kori-kori

Updated: May 2, 2025

I was eager for the adventure, to voyage to the valley of Typee, where Herman Melville had lived with Fayaway and Kori-Kori, where Captain Porter had erected the American flag a century before, and where cannibalism and tattooing had reached their most artistic development. But to sever the tie with Tautira was saddening.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.