Bantan and the Island Goddess

This new book is a fitting sequel to "Bantan of the Islands" and it recounts the further adventures of the author's South Pacific island hero. Continuing where the first book ended, new surprises await the reader. While on board the <I>Well Wisher</I> and returning for home, Bantan learns the estate that was his to claim upon his return to America, had been squandered by the trustees. Realizing there was nothing for him in America, and possessed of inherent pride, despite his love for Leona Brown, he cannot allow himself to live on charity. That same night he leaves the yachet in a lifeboat, intent upon returing to the Beneiro Island where riches did not matter. He becomes lost upon the bosom of the ocean and when near death is stranded upon one of a group of seven islands. There he is found by a Marja warrior and brought to the village hut of a Doctor Hunter, an American doctor, who had been marooned there twenty-one years before. With his beautiful daughter, Kalma, whose mother had been a Marja princess, they restore Bantan to health. Suffering from amnesia, Bantan remembers nothing of his past. Because he cannot remember his name, Kalma renames him Malka. Trayman returns to the Marja Island and informs Doctor Hunter and Kalma of Bantan's strange actions. The doctor and his daughter are positive Bantan has recovered his lost memory.