islands. The trade-wind had died away, and a bright flood of shimmering moonlight poured down upon the slumbering waters of a little harbour a few miles distant from Matavai Bay, and the white curve or beach that fringed the darkened line of palms shone and glistened like a belt of ivory under the effulgence of its rays. For nearly half a mile the broad sweep of dazzling sand showed no interruption nor break upon its surface save at one spot; there it ran out into a long narrow point, on which, under a small cluster of graceful cocos, growing almost at the water's edge, a canoe was drawn up. Seated upon the platform of the outrigger, and conversing in low tones, were a man and woman. The man was an European, dressed in the uniform of a junior naval officer at the end of the last century. He was of medium height, with a dark, gipsy-like complexion and wavy brown hair, and as he drew the woman's face to him and kissed her, her skin showed not so dark as his.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08P6TNXJP
• ISBN13: 9798572771213
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"