Chapters (15)
- THE PEARL LAGOON
- THE PEARL LAGOON
- I THE COMING OF THE SCHOONER
- II THE PEARLS OF IRIATAI
- III ABOARD THE TARA
- IV AT FAATEMU
- V IRIATAI
- VI THE END OF THE SHARK AND THE BEGINNING OF THE DIVING
- VII SOUTH SEA FISHERMEN
- VIII I TURN PEARL-DIVER
- IX THE CAVE OF THE SHARK GOD
- X THE CHOLITA COMES TO IRIATAI
- XI PIRACY
- XII "BOARDERS!"
- XIII TAHITI
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