IT had chanced (as the CASCO beat through the Bordelais Straits for Taahauku) she approached on one board very near the land in the opposite isle1 of Tauata, where houses were to be seen in a grove2 of tall coco-palms. Brother Michel pointed3 out the spot. ‘I am at home now,’ said he. ‘I believe I have a large share in these cocoa-nuts; and in that house madame my mother lives with her two husbands!’ ‘With two husbands?’ somebody inquired. ‘C’EST MA HONTE,’ replied the brother drily.
A word in passing on the two husbands. I conceive the brother to have expressed himself loosely. It seems common enough to find a native lady with two consorts4; but these are not two husbands. The first is still the husband; the wife continues to be referred to by his name; and the position of the coadjutor, or PIKIO, although quite regular, appears undoubtedly5 subordinate. We had opportunities to observe one household of the sort. The PIKIO was recognised; appeared openly along with the husband when the lady was thought to be insulted, and the pair made common cause like brothers. At home the inequality was more apparent. The husband sat to receive and entertain visitors; the PIKIO was running the while to fetch cocoa-nuts like a hired servant, and I remarked he was sent on these errands in preference even to the son. Plainly we have here no second husband; plainly we have the tolerated lover. Only, in the Marquesas, instead of carrying his lady’s fan and mantle6, he must turn his hand to do the husband’s housework.
The sight of Brother Michel’s family estate led the conversation for some while upon the method and consequence of artificial kinship. Our curiosity became extremely whetted7; the brother offered to have the whole of us adopted, and some two days later we became accordingly the children of Paaaeua, appointed chief of Atuona. I was unable to be present at the ceremony, which was primitively8 simple. The two Mrs. Stevensons and Mr. Osbourne, along with Paaaeua, his wife, and an adopted child of theirs, son of a shipwrecked Austrian, sat down to an excellent island meal, of which the principal and the only necessary dish was pig. A concourse watched them through the apertures9 of the house; but none, not even Brother Michel, might partake; for the meal was sacramental, and either creative or declaratory of the new relationship. In Tahiti things are not so strictly10 ordered; when Ori and I ‘made brothers,’ both our families sat with us at table, yet only he and I, who had eaten with intention were supposed to be affected11 by the ceremony. For the adoption12 of an infant I believe no formality to be required; the child is handed over by the natural parents, and grows up to inherit the estates of the adoptive. Presents are doubtless exchanged, as at all junctures13 of island life, social or international; but I never heard of any banquet — the child’s presence at the daily board perhaps sufficing. We may find the rationale in the ancient Arabian idea that a common diet makes a common blood, with its derivative14 axiom that ‘he is the father who gives the child its morning draught15.’ In the Marquesan practice, the sense would thus be evanescent; from the Tahitian, a mere16 survival, it will have entirely17 fled. An interesting parallel will probably occur to many of my readers.
What is the nature of the obligation assumed at such a festival? It will vary with the characters of those engaged, and with the circumstances of the case. Thus it would be absurd to take too seriously our adoption at Atuona. On the part of Paaaeua it was an affair of social ambition; when he agreed to receive us in his family the man had not so much as seen us, and knew only that we were inestimably rich and travelled in a floating palace. We, upon our side, ate of his baked meats with no true ANIMUS18 AFFILIANDI, but moved by the single sentiment of curiosity. The affair was formal, and a matter of parade, as when in Europe sovereigns call each other cousin. Yet, had we stayed at Atuona, Paaaeua would have held himself bound to establish us upon his land, and to set apart young men for our service, and trees for our support. I have mentioned the Austrian. He sailed in one of two sister ships, which left the Clyde in coal; both rounded the Horn, and both, at several hundred miles of distance, though close on the same point of time, took fire at sea on the Pacific. One was destroyed; the derelict iron frame of the second, after long, aimless cruising, was at length recovered, refitted, and hails to-day from San Francisco. A boat’s crew from one of these disasters reached, after great hardships, the isle of Hiva-oa. Some of these men vowed19 they would never again confront the chances of the sea; but alone of them all the Austrian has been exactly true to his engagement, remains20 where he landed, and designs to die where he has lived. Now, with such a man, falling and taking root among islanders, the processes described may be compared to a gardener’s graft21. He passes bodily into the native stock; ceases wholly to be alien; has entered the commune of the blood, shares the prosperity and consideration of his new family, and is expected to impart with the same generosity22 the fruits of his European skill and knowledge. It is this implied engagement that so frequently offends the ingrafted white. To snatch an immediate23 advantage — to get (let us say) a station for his store — he will play upon the native custom and become a son or a brother for the day, promising24 himself to cast down the ladder by which he shall have ascended25, and repudiate26 the kinship so soon as it shall grow burdensome. And he finds there are two parties to the bargain. Perhaps his Polynesian relative is simple, and conceived the blood-bond literally27; perhaps he is shrewd, and himself entered the covenant28 with a view to gain. And either way the store is ravaged29, the house littered with lazy natives; and the richer the man grows, the more numerous, the more idle, and the more affectionate he finds his native relatives. Most men thus circumstanced contrive30 to buy or brutally31 manage to enforce their independence; but many vegetate32 without hope, strangled by parasites33.
We had no cause to blush with Brother Michel. Our new parents were kind, gentle, well-mannered, and generous in gifts; the wife was a most motherly woman, the husband a man who stood justly high with his employers. Enough has been said to show why Moipu should be deposed34; and in Paaaeua the French had found a reputable substitute. He went always scrupulously35 dressed, and looked the picture of propriety36, like a dark, handsome, stupid, and probably religious young man hot from a European funeral. In character he seemed the ideal of what is known as the good citizen. He wore gravity like an ornament37. None could more nicely represent the desired character as an appointed chief, the outpost of civilisation38 and reform. And yet, were the French to go and native manners to revive, fancy beholds39 him crowned with old men’s beards and crowding with the first to a man-eating festival. But I must not seem to be unjust to Paaaeua. His respectability went deeper than the skin; his sense of the becoming sometimes nerved him for unexpected rigours.
One evening Captain Otis and Mr. Osbourne were on shore in the village. All was agog40; dancing had begun; it was plain it was to be a night of festival, and our adventurers were overjoyed at their good fortune. A strong fall of rain drove them for shelter to the house of Paaaeua, where they were made welcome, wiled41 into a chamber42, and shut in. Presently the rain took off, the fun was to begin in earnest, and the young bloods of Atuona came round the house and called to my fellow-travellers through the interstices of the wall. Late into the night the calls were continued and resumed, and sometimes mingled43 with taunts44; late into the night the prisoners, tantalised by the noises of the festival, renewed their efforts to escape. But all was vain; right across the door lay that god-fearing householder, Paaaeua, feigning45 sleep; and my friends had to forego their junketing. In this incident, so delightfully46 European, we thought we could detect three strands47 of sentiment. In the first place, Paaaeua had a charge of souls: these were young men, and he judged it right to withhold48 them from the primrose49 path. Secondly50, he was a public character, and it was not fitting that his guests should countenance51 a festival of which he disapproved52. So might some strict clergyman at home address a worldly visitor: ‘Go to the theatre if you like, but, by your leave, not from my house!’ Thirdly, Paaaeua was a man jealous, and with some cause (as shall be shown) for jealousy53; and the feasters were the satellites of his immediate rival, Moipu.
For the adoption had caused much excitement in the village; it made the strangers popular. Paaaeua, in his difficult posture54 of appointed chief, drew strength and dignity from their alliance, and only Moipu and his followers55 were malcontent56. For some reason nobody (except myself) appears to dislike Moipu. Captain Hart, who has been robbed and threatened by him; Father Orens, whom he has fired at, and repeatedly driven to the woods; my own family, and even the French officials — all seemed smitten57 with an irrepressible affection for the man. His fall had been made soft; his son, upon his death, was to succeed Paaaeua in the chieftaincy; and he lived, at the time of our visit, in the shoreward part of the village in a good house, and with a strong following of young men, his late braves and pot-hunters. In this society, the coming of the CASCO, the adoption, the return feast on board, and the presents exchanged between the whites and their new parents, were doubtless eagerly and bitterly canvassed58. It was felt that a few years ago the honours would have gone elsewhere. In this unwonted business, in this reception of some hitherto undreamed-of and outlandish potentate59 — some Prester John or old Assaracus — a few years back it would have been the part of Moipu to play the hero and the host, and his young men would have accompanied and adorned60 the various celebrations as the acknowledged leaders of society. And now, by a malign61 vicissitude62 of fortune, Moipu must sit in his house quite unobserved; and his young men could but look in at the door while their rivals feasted. Perhaps M. Grevy felt a touch of bitterness towards his successor when he beheld63 him figure on the broad stage of the centenary of eighty-nine; the visit of the CASCO which Moipu had missed by so few years was a more unusual occasion in Atuona than a centenary in France; and the dethroned chief determined64 to reassert himself in the public eye.
Mr. Osbourne had gone into Atuona photographing; the population of the village had gathered together for the occasion on the place before the church, and Paaaeua, highly delighted with this new appearance of his family, played the master of ceremonies. The church had been taken, with its jolly architect before the door; the nuns65 with their pupils; sundry66 damsels in the ancient and singularly unbecoming robes of tapa; and Father Orens in the midst of a group of his parishioners. I know not what else was in hand, when the photographer became aware of a sensation in the crowd, and, looking around, beheld a very noble figure of a man appear upon the margin67 of a thicket68 and stroll nonchalantly near. The nonchalance69 was visibly affected; it was plain he came there to arouse attention, and his success was instant. He was introduced; he was civil, he was obliging, he was always ineffably70 superior and certain of himself; a well-graced actor. It was presently suggested that he should appear in his war costume; he gracefully71 consented; and returned in that strange, inappropriate and ill — omened array (which very well became his handsome person) to strut72 in a circle of admirers, and be thenceforth the centre of photography. Thus had Moipu effected his introduction, as by accident, to the white strangers, made it a favour to display his finery, and reduced his rival to a secondary ROLE on the theatre of the disputed village. Paaaeua felt the blow; and, with a spirit which we never dreamed he could possess, asserted his priority. It was found impossible that day to get a photograph of Moipu alone; for whenever he stood up before the camera his successor placed himself unbidden by his side, and gently but firmly held to his position. The portraits of the pair, Jacob and Esau, standing73 shoulder to shoulder, one in his careful European dress, one in his barbaric trappings, figure the past and present of their island. A graveyard74 with its humble75 crosses would be the aptest symbol of the future.
We are all impressed with the belief that Moipu had planned his campaign from the beginning to the end. It is certain that he lost no time in pushing his advantage. Mr. Osbourne was inveigled76 to his house; various gifts were fished out of an old sea-chest; Father Orens was called into service as interpreter, and Moipu formally proposed to ‘make brothers’ with Mata-Galahi — Glass-Eyes, — the not very euphonious77 name under which Mr. Osbourne passed in the Marquesas. The feast of brotherhood78 took place on board the CASCO. Paaaeua had arrived with his family, like a plain man; and his presents, which had been numerous, had followed one another, at intervals79 through several days. Moipu, as if to mark at every point the opposition80, came with a certain feudal81 pomp, attended by retainers bearing gifts of all descriptions, from plumes82 of old men’s beard to little, pious83, Catholic engravings.
I had met the man before this in the village, and detested84 him on sight; there was something indescribably raffish85 in his looks and ways that raised my gorge86; and when man-eating was referred to, and he laughed a low, cruel laugh, part boastful, part bashful, like one reminded of some dashing peccadillo87, my repugnance88 was mingled with nausea89. This is no very human attitude, nor one at all becoming in a traveller. And, seen more privately90, the man improved. Something negroid in character and face was still displeasing91; but his ugly mouth became attractive when he smiled, his figure and bearing were certainly noble, and his eyes superb. In his appreciation92 of jams and pickles93, in is delight in the reverberating94 mirrors of the dining cabin, and consequent endless repetition of Moipus and Mata-Galahis, he showed himself engagingly a child. And yet I am not sure; and what seemed childishness may have been rather courtly art. His manners struck me as beyond the mark; they were refined and caressing95 to the point of grossness, and when I think of the serene96 absent-mindedness with which he first strolled in upon our party, and then recall him running on hands and knees along the cabin sofas, pawing the velvet97, dipping into the beds, and bleating98 commendatory ‘MITAIS’ with exaggerated emphasis, like some enormous over-mannered ape, I feel the more sure that both must have been calculated. And I sometimes wonder next, if Moipu were quite alone in this polite duplicity, and ask myself whether the CASCO were quite so much admired in the Marquesas as our visitors desired us to suppose.
I will complete this sketch99 of an incurable100 cannibal grandee101 with two incongruous traits. His favourite morsel102 was the human hand, of which he speaks to-day with an ill-favoured lustfulness103. And when he said good-bye to Mrs. Stevenson, holding her hand, viewing her with tearful eyes, and chanting his farewell improvisation104 in the falsetto of Marquesan high society, he wrote upon her mind a sentimental105 impression which I try in vain to share.
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