Tahiti, as I left it, was under the rays of the already high sun, a shimmering beryl, blue and yellow hues in the overpowering green mass, and from the loftiest crags floating a long streamer-cloud, the cloud-banner of Tyndal.

"All twinkling with the dewdrop sheen, The brier-rose fell in streamers green."Sir

Finally, there is a streamer stretching still northeastward, to Norway and some of the Baltic Islands.