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In the South Seas
The Project Gutenberg EBook of In the South Seas, by Robert Louis Stevenson (#20 in our series by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Title: In the South Seas
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Release Date: March, 1996 [EBook #464] [This file was first posted on January 23, 1996] [Most recently updated: August 18, 2002]
Edition: 10
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Transcribed from the 1908 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
IN THE SOUTH SEAS
PART 1: THE MARQUESAS
CHAPTER I
--AN ISLAND LANDFALLFor nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to e