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...surprising, then, that we should find Mr. O'Brien, who too had long anticipated a visit to Tahiti, even more disappointed and disillusioned when he visited? Tahiti nearly forty years after Loti. As in his book telling of the marquesas Islands, in this later book there is constantly recurring the note of sadness which is felt by all lovers of the Polynesians when they contemplate the sad remnant of that once spleen did race. Whenever a barbaric people have been wiped out by civilization it has made a sorry, sordid tale; the physical beauty and lovable natures of the Tahitians...
...Tahiti differs from the Marquesas, the subject of the first book, in that the island and its people have suffered more from the baneful effects of civilization and have lost more of their barbaric fascination. At Papeete, the capital of Tahiti, instead of the delightful laxity of the Marquesas, vice in all its forms has crept in to take possession of the little city. Along side there is still a childlike simplicity and naively in a manners of the people which contrasts strangely with the importation's from Europe of the "blessings of civilization...
...latter part of August and the first part of September, he made a short visit to the Great Barrier Reefs on the Queensland Coast of Northeastern Australia, and on September 11, sailed from Sydney via New Zealand to the Society Islands, where he will spend a month examining Tahiti and other members of that group. He plans to return to Cambridge early in November...
...Agassiz left San Francisco on August 23 last, in the "Albatross," which had been loaned him by the government for the purpose of investigation. When about three hundred miles off Point Conception, he began to make soundings; and, of these, he made seventy-two before reaching Tahiti. By means of the soundings, the depths of the unexplored parts of the Pacific were ascertained and the basins located. Mr. Agassiz suggested in his letter that the deepest and largest of these basins, found in the Central Pacific, be named the "Moser Basin...
...collection of surface animals was obtained, among which were found many interesting forms. From the evidence obtained from the hauls, the conclusion was reached that there is little animal life at a considerable distance from land, at great depths, and away from the ocean currents. On the way to Tahiti, Mr. Agassiz spent a few days in examining the western atolls of the Paumotus, where he paid special attention to coral formations...