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A number of years ago Robert Dean Frisbie set up a trading station on Danger Island, a lonely paradise four hundred miles northeast of Samoa. This autobiographical story relates how the author fell in love with a charming Polynesian girl, how he became part of the life of the island, how he eventually survived a man-sized South Sea hurricane.
When Frisbie went to meet Desire under the magnolia trees, the islanders laughed about it, thinking they were having an affair. Constable Benny even arrested Desire on a charge of loitering after curfew. But when the American built a house and gave a house party for such friends as Parson Sea Foam, Vicar Araipu, Heathen William, and Desire's many sisters, they saw that he was really in love. During the feast Frisbie and Desire were officially married.