The King of Apemama: Foundation of Equator Town
OUR first sight of Tembinok’ was a matter of concern, almost alarm, to my whole party. We had a favour to seek; we must approach in the proper courtly attitude of a suitor; and must either please him or fail in the main purpose of our voyage. It was our wish to land and live in Apemama, and see more near at hand the odd character of the man and the odd (or rather ancient) condition of his island. In all other isles2 of the South Seas a white man may land with his chest, and set up house for a lifetime, if he choose, and if he have the money or the trade; no hindrance3 is conceivable. But Apemama is a close island, lying there in the sea with closed doors; the king himself, like a vigilant4 officer, ready at the wicket to scrutinise and reject intrenching visitors. Hence the attraction of our enterprise; not merely because it was a little difficult, but because this social quarantine, a curiosity in itself, has been the preservative5 of others.
Tembinok’, like most tyrants6, is a conservative; like many conservatives, he eagerly welcomes new ideas, and, except in the field of politics, leans to practical reform. When the missionaries7 came, professing8 a knowledge of the truth, he readily received them; attended their worship, acquired the accomplishment9 of public prayer, and made himself a student at their feet. It is thus — it is by the cultivation10 of similar passing chances — that he has learned to read, to write, to cipher11, and to speak his queer, personal English, so different from ordinary ‘Beach de Mar,’ so much more obscure, expressive12, and condensed. His education attended to, he found time to become critical of the new inmates13. Like Nakaeia of Makin, he is an admirer of silence in the island; broods over it like a great ear; has spies who report daily; and had rather his subjects sang than talked. The service, and in particular the sermon, were thus sure to become offences: ‘Here, in my island, I ‘peak,’ he once observed to me. ‘My chieps no ‘peak — do what I talk.’ He looked at the missionary14, and what did he see? ‘See Kanaka ‘peak in a big outch!’ he cried, with a strong ring of sarcasm15. Yet he endured the subversive16 spectacle, and might even have continued to endure it, had not a fresh point arisen. He looked again, to employ his own figure; and the Kanaka was no longer speaking, he was doing worse — he was building a copra-house. The king was touched in his chief interests; revenue and prerogative17 were threatened. He considered besides (and some think with him) that trade is incompatible18 with the missionary claims. ‘Tuppoti mitonary think “good man”: very good. Tuppoti he think “cobra”: no good. I send him away ship.’ Such was his abrupt19 history of the evangelist in Apemama.
Similar deportations are common: ‘I send him away ship’ is the epitaph of not a few, his majesty20 paying the exile’s fare to the next place of call. For instance, being passionately22 fond of European food, he has several times added to his household a white cook, and one after another these have been deported23. They, on their side, swear they were not paid their wages; he, on his, that they robbed and swindled him beyond endurance: both perhaps justly. A more important case was that of an agent, despatched (as I heard the story) by a firm of merchants to worm his way into the king’s good graces, become, if possible, premier24, and handle the copra in the interest of his employers. He obtained authority to land, practised his fascinations25, was patiently listened to by Tembinok’, supposed himself on the highway to success; and behold26! when the next ship touched at Apemama, the would-be premier was flung into a boat — had on board — his fare paid, and so good-bye. But it is needless to multiply examples; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. When we came to Apemama, of so many white men who have scrambled27 for a place in that rich market, one remained — a silent, sober, solitary28, niggardly29 recluse30, of whom the king remarks, ‘I think he good; he no ‘peak.’
I was warned at the outset we might very well fail in our design: yet never dreamed of what proved to be the fact, that we should be left four-and-twenty hours in suspense31 and come within an ace21 of ultimate rejection32. Captain Reid had primed himself; no sooner was the king on board, and the Hennetti question amicably33 settled, than he proceeded to express my request and give an abstract of my claims and virtues34. The gammon about Queen Victoria’s son might do for Butaritari; it was out of the question here; and I now figured as ‘one of the Old Men of England,’ a person of deep knowledge, come expressly to visit Tembinok’s dominion35, and eager to report upon it to the no less eager Queen Victoria. The king made no shadow of an answer, and presently began upon a different subject. We might have thought that he had not heard, or not understood; only that we found ourselves the subject of a constant study. As we sat at meals, he took us in series and fixed36 upon each, for near a minute at a time, the same hard and thoughtful stare. As he thus looked he seemed to forget himself, the subject and the company, and to become absorbed in the process of his thought; the look was wholly impersonal37; I have seen the same in the eyes of portrait — painters. The counts upon which whites have been deported are mainly four: cheating Tembinok’, meddling38 overmuch with copra, which is the source of his wealth, and one of the sinews of his power, ‘PEAKING, and political intrigue39. I felt guiltless upon all; but how to show it? I would not have taken copra in a gift: how to express that quality by my dinner-table bearing? The rest of the party shared my innocence40 and my embarrassment41. They shared also in my mortification42 when after two whole meal-times and the odd moments of an afternoon devoted43 to this reconnoitring, Tembinok’ took his leave in silence. Next morning, the same undisguised study, the same silence, was resumed; and the second day had come to its maturity44 before I was informed abruptly45 that I had stood the ordeal46. ‘I look your eye. You good man. You no lie,’ said the king: a doubtful compliment to a writer of romance. Later he explained he did not quite judge by the eye only, but the mouth as well. ‘Tuppoti I see man,’ he explained. ‘I no tavvy good man, bad man. I look eye, look mouth. Then I tavvy. Look EYE, look mouth,’ he repeated. And indeed in our case the mouth had the most to do with it, and it was by our talk that we gained admission to the island; the king promising47 himself (and I believe really amassing) a vast amount of useful knowledge ere we left.
The terms of our admission were as follows: We were to choose a site, and the king should there build us a town. His people should work for us, but the king only was to give them orders. One of his cooks should come daily to help mine, and to learn of him. In case our stores ran out, he would supply us, and be repaid on the return of the EQUATOR. On the other hand, he was to come to meals with us when so inclined; when he stayed at home, a dish was to be sent him from our table; and I solemnly engaged to give his subjects no liquor or money (both of which they are forbidden to possess) and no tobacco, which they were to receive only from the royal hand. I think I remember to have protested against the stringency48 of this last article; at least, it was relaxed, and when a man worked for me I was allowed to give him a pipe of tobacco on the premises49, but none to take away.
The site of Equator City — we named our city for the schooner50 — was soon chosen. The immediate51 shores of the lagoon52 are windy and blinding; Tembinok’ himself is glad to grope blue-spectacled on his terrace; and we fled the neighbourhood of the red CONJUNCTIVA, the suppurating eyeball, and the beggar who pursues and beseeches53 the passing foreigner for eye wash. Behind the town the country is diversified54; here open, sandy, uneven55, and dotted with dwarfish56 palms; here cut up with taro57 trenches58, deep and shallow, and, according to the growth of the plants, presenting now the appearance of a sandy tannery, now of an alleyed and green garden. A path leads towards the sea, mounting abruptly to the main level of the island — twenty or even thirty feet, although Findlay gives five; and just hard by the top of the rise, where the coco-palms begin to be well grown, we found a grove59 of pandanus, and a piece of soil pleasantly covered with green underbush. A well was not far off under a rustic60 well-house; nearer still, in a sandy cup of the land, a pond where we might wash our clothes. The place was out of the wind, out of the sun, and out of sight of the village. It was shown to the king, and the town promised for the morrow.
The morrow came, Mr. Osbourne landed, found nothing done, and carried his complaint to Tembinok’. He heard it, rose, called for a Winchester, stepped without the royal palisade, and fired two shots in the air. A shot in the air is the first Apemama warning; it has the force of a proclamation in more loquacious61 countries; and his majesty remarked agreeably that it would make his labourers ‘mo’ bright.’ In less than thirty minutes, accordingly, the men had mustered62, the work was begun, and we were told that we might bring our baggage when we pleased.
It was two in the afternoon ere the first boat was beached, and the long procession of chests and crates63 and sacks began to straggle through the sandy desert towards Equator Town. The grove of pandanus was practically a thing of the past. Fire surrounded and smoke rose in the green underbush. In a wide circuit the axes were still crashing. Those very advantages for which the place was chosen, it had been the king’s first idea to abolish; and in the midst of this devastation64 there stood already a good-sized maniap’ and a small closed house. A mat was spread near by for Tembinok’; here he sat superintending, in cardinal65 red, a pith helmet on his head, a meerschaum pipe in his mouth, a wife stretched at his back with custody66 of the matches and tobacco. Twenty or thirty feet in front of him the bulk of the workers squatted67 on the ground; some of the bush here survived and in this the commons sat nearly to their shoulders, and presented only an arc of brown faces, black heads, and attentive68 eyes fixed on his majesty. Long pauses reigned69, during which the subjects stared and the king smoked. Then Tembinok’ would raise his voice and speak shrilly70 and briefly71. There was never a response in words; but if the speech were jesting, there came by way of answer discreet72, obsequious73 laughter — such laughter as we hear in schoolrooms; and if it were practical, the sudden uprising and departure of the squad74. Twice they so disappeared, and returned with further elements of the city: a second house and a second maniap’. It was singular to spy, far off through the coco stems, the silent oncoming of the maniap’, at first (it seemed) swimming spontaneously in the air — but on a nearer view betraying under the eaves many score of moving naked legs. In all the affair servile obedience75 was no less remarkable76 than servile deliberation. The gang had here mustered by the note of a deadly weapon; the man who looked on was the unquestioned master of their lives; and except for civility, they bestirred themselves like so many American hotel clerks. The spectator was aware of an unobtrusive yet invincible77 inertia78, at which the skipper of a trading dandy might have torn his hair.
Yet the work was accomplished79. By dusk, when his majesty withdrew, the town was founded and complete, a new and ruder Amphion having called it from nothing with three cracks of a rifle. And the next morning the same conjurer obliged us with a further miracle: a mystic rampart fencing us, so that the path which ran by our doors became suddenly impassable, the inhabitants who had business across the isle1 must fetch a wide circuit, and we sat in the midst in a transparent80 privacy, seeing, seen, but unapproachable, like bees in a glass hive. The outward and visible sign of this glamour81 was no more than a few ragged82 coco-leaf garlands round the stems of the outlying palms; but its significance reposed83 on the tremendous sanction of the tapu and the guns of Tembinok’.
We made our first meal that night in the improvised84 city, where we were to stay two months, and which — so soon as we had done with it — was to vanish in a day as it appeared, its elements returning whence they came, the tapu raised, the traffic on the path resumed, the sun and the moon peering in vain between the palm-trees for the bygone work, the wind blowing over an empty site. Yet the place, which is now only an episode in some memories, seemed to have been built, and to be destined85 to endure, for years. It was a busy hamlet. One of the maniap’s we made our dining-room, one the kitchen. The houses we reserved for sleeping. They were on the admirable Apemama plan: out and away the best house in the South Seas; standing86 some three feet above the ground on posts; the sides of woven flaps, which can be raised to admit light and air, or lowered to shut out the wind and the rain: airy, healthy, clean, and watertight. We had a hen of a remarkable kind: almost unique in my experience, being a hen that occasionally laid eggs. Not far off, Mrs. Stevenson tended a garden of salad and shalots. The salad was devoured87 by the hen — which was her bane. The shalots were served out a leaf at a time, and welcomed and relished88 like peaches. Toddy and green cocoa-nuts were brought us daily. We once had a present of fish from the king, and once of a turtle. Sometimes we shot so-called plover89 along on the shore, sometimes wild chicken in the bush. The rest of our diet was from tins.
Our occupations were very various. While some of the party would be away sketching90, Mr. Osbourne and I hammered away at a novel. We read Gibbon and Carlyle aloud; we blew on flageolets, we strummed on guitars; we took photographs by the light of the sun, the moon, and flash-powder; sometimes we played cards. Pot-hunting engaged a part of our leisure. I have myself passed afternoons in the exciting but innocuous pursuit of winged animals with a revolver; and it was fortunate there were better shots of the party, and fortunate the king could lend us a more suitable weapon, in the form of an excellent fowling-piece, or our spare diet had been sparer still.
Night was the time to see our city, after the moon was up, after the lamps were lighted, and so long as the fire sparkled in the cook-house. We suffered from a plague of flies and mosquitoes, comparable to that of Egypt; our dinner-table (lent, like all our furniture, by the king) must be enclosed in a tent of netting, our citadel91 and refuge; and this became all luminous92, and bulged93 and beaconed under the eaves, like the globe of some monstrous94 lamp under the margin95 of its shade. Our cabins, the sides being propped96 at a variety of inclinations97, spelled out strange, angular patterns of brightness. In his roofed and open kitchen, Ah Fu was to be seen by lamp and firelight, dabbling98 among pots. Over all, there fell in the season an extraordinary splendour of mellow99 moonshine. The sand sparkled as with the dust of diamonds; the stars had vanished. At intervals100, a dusky night-bird, slow and low flying, passed in the colonnade101 of the tree stems and uttered a hoarse102 croaking103 cry.
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