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Updated: June 19, 2025
Deterred by the frightful stories related of its inhabitants, ships never enter this bay, while their hostile relations with the tribes in the adjoining valleys prevent the Typees from visiting that section of the island where vessels occasionally lie.
The Typees pelted them with stones as they sat at breakfast, and Porter sent a native ambassador, offering peace at the price of submission. He came back, running madly and bruised by his reception. Porter then ordered the advance. The company advanced into the bushes, and were received by a veritable rain of stones and spears. Not an enemy was in sight.
Cries of joy and praise to their gods arose from the Typees. Porter and his men, huddled in puddles, unable to find shelter, and fearful that every blast of the storm might hurl them from their slippery height, tried in vain to keep muskets and powder dry.
NOTHING can be more uniform and undiversified than the life of the Typees; one tranquil day of ease and happiness follows another in quiet succession; and with these unsophisicated savages the history of a day is the history of a life. I will, therefore, as briefly as I can, describe one of our days in the valley. To begin with the morning.
The grief and consternation of Kory-Kory, in particular, was unbounded; he threw himself into a perfect paroxysm of gestures which were intended to convey to us not only his abhorrence of Nukuheva and its uncivilized inhabitants, but also his astonishment that after becoming acquainted with the enlightened Typees, we should evince the least desire to withdraw, even for a time, from their agreeable society.
Porter, horrified, interrogated his allies, who denied any such horrid appetite, so that Porter was not sure what to believe. The Typees were the most terrible of all the Nuka-hivans, with four thousand fighting men, with strongest fortifications and the most resolute hearts.
On all sides they heard the snapping sound of the slings, the whistling of the stones, the sibilant hiss of the spears that at every step fell in increasing numbers, but they could not see whence they came, and no whisper or rustle of underbrush revealed the lurking Typees. They pushed on, hoping to get through the thicket, which Wilson had assured them was of no great extent.
But despite the apprehensions I could not dispel, the horrible character imputed to these Typees appeared to be wholly undeserved. 'Why, they are cannibals! said Toby on one occasion when I eulogized the tribe. 'Granted, I replied, 'but a more humane, gentlemanly and amiable set of epicures do not probably exist in the Pacific.
Toby insisted that it was the abode of the Happars, and I that it was tenanted by their enemies, the ferocious Typees.
But alas! it was after all a raw fish; and all I can say is, that Fayaway ate it in a more ladylike manner than any other girl of the valley. When at Rome do as the Romans do, I held to be so good a proverb, that being in Typee I made a point of doing as the Typees did.
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