VARIOUS and conflicting were the thoughts which oppressed me during the silent hours that followed the events related in the preceding chapter. Toby, wearied with the fatigues5 of the day, slumbered7 heavily by my side; but the pain under which I was suffering effectually prevented my sleeping, and I remained distressingly8 alive to all the fearful circumstances of our present situation. Was it possible that, after all our vicissitudes9, we were really in the terrible valley of Typee, and at the mercy of its inmates, a fierce and unrelenting tribe of savages10? Typee or Happar? I shuddered11 when I reflected that there was no longer any room for doubt; and that, beyond all hope of escape, we were now placed in those very circumstances from the bare thought of which I had recoiled12 with such abhorrence13 but a few days before. What might not be our fearful destiny? To be sure, as yet we had been treated with no violence; nay14, had been even kindly15 and hospitably16 entertained. But what dependence17 could be placed upon the fickle18 passions which sway the bosom19 of a savage? His inconstancy and treachery are proverbial. Might it not be that beneath these fair appearances the islanders covered some perfidious20 design, and that their friendly reception of us might only precede some horrible catastrophe21? How strongly did these forebodings spring up in my mind as I lay restlessly upon a couch of mats surrounded by the dimly revealed forms of those whom I so greatly dreaded22!
From the excitement of these fearful thoughts I sank towards morning into an uneasy slumber6; and on awaking, with a start, in the midst of an appalling23 dream, looked up into the eager countenance24 of a number of the natives, who were bending over me.
It was broad day; and the house was nearly filled with young females, fancifully decorated with flowers, who gazed upon me as I rose with faces in which childish delight and curiosity were vividly26 portrayed27. After waking Toby, they seated themselves round us on the mats, and gave full play to that prying28 inquisitiveness29 which time out of mind has been attributed to the adorable sex.
As these unsophisticated young creatures were attended by no jealous duennas, their proceedings30 were altogether informal, and void of artificial restraint. Long and minute was the investigation31 with which they honoured us, and so uproarious their mirth, that I felt infinitely32 sheepish; and Toby was immeasurably outraged33 at their familiarity.
These lively young ladies were at the same time wonderfully polite and humane35; fanning aside the insects that occasionally lighted on our brows; presenting us with food; and compassionately36 regarding me in the midst of my afflictions. But in spite of all their blandishments, my feelings of propriety38 were exceedingly shocked, for I could but consider them as having overstepped the due limits of female decorum.
Having diverted themselves to their hearts’ content, our young visitants now withdrew, and gave place to successive troops of the other sex, who continued flocking towards the house until near noon; by which time I have no doubt that the greater part of the inhabitants of the valley had bathed themselves in the light of our benignant countenances39.
At last, when their numbers began to diminish, a superb-looking warrior stooped the towering plumes40 of his head-dress beneath the low portal, and entered the house. I saw at once that he was some distinguished41 personage, the natives regarding him with the utmost deference42, and making room for him as he approached. His aspect was imposing43. The splendid long drooping45 tail-feathers of the tropical bird, thickly interspersed46 with the gaudy47 plumage of the cock, were disposed in an immense upright semicircle upon his head, their lower extremities48 being fixed49 in a crescent of guinea-heads which spanned the forehead. Around his neck were several enormous necklaces of boar’s tusks50, polished like ivory, and disposed in such a manner as that the longest and largest were upon his capacious chest. Thrust forward through the large apertures51 in his ears were two small and finely-shaped sperm53 whale teeth, presenting their cavities in front, stuffed with freshly-plucked leaves, and curiously54 wrought55 at the other end into strange little images and devices. These barbaric trinkets, garnished56 in this manner at their open extremities, and tapering57 and curving round to a point behind the ear, resembled not a little a pair of cornucopias58.
The loins of the warrior were girt about with heavy folds of a dark-coloured tappa, hanging before and behind in clusters of braided tassels59, while anklets and bracelets60 of curling human hair completed his unique costume. In his right hand he grasped a beautifully carved paddle-spear, nearly fifteen feet in length, made of the bright koar-wood, one end sharply pointed61, and the other flattened62 like an oar-blade. Hanging obliquely63 from his girdle by a loop of sinnate was a richly decorated pipe; the slender reed forming its stem was coloured with a red pigment64, and round it, as well as the idol-bowl, fluttered little streamers of the thinnest tappa.
But that which was most remarkable65 in the appearance of this splendid islander was the elaborate tattooing66 displayed on every noble limb. All imaginable lines and curves and figures were delineated over his whole body, and in their grotesque67 variety and infinite profusion68 I could only compare them to the crowded groupings of quaint69 patterns we sometimes see in costly70 pieces of lacework. The most simple and remarkable of all these ornaments71 was that which decorated the countenance of the chief. Two broad stripes of tattooing, diverging72 from the centre of his shaven crown, obliquely crossed both eyes—staining the lids—to a little below each ear, where they united with another stripe which swept in a straight line along the lips and formed the base of the triangle. The warrior, from the excellence73 of his physical proportions, might certainly have been regarded as one of Nature’s noblemen, and the lines drawn74 upon his face may possibly have denoted his exalted75 rank.
This warlike personage, upon entering the house, seated himself at some distance from the spot where Toby and myself reposed76, while the rest of the savages looked alternately from us to him, as if in expectation of something they were disappointed in not perceiving. Regarding the chief attentively77, I thought his lineaments appeared familiar to me. As soon as his full face was turned upon me, and I again beheld78 its extraordinary embellishment, and met the strange gaze to which I had been subjected the preceding night, I immediately, in spite of the alteration80 in his appearance, recognized the noble Mehevi. On addressing him, he advanced at once in the most cordial manner, and greeting me warmly, seemed to enjoy not a little the effect his barbaric costume had produced upon me.
I forthwith determined81 to secure, if possible, the good-will of this individual, as I easily perceived he was a man of great authority in his tribe, and one who might exert a powerful influence upon our subsequent fate. In the endeavour I was not repulsed82; for nothing could surpass the friendliness83 he manifested towards both my companion and myself. He extended his sturdy limbs by our side, and endeavoured to make us comprehend the full extent of the kindly feelings by which he was actuated. The almost insuperable difficulty in communicating to one another our ideas affected84 the chief with no little mortification85. He evinced a great desire to be enlightened with regard to the customs and peculiarities86 of the far-off country we had left behind us, and to which under the name of Maneeka he frequently alluded88.
But that which more than any other subject engaged his attention was the late proceedings of the ‘Frannee’ as he called the French, in the neighbouring bay of Nukuheva. This seemed a never-ending theme with him, and one concerning which he was never weary of interrogating89 us. All the information we succeeded in imparting to him on this subject was little more than that we had seen six men-of-war lying in the hostile bay at the time we had left it. When he received this intelligence, Mehevi, by the aid of his fingers, went through a long numerical calculation, as if estimating the number of Frenchmen the squadron might contain.
It was just after employing his faculties90 in this way that he happened to notice the swelling91 in my limb. He immediately examined it with the utmost attention, and after doing so, despatched a boy who happened to be standing92 by with some message.
After the lapse93 of a few moments the stripling re-entered the house with an aged34 islander, who might have been taken for old Hippocrates himself. His head was as bald as the polished surface of a cocoanut shell, which article it precisely94 resembled in smoothness and colour, while a long silvery beard swept almost to his girdle of bark. Encircling his temples was a bandeau of the twisted leaves of the Omoo tree, pressed closely over the brows to shield his feeble vision from the glare of the sun. His tottering95 steps were supported by a long slim staff, resembling the wand with which a theatrical96 magician appears on the stage, and in one hand he carried a freshly plaited fan of the green leaflets of the cocoanut tree. A flowing robe of tappa, knotted over the shoulder, hung loosely round his stooping form, and heightened the venerableness of his aspect.
Mehevi, saluting97 this old gentleman, motioned him to a seat between us, and then uncovering my limb, desired him to examine it. The leech98 gazed intently from me to Toby, and then proceeded to business. After diligently99 observing the ailing100 member, he commenced manipulating it; and on the supposition probably that the complaint had deprived the leg of all sensation, began to pinch and hammer it in such a manner that I absolutely roared with pain. Thinking that I was as capable of making an application of thumps101 and pinches to the part as any one else, I endeavoured to resist this species of medical treatment. But it was not so easy a matter to get out of the clutches of the old wizard; he fastened on the unfortunate limb as if it were something for which he had been long seeking, and muttering some kind of incantation continued his discipline, pounding it after a fashion that set me well nigh crazy; while Mehevi, upon the same principle which prompts an affectionate mother to hold a struggling child in a dentist’s chair, restrained me in his powerful grasp, and actually encouraged the wretch102 in this infliction103 of torture.
Almost frantic104 with rage and pain, I yelled like a bedlamite; while Toby, throwing himself into all the attitudes of a posture-master, vainly endeavoured to expostulate with the natives by signs and gestures. To have looked at my companion, as, sympathizing with my sufferings, he strove to put an end to them, one would have thought that he was the deaf and dumb alphabet incarnated105. Whether my tormentor106 yielded to Toby’s entreaties107, or paused from sheer exhaustion108, I do not know; but all at once he ceased his operations, and at the same time the chief relinquishing109 his hold upon me, I fell back, faint and breathless with the agony I had endured.
My unfortunate limb was now left much in the same condition as a rump-steak after undergoing the castigating110 process which precedes cooking. My physician, having recovered from the fatigues of his exertions111, as if anxious to make amends112 for the pain to which he had subjected me, now took some herbs out of a little wallet that was suspended from his waist, and moistening them in water, applied113 them to the inflamed114 part, stooping over it at the same time, and either whispering a spell, or having a little confidential115 chat with some imaginary demon116 located in the calf117 of my leg. My limb was now swathed in leafy bandages, and grateful to Providence118 for the cessation of hostilities119, I was suffered to rest.
Mehevi shortly after rose to depart; but before he went he spoke120 authoritatively121 to one of the natives whom he addressed as Kory-Kory; and from the little I could understand of what took place, pointed him out to me as a man whose peculiar87 business thenceforth would be to attend upon my person. I am not certain that I comprehended as much as this at the time, but the subsequent conduct of my trusty body-servant fully25 assured me that such must have been the case.
I could not but be amused at the manner in which the chief addressed me upon this occasion, talking to me for at least fifteen or twenty minutes as calmly as if I could understand every word that he said. I remarked this peculiarity122 very often afterwards in many other of the islanders.
Mehevi having now departed, and the family physician having likewise made his exit, we were left about sunset with ten or twelve natives, who by this time I had ascertained123 composed the household of which Toby and I were members. As the dwelling to which we had been first introduced was the place of my permanent abode124 while I remained in the valley, and as I was necessarily placed upon the most intimate footing with its occupants, I may as well here enter into a little description of it and its inhabitants. This description will apply also to nearly all the other dwelling-places in the vale, and will furnish some idea of the generality of the natives.
Near one side of the valley, and about midway up the ascent125 of a rather abrupt126 rise of ground waving with the richest verdure, a number of large stones were laid in successive courses, to the height of nearly eight feet, and disposed in such a manner that their level surface corresponded in shape with the habitation which was perched upon it. A narrow space, however, was reserved in front of the dwelling, upon the summit of this pile of stones (called by the natives a ‘pi-pi’), which being enclosed by a little picket127 of canes128, gave it somewhat the appearance of a verandah. The frame of the house was constructed of large bamboos planted uprightly, and secured together at intervals130 by transverse stalks of the light wood of the habiscus, lashed131 with thongs132 of bark. The rear of the tenement—built up with successive ranges of cocoanut boughs133 bound one upon another, with their leaflets cunningly woven together—inclined a little from the vertical134, and extended from the extreme edge of the ‘pi-pi’ to about twenty feet from its surface; whence the shelving roof—thatched with the long tapering leaves of the palmetto—sloped steeply off to within about five feet of the floor; leaving the eaves drooping with tassel-like appendages135 over the front of the habitation. This was constructed of light and elegant canes in a kind of open screenwork, tastefully adorned136 with bindings of variegated137 sinnate, which served to hold together its various parts. The sides of the house were similarly built; thus presenting three quarters for the circulation of the air, while the whole was impervious138 to the rain.
In length this picturesque139 building was perhaps twelve yards, while in breadth it could not have exceeded as many feet. So much for the exterior140; which, with its wire-like reed-twisted sides, not a little reminded me of an immense aviary141.
Stooping a little, you passed through a narrow aperture52 in its front; and facing you, on entering, lay two long, perfectly142 straight, and well-polished trunks of the cocoanut tree, extending the full length of the dwelling; one of them placed closely against the rear, and the other lying parallel with it some two yards distant, the interval129 between them being spread with a multitude of gaily-worked mats, nearly all of a different pattern. This space formed the common couch and lounging place of the natives, answering the purpose of a divan143 in Oriental countries. Here would they slumber through the hours of the night, and recline luxuriously144 during the greater part of the day. The remainder of the floor presented only the cool shining surfaces of the large stones of which the ‘pi-pi’ was composed.
From the ridge-pole of the house hung suspended a number of large packages enveloped145 in coarse tappa; some of which contained festival dresses, and various other matters of the wardrobe, held in high estimation. These were easily accessible by means of a line, which, passing over the ridge-pole, had one end attached to a bundle, while with the other, which led to the side of the dwelling and was there secured, the package could be lowered or elevated at pleasure.
Against the farther wall of the house were arranged in tasteful figures a variety of spears and javelins146, and other implements147 of savage warfare148. Outside of the habitation, and built upon the piazza-like area in its front, was a little shed used as a sort of larder149 or pantry, and in which were stored various articles of domestic use and convenience. A few yards from the pi-pi was a large shed built of cocoanut boughs, where the process of preparing the ‘poee-poee’ was carried on, and all culinary operations attended to.
Thus much for the house, and its appurtenances; and it will be readily acknowledged that a more commodious150 and appropriate dwelling for the climate and the people could not possibly be devised. It was cool, free to admit the air, scrupulously151 clean, and elevated above the dampness and impurities152 of the ground.
But now to sketch153 the inmates; and here I claim for my tried servitor and faithful valet Kory-Kory the precedence of a first description. As his character will be gradually unfolded in the course of my narrative154, I shall for the present content myself with delineating his personal appearance. Kory-Kory, though the most devoted155 and best natured serving-man in the world, was, alas156! a hideous157 object to look upon. He was some twenty-five years of age, and about six feet in height, robust158 and well made, and of the most extraordinary aspect. His head was carefully shaven with the exception of two circular spots, about the size of a dollar, near the top of the cranium, where the hair, permitted to grow of an amazing length, was twisted up in two prominent knots, that gave him the appearance of being decorated with a pair of horns. His beard, plucked out by the root from every other part of his face, was suffered to droop44 in hairy pendants, two of which garnished his under lip, and an equal number hung from the extremity159 of his chin.
Kory-Kory, with a view of improving the handiwork of nature, and perhaps prompted by a desire to add to the engaging expression of his countenance, had seen fit to embellish79 his face with three broad longitudinal stripes of tattooing, which, like those country roads that go straight forward in defiance160 of all obstacles, crossed his nasal organ, descended161 into the hollow of his eyes, and even skirted the borders of his mouth. Each completely spanned his physiognomy; one extending in a line with his eyes, another crossing the face in the vicinity of the nose, and the third sweeping162 along his lips from ear to ear. His countenance thus triply hooped163, as it were, with tattooing, always reminded me of those unhappy wretches164 whom I have sometimes observed gazing out sentimentally165 from behind the grated bars of a prison window; whilst the entire body of my savage valet, covered all over with representations of birds and fishes, and a variety of most unaccountable-looking creatures, suggested to me the idea of a pictorial166 museum of natural history, or an illustrated167 copy of ‘Goldsmith’s Animated168 Nature.’
But it seems really heartless in me to write thus of the poor islander, when I owe perhaps to his unremitting attentions the very existence I now enjoy. Kory-Kory, I mean thee no harm in what I say in regard to thy outward adornings; but they were a little curious to my unaccustomed sight, and therefore I dilate169 upon them. But to underrate or forget thy faithful services is something I could never be guilty of, even in the giddiest moment of my life.
The father of my attached follower170 was a native of gigantic frame, and had once possessed171 prodigious172 physical powers; but the lofty form was now yielding to the inroads of time, though the hand of disease seemed never to have been laid upon the aged warrior. Marheyo—for such was his name—appeared to have retired173 from all active participation174 in the affairs of the valley, seldom or never accompanying the natives in their various expeditions; and employing the greater part of his time in throwing up a little shed just outside the house, upon which he was engaged to my certain knowledge for four months, without appearing to make any sensible advance. I suppose the old gentleman was in his dotage175, for he manifested in various ways the characteristics which mark this particular stage of life.
I remember in particular his having a choice pair of ear-ornaments, fabricated from the teeth of some sea-monster. These he would alternately wear and take off at least fifty times in the course of the day, going and coming from his little hut on each occasion with all the tranquillity176 imaginable. Sometimes slipping them through the slits177 in his ears, he would seize his spear—which in length and slightness resembled a fishing-pole—and go stalking beneath the shadows of the neighbouring groves178, as if about to give a hostile meeting to some cannibal knight179. But he would soon return again, and hiding his weapon under the projecting eaves of the house, and rolling his clumsy trinkets carefully in a piece of tappa, would resume his more pacific operations as quietly as if he had never interrupted them.
But despite his eccentricities180, Marheyo was a most paternal181 and warm-hearted old fellow, and in this particular not a little resembled his son Kory-Kory. The mother of the latter was the mistress of the family, and a notable housewife, and a most industrious182 old lady she was. If she did not understand the art of making jellies, jams, custard, tea-cakes, and such like trashy affairs, she was profoundly skilled in the mysteries of preparing ‘amar’, ‘poee-poee’, and ‘kokoo’, with other substantial matters.
She was a genuine busy-body; bustling183 about the house like a country landlady184 at an unexpected arrival; for ever giving the young girls tasks to perform, which the little hussies as often neglected; poking185 into every corner, and rummaging186 over bundles of old tappa, or making a prodigious clatter187 among the calabashes. Sometimes she might have been seen squatting188 upon her haunches in front of a huge wooden basin, and kneading poee-poee with terrific vehemence189, dashing the stone pestle190 about as if she would shiver the vessel191 into fragments; on other occasions, galloping192 about the valley in search of a particular kind of leaf, used in some of her recondite193 operations, and returning home, toiling194 and sweating, with a bundle of it, under which most women would have sunk.
To tell the truth, Kory-Kory’s mother was the only industrious person in all the valley of Typee; and she could not have employed herself more actively195 had she been left an exceedingly muscular and destitute196 widow, with an inordinate197 ate supply of young children, in the bleakest198 part of the civilized199 world. There was not the slightest necessity for the greater portion of the labour performed by the old lady: but she seemed to work from some irresistible200 impulse; her limbs continually swaying to and fro, as if there were some indefatigable201 engine concealed202 within her body which kept her in perpetual motion.
Never suppose that she was a termagant or a shrew for all this; she had the kindliest heart in the world, and acted towards me in particular in a truly maternal203 manner, occasionally putting some little morsel204 of choice food into my hand, some outlandish kind of savage sweetmeat or pastry205, like a doting206 mother petting a sickly urchin207 with tarts208 and sugar plums. Warm indeed are my remembrances of the dear, good, affectionate old Tinor!
Besides the individuals I have mentioned, there belonged to the household three young men, dissipated, good-for-nothing, roystering blades of savages, who were either employed in prosecuting209 love affairs with the maidens210 of the tribe, or grew boozy on ‘arva’ and tobacco in the company of congenial spirits, the scapegraces of the valley.
Among the permanent inmates of the house were likewise several lovely damsels, who instead of thrumming pianos and reading novels, like more enlightened young ladies, substituted for these employments the manufacture of a fine species of tappa; but for the greater portion of the time were skipping from house to house, gadding211 and gossiping with their acquaintances.
From the rest of these, however, I must except the beauteous nymph Fayaway, who was my peculiar favourite. Her free pliant212 figure was the very perfection of female grace and beauty. Her complexion213 was a rich and mantling214 olive, and when watching the glow upon her cheeks I could almost swear that beneath the transparent215 medium there lurked216 the blushes of a faint vermilion.
The face of this girl was a rounded oval, and each feature as perfectly formed as the heart or imagination of man could desire.
Her full lips, when parted with a smile, disclosed teeth of dazzling whiteness and when her rosy217 mouth opened with a burst of merriment, they looked like the milk-white seeds of the ‘arta,’ a fruit of the valley, which, when cleft218 in twain, shows them reposing219 in rows on each side, imbedded in the red and juicy pulp220. Her hair of the deepest brown, parted irregularly in the middle, flowed in natural ringlets over her shoulders, and whenever she chanced to stoop, fell over and hid from view her lovely bosom. Gazing into the depths of her strange blue eyes, when she was in a contemplative mood, they seemed most placid221 yet unfathomable; but when illuminated222 by some lively emotion, they beamed upon the beholder223 like stars. The hands of Fayaway were as soft and delicate as those of any countess; for an entire exemption224 from rude labour marks the girlhood and even prime of a Typee woman’s life. Her feet, though wholly exposed, were as diminutive225 and fairly shaped as those which peep from beneath the skirts of a Lima lady’s dress. The skin of this young creature, from continual ablutions and the use of mollifying ointments226, was inconceivably smooth and soft.
I may succeed, perhaps, in particularizing some of the individual features of Fayaway’s beauty, but that general loveliness of appearance which they all contributed to produce I will not attempt to describe. The easy unstudied graces of a child of nature like this, breathing from infancy227 an atmosphere of perpetual summer, and nurtured228 by the simple fruits of the earth; enjoying a perfect freedom from care and anxiety, and removed effectually from all injurious tendencies, strike the eye in a manner which cannot be pourtrayed. This picture is no fancy sketch; it is drawn from the most vivid recollections of the person delineated.
Were I asked if the beauteous form of Fayaway was altogether free from the hideous blemish229 of tattooing, I should be constrained230 to answer that it was not. But the practitioners231 of the barbarous art, so remorseless in their inflictions upon the brawny232 limbs of the warriors233 of the tribe, seem to be conscious that it needs not the resources of their profession to augment234 the charms of the maidens of the vale.
The females are very little embellished235 in this way, and Fayaway, and all the other young girls of her age, were even less so than those of their sex more advanced in years. The reason of this peculiarity will be alluded to hereafter. All the tattooing that the nymph in question exhibited upon her person may be easily described. Three minute dots, no bigger than pin-heads, decorated each lip, and at a little distance were not at all discernible. Just upon the fall of the shoulder were drawn two parallel lines half an inch apart, and perhaps three inches in length, the interval being filled with delicately executed figures. These narrow bands of tattooing, thus placed, always reminded me of those stripes of gold lace worn by officers in undress, and which are in lieu of epaulettes to denote their rank.
Thus much was Fayaway tattooed236. The audacious hand which had gone so far in its desecrating237 work stopping short, apparently238 wanting the heart to proceed.
But I have omitted to describe the dress worn by this nymph of the valley.
Fayaway—I must avow239 the fact—for the most part clung to the primitive240 and summer garb241 of Eden. But how becoming the costume!
It showed her fine figure to the best possible advantage; and nothing could have been better adapted to her peculiar style of beauty. On ordinary occasions she was habited precisely as I have described the two youthful savages whom we had met on first entering the valley. At other times, when rambling242 among the groves, or visiting at the houses of her acquaintances, she wore a tunic243 of white tappa, reaching from her waist to a little below the knees; and when exposed for any length of time to the sun, she invariably protected herself from its rays by a floating mantle244 of—the same material, loosely gathered about the person. Her gala dress will be described hereafter.
As the beauties of our own land delight in bedecking themselves with fanciful articles of jewellery, suspending them from their ears, hanging them about their necks, and clasping them around their wrists; so Fayaway and her companions were in the habit of ornamenting245 themselves with similar appendages.
Flora246 was their jeweller. Sometimes they wore necklaces of small carnation247 flowers, strung like rubies248 upon a fibre of tappa, or displayed in their ears a single white bud, the stem thrust backward through the aperture, and showing in front the delicate petals249 folded together in a beautiful sphere, and looking like a drop of the purest pearl. Chaplets too, resembling in their arrangement the strawberry coronal worn by an English peeress, and composed of intertwined leaves and blossoms, often crowned their temples; and bracelets and anklets of the same tasteful pattern were frequently to be seen. Indeed, the maidens of the island were passionately37 fond of flowers, and never wearied of decorating their persons with them; a lovely trait in their character, and one that ere long will be more fully alluded to.
Though in my eyes, at least, Fayaway was indisputably the loveliest female I saw in Typee, yet the description I have given of her will in some measure apply to nearly all the youthful portion of her sex in the valley. Judge ye then, reader, what beautiful creatures they must have been.
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