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...xious about the book's suitability for kids -- the author's treatment of adolescent sexuality is almost mystical and very mild. The story of The Blue Lagoon (1908) continues in The Garden of God (1923) and The Gates of Morning (1925). A ship’s doctor, Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1863–1951) published over 90 works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and translation. (Summary by...

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.....................................76 THE RETURN ..............................................................................................102 THE LAGOON .............................................................................................160...

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......................................................................102 THE LAGOON ....................................................................... ...he Sake of Old Days AUTHOR’S NOTE Of the five stories in this volume, “The Lagoon,” the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short ... ... see that between the last paragraph of “An Outcast” and the first of “The Lagoon” there has been no change of pen, figuratively speaking. It happened... ...fied. I began to believe in my public existence. I have much to thank “The Lagoon” for. My next effort in short-story writing was a depar- ture—I mean... ...n that the motif of the story is al- most identical with the motif of “The Lagoon.” How- ever, the idea at the back is very different; but the story i... ...f to foun- dations, more than to a clap of thunder. He never returned. THE LAGOON THE WHITE MAN, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little ho... ... water. The creek broadened, opening out into a wide sweep of a stag- nant lagoon. The forests receded from the marshy bank, leaving a level strip of ... ...They would have preferred to spend the night some- where else than on this lagoon of weird aspect and ghostly reputation. Moreover, they disliked Arsa... ... since his Malay friend had come un- expectedly to dwell in the hut on the lagoon with a strange woman, he had slept many times there, in his journeys...

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...Best known for his literary work The Blue Lagoon , which has been made into film several times over, H. De Vere Stacpoole’s first publication was a book titled The Intended in 1894. Stacpoole was disappointed at its lack of commercial success, and felt the story was ...

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... by Jhiu), The Idiots (1896; read by Ann Boulais), An Outpost of Progress (1896; read by Kristine Bekere), The Return (1897; read by Raerity) and The Lagoon (1896; read by David Lazarus). Author's note read by Sibella Denton. (Summary by Illiterati)...

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... is often oblivious, concentrating on real and make-believe adventures and on taunting the pirate Captain Hook. Later follows adventures at Mermaids' Lagoon, the near deaths of Tinker Bell and Peter; a violent pirate/Indian massacre, and a climactic confrontation with Peter's nemesis, the pirate Captain Hook of the pirate ship the Jolly Roger. In the end, Wendy decides tha...

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...km unimproved Inland waterways: 740 km navigable rivers and numerous coastal lagoons Ports: 2 major (Abidjan, San-Pedro), 2 minor Civil air: 19 major ... ... in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes Land use: 25% arable land; 1% permanent crops; 4% mea... ...ved earth Inland waterways: section of Mono River and about 50 km of coastal lagoons and tidal creeks Ports: 1 major (Lome), 1 minor Civil air: 4 majo... ...ted by trade winds (April to November) Terrain: coral atolls enclosing large lagoons Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows and past... ... crops pulaka, breadfruit, pawpaw, bananas; pigs, poultry Fishing: ocean and lagoon fish and shell- fish for local consumption Major industries: copra... ...hways: none Ports: no natural harbor; offshore anchor- ages Airfields: none; lagoon landings by am- phibious aircraft from Western Samoa Telecommunica...

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...lry. In the eleventh century Venice rose like Venus from the sea, and from the lagoons into which Attila had driven the people, not only a magnificent... ...ifteen hundred feet from the bottom of the sea, still carefully preserving the lagoon in the centre -- he could not sail in any direction without find... ...s discovered after leaving Terre del Fuego, which proved to be a coral island, lagoon shaped, and one of the numerous Polynesian group. No landing was...

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...50,000 sq. ft. of flexible indoor and outdoor space with stunning beach, lagoon, lawns and pool decks 3 large conference centers Waikiki’s largest... ...50,000 sq. ft. of flexible indoor and outdoor space with stunning beach, lagoon, lawns and pool decks 3 large conference centers Waikiki’s largest...

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...ide himself in a melancholy that contaminated his bounty as an oil spill a lagoon. He loathed the inner vulnerabilities of the human creature that nee...

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...allows; and a line of rails on a high wooden staging bends back into the mouth of the valley. Walking on this, the new-landed traveller becomes aware ... ... other hand, we have the atoll; a thing of problematic origin and history, the reputed crea- ture of an insect apparently unidentified; rudely annular... ...e geography of atolls. Here and there, where it was high, the farther side loomed up; here and there the near side dipped entirely and showed a broad ... ... sea near smooth; though still we were accompanied by a continu- ous murmur from the beach, like the sound of a distant train. The isle is of a huge l... ...s, and that vacant beach was but a pistol-shot from the capital city of the archipelago. But the life of an atoll, unless it be enclosed, passes wholl... ...ce avowed a shock; but there are times and circumstances when these harbour mouths of inland basins vomit floods, deflecting, burying, and dismasting ... ...us, stained and striped, and even beaked like parrots. I have paid in my time to view many curiosities; never one so curious as that first sight over ... ...c- tacle the schooner had slipped betwixt the pierheads of the reef, and was already quite committed to the sea within. The containing shores are so l... ...tical considerations only. It is eccentrically situate; the productions, even for a low island, poor; the population neither many nor—for Low Islander...

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...of the inte- rior, but a sky already full of light arched over a dark oval lagoon, over wide fields as yet full of shadows, that seemed slowly changin... ... great trunks and matted undergrowth came to the western shore of the oval lagoon; and in the pure freshness of the air the groups of brown houses ref... ...alm morning of unclouded peace. All the boats of the brig came up into the lagoon armed and manned to make more impressive the solemn fact of a conclu... ... The progress of the boats was smooth and slow while they crossed the wide lagoon. Lingard looked back once. A great stillness had laid its hand over ... ...gard had her towed up the creek and ran her aground upon that shore of the lagoon farthest from Belarab’s settlement. There had been at that time a gr... ...ph Conrad as side by side they leant over the taffrail, looking across the lagoon on the houses and palm groves of the settlement. “All the guns and p... ...d on the outer mudflats. Belarab at once forbade any boat from leaving the lagoon. So far good. There was a great excitement in the village. I judge i... ...reek, flags and streamers flying, beating drums and gongs, and entered the lagoon with their decks full of armed men brandish- ing two-handed swords a... ...m me, and that very evening the praus were ordered by Belarab to leave the lagoon. He does not trust the Illanuns— and small blame to him. Sherif Dama...

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...ese last are nothing more than narrow circles of land surrounding a smooth lagoon, connected by a single opening with the sea. Some of the lagoons, sa... ...e inclosing island, in such cases, being a complete zone of emerald. Other lagoons still, are girdled by numbers of small, green islets, very near to ... ...ce fifty thousand dol- lars’ worth of shells. The oysters are found in the lagoons, and about the reefs; and, for half-a-dozen nails a day, or a compe... ...argined with foam that sparkled all round. Within, nestled the still, blue lagoon. No living thing was seen, and, for aught we knew, we might have bee...

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..., had so lived themselves into the vision of indo- lent summer days on the lagoon, of flaming hours on the beach of the Lido, and evenings of music an... ...nd it was his habit to join his wife only at sunset, for a late row on the lagoon. She had taken Clarissa, as usual, to the Giardino Pubblico, where t... ...set out before noon and steam back late to the low fringe of lights on the lagoon. His work continued to progress, and as page was added to page Susy ... ...led by Nick, who was waiting to take her out for their usual sunset on the lagoon, she felt a wave of pity for the de- luded creature who would never ... ...llow and his satellites, and in the mocking radiance of late summer on the lagoons, she had fumed and turned about in her agony like a trapped animal ...

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...he top of the island mountain-high, A mountain throned on a mountain. The fleet of canoes swept by Robert Louis Stevenson 16 In the midst, on the gr... ...and turned for the means of revenge and escape: Robert Louis Stevenson 24 A boat to be seized by stealth, a wife to be taken by rape. Still was the d... ...ised in his hand. The foam boiled to his calf when the mightier breakers came, And the torch shed in the wind scattering tufts of flame. Afar on the d... ...ch curious evidence as to this belief. The dead retain their taste for a fish diet, enter into copartnery with living fishers, and haunt the reef and ...

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...he like of which they had never dreamed of, and cast an- chor in the great lagoon of Jaluit; and upon that narrow land the exiles were set on shore. T... ...casion, plunge in the sea, and swimming across a broad, shallow bay of the lagoon, join the rebels on the Faleula side. Whole bodies of warriors, some... ...ed, stub- bornly fighting. One, it Is told, retreated to his middle in the lagoon; stood there, loading and firing, till he fell; and his body was fou... ...ed to them no place to land on. And they hung off in the deep water of the lagoon inside the barrier reef, feebly fusillading the pilot house. Between... ...ty, much of which waves with German plantations. A barrier reef encloses a lagoon passable for boats: and the traveller skims there, on smooth, many-t... ...t up the head of the praam to her true course and continued to move up the lagoon with an offing of some seventy or eighty yards. Along all the irregu... ...ow laughed and redoubled his exer- tions. As soon as the boats entered the lagoon, fire was again opened from the woods. The fifty blue-jackets jumped... ... a narrow finger of land planted in cocoa-palms, which runs forth into the lagoon perhaps three quarters of a mile. T o the east is the bay of Apia. T... ...ond the swamp is a wide and shallow bay of 141 Robert Louis Stevenson the lagoon, bounded to the west by Faleula Point. Faleula is the next village t...

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...t was mortal still and solemn and chilly, and the light of the dawn on the lagoon was like the shining of a fire. But the thing that troubled me was n... ...he kept by the inside of the island, for the huts were on the shore of the lagoon, and it was there the palms grew best, and the lagoon itself abounde... ...walked invisible. It was at this period when he kept the most close to the lagoon side, and as far as he dared, abode in the cover of his hut. The cau... ... was the beginning of the sickly season in that isle, when the fish of the lagoon are poisonous, and all who eat of them swell up and die. The mate wa... ...aside and in the seaward fringes of the wood, and a man might dwell by the lagoon two thousand years (if he could live so long) and never be any way t... ...urned to the main island, and right enough where he was, if he kept by the lagoon, yet he had a mind to make things righter if he could. So he told th... ...rader has barrels filled with flour, and a French warship once came in the lagoon and gave everybody wine and biscuit. Ah, my poor Keola, I wish I cou...

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...ch had not yet ruined Venice, the stilled magnificences of the depopulated lagoons, the universal autumn, made me feel altogether in recess from the t... ...e,” I said, almost apologetically. She looked long away from me across the lagoon and at last sighed, like one who has drunk deeply, and turned to me....

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...So one fine evening in November, the new Prince of Varese was crossing the lagoon from Mestre to Venice, between the lines of stakes painted with Aust... ...he spoke the words, Emilio Memmi tossed Marco V endramin’s letter into the lagoon without even reading it to the end, and it floated away like a paper... ...te me one word, if only to tell me what the letter was you tossed into the lagoon. “Massimilla Doni.” The writing and the scent of the paper brought a... ...ondered to himself. “Emilio, what letter was that which you threw into the lagoon?” 25 Balzac “Vendramini’s. I had not read it to the end, or I shoul...

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...e sky had still the pallor of dawn, and there was a ghostly silence on the lagoon. T en miles away the island of Murea, like some high fastness of the... ...ills and bathed in the stream. And he sat about the front look- ing at the lagoon, and at sunset he would go down and look at Murea. He used to go fis... ...cks, and the women would carry it down to the trader at the village by the lagoon, and he would give in exchange for it rice and soap and tinned meat ... ... me. I live on an atoll, a low island, it is a strip of land surrounding a lagoon, and its beauty is the beauty of the sea and sky and the varied colo... ...auty of the sea and sky and the varied colour 209 Somerset Maugham of the lagoon and the grace of the cocoa-nut trees; but the place where Strickland... ...isy scurrying of the land-crabs. Now and then 211 Somerset Maugham in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish, and sometimes a hurried noisy splash... ...e, he bought an island in the Paumotus. It was a ring of land round a deep lagoon, uninhab- ited, and covered only with scrub and wild guava. With the... ...o mine. Tears glistened in her eyes. And when we steamed slowly out of the lagoon, making our way gingerly through the opening in the reef, and then s...

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..., And in Felze, some day yet Light at your pipe my cigarette. *Life on the Lagoons, by H. F. Brown, originally burned in the fire at Messrs. Kegan Pau...