The surgeon Nicholas Senn sails across the Pacific, past the atoll islands, and lands at Papeete. He describes the town, the island’s cliffs and valleys, its customs and its people, and with a doctor’s eye records the toll that measles and other introduced diseases had taken among the Tahitians.
An enthusiastic early-1900s travel account of the South Seas, with the attitudes of its time. Download the free EPUB.