Typee : a Peep At Polynesian Life. During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas
Typee : a Peep At Polynesian Life. During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas
Melville Herman
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knocked into a cocoa-nut shell kept for the purpose. This primitive candle requires continual attention, and must be con- stMitly held in the hand. The person so employed marks the lapse of time by the number of nuts consumed, which is easily learned by counting the bits of tappa distributed at regular inter, vals along the string. I grieve to state so distressing; a factj but the inhabitants of Typee were in the habit of devouring fish much in the same way that a civilized being would eat a ra...dish, and without any more previous preparation. They eat it raw ji scales, bones, gills, and all the inside. The fish is held by the tail, and the head being introduced into the mouth, the animal disappears with a rapidity that would at first nearly lead one to iixiet^xie it had been launched bodily down the throat. Raw fish ! Shall I ever forget my sensations when I first saw my island beauty devour one. Oh, heavens ! Fayaway, how could you ever have contracted so' vile a habit ? HoiWever, after the first shock had subsided, the custom grew less odious in my eyes, and I.
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