Word: suva
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned from an intermittent encyclopedia and the Bible. Not the least of her laboratory experiments was, under Stitches' supervision, the dissection of a shark that chanced to be with young- twelve diminutive sharks, 18 inches long. Shortly afterward the schooner touched at a tiny island south of Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native woman bear her child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse...
Fiji did not give up Waqavuka easily. The bird-boat might not fly until brown eyes had seen the 200-sovereign purse given by the mayor of Suva to help pay the debts of the white men. Brown noses pressed forward to inhale the perfume of garlands and of a floral American flag tenderly woven by little brown children. Brown fingers touched Waqavuka's talisman, the omnipotent Tambua, tooth of the sacred whale...
...days after alighting on Hawaiian grass, the four of the Southern Cross planned to do something that no man had ever before attempted: a 3,138-mile flight entirely over water, aiming at a pinhead in the Pacific called Suva in the Fiji Islands. The 850 inhabitants of Suva were atwitter with anticipation; the municipal council gave orders to cut down trees and remove electric wires in Albert Park, so as to make a landing field for the Southern Cross...
They left Honolulu. Their radio worked beautifully. It sent a babble of reports every few minutes, and the world knew that they were fighting clouds, wind and storm for more than 30 hours. They grew haggard. Suva waited. They saw Suva. Then with engines roaring but little louder than the crowd, they landed, their longest overwater flight accomplished, their gasoline almost gone...
...From Suva, the four fliers planned to hop 1,795 miles to Brisbane, Australia...