Maeva!

New Zealand warship's extended cruise to the south seas: the Diomede's recent visit to Papeete, Tahiti

Showing the flag round the South Pacific Islands

Photographs taken while Johnny Wray was cruising in the South Pacific searching for buried treasure

Tourists and native girls at Papeete

The Maunganui in the harbour at Papeete, where the French sloop Rigault de Genouilly (right) was also in port

Excursionists going ashore at Moorea

A South Sea island church in striking surroundings

Captain Cook at Tahiti, 1772

Captain Cook at Moorea, Tahiti, 1778

Captain Cook at Matavai Bay, Tahiti, 1778

Collection of wood from the Cirad language library. Wood of Polynesia. Inocarpus fagifer (Syn. Inocarpus edulis) - Tahitian chestnut - Family of the Fabaceae (Papilionaceae) (French Polynesia)

William and Sparrow J. Byrne - A View Of Huaheine (Society Islands)