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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
Preface
Chapter 1 • The Sea • Longings for Shore • A Land-sick Ship • Destination of the Voyagers • The Marquesas • Adventure of a Missionary's Wife among the Savages • Characteristic Anecdote of the Queen of Nukuheva
Chapter 2 • Passage from the Cruising Ground to the Marquesas • Sleepy times aboard Ship • South Sea Scenery • Land ho! • The French Squadron discovered at Anchor in the Bay of Nukuheva • Strange Pilot • Escort of Canoes • A Flotilla of Cocoa-nuts • Swimming Visitors • The Dolly boarded by them • State of affairs that ensue
Chapter 3 • Some Account of the late operations of the French at the Marquesas • Prudent Conduct of the Admiral • Sensation produced by the Arrival of the Strangers • The first Horse seen by the Islanders • Reflections • Miserable Subterfuge of the French • Digression concerning Tahiti • Seizure of the Island by the Admiral • Spirited Conduct of an English Lady
Chapter 4 • State of Affairs aboard the Ship • Contents of her Larder • Length of South Seamen's Voyages • Account of a Flying Whaleman • Determination to Leave the Vessel • The Bay of Nukuheva • The Typees • Invasion of their Valley by Porter • Reflections • Glen of Tior • Interview between the old King and the French Admiral
Chapter 5 • Thoughts previous to attempting an Escape • Toby, a Fellow Sailor, agrees to share the Adventure • Last Night aboard the Ship
Chapter 6 • A Specimen of Nautical Oratory • Criticisms of the Sailors • The Starboard Watch are given a Holiday • The Escape to the Mountains
Chapter 7 • The other side of the Mountain • Disappointment • Inventory of Articles brought from the Ship • Division of the Stock of Bread • Appearance of the Interior of the Island • A Discovery • A Ravine and Waterfalls • A sleepless Night • Further Discoveries • My Illness • A Marquesan Landscape
Chapter 8 • The Important Question, Typee or Happar? • A Wild-Goose Chase • My Sufferings • Disheartening Situation • A Night in a Ravine • Morning Meal • Happy Idea of Toby • Journey towards the Valley
Chapter 9 • Perilous Passage of the Ravine • Descent into Valley
Chapter 10 • The Head of the Valley • Cautious Advance • A Path • Fruit • Discovery of Two of the Natives • Their singular Conduct • Approach towards the inhabited parts of the Vale • Sensation produced by our Appearance • Reception at the House of one of the Natives
Chapter 11 • Midnight Reflections • Morning Visitors • A Warrior in Costume • Savage Æsculapius • Practice of the Healing Art • Body Servant • A Dwelling-house of the Valley described • Portraits of its Inmates
Chapter 12 • Officiousness of Kory-Kory • His Devotion • A Bath in the Stream • of Refinement of the Typee Damsels • Stroll with Mehevi • A Typee Highway • Taboo Groves • The Hoolah-Hoolah Ground • The Ti • Time-worn Savages • Hospitality of Mehevi • Midnight Misgivings • Adventure in the Dark • Distinguished Honors paid to the Visitors • Strange Procession and Return to the House of Marheyo
Chapter 13 • Attempt to procure Relief from Nukuheva • Perilous Adventure of Toby in the Happar Mountain • Eloquence of Kory-Kory
Chapter 14 • A great Event happens in the Valley • The Island Telegraph • Something befalls Toby • Fayaway displays a tender Heart • Melancholy Reflections • Mysterious Conduct of the Islanders • Devotion of Kory-Kory • A rural Couch • A Luxury • Kory-Kory strikes a Light à la Typee
Chapter 15 • Kindness of Marheyo and the rest of the Islanders • A full Description of the Bread-fruit Tree • Different Modes of preparing the Fruit
Chapter 16 • Melancholy condition • Occurrence at the Ti • Anecdote of Marheyo • Shaving the Head of a Warrior
Chapter 17 • Improvement in Health and Spirits • Felicity of the Typees • Their enjoyments compared with those of more enlightened Communities • Comparative Wickedness of civilized and unenlightened People • A Skirmish in the Mountain with the Warriors of Happar
Chapter 18 • Swimming in company with the Girls of the Valley • A Canoe • Effects of the Taboo • A pleasure Excursion on the Pond • Beautiful freak of Fayaway • Mantua-making • A Stranger arrives in the Valley • His mysterious conduct • Native Oratory • The Interview • Its Results • Departure of the Stranger
Chapter 19 • Reflections after Marnoo's Departure • Battle of the Pop-guns • Strange conceit of Marheyo • Process of making Tappa
Chapter 20 • History of a day as usually spent in the Typee Valley • Dances of the Marquesan Girls
Chapter 21 • The Spring of Arva Wai • Remarkable Monumental Remains • Some ideas with regard to the History of the Pi-Pis found in the Valley
Chapter 22 • Preparations for a Grand Festival in the Valley • Strange doings in the Taboo Groves • Monument of Calabashes • Gala costume of the Typee damsels • Departure for the Festival
Chapter 23 • The Feast of Calabashes
Chapter 24 • Ideas suggested by the Feast of Calabashes • Inaccuracy of certain published Accounts of the Islands • A Reason • Neglected State of Heathenism in the Valley • Effigy of a dead Warrior • A singular Superstition • The Priest Kolory and the God Moa Artua • Amazing Religious Observance • A dilapidated Shrine • Kory-Kory and the Idol • An Inference
Chapter 25 • General Information gathered at the Festival • Personal Beauty of the Typees • Their Superiority over the Inhabitants of the other Islands • Diversity of Complexion • A Vegetable Cosmetic and Ointment • Testimony of Voyagers to the uncommon Beauty of the Marquesans • Few Evidences of Intercourse with Civilized Beings • Dilapidated Musket • Primitive Simplicity of Government • Regal Dignity of Mehevi
Chapter 26 • King Mehevi • Allusion to his Hawiian Majesty • Conduct of Marheyo and Mehevi in certain delicate matters • Peculiar system of Marriage • Number of Population • Uniformity * Embalming • Places of Sepulture • Funeral obsequies at Nukuheva • Number of Inhabitants in Typee • Location of the Dwellings • Happiness enjoyed in the Valley • A Warning • Some ideas with regard to the Civilization of the Islands • Reference to the Present state of the Hawiians • Story of a Missionary's Wife • Fashionable Equipages at Oahu • Reflections
Chapter 27 • The Social Condition and General Character of the Typees
Chapter 28 • Fishing Parties • Mode of distributing the Fish • Midnight Banquet • Timekeeping Tapers • Unceremonious style of eating the Fish
Chapter 29 • Natural History of the Valley • Golden Lizards • Tameness of the Birds • Mosquitos • Flies • Dogs • A solitary Cat • The Climate • The Cocoa-nut Tree • Singular modes of climbing it • An agile young Chief • Fearlessness of the Children • Too-Too and the Cocoa-nut Tree • The Birds of the Valley
Chapter 30 • A Professor of the Fine Arts • His Persecutions • Something about Tattooing and Tabooing • Two Anecdotes in illustration of the latter • A few thoughts on the Typee Dialect
Chapter 31 • Strange custom of the Islanders • Their Chanting, and the peculiarity of their Voice • Rapture of the King at first hearing a Song • A new Dignity conferred on the Author • Musical Instruments in the Valley • Admiration of the Savages at beholding a Pugilistic Performance • Swimming Infant • Beautiful Tresses of the Girls • Ointment for the Hair
Chapter 32 • Apprehensions of Evil • Frightful Discovery • Some remarks on Cannibalism • Second Battle with the Happars • Savage Spectacle • Mysterious Feast • Subsequent Disclosures
Chapter 33 • The Stranger again arrives in the Valley • Singular Interview with him • Attempt to Escape • Failure • Melancholy Situation • Sympathy of Marheyo
Chapter 34 • The Escape
Appendix • Provisional cession to Lord George Paulet of the Sandwich Islands
Sequel • The Story of Toby
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 • My Reception Aboard
Chapter 2 • Some Account of the Ship
Chapter 3 • Further Account of the Julia
Chapter 4 • A Scene in the Forecastle
Chapter 5 • What Happened at Hytyhoo
Chapter 6 • We Touch at La Dominica
Chapter 7 • What Happened at Hannamanoo
Chapter 8 • The Tattooers of La Dominica
Chapter 9 • We Steer to the Westward • State of Affairs
Chapter 10 • A Sea-Parlor Described, with Some of Its Tenants
Chapter 11 • Doctor Long Ghost a Wag • One of His Capers
Chapter 12 • Death and Burial of Two of the Crew
Chapter 13 • Our Destination Changed
Chapter 14 • Rope Yarn
Chapter 15 • Chips and Bungs
Chapter 16 • We Encounter a Gale
Chapter 17 • The Coral Islands
Chapter 18 • Tahiti
Chapter 19 • A Surprise • More about Bembo
Chapter 20 • The Round Robin • Visitors from Shore
Chapter 21 • Proceedings of the Consul
Chapter 22 • The Consul's Departure
Chapter 23 • The Second Night off Papeetee
Chapter 24 • Outbreak of the Crew
Chapter 25 • Jermin Encounters an Old Shipmate
Chapter 26 • We Enter the Harbor • Jim the Pilot
Chapter 27 • A Glance at Papeetee • We Are Sent aboard the Frigate
Chapter 28 • Reception from the Frenchman
Chapter 29 • The Reine Blanche
Chapter 30 • They Take Us Ashore • What Happened There
Chapter 31 • The Calabooza Beretanee
Chapter 32 • Proceedings of the French at Tahiti
Chapter 33 • We Receive Calls at the Hotel de Calabooza
Chapter 34 • Life at the Calabooza
Chapter 35 • Visit from an Old Acquaintance
Chapter 36 • We Are Carried before the Consul and Captain
Chapter 37 • The French Priests Pay Their Respects
Chapter 38 • Little Jule Sails without Us
Chapter 39 • Jermin Serves Us a Good Turn • Friendships in Polynesia
Chapter 40 • We Take unto Ourselves Friends
Chapter 41 • We Levy Contributions on the Shipping
Chapter 42 • Motoo-Otoo • A Tahitian Casuist
Chapter 43 • One Is Judged by the Company He Keeps
Chapter 44 • Cathedral of Papoar • The Church of the Cocoa-Nuts
Chapter 45 • A Missionary's Sermon; with Some Reflections
Chapter 46 • Something about the Kannakippers
Chapter 47 • How They Dress in Tahiti
Chapter 48 • Tahiti As It Is
Chapter 49 • Same Subject Continued
Chapter 50 • Something Happens to Long Ghost
Chapter 51 • Wilson Gives Us the Cut • Departure for Imeeo
Chapter 52 • The Valley of Martair
Chapter 53 • Farming in Polynesia
Chapter 54 • Some Account of the Wild Cattle in Polynesia
Chapter 55 • A Hunting Ramble with Zeke
Chapter 56 • Musquitoes
Chapter 57 • The Second Hunt in the Mountains
Chapter 58 • The Hunting-Feast; and a Visit to Afrehitoo
Chapter 59 • The Murphies
Chapter 60 • What They Thought of Us in Martair
Chapter 61 • Preparing for the Journey
Chapter 62 • Tamai
Chapter 63 • A Dance in the Valley
Chapter 64 • Mysterious
Chapter 65 • The Hegira, or Flight
Chapter 66 • How We Were to Get to Taloo
Chapter 67 • The Journey round the Beach
Chapter 68 • A Dinner-Party in Imeeo
Chapter 69 • The Cocoa-Palm
Chapter 70 • Life at Loohooloo
Chapter 71 • We Start for Taloo
Chapter 72 • A Dealer in the Contraband
Chapter 73 • Our Reception in Partoowye
Chapter 74 • Retiring for the Night • The Doctor Grows Devout
Chapter 75 • A Ramble through the Settlement
Chapter 76 • An Island Jilt • We Visit the Ship
Chapter 77 • A Party of Rovers • Little Loo and the Doctor
Chapter 78 • Mrs. Bell
Chapter 79 • Taloo Chapel • Holding Court in Polynesia
Chapter 80 • Queen Pomaree
Chapter 81 • We Visit the Court
Chapter 82 • Which Ends the Book
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither
Volume One
Preface
Chapter 1 • Foot in Stirrup
Chapter 2 • A Calm
Chapter 3 • A King for a Comrade
Chapter 4 • A Chat in the Clouds
Chapter 5 • Seats secured and Portmanteaus packed
Chapter 6 • Eight Bells
Chapter 7 • A Pause
Chapter 8 • They push off, Velis et Remis
Chapter 9 • The Watery World is all before Them
Chapter 10 • They arrange their Canopies and Lounges, and try to make Things comfortable
Chapter 11 • Jarl afflicted with the Lockjaw
Chapter 12 • More about being in an open Boat
Chapter 13 • Of the Chondropterygii, and other uncouth Hordes infesting the South Seas
Chapter 14 • Jarl's Misgivings
Chapter 15 • A Stitch in Time saves Nine
Chapter 16 • They are Becalmed
Chapter 17 • In high Spirits they push on for the Terra Incognita
Chapter 18 • My Lord Shark and his Pages
Chapter 19 • Who goes there?
Chapter 20 • Noises and Portents
Chapter 21 • Man ho!
Chapter 22 • What befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands
Chapter 23 • Sailing from the Island they pillage the Cabin
Chapter 24 • Dedicated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons
Chapter 25 • Peril a Peace-maker
Chapter 26 • Containing a Pennyweight of Philosophy
Chapter 27 • In which the past History of the Parki is concluded
Chapter 28 • Suspicions laid, and something about the Calmuc
Chapter 29 • What they lighted upon in further searching the Craft, and the Resolution they came to
Chapter 30 • Hints for a full length of Samoa
Chapter 31 • Rovings Alow and Aloft
Chapter 32 • Xiphius Platypterus
Chapter 33 • Otard
Chapter 34 • How they steered on their Way
Chapter 35 • Ah, Annatoo!
Chapter 36 • The Parki gives up the Ghost
Chapter 37 • Once more they take to the Chamois
Chapter 38 • The Sea on Fire
Chapter 39 • They fall in with Strangers
Chapter 40 • Sire and Sons
Chapter 41 • A Fray
Chapter 42 • Remorse
Chapter 43 • The Tent entered
Chapter 44 • Away!
Chapter 45 • Reminiscences
Chapter 46 • The Chamois with a roving Commission
Chapter 47 • Yillah, Jarl, and Samoa
Chapter 48 • Something under the Surface
Chapter 49 • Yillah
Chapter 50 • Yillah in Ardair
Chapter 51 • The Dream begins to fade
Chapter 52 • World ho!
Chapter 53 • The Chamois Ashore
Chapter 54 • A Gentleman from the Sun
Chapter 55 • Tiffin in a Temple
Chapter 56 • King Media a Host
Chapter 57 • Taji takes Counsel with himself
Chapter 58 • Mardi by Night and Yillah by Day
Chapter 59 • Their Morning Meal
Chapter 60 • Belshazzar on the Bench
Chapter 61 • An Incognito
Chapter 62 • Taji retires from the World
Chapter 63 • Odo and its Lord
Chapter 64 • Yillah a Phantom
Chapter 65 • Taji makes three Acquaintances
Chapter 66 • With a fair Wind, at Sunrise they sail
Chapter 67 • Little King Peepi
Chapter 68 • How Teeth were regarded in Valapee
Chapter 69 • The Company discourse, and Braid-Beard rehearses a Legend
Chapter 70 • The Minstrel leads off with a Paddle-Song; and a Message is received from Abroad
Chapter 71 • They land upon the Island of Juam
Chapter 72 • A Book from the Chronicles of Mohi
Chapter 73 • Something more of the Prince
Chapter 74 • Advancing deeper into the Vale, they encounter Donjalolo
Chapter 75 • Time and Temples
Chapter 76 • A pleasant Place for a Lounge
Chapter 77 • The House of the Afternoon
Chapter 78 • Babbalanja solus
Chapter 79 • The Center of many Circumferences
Chapter 80 • Donjalolo in the Bosom of his Family
Chapter 81 • Wherein Babbalanja relates the Adventure of one Karkeke in the Land of Shades
Chapter 82 • How Donjalolo sent Agents to the surrounding Isles; with the Result
Chapter 83 • They visit the Tributary Islets
Chapter 84 • Taji sits down to Dinner with five-and-twenty Kings, and a royal Time they have
Chapter 85 • After Dinner
Chapter 86 • Of those Scamps the Plujii
Chapter 87 • Nora-Bamma
Chapter 88 • In a Calm, Hautia's Heralds approach
Chapter 89 • Braid-Beard rehearses the Origin of the Isle of Rogues
Chapter 90 • Rare Sport at Ohonoo
Chapter 91 • Of King Uhia and his Subjects
Chapter 92 • The God Keevi and the Precipice of Mondo
Chapter 93 • Babbalanja steps in between Mohi and Yoomy; and Yoomy relates a Legend
Chapter 94 • Of that jolly old Lord, Borabolla; and that jolly Island of his, Mondoldo; and of the Fish-ponds, and the Hereafters of Fish
Chapter 95 • That jolly old Lord Borabolla laughs on both Sides of his Face
Chapter 96 • Samoa a Surgeon
Chapter 97 • Faith and Knowledge
Chapter 98 • The Tale of a Traveler
Chapter 99 • "Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee"
Chapter 100 • The Pursuer himself is pursued
Chapter 101 • The Iris
Chapter 102 • They depart from Mondoldo
Chapter 103 • As they sail
Chapter 104 • Wherein Babbalanja broaches a diabolical Theory, and, in his own Person, proves it
Volume Two
Chapter 105 • Maramma
Chapter 106 • They land
Chapter 107 • They pass through the Woods
Chapter 108 • Hivohitee MDCCCXLVIII
Chapter 109 • They visit the great Morai
Chapter 110 • They discourse of the Gods of Mardi, and Braid-Beard tells of one Foni
Chapter 111 • They visit the Lake of Yammo
Chapter 112 • They meet the Pilgrims at the Temple of Oro
Chapter 113 • They discourse of Alma
Chapter 114 • Mohi tells of one Ravoo, and they land to visit Hevaneva, a flourishing Artisan
Chapter 115 • A Nursery-tale of Babbalanja's
Chapter 116 • Landing to visit Hivohitee the Pontiff, they encounter an extraordinary old Hermit; with whom Yoomy has a confidential Interview, but learns little
Chapter 117 • Babbalanja endeavors to explain the Mystery
Chapter 118 • Taji receives Tidings and Omens
Chapter 119 • Dreams
Chapter 120 • Media and Babbalanja discourse
Chapter 121 • They regale themselves with their Pipes
Chapter 122 • They visit an extraordinary old Antiquary
Chapter 123 • They go down into the Catacombs
Chapter 124 • Babbalanja quotes from an antique Pagan; and earnestly presses it upon the Company, that what he recites is not his but another's
Chapter 125 • They visit a wealthy old Pauper
Chapter 126 • Yoomy sings some odd Verses, and Babbalanja quotes from the old Authors right and left
Chapter 127 • What manner of Men the Tapparians were
Chapter 128 • Their adventures upon landing at Pimminee
Chapter 129 • A, I, and O
Chapter 130 • A Reception-day at Pimminee
Chapter 131 • Babbalanja falleth upon Pimminee Tooth and Nail
Chapter 132 • Babbalanja regales the Company with some Sandwiches
Chapter 133 • They still remain upon the Rock
Chapter 134 • Behind and Before
Chapter 135 • Babbalanja discourses in the Dark
Chapter 136 • My Lord Media summons Mohi to the Stand
Chapter 137 • Wherein Babbalanja and Yoomy embrace
Chapter 138 • Of the Isle of Diranda
Chapter 139 • They visit the Lords Piko and Hello
Chapter 140 • They attend the Games
Chapter 141 • Taji still hunted, and beckoned
Chapter 142 • They embark from Diranda
Chapter 143 • Wherein Babbalanja discourses of himself
Chapter 144 • Of the Sorcerers in the Isle of Minda
Chapter 145 • Chiefly of King Bello
Chapter 146 • Dominora and Vivenza
Chapter 147 • They land at Dominora
Chapter 148 • Through Dominora, they wander after Yillah
Chapter 149 • They behold King Bello's State Canoe
Chapter 150 • Wherein Babbalanja bows thrice
Chapter 151 • Babbalanja philosophizes, and my Lord Media passes round the Calabashes
Chapter 152 • They sail round an Island without landing; and talk round a Subject without getting at it
Chapter 153 • They draw nigh to Porpheero; where they behold a terrific Eruption
Chapter 154 • Wherein King Media celebrates the Glories of Autumn; the Minstrel, the Promise of Spring
Chapter 155 • In which Azzageddi seems to use Babbalanja for a Mouth-piece
Chapter 156 • The charming Yoomy sings
Chapter 157 • They draw nigh unto Land
Chapter 158 • They visit the great central Temple of Vivenza
Chapter 159 • Wherein Babbalanja comments upon the Speech of Alanno
Chapter 160 • A Scene in the Land of Warwicks, or King-makers
Chapter 161 • They hearken unto a Voice from the Gods
Chapter 162 • They visit the extreme South of Vivenza
Chapter 163 • They converse of the Mollusca, Kings, Toad-stools, and other Matters
Chapter 164 • Wherein, that gallant Gentleman and Demi-god, King Media, Scepter in Hand, throws himself into the Breach
Chapter 165 • They round the stormy Cape of Capes
Chapter 166 • They encounter Gold-hunters
Chapter 167 • They seek through the Isles of Palms; and pass the Isles of Myrrh
Chapter 168 • Concentric, inward, with Mardi's Reef, they leave their Wake around the World
Chapter 169 • Sailing on
Chapter 170 • A flight of Nightingales from Yoomy's Mouth
Chapter 171 • They visit one Doxodox
Chapter 172 • King Media dreams
Chapter 173 • After a long Interval, by Night they are becalmed
Chapter 174 • They land at Hooloomooloo
Chapter 175 • A Book from the "Ponderings of old Bardianna"
Chapter 176 • Babbalanja starts to his Feet
Chapter 177 • At last, the last Mention is made of old Bardianna; and His last Will and Testament is recited at Length
Chapter 178 • A Death-cloud sweeps by them, as they sail
Chapter 179 • They visit the palmy King Abrazza
Chapter 180 • Some pleasant, shady Talk in the Groves, between my Lords Abrazza and Media, Babbalanja, Mohi, and Yoomy
Chapter 181 • They sup
Chapter 182 • They embark
Chapter 183 • Babbalanja at the Full of the Moon
Chapter 184 • Morning
Chapter 185 • L'Ultima sera
Chapter 186 • They sail from Night to Day
Chapter 187 • They land
Chapter 188 • Babbalanja relates to them a Vision
Chapter 189 • They depart from Serenia
Chapter 190 • They meet the Phantoms
Chapter 191 • They draw nigh to Flozella
Chapter 192 • They land
Chapter 193 • They enter the Bower of Hautia
Chapter 194 • Taji with Hautia
Chapter 195 • Mardi behind: an Ocean before
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