Oh! ye state-room sailors, who make so much ado about a fourteen-days’ passage across the Atlantic who so pathetically relate the privations and hardships of the sea, where, after a day of breakfasting, lunching, dining off five courses, chatting, playing whist, and drinking champagne-punch, it was your hard lot to be shut up in little cabinets of mahogany and maple, and sleep for ten hours, with nothing to disturb you but ‘those good-for-nothing tars, shouting and tramping overhead’,-what would ye say to our six months out of sight of land? Those glorious bunches of bananas, which once decorated our stern and quarter-deck, have, alas, disappeared! and the delicious oranges which hung suspended from our tops and stays-they, too, are gone! Yes, they are all departed, and there is nothing left us but salt-horse and sea-biscuit. There is not a sweet potato left not a single yam. Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific-the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh provisions were all exhausted. 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 SPECIMEN OF MARQUESAN TATTOOINGĪn e-book of this memoir is available for downloading below.
Treated rather well by the Typees but firmly refused permission to go anywhere else, the author spent the next four months learning the ways of the Typees, trying to understand their innumerable and strictly-observed taboos, getting to rather like their quasi-vegetarian and very healthy diet, to start learning their language, to appreciate their friendliness and helpfulness, and to admire the grace and beauty of the females and especially a certain Fayaway.Ī quite unique account of the life and mores of a fascinating world gone by, by one of the greatest writers of his time. Instead of landing in the valley of the tribe that they knew would shelter them until the whaleboat left those shores, they found themselves in the valley of the fearsome Typee tribe, so renowned for their savagery and cannibalistic practices that even the French expeditionary force hadn’t dared set foot on its territory (yet).
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