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Returning health and peace of mind gave a new interest to everything
around me. I sought to diversify my time by as many
enjoyments as lay within my reach. Bathing in company with
troops of girls formed one of my chief amusements. We sometimes
enjoyed the recreation in the waters of a miniature lake,
into which the central stream of the valley expanded. This
lovely sheet of water was almost circular in figure, and about
three hundred yards across. Its beauty was indescribable. All
around its banks waved luxuriant masses of tropical foliage,
soaring high above which were seen, here and there, the symmetrical
shaft of the cocoa-nut tree, surmounted by its tuft of
graceful branches, drooping in the air like so many waving ostrich
plumes.

The ease and grace with which the maidens of the valley propelled
themselves through the water, and their familiarity with

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the element, were truly astonishing. Sometimes they might be seen
gliding along just under the surface, without apparently moving
hand or foot; then throwing themselves on their sides, they darted
through the water, revealing glimpses of their forms, as, in the
course of their rapid progress, they shot for an instant partly into
the air; at one moment they dived deep down into the water, and
the next they rose bounding to the surface.

I remember upon one occasion plunging in among a parcel of
these river-nymphs, and counting vainly on my superior strength,
sought to drag some of them under the water; but I quickly
repented my temerity. The amphibious young creatures swarmed
about me like a shoal of dolphins, and seizing hold of my
devoted limbs, tumbled me about and ducked me under the surface,
until from the strange noises which rang in my ears, and the
supernatural visions dancing before my eyes, I thought I was in
the land of spirits. I stood indeed as little chance among them
as a cumbrous whale attacked on all sides by a legion of swordfish.
When at length they relinquished their hold of me, they
swam away in every direction, laughing at my clumsy endeavors
to reach them.

There was no boat on the lake; but at my solicitation and for
my special use, some of the young men attached to Marheyo's
household, under the direction of the indefatigable Kory-Kory,
brought up a light and tastefully carved canoe from the sea. It
was launched upon the sheet of water, and floated there as gracefully
as a swan. But, melancholy to relate, it produced an effect
I had not anticipated. The sweet nymphs, who had sported with
me before in the lake, now all fled its vicinity. The prohibited craft,
guarded by the edicts of the “taboo,” extended the prohibition to
the waters in which it lay.

For a few days, Kory-Kory, with one or two other youths, accompanied
me in my excursions to the lake, and while I paddled
about in my light canoe, would swim after me shouting and

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gambolling in pursuit. But I was ever partial to what is termed in
the “Young Men's Own Book”—“the society of virtuous and intelligent
young ladies;” and in the absence of the mermaids, the
amusement became dull and insipid. One morning I expressed
to my faithful servitor my desire for the return of the nymphs.
The honest fellow looked at me bewildered for a moment, and then
shook his head solemnly, and murmured “taboo! taboo!” giving
me to understand that unless the canoe was removed, I could not
expect to have the young ladies back again. But to this procedure
I was averse; I not only wanted the canoe to stay where it was,
but I wanted the beauteous Fayaway to get into it, and paddle
with me about the lake. This latter proposition completely horrified
Kory-Kory's notions of propriety. He inveighed against it,
as something too monstrous to be thought of. It not only shocked
their established notions of propriety, but was at variance with
all their religious ordinances.

However, although the “taboo” was a ticklish thing to meddle
with, I determined to test its capabilities of resisting an attack.
I consulted the chief Mehevi, who endeavored to persuade me
from my object: but I was not to be repulsed; and accordingly
increased the warmth of my solicitations. At last he entered into
a long, and I have no doubt a very learned and eloquent exposition
of the history and nature of the “taboo” as affecting this particular
case; employing a variety of most extraordinary words,
which, from their amazing length and sonorousness, I have every
reason to believe were of a theological nature. But all that he
said failed to convince me: partly, perhaps, because I could not
comprehend a word that he uttered; but chiefly, that for the life
of me I could not understand why a woman should not have as
much right to enter a canoe as a man. At last he became a little
more rational, and intimated that, out of the abundant love he bore
me, he would consult with the priests and see what could be done.

How it was that the priesthood of Typee satisfied the affair

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with their consciences, I know not; but so it was, and Fayaway's
dispensation from this portion of the taboo was at length procured.
Such an event I believe never before had occurred in the valley;
but it was high time the islanders should be taught a little gallantry,
and I trust that the example I set them may produce
beneficial effects. Ridiculous, indeed, that the lovely creatures
should be obliged to paddle about in the water, like so many
ducks, while a parcel of great strapping fellows skimmed over its
surface in their canoes.

The first day after Fayaway's emancipation, I had a delightful
little party on the lake—the damsel, Kory-Kory, and myself. My
zealous body-servant brought from the house a calabash of poee-poee,
half a dozen young cocoa-nuts—stripped of their husks—
three pipes, as many yams, and me on his back a part of the way.
Something of a load; but Kory-Kory was a very strong man for
his size, and by no means brittle in the spine. We had a very
pleasant day; my trusty valet plied the paddle and swept us
gently along the margin of the water, beneath the shades of the
overhanging thickets. Fayaway and I reclined in the stern of the
canoe, on the very best terms possible with one another; the gentle
nymph occasionally placing her pipe to her lip, and exhaling
the mild fumes of the tobacco, to which her rosy breath added a
fresh perfume. Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which
a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in
the act of smoking. How captivating is a Peruvian lady, swinging
in her gaily-woven hammock of grass, extended between two
orange-trees, and inhaling the fragrance of a choice cigarro!
But Fayaway, holding in her delicately-formed olive hand the
long yellow reed of her pipe, with its quaintly carved bowl, and
every few moments languishingly giving forth light wreaths of
vapor from her mouth and nostrils, looked still more engaging.

We floated about thus for several hours, when I looked up to
the warm, glowing, tropical sky, and then down into the

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transparent depths below; and when my eye, wandering from the bewitching
scenery around, fell upon the grotesquely-tattooed form
of Kory-Kory, and finally encountered the pensive gaze of Fayaway,
I thought I had been transported to some fairy region, so
unreal did everything appear.

This lovely piece of water was the coolest spot in all the valley,
and I now made it a place of continual resort during the hottest
period of the day. One side of it lay near the termination of
a long gradually expanding gorge, which mounted to the heights
that environed the vale. The strong trade wind, met in its
course by these elevations, circled and eddied about their summits,
and was sometimes driven down the steep ravine and swept
across the valley, ruffling in its passage the otherwise tranquil
surface of the lake.

One day, after we had been paddling about for some time, I
disembarked Kory-Kory, and paddled the canoe to the windward
side of the lake. As I turned the canoe, Fayaway, who was with
me, seemed all at once to be struck with some happy idea. With
a wild exclamation of delight, she disengaged from her person the
ample robe of tappa which was knotted over her shoulder (for the
purpose of shielding her from the sun), and spreading it out like
a sail, stood erect with upraised arms in the head of the canoe.
We American sailors pride ourselves upon our straight clean
spars, but a prettier little mast than Fayaway made was never
shipped aboard of any craft.

In a moment the tappa was distended by the breeze—the long
brown tresses of Fayaway streamed in the air—and the canoe
glided rapidly through the water, and shot towards the shore.
Seated in the stern, I directed its course with my paddle until it
dashed up the soft sloping bank, and Fayaway, with a light spring,
alighted on the ground; whilst Kory-Kory, who had watched our
manœuvres with admiration, now clapped his hands in transport,

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and shouted like a madman. Many a time afterwards was this
feat repeated.

If the reader have not observed ere this that I was the declared
admirer of Miss Fayaway, all I can say is, that he is little conversant
with affairs of the heart, and I certainly shall not trouble
myself to enlighten him any farther. Out of the calico I had
brought from the ship I made a dress for this lovely girl. In it
she looked, I must confess, something like an opera-dancer. The
drapery of the latter damsel generally commences a little above
the elbows, but my island beauty's began at the waist, and terminated
sufficiently far above the ground to reveal the most bewitching
ankle in the universe.

The day that Fayaway first wore this robe was rendered memorable
by a new acquaintance being introduced to me. In the
afternoon I was lying in the house, when I heard a great uproar
outside; but being by this time pretty well accustomed to the wild
halloos which were almost continually ringing through the valley,
I paid little attention to it, until old Marheyo, under the influence
of some strange excitement, rushed into my presence and communicated
the astounding tidings, “Marnoo pemi!” which being
interpreted, implied that an individual by the name of Marnoo
was approaching. My worthy old friend evidently expected that
this intelligence would produce a great effect upon me, and for a
time he stood earnestly regarding me, as if curious to see how I
should conduct myself, but as I remained perfectly unmoved, the
old gentleman darted out of the house again, in as great a hurry
as he had entered it.

“Marnoo, Marnoo,” cogitated I, “I have never heard that
name before. Some distinguished character, I presume, from the
prodigious riot the natives are making;” the tumultuous noise
drawing nearer and nearer every moment, while “Marnoo!—
Marnoo!” was shouted by every tongue.

I made up my mind that some savage warrior of consequence,

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who had not yet enjoyed the honor of an audience, was desirous
of paying his respects on the present occasion. So vain had I
become by the lavish attention to which I had been accustomed,
that I felt half inclined, as a punishment for such neglect, to give
this Marnoo a cold reception, when the excited throng came
within view, convoying one of the most striking specimens of
humanity that I ever beheld.

The stranger could not have been more than twenty-five years
of age, and was a little above the ordinary height; had he been a
single hair's breadth taller, the matchless symmetry of his form
would have been destroyed. His unclad limbs were beautifully
formed; whilst the elegant outline of his figure, together with his
beardless cheeks, might have entitled him to the distinction of
standing for the statue of the Polynesian Apollo; and indeed the
oval of his countenance and the regularity of every feature reminded
me of an antique bust. But the marble repose of art was
supplied by a warmth and liveliness of expression only to be seen
in the South Sea Islander under the most favorable developments
of nature. The hair of Marnoo was a rich curling brown, and
twined about his temples and neck in little close curling ringlets,
which danced up and down continually when he was animated in
conversation. His cheek was of a feminine softness, and his face
was free from the least blemish of tattooing, although the rest of
his body was drawn all over with fanciful figures, which—unlike
the unconnected sketching usual among these natives—appeared
to have been executed in conformity with some general design.

The tattooing on his back in particular attracted my attention.
The artist employed must indeed have excelled in his profession.
Traced along the course of the spine was accurately delineated
the slender, tapering, and diamond-checkered shaft of the beautiful
“artu” tree. Branching from the stem on either side, and disposed
alternately, were the graceful branches drooping with
leaves all correctly drawn, and elaborately finished. Indeed, this

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piece of tattooing was the best specimen of the Fine Arts I had
yet seen in Typee. A rear view of the stranger might have suggested
the idea of a spreading vine tacked against a garden wall.
Upon his breast, arms and legs, were exhibited an infinite variety
of figures; every one of which, however, appeared to have reference
to the general effect sought to be produced. The tattooing
I have described was of the brightest blue, and when contrasted
with the light olive-color of the skin, produced an unique and
even elegant effect. A slight girdle of white tappa, scarcely two
inches in width, but hanging before and behind in spreading tassels,
composed the entire costume of the stranger.

He advanced surrounded by the islanders, carrying under one
arm a small roll of the native cloth, and grasping in his other
hand a long and richly decorated spear. His manner was that of
a traveller conscious that he is approaching a comfortable stage
in his journey. Every moment he turned good-humoredly to
the throng around him, and gave some dashing sort of reply to
their incessant queries, which appeared to convulse them with
uncontrollable mirth.

Struck by his demeanor, and the peculiarity of his appearance,
so unlike that of the shaven-crowned and face-tattooed natives in
general, I involuntarily rose as he entered the house, and proffered
him a seat on the mats beside me. But without deigning
to notice the civility, or even the more incontrovertible fact of
my existence, the stranger passed on, utterly regardless of me,
and flung himself upon the further end of the long couch that
traversed the sole apartment of Marheyo's habitation.

Had the belle of the season, in the pride of her beauty and
power, been cut in a place of public resort by some supercilious
exquisite, she could not have felt greater indignation than I did
at this unexpected slight.

I was thrown into utter astonishment. The conduct of the
savages had prepared me to anticipate from every new comer the

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same extravagant expressions of curiosity and regard. The singularity
of his conduct, however, only roused my desire to
discover who this remarkable personage might be, who now
engrossed the attention of every one.

Tinor placed before him a calabash of poee-poee, from which
the stranger regaled himself, alternating every mouthful with
some rapid exclamation, which was eagerly caught up and echoed
by the crowd that completely filled the house. When I observed
the striking devotion of the natives to him, and their temporary
withdrawal of all attention from myself, I felt not a little piqued.
The glory of Tommo is departed, thought I, and the sooner he
removes from the valley the better. These were my feelings
at the moment, and they were prompted by that glorious principle
inherent in all heroic natures—the strong-rooted determination
to have the biggest share of the pudding or to go without any of it.

Marnoo, this all-attractive personage, having satisfied his
hunger, and inhaled a few whiffs from a pipe which was handed
to him, launched out into an harangue which completely enchained
the attention of his auditors.

Little as I understood of the language, yet from his animated
gestures and the varying expression of his features—reflected as
from so many mirrors in the countenances around him, I could
easily discover the nature of those passions which he sought to
arouse. From the frequent recurrence of the words “Nukuheva”
and “France” (French), and some others with the
meaning of which I was acquainted, he appeared to be rehearsing
to his auditors events which had recently occurred in the neighboring
bays. But how he had gained the knowledge of these
matters I could not understand, unless it were that he had just
come from Nukuheva—a supposition which his travel-stained
appearance not a little supported. But, if a native of that region,
I could not account for his friendly reception at the hands of the
Typees.

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Never, certainly, had I beheld so powerful an exhibition of
natural eloquence as Marnoo displayed during the course of his
oration. The grace of the attitudes into which he threw his
flexible figure, the striking gestures of his naked arms, and above
all, the fire which shot from his brilliant eyes, imparted an effect
to the continually changing accents of his voice, of which the
most accomplished orator might have been proud. At one moment
reclining sideways upon the mat, and leaning calmly upon
his bended arm, he related circumstantially the aggressions of the
French—their hostile visits to the surrounding bays, enumerating
each one in succession—Happar, Puerka, Nukuheva, Tior,—and
then starting to his feet and precipitating himself forward with
clenched hands and a countenance distorted with passion, he
poured out a tide of invectives. Falling back into an attitude of
lofty command, he exhorted the Typees to resist these encroachments;
reminding them, with a fierce glance of exultation, that
as yet the terror of their name had preserved them from attack,
and with a scornful sneer he sketched in ironical terms the wondrous
intrepidity of the French, who, with five war-canoes and
hundreds of men, had not dared to assail the naked warriors of
their valley.

The effect he produced upon his audience was electric; one
and all they stood regarding him with sparkling eyes and trembling
limbs, as though they were listening to the inspired voice
of a prophet.

But it soon appeared that Marnoo's powers were as versatile as
they were extraordinary. As soon as he had finished his vehement
harangue, he threw himself again upon the mats, and,
singling out individuals in the crowd, addressed them by name,
in a sort of bantering style, the humor of which, though nearly
hidden from me, filled the whole assembly with uproarious
delight.

He had a word for everybody; and, turning rapidly from one

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to another, gave utterance to some hasty witticism, which was
sure to be followed by peals of laughter. To the females, as
well as to the men, he addressed his discourse. Heaven only
knows what he said to them, but he caused smiles and blushes to
mantle their ingenuous faces. I am, indeed, very much inclined
to believe that Marnoo, with his handsome person and captivating
manners, was a sad deceiver among the simple maidens of
the island.

During all this time he had never, for one moment, deigned to
regard me. He appeared, indeed, to be altogether unconscious
of my presence. I was utterly at a loss how to account for this
extraordinary conduct. I easily perceived that he was a man of
no little consequence among the islanders; that he possessed uncommon
talents; and was gifted with a higher degree of knowledge
than the inmates of the valley. For these reasons, I
therefore greatly feared lest having, from some cause or other,
unfriendly feelings towards me, he might exert his powerful influence
to do me mischief.

It seemed evident that he was not a permanent resident of the
vale, and yet, whence could he have come? On all sides the
Typees were girt in by hostile tribes, and how could he possibly,
if belonging to any of these, be received with so much
cordiality?

The personal appearance of the enigmatical stranger suggested
additional perplexities. The face, free from tattooing, and the
unshaven crown, were peculiarities I had never before remarked
in any part of the island, and I had always heard that the contrary
were considered the indispensable distinctions of a Marquesan
warrior. Altogether the matter was perfectly incomprehensible
to me, and I awaited its solution with no small degree of
anxiety.

At length, from certain indications, I suspected that he was
making me the subject of his remarks, although he appeared

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cautiously to avoid either pronouncing my name, or looking in
the direction where I lay. All at once he rose from the mats
where he had been reclining, and, still conversing, moved towards
me, his eye purposely evading mine, and seated himself within
less than a yard of me. I had hardly recovered from my surprise,
when he suddenly turned round, and, with a most benignant
countenance, extended his right hand gracefully towards me.
Of course I accepted the courteous challenge, and, as soon as our
palms met, he bent towards me, and murmured in musical accents,—
“How you do?” “How long you been in this bay?”
“You like this bay?”

Had I been pierced simultaneously by three Happar spears, I
could not have started more than I did at hearing these simple
questions! For a moment I was overwhelmed with astonishment,
and then answered something I know not what; but as
soon as I regained my self-possession, the thought darted through
my mind that from this individual I might obtain that information
regarding Toby which I suspected the natives had purposely
withheld from me. Accordingly I questioned him concerning
the disappearance of my companion, but he denied all knowledge
of the matter. I then inquired from whence he had come?
He replied, from Nukuheva. When I expressed my surprise, he
looked at me for a moment, as if enjoying my perplexity, and
then, with his strange vivacity, exclaimed,—“Ah! me taboo.—
me go Nukuheva,—me go Tior,—me go Typee,—me go everywhere,—
nobody harm me,—me taboo.”

This explanation would have been altogether unintelligible to
me, had it not recalled to my mind something I had previously
heard concerning a singular custom among these islanders.
Though the country is possessed by various tribes, whose mutual
hostilities almost wholly preclude any intercourse between them;
yet there are instances where a person having ratified friendly
relations with some individual belonging to the valley, whose

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inmates are at war with his own, may, under particular restrictions,
venture with impunity into the country of his friend, where,
under other circumstances, he would have been treated as an
enemy. In this light are personal friendships regarded among
them, and the individual so protected is said to be “taboo,” and
his person, to a certain extent, is held as sacred. Thus the
stranger informed me he had access to all the valleys in the island.

Curious to know how he had acquired his knowledge of English,
I questioned him on the subject. At first, for some reason
or other, he evaded the inquiry, but afterwards told me that, when
a boy, he had been carried to sea by the captain of a trading vessel,
with whom he had stayed three years, living part of the time
with him at Sidney, in Australia, and that, at a subsequent visit
to the island, the captain had, at his own request, permitted him
to remain among his countrymen. The natural quickness of the
savage had been wonderfully improved by his intercourse with
the white men, and his partial knowledge of a foreign language
gave him a great ascendency over his less accomplished countrymen.

When I asked the now affable Marnoo why it was that he had
not previously spoken to me, he eagerly inquired what I had been
led to think of him from his conduct in that respect. I replied,
that I had supposed him to be some great chief or warrior, who
had seen plenty of white men before, and did not think it worth
while to notice a poor sailor. At this declaration of the exalted
opinion I had formed of him, he appeared vastly gratified, and
gave me to understand that he had purposely behaved in that
manner, in order to increase my astonishment, as soon as he should
see proper to address me.

Marnoo now sought to learn my version of the story as to how
I came to be an inmate of the Typee valley. When I related to
him the circumstances under which Toby and I had entered it,
he listened with evident interest; but as soon as I alluded to the

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absence, yet unaccounted for, of my comrade, he endeavored to
change the subject, as if it were something he desired not to agitate.
It seemed, indeed, as if everything connected with Toby
was destined to beget distrust and anxiety in my bosom. Notwithstanding
Marnoo's denial of any knowledge of his fate, I
could not avoid suspecting that he was deceiving me; and this
suspicion revived those frightful apprehensions with regard to
my own fate, which, for a short time past, had subsided in my
breast.

Influenced by these feelings, I now felt a strong desire to avail
myself of the stranger's protection, and under his safeguard to
return to Nukuheva. But as soon as I hinted at this, he unhesitatingly
pronounced it to be entirely impracticable; assuring me
that the Typees would never consent to my leaving the valley.
Although what he said merely confirmed the impression which I
had before entertained, still it increased my anxiety to escape from
a captivity, which, however endurable, nay, delightful it might be
in some respects, involved in its issues a fate marked by the most
frightful contingencies.

I could not conceal from my mind that Toby had been treated
in the same friendly manner as I had been, and yet all their kindness
terminated with his mysterious disappearance. Might not the
same fate await me?—a fate too dreadful to think of. Stimulated
by these considerations, I urged anew my request to Marnoo; but
he only set forth in stronger colors the impossibility of my escape,
and repeated his previous declaration that the Typees would never
be brought to consent to my departure.

When I endeavored to learn from him the motives which
prompted them to hold me a prisoner, Marnoo again assumed that
mysterious tone which had tormented me with apprehensions
when I had questioned him with regard to the fate of my companion.

Thus repulsed, in a manner which only served, by arousing the

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most dreadful forebodings, to excite me to renewed attempts, I conjured
him to intercede for me with the natives, and endeavor to
procure their consent to my leaving them. To this he appeared
strongly averse; but, yielding at last to my importunities, he addressed
several of the chiefs, who with the rest had been eyeing
us intently during the whole of our conversation. His petition,
however, was at once met with the most violent disapprobation,
manifesting itself in angry glances and gestures, and a perfect
torrent of passionate words, directed to both him and myself.
Marnoo, evidently repenting the step he had taken, earnestly deprecated
the resentment of the crowd, and in a few moments succeeded
in pacifying to some extent the clamors which had broken
out as soon as his proposition had been understood.

With the most intense interest had I watched the reception his
intercession might receive; and a bitter pang shot through my
heart at the additional evidence, now furnished, of the unchangeable
determination of the islanders. Marnoo told me, with evident
alarm in his countenance, that although admitted into the
bay on a friendly footing with its inhabitants, he could not presume
to meddle with their concerns, as such a procedure, if persisted
in, would at once absolve the Typees from the restraints of
the “Taboo,” although so long as he refrained from any such
conduct, it screened him effectually from the consequences of the
enmity they bore his tribe.

At this moment, Mehevi, who was present, angrily interrupted
him; and the words which he uttered, in a commanding tone,
evidently meant that he must at once cease talking to me, and
withdraw to the other part of the house. Marnoo immediately
started up, hurriedly enjoining me not to address him again, and,
as I valued my safety, to refrain from all further allusion to the
subject of my departure; and then, in compliance with the order
of the determined chief, but not before it had again been angrily
repeated, he withdrew to a distance.

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I now perceived, with no small degree of apprehension, the
same savage expression in the countenances of the natives which
had startled me during the scene at the Ti. They glanced their
eyes suspiciously from Marnoo to me, as if distrusting the nature
of an intercourse carried on, as it was, in a language they could
not understand, and they seemed to harbor the belief that already
we had concerted measures calculated to elude their vigilance.

The lively countenances of these people are wonderfully indicative
of the emotions of the soul, and the imperfections of their
oral language are more than compensated for by the nervous eloquence
of their looks and gestures. I could plainly trace, in
every varying expression of their faces, all those passions which
had been thus unexpectedly aroused in their bosoms.

It required no reflection to convince me, from what was going
on, that the injunction of Marnoo was not to be rashly slighted;
and accordingly, great as was the effort to suppress my feelings,
I accosted Mehevi in a good-humored tone, with a view of dissipating
any ill impression he might have received. But the ireful,
angry chief was not so easily mollified. He rejected my
advances with that peculiarly stern expression I have before described,
and took care by the whole of his behavior towards me to
show the displeasure and resentment which he felt.

Marnoo, at the other extremity of the house, apparently desirous
of making a diversion in my favor, exerted himself to amuse
with his pleasantries the crowd about him; but his lively attempts
were not so successful as they had previously been, and, foiled in
his efforts, he rose gravely to depart. No one expressed any regret
at this movement, so seizing his roll of tappa, and grasping
his spear, he advanced to the front of the pi-pi, and waving his
hand in adieu to the now silent throng, cast upon me a glance of
mingled pity and reproach, and flung himself into the path which
led from the house. I watched his receding figure until it was
lost in the obscurity of the grove, and then gave myself up to the
most desponding reflections.

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