Ind. Reading Ch. 41-50

Strickland shows to the narrator his pictures. They seemed to him ugly, but they suggested without disclosing a secret of momentous significance. They were strangely tantalizing. They gave him an emotion that he could not analyze. Next day the narrator saw Strickland off for Amsterdam.

The narrator went to Tahiti where Strickland spent his last years. There the narrator met Captain Nicholas, who knew Strickland. They made one another’s acquaintance during the better part of the winter following the narrator’s last meeting with Strickland in Paris. They lived together in the Asile de Nuit. He worked on the steamer and then started to work on a ship, raiding to Australia.

On Tahiti, he worked as overseer on the plantation. He continued painting but no one regarded him as a talented painter and was interesting at him at all. Strickland had taken up a native woman.