DAY after day wore on, and still there was no perceptible change in the conduct of the islanders towards me. Gradually I lost all knowledge of the regular recurrence5 of the days of the week, and sunk insensibly into that kind of apathy6 which ensues after some violent outburst of despair. My limb suddenly healed, the swelling7 went down, the pain subsided8, and I had every reason to suppose I should soon completely recover from the affliction that had so long tormented9 me.
As soon as I was enabled to ramble10 about the valley in company with the natives, troops of whom followed me whenever I sallied out of the house, I began to experience an elasticity11 of mind which placed me beyond the reach of those dismal12 forebodings to which I had so lately been a prey13. Received wherever I went with the most deferential14 kindness; regaled perpetually with the most delightful15 fruits; ministered to by dark-eyed nymphs, and enjoying besides all the services of the devoted17 Kory-Kory, I thought that, for a sojourn18 among cannibals, no man could have well made a more agreeable one.
To be sure there were limits set to my wanderings. Toward the sea my progress was barred by an express prohibition19 of the savages20; and after having made two or three ineffectual attempts to reach it, as much to gratify my curiosity as anything else, I gave up the idea. It was in vain to think of reaching it by stealth, since the natives escorted me in numbers wherever I went, and not for one single moment that I can recall to mind was I ever permitted to be alone.
The green and precipitous elevations22 that stood ranged around the head of the vale where Marheyo’s habitation was situated24 effectually precluded25 all hope of escape in that quarter, even if I could have stolen away from the thousand eyes of the savages.
But these reflections now seldom obtruded26 upon me; I gave myself up to the passing hour, and if ever disagreeable thoughts arose in my mind, I drove them away. When I looked around the verdant27 recess28 in which I was buried, and gazed up to the summits of the lofty eminence29 that hemmed30 me in, I was well disposed to think that I was in the ‘Happy Valley’, and that beyond those heights there was naught31 but a world of care and anxiety. As I extended my wanderings in the valley and grew more familiar with the habits of its inmates32, I was fain to confess that, despite the disadvantages of his condition, the Polynesian savage21, surrounded by all the luxurious33 provisions of nature, enjoyed an infinitely34 happier, though certainly a less intellectual existence than the self-complacent European.
The naked wretch35 who shivers beneath the bleak36 skies, and starves among the inhospitable wilds of Tierra-del-Fuego, might indeed be made happier by civilization, for it would alleviate37 his physical wants. But the voluptuous38 Indian, with every desire supplied, whom Providence39 has bountifully provided with all the sources of pure and natural enjoyment2, and from whom are removed so many of the ills and pains of life—what has he to desire at the hands of Civilization? She may ‘cultivate his mind—may elevate his thoughts,’—these I believe are the established phrases—but will he be the happier? Let the once smiling and populous40 Hawaiian islands, with their now diseased, starving, and dying natives, answer the question. The missionaries41 may seek to disguise the matter as they will, but the facts are incontrovertible; and the devoutest Christian42 who visits that group with an unbiased mind, must go away mournfully asking—‘Are these, alas43! the fruits of twenty-five years of enlightening?’
In a primitive44 state of society, the enjoyments of life, though few and simple, are spread over a great extent, and are unalloyed; but Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;—the heart-burnings, the jealousies45, the social rivalries46, the family dissentions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts48 of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate49 of human misery50, are unknown among these unsophisticated people.
But it will be urged that these shocking unprincipled wretches51 are cannibals. Very true; and a rather bad trait in their character it must be allowed. But they are such only when they seek to gratify the passion of revenge upon their enemies; and I ask whether the mere52 eating of human flesh so very far exceeds in barbarity that custom which only a few years since was practised in enlightened England:—a convicted traitor53, perhaps a man found guilty of honesty, patriotism54, and suchlike heinous55 crimes, had his head lopped off with a huge axe56, his bowels57 dragged out and thrown into a fire; while his body, carved into four quarters, was with his head exposed upon pikes, and permitted to rot and fester among the public haunts of men!
The fiend-like skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness58 with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious59 animal on the face of the earth.
His remorseless cruelty is seen in many of the institutions of our own favoured land. There is one in particular lately adopted in one of the States of the union, which purports60 to have been dictated61 by the most merciful considerations. To destroy our malefactors piece-meal, drying up in their veins62, drop by drop, the blood we are too chicken-hearted to shed by a single blow which would at once put a period to their sufferings, is deemed to be infinitely preferable to the old-fashioned punishment of gibbeting—much less annoying to the victim, and more in accordance with the refined spirit of the age; and yet how feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict47 upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn63 to perpetual solitude64 in the very heart of our population.
But it is needless to multiply the examples of civilized barbarity; they far exceed in the amount of misery they cause the crimes which we regard with such abhorrence65 in our less enlightened fellow-creatures.
The term ‘Savage’ is, I conceive, often misapplied, and indeed, when I consider the vices16, cruelties, and enormities of every kind that spring up in the tainted66 atmosphere of a feverish67 civilization, I am inclined to think that so far as the relative wickedness of the parties is concerned, four or five Marquesan Islanders sent to the United States as Missionaries might be quite as useful as an equal number of Americans despatched to the Islands in a similar capacity.
I once heard it given as an instance of the frightful68 depravity of a certain tribe in the Pacific that they had no word in their language to express the idea of virtue69. The assertion was unfounded; but were it otherwise, it might be met by stating that their language is almost entirely70 destitute71 of terms to express the delightful ideas conveyed by our endless catalogue of civilized crimes.
In the altered frame of mind to which I have referred, every object that presented itself to my notice in the valley struck me in a new light, and the opportunities I now enjoyed of observing the manners of its inmates, tended to strengthen my favourable72 impressions. One peculiarity73 that fixed74 my admiration75 was the perpetual hilarity76 reigning77 through the whole extent of the vale.
There seemed to be no cares, griefs, troubles, or vexations, in all Typee. The hours tripped along as gaily78 as the laughing couples down a country dance.
There were none of those thousand sources of irritation79 that the ingenuity80 of civilized man has created to mar23 his own felicity. There were no foreclosures of mortgages, no protested notes, no bills payable81, no debts of honour in Typee; no unreasonable82 tailors and shoemakers perversely83 bent84 on being paid; no duns of any description and battery attorneys, to foment85 discord86, backing their clients up to a quarrel, and then knocking their heads together; no poor relations, everlastingly87 occupying the spare bed-chamber, and diminishing the elbow room at the family table; no destitute widows with their children starving on the cold charities of the world; no beggars; no debtors’ prisons; no proud and hard-hearted nabobs in Typee; or to sum up all in one word—no Money! ‘That root of all evil’ was not to be found in the valley.
In this secluded88 abode89 of happiness there were no cross old women, no cruel step-dames, no withered90 spinsters, no lovesick maidens91, no sour old bachelors, no inattentive husbands, no melancholy92 young men, no blubbering youngsters, and no squalling brats93. All was mirth, fun and high good humour. Blue devils, hypochondria, and doleful dumps, went and hid themselves among the nooks and crannies of the rocks.
Here you would see a parcel of children frolicking together the live-long day, and no quarrelling, no contention94, among them. The same number in our own land could not have played together for the space of an hour without biting or scratching one another. There you might have seen a throng95 of young females, not filled with envyings of each other’s charms, nor displaying the ridiculous affectations of gentility, nor yet moving in whalebone corsets, like so many automatons96, but free, inartificially happy, and unconstrained.
There were some spots in that sunny vale where they would frequently resort to decorate themselves with garlands of flowers. To have seen them reclining beneath the shadows of one of the beautiful groves97; the ground about them strewn with freshly gathered buds and blossoms, employed in weaving chaplets and necklaces, one would have thought that all the train of Flora98 had gathered together to keep a festival in honour of their mistress.
With the young men there seemed almost always some matter of diversion or business on hand that afforded a constant variety of enjoyment. But whether fishing, or carving99 canoes, or polishing their ornaments100, never was there exhibited the least sign of strife101 or contention among them. As for the warriors, they maintained a tranquil102 dignity of demeanour, journeying occasionally from house to house, where they were always sure to be received with the attention bestowed103 upon distinguished104 guests. The old men, of whom there were many in the vale, seldom stirred from their mats, where they would recline for hours and hours, smoking and talking to one another with all the garrulity105 of age.
But the continual happiness, which so far as I was able to judge appeared to prevail in the valley, sprang principally from that all-pervading sensation which Rousseau has told us be at one time experienced, the mere buoyant sense of a healthful physical existence. And indeed in this particular the Typees had ample reason to felicitate themselves, for sickness was almost unknown. During the whole period of my stay I saw but one invalid106 among them; and on their smooth skins you observed no blemish107 or mark of disease.
The general repose108, however, upon which I have just been descanting, was broken in upon about this time by an event which proved that the islanders were not entirely exempt109 from those occurrences which disturb the quiet of more civilized communities.
Having now been a considerable time in the valley, I began to feel surprised that the violent hostility110 subsisting111 between its inhabitants, and those of the adjoining bay of Happar, should never have manifested itself in any warlike encounter. Although the valiant112 Typees would often by gesticulations declare their undying hatred113 against their enemies, and the disgust they felt at their cannibal propensities114; although they dilated115 upon the manifold injuries they had received at their hands, yet with a forbearance truly commendable116, they appeared to sit down under their grievances117, and to refrain from making any reprisals118. The Happars, entrenched119 behind their mountains, and never even showing themselves on their summits, did not appear to me to furnish adequate cause for that excess of animosity evinced towards them by the heroic tenants120 of our vale, and I was inclined to believe that the deeds of blood attributed to them had been greatly exaggerated.
On the other hand, as the clamours of war had not up to this period disturbed the serenity121 of the tribe, I began to distrust the truth of those reports which ascribed so fierce and belligerent122 a character to the Typee nation. Surely, thought I, all these terrible stories I have heard about the inveteracy123 with which they carried on the feud124, their deadly intensity125, of hatred and the diabolical126 malice127 with which they glutted128 their revenge upon the inanimate forms of the slain129, are nothing more than fables130, and I must confess that I experienced something like a sense of regret at having my hideous131 anticipations132 thus disappointed. I felt in some sort like a ‘prentice boy who, going to the play in the expectation of being delighted with a cut-and-thrust tragedy, is almost moved to tears of disappointment at the exhibition of a genteel comedy.
I could not avoid thinking that I had fallen in with a greatly traduced133 people, and I moralized not a little upon the disadvantage of having a bad name, which in this instance had given a tribe of savages, who were as pacific as so many lambkins, the reputation of a confederacy of giant-killers.
But subsequent events proved that I had been a little too premature134 in coming to this conclusion. One, day about noon, happening to be at the Ti, I had lain down on the mats with several of the chiefs, and had gradually sunk into a most luxurious siesta135, when I was awakened136 by a tremendous outcry, and starting up beheld137 the natives seizing their spears and hurrying out, while the most puissant138 of the chiefs, grasping the six muskets140 which were ranged against the bamboos, followed after, and soon disappeared in the groves. These movements were accompanied by wild shouts, in which ‘Happar, Happar,’ greatly predominated. The islanders were now seen running past the Ti, and striking across the valley to the Happar side. Presently I heard the sharp report of a musket139 from the adjoining hills, and then a burst of voices in the same direction. At this the women who had congregated141 in the groves, set up the most violent clamours, as they invariably do here as elsewhere on every occasion of excitement and alarm, with a view of tranquillizing their own minds and disturbing other people. On this particular occasion they made such an outrageous142 noise, and continued it with such perseverance143, that for awhile, had entire volleys of musketry been fired off in the neighbouring mountains, I should not have been able to have heard them.
When this female commotion144 had a little subsided I listened eagerly for further information. At last bang went another shot, and then a second volley of yells from the hills. Again all was quiet, and continued so for such a length of time that I began to think the contending armies had agreed upon a suspension of hostilities145; when pop went a third gun, followed as before with a yell. After this, for nearly two hours nothing occurred worthy146 of comment, save some straggling shouts from the hillside, sounding like the halloos of a parcel of truant147 boys who had lost themselves in the woods.
During this interval148 I had remained standing149 on the piazza150 of the ‘Ti,’ which directly fronted the Happar mountain, and with no one near me but Kory-Kory and the old superannuated151 savages I have described. These latter never stirred from their mats, and seemed altogether unconscious that anything unusual was going on.
As for Kory-Kory, he appeared to think that we were in the midst of great events, and sought most zealously152 to impress me with a due sense of their importance. Every sound that reached us conveyed some momentous153 item of intelligence to him. At such times, as if he were gifted with second sight, he would go through a variety of pantomimic illustrations, showing me the precise manner in which the redoubtable154 Typees were at that very moment chastising155 the insolence156 of the enemy. ‘Mehevi hanna pippee nuee Happar,’ he exclaimed every five minutes, giving me to understand that under that distinguished captain the warriors of his nation were performing prodigies157 of valour.
Having heard only four reports from the muskets, I was led to believe that they were worked by the islanders in the same manner as the Sultan Solyman’s ponderous158 artillery159 at the siege of Byzantium, one of them taking an hour or two to load and train. At last, no sound whatever proceeding160 from the mountains, I concluded that the contest had been determined161 one way or the other. Such appeared, indeed, to be the case, for in a little while a courier arrived at the ‘Ti’, almost breathless with his exertions162, and communicated the news of a great victory having been achieved by his countrymen: ‘Happar poo arva!—Happar poo arva!’ (the cowards had fled). Kory-Kory was in ecstasies163, and commenced a vehement164 harangue165, which, so far as I understood it, implied that the result exactly agreed with his expectations, and which, moreover, was intended to convince me that it would be a perfectly166 useless undertaking167, even for an army of fire-eaters, to offer battle to the irresistible168 heroes of our valley. In all this I of course acquiesced169, and looked forward with no little interest to the return of the conquerors170, whose victory I feared might not have been purchased without cost to themselves.
But here I was again mistaken; for Mehevi, in conducting his warlike operations, rather inclined to the Fabian than to the Bonapartean tactics, husbanding his resources and exposing his troops to no unnecessary hazards. The total loss of the victors in this obstinately171 contested affair was, in killed, wounded, and missing—one forefinger172 and part of a thumb-nail (which the late proprietor173 brought along with him in his hand), a severely174 contused arm, and a considerable effusion of blood flowing from the thigh175 of a chief, who had received an ugly thrust from a Happar spear. What the enemy had suffered I could not discover, but I presume they had succeeded in taking off with them the bodies of their slain.
Such was the issue of the battle, as far as its results came under my observation: and as it appeared to be considered an event of prodigious176 importance, I reasonably concluded that the wars of the natives were marked by no very sanguinary traits. I afterwards learned how the skirmish had originated. A number of the Happars had been discovered prowling for no good purpose on the Typee side of the mountain; the alarm sounded, and the invaders177, after a protracted178 resistance, had been chased over the frontier. But why had not the intrepid179 Mehevi carried the war into Happar? Why had he not made a descent into the hostile vale, and brought away some trophy180 of his victory—some materials for the cannibal entertainment which I had heard usually terminated every engagement? After all, I was much inclined to believe that these shocking festivals must occur very rarely among the islanders, if, indeed, they ever take place.
For two or three days the late event was the theme of general comment; after which the excitement gradually wore away, and the valley resumed its accustomed tranquility.
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invalid
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