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National Geographic : 1920 Oct
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TAIIITI: THE PLAYGROUND OF NATURE Photograph by L. Gauthier, © Paul Gooding THE QUEEN'S BATH, PAPEETE: TAHITI Poor Queen Pomare, last of Tahiti's recognized royal line, lived simply and wanted only a palace. True, she had one, the Aorai, meaning "cloud of Heaven"; but that Tahitian Potsdam, despite its name, was only a modest bungalow, which might have been taken for a missionary's cottage. Its furnishings were equally plain, made more so in contrast to its one ornament, a portrait of the dusky Queen, said to have been presented to her by Louis Philippe, wlo had it done from a photograph sent him by a French officer. 317
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