Author: Sundowner

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781330168790

Excerpt from Rambles in Polynesia In his enchanting poem 'The Island,' Lord Byron gave a romantic rendition of the famous adventure of the Bounty mutineers, writing with strange accuracy about those fair Pacific lands - Where all partake tho earth without dispute, And bread itself is gathered as a fruit. Captain Bligh's expedition to the Pacific was undertaken, curiously enough, with the object of transplanting the hospitable bread-fruit-tree. It was Byron's poem which first drew the close attention of the people of these islands to the archipelagos of Polynesia, and there has been a mild stream of emigration to that part of the world ever since. It is practically impossible to compute the white population of the Southern Pacific groups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.