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He did not want to wake them, because it was still so early in the morning. So he crept softly along the floor to Take's bed, and whispered in her ear, "Wake up, wake up!" But she didn't wake up. Then Taro took a jay's feather which he had found in the garden the day before, and tickled Take's nose! First she rubbed her nose. Then she sneezed. Then she opened her eyes and looked at Taro.
So closely was Melville guarded that he never dreamed of the existence of this valley, though he must continually have met its inhabitants, for they belonged to Typee. We rode through the same abandoned pae-paes, but as we neared the sea we found a profusion of cocoanuts, breadfruit trees and taro patches, and fully a dozen grass dwellings.
The pièce de résistance was the sucking pig, with taro and feis, but roasted in an oven, and not in native style; and there was a delicious young turkey from New Zealand, a ham from Virginia, truffles, a salad of lettuce and tomatoes, and a plum pudding from London. The claret was 1900 and 1904, a vintage obtained by Polonsky in Paris. The champagne, also, was of a year, and frappéd.
The cook sits on the ground and rubs the fruit, yam or taro, on a piece of rough coral or a palm-sheath, thus making a thick paste, which is wrapped up in banana leaves and cooked between stones. After a few hours' cooking it looks like a thick pudding and does not taste at all bad.
They couldn't look out of the window to see it, because there were no glass windows in their house. There were just the pretty screens covered with white paper. Taro slid one of the screens back and peeped out into the garden. "It's all wet," he said to Take. "We can't play outdoors to-day." "We'll have a nice time in the house, then," said Take. "I can think of lots of things to do."
At last however, it became apparent that the cookery could not, without serious detriment, be longer protracted. The bursting skin of the taro revealed the rich mealy interior, and eloquently proclaimed its readiness to be eaten. The fish were done to a turn, and filled the cabin with a savoury odour, doubly grateful to our nostrils after a twelve hours' fast.
Come, Kitty, see to your friend. There, that cane lounge is the most comfortable. Harry, please shoot a couple of chickens at once, and then tell my people to get some taro, and make an oven." "Oh, that is just like you, Mary," said Kate, laughing, "before we have spoken three words to you you begin cooking things for us."
"We might at least ask her to open the window," she said rather plaintively. It really was dreadfully stuffy! Madame Cagliostra had gone to a sideboard from which she was taking two packs of exceedingly dirty, queer-looking cards. They were the famous Taro cards, but Sylvia did not know that. When the fortune-teller was asked to open the window, she shook her head decidedly. "No, no!" she said.
The other two were filled with blue and red sand. Grandmother brought out some large pieces of paper. "Thank you, O Ba San," the Twins said. They spread the paper on the floor. Taro had one piece, and Take had another. "I'm going to make a picture of a boat on the sea," said Taro. He took some of the blue sand in his right hand.
Taro now occupies the garden and is weeded and gathered by Na-wit', an old man chosen by the old men of the pueblo for this office. Na-wit' maintains and the Igorot believe that the vegetable springs up without planting.
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