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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
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ATTEMPT TO PROCURE1 RELIEF FROM NUKUHEVA—PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF TOBY IN THE HAPPAR MOUNTAINS—ELOQUENCE OF KORY-KORY
AMIDST these novel scenes a week passed away almost imperceptibly. The natives, actuated by some mysterious impulse, day after day redoubled their attentions to us. Their manner towards us was unaccountable. Surely, thought I, they would not act thus if they meant us any harm. But why this excess of deferential2 kindness, or what equivalent can they imagine us capable of rendering3 them for it?
We were fairly puzzled. But despite the apprehensions4 I could not dispel6, the horrible character imputed7 to these Typees appeared to be wholly undeserved.
‘Why, they are cannibals!’ said Toby on one occasion when I eulogized the tribe. ‘Granted,’ I replied, ‘but a more humane8, gentlemanly and amiable9 set of epicures10 do not probably exist in the Pacific.’
But, notwithstanding the kind treatment we received, I was too familiar with the fickle12 disposition13 of savages14 not to feel anxious to withdraw from the valley, and put myself beyond the reach of that fearful death which, under all these smiling appearances, might yet menace us. But here there was an obstacle in the way of doing so. It was idle for me to think of moving from the place until I should have recovered from the severe
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| vt.获得,取得,促成;vi.拉皮条 | |
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frantic
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calamity
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bosom
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trickled
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uproar
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skull
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