The visions of tahiti - clean , sweet tahiti - were coming to him more frequently . and there were the low paumotus , and the high marquesas ; he saw himself often , now , on board trading schooners or frail little cutters , slipping out at dawn through the reef at papeete and beginning the long beat through the pearl - atolls to nukahiva and the bay of taiohae , where tamari , he knew , would kill a pig in honor of his coming , and where tamari s flower - garlanded daughters would seize his hands and with song and laughter garland him with flowers 那儿有保莫图思那样的低矮的岛子，有马奎撒思那样的高峻的岛子，现在他常发现自己驾着做生意的大帆船或是脆弱的独桅快艇在黎明时分穿过帕皮提的环礁，开始远航，经过产珍珠的珊瑚礁，驶往努卡西瓦和泰欧黑，他知道塔马瑞会在那儿杀猪欢迎他，而塔马瑞的围着花环的女儿们会抓住他的手，欢笑着，唱着歌给他戴上花环。
