Strickland and the author met again. The former finally showed the later his paintings. They made a strong and strange impression on him. The author felt in them an incredible effort to express something, the desire to get free of the force, which holds an artist. When the fate threw the author to Tahiti, where Strickland spent the last years of his life, he asked about the artist of all locals who knew him. He was told how Strickland, withou tmoney and job, being hungry, lived in a doss house in Marseilles. Strickland hired out as a worker on a ship bound for Australia but came to Tahiti. Residents of the island,considering him to be a vagabond thought it was not interested in his "pictures". And now they regreted that at the time missed the opportunity to buy paintings for pennies. Old Tahitian, an owner of the hotel, where the author lived, told him how she found Strickland's wife - native Ata, her distant relative. Immediately after the wedding, Strickland and Ata went into the woods, where Ata had a small piece of land, and the following three years were the happiest of the artist's life. Ata did not bother him, did everything he ordered her and brought their child ...
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Strickland WAS hired as a worker
Residents of the island considerED him to be a vagabond AND WERE not interested in his "pictures".