Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching4 sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific—the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh provisions were all exhausted5. There is not a sweet potato left; not a single yam. Those glorious bunches of bananas, which once decorated our stern and quarter-deck, have, alas6, disappeared! and the delicious oranges which hung suspended from our tops and stays—they, too, are gone! Yes, they are all departed, and there is nothing left us but salt-horse and sea-biscuit. Oh! ye state-room sailors, who make so much ado about a fourteen-days’ passage across the Atlantic; who so pathetically relate the privations and hardships of the sea, where, after a day of breakfasting, lunching, dining off five courses, chatting, playing whist, and drinking champagne-punch, it was your hard lot to be shut up in little cabinets of mahogany and maple7, and sleep for ten hours, with nothing to disturb you but ‘those good-for-nothing tars8, shouting and tramping overhead’,—what would ye say to our six months out of sight of land?
Oh! for a refreshing9 glimpse of one blade of grass—for a snuff at the fragrance10 of a handful of the loamy earth! Is there nothing fresh around us? Is there no green thing to be seen? Yes, the inside of our bulwarks11 is painted green; but what a vile12 and sickly hue13 it is, as if nothing bearing even the semblance14 of verdure could flourish this weary way from land. Even the bark that once clung to the wood we use for fuel has been gnawed15 off and devoured16 by the captain’s pig; and so long ago, too, that the pig himself has in turn been devoured.
There is but one solitary17 tenant18 in the chicken-coop, once a gay and dapper young cock, bearing him so bravely among the coy hens.
But look at him now; there he stands, moping all the day long on that everlasting19 one leg of his. He turns with disgust from the mouldy corn before him, and the brackish20 water in his little trough. He mourns no doubt his lost companions, literally21 snatched from him one by one, and never seen again. But his days of mourning will be few for Mungo, our black cook, told me yesterday that the word had at last gone forth22, and poor Pedro’s fate was sealed. His attenuated23 body will be laid out upon the captain’s table next Sunday, and long before night will be buried with all the usual ceremonies beneath that worthy24 individual’s vest. Who would believe that there could be any one so cruel as to long for the decapitation of the luckless Pedro; yet the sailors pray every minute, selfish fellows, that the miserable25 fowl26 may be brought to his end. They say the captain will never point the ship for the land so long as he has in anticipation27 a mess of fresh meat. This unhappy bird can alone furnish it; and when he is once devoured, the captain will come to his senses. I wish thee no harm, Pedro; but as thou art doomed28, sooner or later, to meet the fate of all thy race; and if putting a period to thy existence is to be the signal for our deliverance, why—truth to speak—I wish thy throat cut this very moment; for, oh! how I wish to see the living earth again! The old ship herself longs to look out upon the land from her hawse-holes once more, and Jack29 Lewis said right the other day when the captain found fault with his steering30.
‘Why d’ye see, Captain Vangs,’ says bold Jack, ‘I’m as good a helmsman as ever put hand to spoke32; but none of us can steer31 the old lady now. We can’t keep her full and bye, sir; watch her ever so close, she will fall off and then, sir, when I put the helm down so gently, and try like to coax33 her to the work, she won’t take it kindly34, but will fall round off again; and it’s all because she knows the land is under the lee, sir, and she won’t go any more to windward.’ Aye, and why should she, Jack? didn’t every one of her stout35 timbers grow on shore, and hasn’t she sensibilities; as well as we?
Poor old ship! Her very looks denote her desires! how deplorably she appears! The paint on her sides, burnt up by the scorching sun, is puffed36 out and cracked. See the weeds she trails along with her, and what an unsightly bunch of those horrid37 barnacles has formed about her stern-piece; and every time she rises on a sea, she shows her copper38 torn away, or hanging in jagged strips.
Poor old ship! I say again: for six months she has been rolling and pitching about, never for one moment at rest. But courage, old lass, I hope to see thee soon within a biscuit’s toss of the merry land, riding snugly39 at anchor in some green cove40, and sheltered from the boisterous41 winds.
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‘Hurra, my lads! It’s a settled thing; next week we shape our course to the Marquesas!’ The Marquesas! What strange visions of outlandish things does the very name spirit up! Naked houris—cannibal banquets—groves of cocoanut—coral reefs—tattooed chiefs—and bamboo temples; sunny valleys planted with bread-fruit-trees—carved canoes dancing on the flashing blue waters—savage woodlands guarded by horrible idols42—HEATHENISH RITES43 AND HUMAN SACRIFICES.
Such were the strangely jumbled44 anticipations45 that haunted me during our passage from the cruising ground. I felt an irresistible46 curiosity to see those islands which the olden voyagers had so glowingly described.
The group for which we were now steering (although among the earliest of European discoveries in the South Seas, having been first visited in the year 1595) still continues to be tenanted by beings as strange and barbarous as ever. The missionaries47 sent on a heavenly errand, had sailed by their lovely shores, and had abandoned them to their idols of wood and stone. How interesting the circumstances under which they were discovered! In the watery48 path of Mendanna, cruising in quest of some region of gold, these isles49 had sprung up like a scene of enchantment50, and for a moment the Spaniard believed his bright dream was realized.
In honour of the Marquess de Mendoza, then viceroy of Peru—under whose auspices51 the navigator sailed—he bestowed52 upon them the name which denoted the rank of his patron, and gave to the world on his return a vague and magnificent account of their beauty. But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some adventurous53 rover would break in upon their peaceful repose54, and astonished at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted55 to claim the merit of a new discovery.
Of this interesting group, but little account has ever been given, if we except the slight mention made of them in the sketches56 of South-Sea voyages. Cook, in his repeated circumnavigations of the globe, barely touched at their shores; and all that we know about them is from a few general narratives57.
Among these, there are two that claim particular notice. Porter’s ‘Journal of the Cruise of the U.S. frigate58 Essex, in the Pacific, during the late War’, is said to contain some interesting particulars concerning the islanders. This is a work, however, which I have never happened to meet with; and Stewart, the chaplain of the American sloop59 of war Vincennes, has likewise devoted60 a portion of his book, entitled ‘A Visit to the South Seas’, to the same subject.
Within the last few, years American and English vessels61 engaged in the extensive whale fisheries of the Pacific have occasionally, when short of provisions, put into the commodious62 harbour which there is in one of the islands; but a fear of the natives, founded on the recollection of the dreadful fate which many white men have received at their hands, has deterred63 their crews from intermixing with the population sufficiently64 to gain any insight into their peculiar65 customs and manners.
The Protestant Missions appear to have despaired of reclaiming66 these islands from heathenism. The usage they have in every case received from the natives has been such as to intimidate67 the boldest of their number. Ellis, in his ‘Polynesian Researches’, gives some interesting accounts of the abortive68 attempts made by the ‘’Tahiti Mission’’ to establish a branch Mission upon certain islands of the group. A short time before my visit to the Marquesas, a somewhat amusing incident took place in connection with these efforts, which I cannot avoid relating.
An intrepid69 missionary, undaunted by the ill-success that had attended all previous endeavours to conciliate the savages, and believing much in the efficacy of female influence, introduced among them his young and beautiful wife, the first white woman who had ever visited their shores. The islanders at first gazed in mute admiration70 at so unusual a prodigy71, and seemed inclined to regard it as some new divinity. But after a short time, becoming familiar with its charming aspect, and jealous of the folds which encircled its form, they sought to pierce the sacred veil of calico in which it was enshrined, and in the gratification of their curiosity so far overstepped the limits of good breeding, as deeply to offend the lady’s sense of decorum. Her sex once ascertained72, their idolatry was changed into contempt and there was no end to the contumely showered upon her by the savages, who were exasperated73 at the deception74 which they conceived had been practised upon them. To the horror of her affectionate spouse75, she was stripped of her garments, and given to understand that she could no longer carry on her deceits with impunity76. The gentle dame77 was not sufficiently evangelical to endure this, and, fearful of further improprieties, she forced her husband to relinquish78 his undertaking79, and together they returned to Tahiti.
Not thus shy of exhibiting her charms was the Island Queen herself, the beauteous wife of Movianna, the king of Nukuheva. Between two and three years after the adventures recorded in this volume, I chanced, while aboard of a man-of-war to touch at these islands. The French had then held possession of the Marquesas some time, and already prided themselves upon the beneficial effects of their jurisdiction80, as discernible in the deportment of the natives. To be sure, in one of their efforts at reform they had slaughtered81 about a hundred and fifty of them at Whitihoo—but let that pass. At the time I mention, the French squadron was rendezvousing82 in the bay of Nukuheva, and during an interview between one of their captains and our worthy Commodore, it was suggested by the former, that we, as the flag-ship of the American squadron, should receive, in state, a visit from the royal pair. The French officer likewise represented, with evident satisfaction, that under their tuition the king and queen had imbibed83 proper notions of their elevated station, and on all ceremonious occasions conducted themselves with suitable dignity. Accordingly, preparations were made to give their majesties84 a reception on board in a style corresponding with their rank.
One bright afternoon, a gig, gaily85 bedizened with streamers, was observed to shove off from the side of one of the French frigates86, and pull directly for our gangway. In the stern sheets reclined Mowanna and his consort87. As they approached, we paid them all the honours due to royalty88;—manning our yards, firing a salute89, and making a prodigious90 hubbub91.
They ascended92 the accommodation ladder, were greeted by the Commodore, hat in hand, and passing along the quarter-deck, the marine93 guard presented arms, while the band struck up ‘The King of the Cannibal Islands’. So far all went well. The French officers grimaced94 and smiled in exceedingly high spirits, wonderfully pleased with the discreet95 manner in which these distinguished96 personages behaved themselves.
Their appearance was certainly calculated to produce an effect. His majesty97 was arrayed in a magnificent military uniform, stiff with gold lace and embroidery98, while his shaven crown was concealed99 by a huge chapeau bras, waving with ostrich100 plumes101. There was one slight blemish102, however, in his appearance. A broad patch of tattooing103 stretched completely across his face, in a line with his eyes, making him look as if he wore a huge pair of goggles104; and royalty in goggles suggested some ludicrous ideas. But it was in the adornment105 of the fair person of his dark-complexioned spouse that the tailors of the fleet had evinced the gaiety of their national taste. She was habited in a gaudy106 tissue of scarlet107 cloth, trimmed with yellow silk, which, descending108 a little below the knees, exposed to view her bare legs, embellished109 with spiral tattooing, and somewhat resembling two miniature Trajan’s columns. Upon her head was a fanciful turban of purple velvet110, figured with silver sprigs, and surmounted111 by a tuft of variegated112 feathers.
The ship’s company, crowding into the gangway to view the sight, soon arrested her majesty’s attention. She singled out from their number an old salt, whose bare arms and feet, and exposed breast, were covered with as many inscriptions113 in India ink as the lid of an Egyptian sarcophagus. Notwithstanding all the sly hints and remonstrances114 of the French officers, she immediately approached the man, and pulling further open the bosom115 of his duck frock, and rolling up the leg of his wide trousers, she gazed with admiration at the bright blue and vermilion pricking116 thus disclosed to view. She hung over the fellow, caressing117 him, and expressing her delight in a variety of wild exclamations118 and gestures. The embarrassment119 of the polite Gauls at such an unlooked-for occurrence may be easily imagined, but picture their consternation120, when all at once the royal lady, eager to display the hieroglyphics121 on her own sweet form, bent122 forward for a moment, and turning sharply round, threw up the skirt of her mantle123 and revealed a sight from which the aghast Frenchmen retreated precipitately124, and tumbling into their boats, fled the scene of so shocking a catastrophe125.
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