Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

00:00:18 TABU A story of the south seas

00:00:42 appear in this picture with a few half-castes and chinese.

00:01:10 A LAND OF ENCHANTMENT REMORE IN THE SOUTH SEAS...

00:16:49 GREETING FROM THE CHIEF OF FANUMA LORD OF ALL THE ISLANDS TO THE CHIEF OF BORA BORA

00:17:25 THE MAIDEN SACRED TO OUR GODS HAS PASSED AWAY AND I DECREE THAT FROM YOUR ISLAND SHALL COME HER SUCCESSOR

00:18:28 NO LAW OF THE GODS IS MORE TO BE FEARED THAN THAT WHICH GUARDS THE CHOSEN ONE MAN MUST NOT TOUCH HER...

00:19:39 SACRED IS RERI FROM THIS TIME FORTH SHE IS TABU TO BREAK THIS TABU MEANS DEATH

00:20:01 FOR HER SAFETY HE WILL ANSWER WUTH HIS LIFE

00:36:34 Whatever has happened, according to their law she is still the "Chosen one"...

00:36:45 She will be hunted down and sacrificed, Matahari will be killed old Hitu himself will die.

00:38:21 NO LAW OF THE GODS IS MORE TO BE FEARED THAN THAT WHICH GUARDS THE CHOSEN MAID MAN MUST NOT TOUCH HER...

00:38:50 Second chapter PARADISE LOST

00:39:02 OVER LEAGUES OF OPEN SEA SEEKING SOME ISLAND OF THE PEARL TRADE...

00:39:13 IN THEIR FRAIL CANOE THROUGH STORMS UNDER A BURNING SKY THIRST-CRAZED AND STARVING...

00:40:02 The couple found in their wrecked canoe, as already reported, recovered quickly.

00:40:31 But it seems only play to him. He evidently does not yet realize what money means.

00:47:28 As the Government desires above all things to avoid conflict between the islands under its rule,...

00:47:44 For their arrest, the Government ofers a reward of Five Hundred Frans. Et. Cadoustal .

00:50:59 There is a spot in the lagoon, the richest in pearl beds of any in the South Seas.

00:53:47 An enormous man-eating shark guards these pearls the native believe...

00:54:01 I trust I have the Government's approval in putting up a sign forbidding further diving in this place.

00:57:53 SHIPS AGENT - TICKETS SOLD TO ALL ISLAND PORTS The schooner Hinano is due June 24h bound for Papeete.

01:11:40 TO MATAHI MY LOVE

01:12:20 I HAVE BEEN SO HAPPY WITH YOU FAR MORE THAN I DESERVED THE LOVE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME I WILL KEEP TO THE LAST BEAT OF MY HEART