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Updated: June 2, 2025
A hundred yards away, in a school-yard, twoscore men, women, boys, and girls played football. The males were in pareus, naked except about the waist, and they kicked the heavy leather sphere with their bare feet.
We stayed an hour at this sport, joined when school was dismissed by all the youth of Papenoo. Under twelve they bathed naked, but those older wore pareus. It was hard to keep on a pareu in a swift-running stream unless one knew how to tie it. I lost mine several times, and had to grope shamefacedly in the race for it, until finally Lovaina made the proper knots and turned it into a diaper.
Doth not Pareus likewise show out of Augustine, that such things as are not expedient but scandalous, and do not edify but hurt our brother, Fiunt ex accidenti illicita et peccata, proinde vitanda? 7.
'CHAP. LXXII. Concerning snakes. 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island . At dinner we talked of another mode in the newspapers of giving modern characters in sentences from the classicks, and of the passage 'Pareus deorum cultor, et infrequens, Insanientis dum sapientiæ Consultus erro, nunc retrorsùm Vela dare, atque iterare cursus Cogor relictos :
There were no doors in the openings into my room from the verandas, but hangings of gorgeous scarlet calico, pareus, kept out the blazing sun, and lent a little privacy at night. All the furniture was a chair, a dressing-table, and two large beds, canopied with mosquito-nets, evidently provided for a double lodging if needed.
Past villages, churches, schools, and villas, the shops of the Chinese merchants, the sheds for drying copra, rows of vanilla-vines, beaches with canoes drawn up and nets drying on sticks, men and women lolling on mats upon the eternal green carpet of the earth, girls waving hands to us, superb men, naked save for pareus, with torsos, brown, satiny, and muscled like Greek gladiators, women bathing in streams, their forms glistening, their breasts bare; and constant to the scene, dominating it, the lofty, snakelike cocoanuts and their brothers of less height and greater girth.
Non tam exsatiendae nutriendaeque naturae, saith Maldonat, quam servandae legalis ceremoniae causa sumebatur. Non ventri, saith Pareus, sed religionis causa fiebat.
T'yonni's house was half a mile from my own. A quarter of a mile farther, and the same distance from the junction of lagoon and river, we had our swimming-place. On an acre or two of grass and moss, removed from any habitation, grew a score of lofty cocoas, and under these we threw off our pareus or trousers and shirts.
"What a picture at night, with torches flickering, and the seats filled with men in red pareus! Mais, c'est terrible!" He got off a hundred feet and squinted through a roll of paper. "I wish I could paint it," he said. "It must be a big canvas, and all dark but the torches and a few faces. Mon dieu! Magnificent!" Is cannibalism in the Marquesas a thing of the past?
That case and this are very different. Pareus observeth, hominem collective intelligi in that place, Gen. i. 26; and Junius observeth, nomen Adam de specie esse intelligendum. But each particular man, and not mankind alone, is permitted to labour six days.
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