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When sufficiently near he demanded her name and destination. "The Brilliant, from Liverpool, bound for the Sandwich Islands. And you?" "The Foam from the Feejees for Calcutta. What's wrong with you?" "Sprung a leak; is there anchorage in the bay?" sang out the captain of the merchantman. "No; it's too shoal for a big ship. Bear away round to the other side of the island.
Whip me, ye Furies! toast me in saltpetre! smite me, some thunderbolt! charge upon me, endless squadrons of Mamalukes! devour me, Feejees! but preserve me from a tyranny like this! No! though I smoked like an Indian summer ere I entered the Neversink, so abhorrent was this sumptuary law that I altogether abandoned the luxury rather than enslave it to a time and a place.
When sufficiently near he demanded her name and destination. "The Brilliant, from Liverpool, bound for the Sandwich Islands. And you?" "The Foam from the Feejees for Calcutta. What's wrong with you?" "Sprung a leak; is there anchorage in the bay?" sang out the captain of the merchantman. "No, it's too shoal for a big ship. Bear away round to the other side of the island.
But if the captain takes us for a cargo o' sandal-wood to the Feejees, he'll get a taste o' these black gentry in their native condition. For my part, I don't know and I don't care what the Gospel does to them, but I know that when any o' the islands chance to get it, trade goes all smooth and easy; but where they ha'nt got it, Beelzebub himself could hardly desire better company."
"I thought," said Amos Parr, "that the Feejees were cannibals, and that whoever was wrecked or cast ashore on their coasts was killed and roasted, and eat up at once."
"I thought," said Amos Parr, "that the Feejees were cannibals, and that whoever was wrecked or cast ashore on their coasts was killed and roasted, and eat up at once."
This was doubtless the case in some of the groups of islands where cannibalism was perhaps not very much practised, but in other groups especially among those known by the name of the Feejees the slain were more frequently devoured by men and women than by hogs or dogs.
The voluptuous Tahitians are the only people who at all deserve to be compared with them; while the dark-haired Hawaiians and the woolly-headed Feejees are immeasurably inferior to them. The distinguishing characteristic of the Marquesan islanders, and that which at once strikes you, is the European cast of their features a peculiarity seldom observable among other uncivilized people.
If this be true, there is no need that we should be sending good men and dear, pious women to convert the Chinese, the Feejees, and the poor Africans so benighted that their very color is black, and the Australians, and New Georgians, to be roasted and eaten by the cannibals there. If they worship God in sincerity, you say that is all?"
Having lost a great part of his crew by sickness and desertion, he desired to procure hands for his ship, which was still at Sandalwood Bay, and obtained thirty-five men, one of whom was Paddy Connel. At the time they were ready to depart, a French privateer, Le Gloriant, Captain Dubardieu, put into Sydney, when Captain Sartori engaged a passage for himself and his men to the Feejees.
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