The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader
THERE is one great personage in the Gilberts: Tembinok’ of Apemama: solely1 conspicuous2, the hero of song, the butt3 of gossip. Through the rest of the group the kings are slain4 or fallen in tutelage: Tembinok’ alone remains5, the last tyrant6, the last erect7 vestige8 of a dead society. The white man is everywhere else, building his houses, drinking his gin, getting in and out of trouble with the weak native governments. There is only one white on Apemama, and he on sufferance, living far from court, and hearkening and watching his conduct like a mouse in a cat’s ear. Through all the other islands a stream of native visitors comes and goes, travelling by families, spending years on the grand tour. Apemama alone is left upon one side, the tourist dreading9 to risk himself within the clutch of Tembinok’. And fear of the same Gorgon10 follows and troubles them at home. Maiana once paid him tribute; he once fell upon and seized Nonuti: first steps to the empire of the archipelago. A British warship11 coming on the scene, the conqueror12 was driven to disgorge, his career checked in the outset, his dear-bought armoury sunk in his own lagoon13. But the impression had been made; periodical fear of him still shakes the islands; rumour14 depicts15 him mustering16 his canoes for a fresh onfall; rumour can name his destination; and Tembinok’ figures in the patriotic17 war-songs of the Gilberts like Napoleon in those of our grandfathers.
We were at sea, bound from Mariki to Nonuti and Tapituea, when the wind came suddenly fair for Apemama. The course was at once changed; all hands were turned-to to clean ship, the decks holy — stoned, all the cabin washed, the trade-room overhauled19. In all our cruising we never saw the EQUATOR so smart as she was made for Tembinok’. Nor was Captain Reid alone in these coquetries; for, another schooner20 chancing to arrive during my stay in Apemama, I found that she also was dandified for the occasion. And the two cases stand alone in my experience of South Sea traders.
We had on board a family of native tourists, from the grandsire to the babe in arms, trying (against an extraordinary series of ill — luck) to regain21 their native island of Peru. Five times already they had paid their fare and taken ship; five times they had been disappointed, dropped penniless upon strange islands, or carried back to Butaritari, whence they sailed. This last attempt had been no better-starred; their provisions were exhausted22. Peru was beyond hope, and they had cheerfully made up their minds to a fresh stage of exile in Tapituea or Nonuti. With this slant23 of wind their random24 destination became once more changed; and like the Calendar’s pilot, when the ‘black mountains’ hove in view, they changed colour and beat upon their breasts. Their camp, which was on deck in the ship’s waist, resounded25 with complaint. They would be set to work, they must become slaves, escape was hopeless, they must live and toil26 and die in Apemama, in the tyrant’s den18. With this sort of talk they so greatly terrified their children, that one (a big hulking boy) must at last be torn screaming from the schooner’s side. And their fears were wholly groundless. I have little doubt they were not suffered to be idle; but I can vouch27 for it that they were kindly28 and generously used. For, the matter of a year later, I was once more shipmate with these inconsistent wanderers on board the JANET NICOLL. Their fare was paid by Tembinok’; they who had gone ashore29 from the EQUATOR destitute30, reappeared upon the JANET with new clothes, laden31 with mats and presents, and bringing with them a magazine of food, on which they lived like fighting-cocks throughout the voyage; I saw them at length repatriated32, and I must say they showed more concern on quitting Apemama than delight at reaching home.
We entered by the north passage (Sunday, September 1st), dodging33 among shoals. It was a day of fierce equatorial sunshine; but the breeze was strong and chill; and the mate, who conned34 the schooner from the cross-trees, returned shivering to the deck. The lagoon was thick with many-tinted wavelets; a continuous roaring of the outer sea overhung the anchorage; and the long, hollow crescent of palm ruffled35 and sparkled in the wind. Opposite our berth36 the beach was seen to be surmounted37 for some distance by a terrace of white coral seven or eight feet high and crowned in turn by the scattered38 and incongruous buildings of the palace. The village adjoins on the south, a cluster of high-roofed maniap’s. And village and palace seemed deserted40.
We were scarce yet moored41, however, before distant and busy figures appeared upon the beach, a boat was launched, and a crew pulled out to us bringing the king’s ladder. Tembinok’ had once an accident; has feared ever since to entrust42 his person to the rotten chandlery of South Sea traders; and devised in consequence a frame of wood, which is brought on board a ship as soon as she appears, and remains lashed43 to her side until she leave. The boat’s crew, having applied44 this engine, returned at once to shore. They might not come on board; neither might we land, or not without danger of offence; the king giving pratique in person. An interval45 followed, during which dinner was delayed for the great man — the prelude46 of the ladder, giving us some notion of his weighty body and sensible, ingenious character, had highly whetted47 our curiosity; and it was with something like excitement that we saw the beach and terrace suddenly blacken with attendant vassals48, the king and party embark49, the boat (a man-of-war gig) come flying towards us dead before the wind, and the royal coxswain lay us cleverly aboard, mount the ladder with a jealous diffidence, and descend50 heavily on deck.
Not long ago he was overgrown with fat, obscured to view, and a burthen to himself. Captains visiting the island advised him to walk; and though it broke the habits of a life and the traditions of his rank, he practised the remedy with benefit. His corpulence is now portable; you would call him lusty rather than fat; but his gait is still dull, stumbling, and elephantine. He neither stops nor hastens, but goes about his business with an implacable deliberation. We could never see him and not be struck with his extraordinary natural means for the theatre: a beaked51 profile like Dante’s in the mask, a mane of long black hair, the eye brilliant, imperious, and inquiring: for certain parts, and to one who could have used it, the face was a fortune. His voice matched it well, being shrill52, powerful, and uncanny, with a note like a sea-bird’s. Where there are no fashions, none to set them, few to follow them if they were set, and none to criticise53, he dresses — as Sir Charles Grandison lived — ‘to his own heart.’ Now he wears a woman’s frock, now a naval54 uniform; now (and more usually) figures in a masquerade costume of his own design: trousers and a singular jacket with shirt tails, the cut and fit wonderful for island workmanship, the material always handsome, sometimes green velvet55, sometimes cardinal56 red silk. This masquerade becomes him admirably. In the woman’s frock he looks ominous57 and weird58 beyond belief. I see him now come pacing towards me in the cruel sun, solitary59, a figure out of Hoffmann.
A visit on board ship, such as that at which we now assisted, makes a chief part and by far the chief diversion of the life of Tembinok’. He is not only the sole ruler, he is the sole merchant of his triple kingdom, Apemama, Aranuka, and Kuria, well-planted islands. The taro60 goes to the chiefs, who divide as they please among their immediate61 adherents62; but certain fish, turtles — which abound63 in Kuria, — and the whole produce of the coco-palm, belong exclusively to Tembinok’. ‘A’ cobra berong me,’ observed his majesty64 with a wave of his hand; and he counts and sells it by the houseful. ‘You got copra, king?’ I have heard a trader ask. ‘I got two, three outches,’ his majesty replied: ‘I think three.’ Hence the commercial importance of Apemama, the trade of three islands being centred there in a single hand; hence it is that so many whites have tried in vain to gain or to preserve a footing; hence ships are adorned65, cooks have special orders, and captains array themselves in smiles, to greet the king. If he be pleased with his welcome and the fare he may pass days on board, and, every day, and sometimes every hour, will be of profit to the ship. He oscillates between the cabin, where he is entertained with strange meats, and the trade-room, where he enjoys the pleasures of shopping on a scale to match his person. A few obsequious66 attendants squat67 by the house door, awaiting his least signal. In the boat, which has been suffered to drop astern, one or two of his wives lie covered from the sun under mats, tossed by the short sea of the lagoon, and enduring agonies of heat and tedium68. This severity is now and then relaxed and the wives allowed on board. Three or four were thus favoured on the day of our arrival: substantial ladies airily attired69 in RIDIS. Each had a share of copra, her PECULIUM, to dispose of for herself. The display in the trade-room — hats, ribbbons, dresses, scents70, tins of salmon71 — the pride of the eye and the lust39 of the flesh — tempted72 them in vain. They had but the one idea — tobacco, the island currency, tantamount to minted gold; returned to shore with it, burthened but rejoicing; and late into the night, on the royal terrace, were to be seen counting the sticks by lamplight in the open air.
The king is no such economist73. He is greedy of things new and foreign. House after house, chest after chest, in the palace precinct, is already crammed74 with clocks, musical boxes, blue spectacles, umbrellas, knitted waistcoats, bolts of stuff, tools, rifles, fowling-pieces, medicines, European foods, sewing-machines, and, what is more extraordinary, stoves: all that ever caught his eye, tickled75 his appetite, pleased him for its use, or puzzled him with its apparent inutility. And still his lust is unabated. He is possessed76 by the seven devils of the collector. He hears a thing spoken of, and a shadow comes on his face. ‘I think I no got him,’ he will say; and the treasures he has seem worthless in comparison. If a ship be bound for Apemama, the merchant racks his brain to hit upon some novelty. This he leaves carelessly in the main cabin or partly conceals77 in his own berth, so that the king shall spy it for himself. ‘How much you want?’ inquires Tembinok’, passing and pointing. ‘No, king; that too dear,’ returns the trader. ‘I think I like him,’ says the king. This was a bowl of gold-fish. On another occasion it was scented78 soap. ‘No, king; that cost too much,’ said the trader; ‘too good for a Kanaka.’ ‘How much you got? I take him all,’ replied his majesty, and became the lord of seventeen boxes at two dollars a cake. Or again, the merchant feigns79 the article is not for sale, is private property, an heirloom or a gift; and the trick infallibly succeeds. Thwart80 the king and you hold him. His autocratic nature rears at the affront81 of opposition82. He accepts it for a challenge; sets his teeth like a hunter going at a fence; and with no mark of emotion, scarce even of interest, stolidly83 piles up the price. Thus, for our sins, he took a fancy to my wife’s dressing-bag, a thing entirely84 useless to the man, and sadly battered85 by years of service. Early one forenoon he came to our house, sat down, and abruptly86 offered to purchase it. I told him I sold nothing, and the bag at any rate was a present from a friend; but he was acquainted with these pretexts87 from of old, and knew what they were worth and how to meet them. Adopting what I believe is called ‘the object method,’ he drew out a bag of English gold, sovereigns and half-sovereigns, and began to lay them one by one in silence on the table; at each fresh piece reading our faces with a look. In vain I continued to protest I was no trader; he deigned88 not to reply. There must have been twenty pounds on the table, he was still going on, and irritation89 had begun to mingle90 with our embarrassment91, when a happy idea came to our delivery. Since his majesty thought so much of the bag, we said, we must beg him to accept it as a present. It was the most surprising turn in Tembinok’s experience. He perceived too late that his persistence92 was unmannerly; hung his head a while in silence; then, lifting up a sheepish countenance93, ‘I ‘shamed,’ said the tyrant. It was the first and the last time we heard him own to a flaw in his behaviour. Half an hour after he sent us a camphor-wood chest worth only a few dollars — but then heaven knows what Tembinok’ had paid for it.
Cunning by nature, and versed94 for forty years in the government of men, it must not be supposed that he is cheated blindly, or has resigned himself without resistance to be the milch-cow of the passing trader. His efforts have been even heroic. Like Nakaeia of Makin, he has owned schooners95. More fortunate than Nakaeia, he has found captains. Ships of his have sailed as far as to the colonies. He has trafficked direct, in his own bottoms, with New Zealand. And even so, even there, the world-enveloping dishonesty of the white man prevented him; his profit melted, his ship returned in debt, the money for the insurance was embezzled96, and when the CORONET came to be lost, he was astonished to find he had lost all. At this he dropped his weapons; owned he might as hopefully wrestle97 with the winds of heaven; and like an experienced sheep, submitted his fleece thenceforward to the shearers. He is the last man in the world to waste anger on the incurable98; accepts it with cynical99 composure; asks no more in those he deals with than a certain decency100 of moderation; drives as good a bargain as he can; and when he considers he is more than usually swindled, writes it in his memory against the merchant’s name. He once ran over to me a list of captains and supercargoes with whom he had done business, classing them under three heads: ‘He cheat a litty’ — ‘He cheat plenty’ — and ‘I think he cheat too much.’ For the first two classes he expressed perfect toleration; sometimes, but not always, for the third. I was present when a certain merchant was turned about his business, and was the means (having a considerable influence ever since the bag) of patching up the dispute. Even on the day of our arrival there was like to have been a hitch101 with Captain Reid: the ground of which is perhaps worth recital102. Among goods exported specially103 for Tembinok’ there is a beverage104 known (and labelled) as Hennessy’s brandy. It is neither Hennessy, nor even brandy; is about the colour of sherry, but is not sherry; tastes of kirsch, and yet neither is it kirsch. The king, at least, has grown used to this amazing brand, and rather prides himself upon the taste; and any substitution is a double offence, being at once to cheat him and to cast a doubt upon his palate. A similar weakness is to be observed in all connoisseurs105. Now the last case sold by the EQUATOR was found to contain a different and I would fondly fancy a superior distillation106; and the conversation opened very black for Captain Reid. But Tembinok’ is a moderate man. He was reminded and admitted that all men were liable to error, even himself; accepted the principle that a fault handsomely acknowledged should be condoned107; and wound the matter up with this proposal: ‘Tuppoti I mi’take, you ‘peakee me. Tuppoti you mi’take, I ‘peakee you. Mo’ betta.’
After dinner and supper in the cabin, a glass or two of ‘Hennetti’ — the genuine article this time, with the kirsch bouquet108, — and five hours’ lounging on the trade-room counter, royalty109 embarked110 for home. Three tacks111 grounded the boat before the palace; the wives were carried ashore on the backs of vassals; Tembinok’ stepped on a railed platform like a steamer’s gangway, and was borne shoulder high through the shallows, up the beach, and by an inclined plane, paved with pebbles112, to the glaring terrace where he dwells.
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