Chapter 6

"Only one of them, so far as I know, ever returned to Iriatai--Turia, the chief's daughter, a girl of eleven or twelve when she was carried off aboard the man-of-war. Her beauty and intelligence attracted the notice of a half-caste Tahitian, who adopted her and gave her an education at the Sisters' School. At seventeen she married the Baron von Tesmar--an Austrian nobleman, a man of wealth and taste, brought up among the capitals of the Old World. He was well-known in all the outlandish ports of the Pacific; for re…