OUR ship had not been many days in the harbour of Nukuheva before I came to the determination of leaving her. That my reasons for resolving to take this step were numerous and weighty, may be inferred from the fact that I chose rather to risk my fortunes among the savages4 of the island than to endure another voyage on board the Dolly. To use the concise5, pointblank phrase of the sailors. I had made up my mind to ‘run away’. Now as a meaning is generally attached to these two words no way flattering to the individual to whom they are applied6, it behoves me, for the sake of my own character, to offer some explanation of my conduct.
When I entered on board the Dolly, I signed as a matter of course the ship’s articles, thereby7 voluntarily engaging and legally binding8 myself to serve in a certain capacity for the period of the voyage; and, special considerations apart, I was of course bound to fulfill9 the agreement. But in all contracts, if one party fail to perform his share of the compact, is not the other virtually absolved11 from his liability? Who is there who will not answer in the affirmative?
Having settled the principle, then, let me apply it to the particular case in question. In numberless instances had not only the implied but the specified12 conditions of the articles been violated on the part of the ship in which I served. The usage on board of her was tyrannical; the sick had been inhumanly13 neglected; the provisions had been doled14 out in scanty15 allowance; and her cruises were unreasonably16 protracted17. The captain was the author of the abuses; it was in vain to think that he would either remedy them, or alter his conduct, which was arbitrary and violent in the extreme. His prompt reply to all complaints and remonstrances18 was—the butt-end of a handspike, so convincingly administered as effectually to silence the aggrieved19 party.
To whom could we apply for redress20? We had left both law and equity21 on the other side of the Cape22; and unfortunately, with a very few exceptions, our crew was composed of a parcel of dastardly and meanspirited wretches23, divided among themselves, and only united in enduring without resistance the unmitigated tyranny of the captain. It would have been mere24 madness for any two or three of the number, unassisted by the rest, to attempt making a stand against his ill usage. They would only have called down upon themselves the particular vengeance25 of this ‘Lord of the Plank’, and subjected their shipmates to additional hardships.
But, after all, these things could have been endured awhile, had we entertained the hope of being speedily delivered from them by the due completion of the term of our servitude. But what a dismal26 prospect27 awaited us in this quarter! The longevity28 of Cape Horn whaling voyages is proverbial, frequently extending over a period of four or five years.
Some long-haired, bare-necked youths, who, forced by the united influences of Captain Marryatt and hard times, embark29 at Nantucket for a pleasure excursion to the Pacific, and whose anxious mothers provide them, with bottled milk for the occasion, oftentimes return very respectable aged31" target="_blank">middle-aged30 gentlemen.
The very preparations made for one of these expeditions are enough to frighten one. As the vessel carries out no cargo32, her hold is filled with provisions for her own consumption. The owners, who officiate as caterers for the voyage, supply the larder with an abundance of dainties. Delicate morsels33 of beef and pork, cut on scientific principles from every part of the animal, and of all conceivable shapes and sizes, are carefully packed in salt, and stored away in barrels; affording a never-ending variety in their different degrees of toughness, and in the peculiarities35 of their saline properties. Choice old water too, decanted36 into stout37 six-barrel-casks, and two pints38 of which is allowed every day to each soul on board; together with ample store of sea-bread, previously39 reduced to a state of petrifaction40, with a view to preserve it either from decay or consumption in the ordinary mode, are likewise provided for the nourishment41 and gastronomic42 enjoyment43 of the crew.
But not to speak of the quality of these articles of sailors’ fare, the abundance in which they are put onboard a whaling vessel is almost incredible. Oftentimes, when we had occasion to break out in the hold, and I beheld44 the successive tiers of casks and barrels, whose contents were all destined45 to be consumed in due course by the ship’s company, my heart has sunk within me.
Although, as a general case, a ship unlucky in falling in with whales continues to cruise after them until she has barely sufficient provisions remaining to take her home, turning round then quietly and making the best of her way to her friends, yet there are instances when even this natural obstacle to the further prosecution46 of the voyage is overcome by headstrong captains, who, bartering48 the fruits of their hard-earned toils49 for a new supply of provisions in some of the ports of Chili50 or Peru, begin the voyage afresh with unabated zeal51 and perseverance52. It is in vain that the owners write urgent letters to him to sail for home, and for their sake to bring back the ship, since it appears he can put nothing in her. Not he. He has registered a vow53: he will fill his vessel with good sperm54 oil, or failing to do so, never again strike Yankee soundings.
I heard of one whaler, which after many years’ absence was given up for lost. The last that had been heard of her was a shadowy report of her having touched at some of those unstable55 islands in the far Pacific, whose eccentric wanderings are carefully noted56 in each new edition of the South-Sea charts. After a long interval57, however, ‘The Perseverance’—for that was her name—was spoken somewhere in the vicinity of the ends of the earth, cruising along as leisurely58 as ever, her sails all bepatched and be quilted with rope-yarns, her spars fished with old pipe staves, and her rigging knotted and spliced59 in every possible direction. Her crew was composed of some twenty venerable Greenwich-pensioner-looking old salts, who just managed to hobble about deck. The ends of all the running ropes, with the exception of the signal halyards and poop-down-haul, were rove through snatch-blocks, and led to the capstan or windlass, so that not a yard was braced60 or a sail set without the assistance of machinery61.
Her hull62 was encrusted with barnacles, which completely encased her. Three pet sharks followed in her wake, and every day came alongside to regale63 themselves from the contents of the cook’s bucket, which were pitched over to them. A vast shoal of bonetas and albicores always kept her company.
Such was the account I heard of this vessel and the remembrance of it always haunted me; what eventually became of her I never learned; at any rate: he never reached home, and I suppose she is still regularly tacking64 twice in the twenty-four hours somewhere off Desolate65 Island, or the Devil’s-Tail Peak.
Having said thus much touching66 the usual length of these voyages, when I inform the reader that ours had as it were just commenced, we being only fifteen months out, and even at that time hailed as a late arrival and boarded for news, he will readily perceive that there was little to encourage one in looking forward to the future, especially as I had always had a presentiment67 that we should make an unfortunate voyage, and our experience so far had justified68 the expectation.
I may here state, and on my faith as an honest man, that though more than three years have elapsed since I left this same identical vessel, she still continues; in the Pacific, and but a few days since I saw her reported in the papers as having touched at the Sandwich Islands previous to going on the coast of Japan.
But to return to my narrative70. Placed in these circumstances then, with no prospect of matters mending if I remained aboard the Dolly, I at once made up my mind to leave her: to be sure it was rather an inglorious thing to steal away privily71 from those at whose hands I had received wrongs and outrages72 that I could not resent; but how was such a course to be avoided when it was the only alternative left me? Having made up my mind, I proceeded to acquire all the information I could obtain relating to the island and its inhabitants, with a view of shaping my plans of escape accordingly. The result of these inquiries73 I will now state, in order that the ensuing narrative may be the better understood.
The bay of Nukuheva in which we were then lying is an expanse of water not unlike in figure the space included within the limits of a horse-shoe. It is, perhaps, nine miles in circumference74. You approach it from the sea by a narrow entrance, flanked on each side by two small twin islets which soar conically to the height of some five hundred feet. From these the shore recedes75 on both hands, and describes a deep semicircle.
From the verge76 of the water the land rises uniformly on all sides, with green and sloping acclivities, until from gently rolling hill-sides and moderate elevations77 it insensibly swells78 into lofty and majestic80 heights, whose blue outlines, ranged all around, close in the view. The beautiful aspect of the shore is heightened by deep and romantic glens, which come down to it at almost equal distances, all apparently81 radiating from a common centre, and the upper extremities82 of which are lost to the eye beneath the shadow of the mountains. Down each of these little valleys flows a clear stream, here and there assuming the form of a slender cascade83, then stealing invisibly along until it bursts upon the sight again in larger and more noisy waterfalls, and at last demurely84 wanders along to the sea.
The houses of the natives, constructed of the yellow bamboo, tastefully twisted together in a kind of wicker-work, and thatched with the long tapering85 leaves of the palmetto, are scattered86 irregularly along these valleys beneath the shady branches of the cocoanut trees.
Nothing can exceed the imposing87 scenery of this bay. Viewed from our ship as she lay at anchor in the middle of the harbour, it presented the appearance of a vast natural amphitheatre in decay, and overgrown with vines, the deep glens that furrowed88 it’s sides appearing like enormous fissures89 caused by the ravages90 of time. Very often when lost in admiration91 at its beauty, I have experienced a pang92 of regret that a scene so enchanting93 should be hidden from the world in these remote seas, and seldom meet the eyes of devoted94 lovers of nature.
Besides this bay the shores of the island are indented95 by several other extensive inlets, into which descend96 broad and verdant97 valleys. These are inhabited by as many distinct tribes of savages, who, although speaking kindred dialects of a common language, and having the same religion and laws, have from time immemorial waged hereditary98 warfare99 against each other. The intervening mountains generally two or three thousand feet above the level of the sea geographically100 define the territories of each of these hostile tribes, who never cross them, save on some expedition of war or plunder101. Immediately adjacent to Nukuheva, and only separated from it by the mountains seen from the harbour, lies the lovely valley of Happar, whose inmates102 cherish the most friendly relations with the inhabitants of Nukuheva. On the other side of Happar, and closely adjoining it, is the magnificent valley of the dreaded103 Typees, the unappeasable enemies of both these tribes.
These celebrated104 warriors105 appear to inspire the other islanders with unspeakable terrors. Their very name is a frightful106 one; for the word ‘Typee’ in the Marquesan dialect signifies a lover of human flesh. It is rather singular that the title should have been bestowed107 upon them exclusively, inasmuch as the natives of all this group are irreclaimable cannibals. The name may, perhaps, have been given to denote the peculiar34 ferocity of this clan108, and to convey a special stigma109 along with it.
These same Typees enjoy a prodigious110 notoriety all over the islands. The natives of Nukuheva would frequently recount in pantomime to our ship’s company their terrible feats111, and would show the marks of wounds they had received in desperate encounters with them. When ashore112 they would try to frighten us by pointing, to one of their own number, and calling him a Typee, manifesting no little surprise that we did not take to our heels at so terrible an announcement. It was quite amusing, too, to see with what earnestness they disclaimed113 all cannibal propensities114 on their own part, while they denounced their enemies—the Typees—as inveterate115 gourmandizers of human flesh; but this is a peculiarity116 to which I shall hereafter have occasion to allude117.
Although I was convinced that the inhabitants of our bay were as arrant118 cannibals as any of the other tribes on the island, still I could not but feel a particular and most unqualified repugnance119 to the aforesaid Typees. Even before visiting the Marquesas, I had heard from men who had touched at the group on former voyages some revolting stories in connection with these savages; and fresh in my remembrance was the adventure of the master of the Katherine, who only a few months previous, imprudently venturing into this bay in an armed boat for the purpose of barter47, was seized by the natives, carried back a little distance into their valley, and was only saved from a cruel death by the intervention120 of a young girl, who facilitated his escape by night along the beach to Nukuheva.
I had heard too of an English vessel that many years ago, after a weary cruise, sought to enter the bay of Nukuheva, and arriving within two or three miles of the land, was met by a large canoe filled with natives, who offered to lead the way to the place of their destination. The captain, unacquainted with the localities of the island, joyfully121 acceded122 to the proposition—the canoe paddled on, the ship followed. She was soon conducted to a beautiful inlet, and dropped her anchor in its waters beneath the shadows of the lofty shore. That same night the perfidious123 Typees, who had thus inveigled124 her into their fatal bay, flocked aboard the doomed125 vessel by hundreds, and at a given signal murdered every soul on board.
I shall never forget the observation of one of our crew as we were passing slowly by the entrance of the bay in our way to Nukuheva. As we stood gazing over the side at the verdant headlands, Ned, pointing with his hand in the direction of the treacherous126 valley, exclaimed, ‘There—there’s Typee. Oh, the bloody127 cannibals, what a meal they’d make of us if we were to take it into our heads to land! but they say they don’t like sailor’s flesh, it’s too salt. I say, maty, how should you like to be shoved ashore there, eh?’ I little thought, as I shuddered128 at the question, that in the space of a few weeks I should actually be a captive in that self-same valley.
The French, although they had gone through the ceremony of hoisting129 their colours for a few hours at all the principal places of the group, had not as yet visited the bay of Typee, anticipating a fierce resistance on the part of the savages there, which for the present at least they wished to avoid. Perhaps they were not a little influenced in the adoption130 of this unusual policy from a recollection of the warlike reception given by the Typees to the forces of Captain Porter, about the year 1814, when that brave and accomplished131 officer endeavoured to subjugate132 the clan merely to gratify the mortal hatred133 of his allies the Nukuhevas and Happars.
On that occasion I have been told that a considerable detachment of sailors and marines from the frigate134 Essex, accompanied by at least two thousand warriors of Happar and Nukuheva, landed in boats and canoes at the head of the bay, and after penetrating135 a little distance into the valley, met with the stoutest136 resistance from its inmates. Valiantly137, although with much loss, the Typees disputed every inch of ground, and after some hard fighting obliged their assailants to retreat and abandon their design of conquest.
The invaders138, on their march back to the sea, consoled themselves for their repulse139 by setting fire to every house and temple in their route; and a long line of smoking ruins defaced the once-smiling bosom140 of the valley, and proclaimed to its pagan inhabitants the spirit that reigned141 in the breasts of Christian142 soldiers. Who can wonder at the deadly hatred of the Typees to all foreigners after such unprovoked atrocities143?
Thus it is that they whom we denominate ‘savages’ are made to deserve the title. When the inhabitants of some sequestered144 island first descry145 the ‘big canoe’ of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosom the vipers146 whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive147 feeling of love within their breast is soon converted into the bitterest hate.
The enormities perpetrated in the South Seas upon some of the inoffensive islanders will nigh pass belief. These things are seldom proclaimed at home; they happen at the very ends of the earth; they are done in a corner, and there are none to reveal them. But there is, nevertheless, many a petty trader that has navigated148 the Pacific whose course from island to island might be traced by a series of cold-blooded robberies, kidnappings, and murders, the iniquity149 of which might be considered almost sufficient to sink her guilty timbers to the bottom of the sea.
Sometimes vague accounts of such thing’s reach our firesides, and we coolly censure150 them as wrong, impolitic, needlessly severe, and dangerous to the crews of other vessels151. How different is our tone when we read the highly-wrought description of the massacre152 of the crew of the Hobomak by the Feejees; how we sympathize for the unhappy victims, and with what horror do we regard the diabolical153 heathens, who, after all, have but avenged154 the unprovoked injuries which they have received. We breathe nothing but vengeance, and equip armed vessels to traverse thousands of miles of ocean in order to execute summary punishment upon the offenders155. On arriving at their destination, they burn, slaughter156, and destroy, according to the tenor157 of written instructions, and sailing away from the scene of devastation158, call upon all Christendom to applaud their courage and their justice.
How often is the term ‘savages’ incorrectly applied! None really deserving of it were ever yet discovered by voyagers or by travellers. They have discovered heathens and barbarians159 whom by horrible cruelties they have exasperated160 into savages. It may be asserted without fear of contradictions that in all the cases of outrages committed by Polynesians, Europeans have at some time or other been the aggressors, and that the cruel and bloodthirsty disposition161 of some of the islanders is mainly to be ascribed to the influence of such examples.
But to return. Owing to the mutual162 hostilities163 of the different tribes I have mentioned, the mountainous tracts10 which separate their respective territories remain altogether uninhabited; the natives invariably dwelling164 in the depths of the valleys, with a view of securing themselves from the predatory incursions of their enemies, who often lurk165 along their borders, ready to cut off any imprudent straggler, or make a descent upon the inmates of some sequestered habitation. I several times met with very aged men, who from this cause had never passed the confines of their native vale, some of them having never even ascended166 midway up the mountains in the whole course of their lives, and who, accordingly had little idea of the appearance of any other part of the island, the whole of which is not perhaps more than sixty miles in circuit. The little space in which some of these clans167 pass away their days would seem almost incredible.
The glen of the Tior will furnish a curious illustration of this.
The inhabited part is not more than four miles in length, and varies in breadth from half a mile to less than a quarter. The rocky vine-clad cliffs on one side tower almost perpendicularly168 from their base to the height of at least fifteen hundred feet; while across the vale—in striking contrast to the scenery opposite—grass-grown elevations rise one above another in blooming terraces. Hemmed169 in by these stupendous barriers, the valley would be altogether shut out from the rest of the world, were it not that it is accessible from the sea at one end, and by a narrow defile170 at the other.
The impression produced upon the mind, when I first visited this beautiful glen, will never be obliterated171.
I had come from Nukuheva by water in the ship’s boat, and when we entered the bay of Tior it was high noon. The heat had been intense, as we had been floating upon the long smooth swell79 of the ocean, for there was but little wind. The sun’s rays had expended172 all their fury upon us; and to add to our discomfort173, we had omitted to supply ourselves with water previous to starting. What with heat and thirst together, I became so impatient to get ashore, that when at last we glided174 towards it, I stood up in the bow of the boat ready for a spring. As she shot two-thirds of her length high upon the beach, propelled by three or four strong strokes of the oars175, I leaped among a parcel of juvenile176 savages, who stood prepared to give us a kind reception; and with them at my heels, yelling like so many imps177, I rushed forward across the open ground in the vicinity of the sea, and plunged178, diver fashion, into the recesses179 of the first grove181 that offered.
What a delightful182 sensation did I experience! I felt as if floating in some new element, while all sort of gurgling, trickling183, liquid sounds fell upon my ear. People may say what they will about the refreshing184 influences of a coldwater bath, but commend me when in a perspiration185 to the shade baths of Tior, beneath the cocoanut trees, and amidst the cool delightful atmosphere which surrounds them.
How shall I describe the scenery that met my eye, as I looked out from this verdant recess180! The narrow valley, with its steep and close adjoining sides draperied with vines, and arched overhead with a fret-work of interlacing boughs186, nearly hidden from view by masses of leafy verdure, seemed from where I stood like an immense arbour disclosing its vista187 to the eye, whilst as I advanced it insensibly widened into the loveliest vale eye ever beheld.
It so happened that the very day I was in Tior the French admiral, attended by all the boats of his squadron, came down in state from Nukuheva to take formal possession of the place. He remained in the valley about two hours, during which time he had a ceremonious interview with the king. The patriarch-sovereign of Tior was a man very far advanced in years; but though age had bowed his form and rendered him almost decrepid, his gigantic frame retained its original magnitude and grandeur188 of appearance.
He advanced slowly and with evident pain, assisting his tottering189 steps with the heavy warspear he held in his hand, and attended by a group of grey-bearded chiefs, on one of whom he occasionally leaned for support. The admiral came forward with head uncovered and extended hand, while the old king saluted190 him by a stately flourish of his weapon. The next moment they stood side by side, these two extremes of the social scale,—the polished, splendid Frenchman, and the poor tattooed191 savage3. They were both tall and noble-looking men; but in other respects how strikingly contrasted! Du Petit Thouars exhibited upon his person all the paraphernalia192 of his naval193 rank. He wore a richly decorated admiral’s frock-coat, a laced chapeau bras, and upon his breast were a variety of ribbons and orders; while the simple islander, with the exception of a slight cincture about his loins, appeared in all the nakedness of nature.
At what an immeasurable distance, thought I, are these two beings removed from each other. In the one is shown the result of long centuries of progressive Civilization and refinement194, which have gradually converted the mere creature into the semblance195 of all that is elevated and grand; while the other, after the lapse69 of the same period, has not advanced one step in the career of improvement, ‘Yet, after all,’ quoth I to myself, ‘insensible as he is to a thousand wants, and removed from harassing196 cares, may not the savage be the happier man of the two?’ Such were the thoughts that arose in my mind as I gazed upon the novel spectacle before me. In truth it was an impressive one, and little likely to be effaced197. I can recall even now with vivid distinctness every feature of the scene. The umbrageous198 shades where the interview took place—the glorious tropical vegetation around—the picturesque199 grouping of the mingled200 throng201 of soldiery and natives—and even the golden-hued bunch of bananas that I held in my hand at the time, and of which I occasionally partook while making the aforesaid philosophical202 reflections.
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warriors
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saluted
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