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...drink, is set adrift on a pest ship by his enemy, Pearl Trader Sebastian. The sea casts him upon an island, whose inhabitants have never before seen a white man. Dr. Lloyd behaves; the natives make a man of him. A chaste love springs up between him and Fayaway (Raquel Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they are married, Dr. Lloyd becomes greedy for native pearls. He lights a beacon, hoping to attract a passing ship to help him loot the village. Then he repents, but dastardly Pearl Trader Sebastian has seen the beacon. Sebastian and his crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Seas--and wrote "Typee." Days of the fear of sudden death; days of drowsy, warm forgetfulness; dark seas curling over glistening sands; amber sun-light through the palm-fronds, caressing the face of tough old chief, or wrinkled medicine-man, or startling the shadows from the soft eyes of Fayaway...

Author: By D. W. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/17/1920 | See Source »

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