We laughed at his native name, Pupure, which means fair, and at the titles given Tahiti by visitors: the New Cytherea by Bougainville, a russet Ireland by McBirney, my fellow voyager on the Noa-Noa and Aph-Rhodesia by a South-African who had fought the Boers and loved the Tahitian girls and who now idled with us.

4. APO, APH,From: as, apo-strophe, a turning-from; aph-aeresis, a taking from.

4. APO, APH,From: as, apo-strophe, a turning-from; aph-aeresis, a taking from.

[Footnote 8: Euripid Hippol., 10 (Aph) oh gar me thaeseos pais, 'Amazonos tokos monos politon taesde gaes