The Gates of Morning and two more stories
By H. De Vere Stacpoole
Length8h 32m
About this audiobook
Excerpt from "Gates of the Morning": "Dick standing on a ledge of coral cast his eyes to the South. Behind him the breakers of the outer sea thundered and the spindrift scattered on the wind; before him stretched an ocean calm as a lake, infinite, blue, and flown about by the fishing gulls—the lagoon of Karolin. Clipped by its forty-mile ring of coral this great pond was a sea in itself, a sea of storm in heavy winds, a lake of azure, in light airs—and it was his—he who had landed here only yesterday. Women, children, youths, all the tribe to be seen busy along the beach in the blazing sun, fishing with nets, playing their games or working on the paraka patches, all were his people. His were the canoes drawn up on the sand and his the empty houses where the war canoes had once rested on their rollers. Then as he cast his eyes from the lagoon to the canoe houses his brow contracted, and, turning his back to the lagoon he stood facing the breakers on the outer beach and the northern sea. Away there, beyond the sea line, invisible, lay Palm Tree, an island beautiful as a dream, yet swarming with devils. Little Tari the son of Le Taioi the net maker, sitting on the coral close by, looked up at him. Tari knew little of life, but he knew that all the men of Karolin swept away by war had left the women and the boys and the children like himself defenceless and without a man or leader. Then, yesterday, from the northern sea in a strange boat and with Katafa, the girl who had been blown to sea years ago when out fishing, this strange new figure had come, sent by the gods, so the women said, to be their chief and ruler. The child knew nothing of whom the gods might be nor did he care, alone now with this wonderful new person, and out of earshot of his mother, he put the question direct with all the simplicity of childhood."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length8 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Content
2BOOK I
3CHAPTER I—THE CANOE BUILDER
4CHAPTER II—THE REVOLT OF THE OLD MEN
5CHAPTER III—THE LITTLE SHIPS
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6CHAPTER IV—THE GATES OF MORNING
7CHAPTER V—CIVILIZATION PEEPS IN
8CHAPTER VI—THE MEN OF THE KERMADEC
9CHAPTER VII—THE PEARL
10CHAPTER VIII—THE MIND OF SRU
11CHAPTER IX—CASHI
12CHAPTER X—THE HIGH ISLAND
13CHAPTER XI—THE TRAGEDY
14CHAPTER XII—THEY MAKE SOUTH
15CHAPTER XIII—SOUTH
16BOOK II
17CHAPTER I—THE MAID OF AIOMA
18CHAPTER II—WAR
19CHAPTER III—THE RETURN TO THE KERMADEC
20CHAPTER IV—THE MIND OF KANOA AND THE RISING MOON
21CHAPTER V—NIGHT, DEATH AND PASSION
22CHAPTER VI—MORNING
23CHAPTER VII—THE VISION
24CHAPTER VIII—THE CASSI FLOWERS
25CHAPTER IX—VENGEANCE
26BOOK III
27CHAPTER I—LE MOAN WILL KNOW
28CHAPTER II—THE THREE GREAT WAVES
29CHAPTER III—THE SECOND APPARITION
30CHAPTER IV—WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE REEF?
31CHAPTER V—MAINSAIL HAUL
32CHAPTER VI—VOICES OF THE SEA AND SKY
33CHAPTER VII—ISLANDS AT WAR—THE OPEN SEA
34CHAPTER VIII—WE SHALL NOT SEE MARUA AGAIN
35BOOK IV
36CHAPTER I—E HAYA
37CHAPTER II—AIOMA CURSES THE WIND
38CHAPTER III—HE HAS TURNED HIS FACE FROM THE SUN
39CHAPTER IV—WHAT HAPPENED TO RANTAN
40CHAPTER V—WHAT HAPPENED TO RANTAN (CONTINUED)
41CHAPTER VI—WHAT HAPPENED TO RANTAN (CONTINUED)
42CHAPTER VII—THE BATTLE AND THE VICTORY
43CHAPTER VIII—WHAT HAPPENED TO RANTAN (CONCLUSION)
44CHAPTER IX—THE GREEN SHIP
45CHAPTER X—ARIPA! ARIPA!
46CHAPTER XI—THE GREEN SICKNESS
47CHAPTER XII—THE RELEASE OF LE MOAN
48Kadjaman
49The Story of Gombi
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