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CHAPTER XXV.
General Information gathered at the Festival—Personal Beauty of the Typees—Their Superiority over the Inhabitants of the other Islands—Diversity of Complexion—A Vegetable Cosmetic and Ointment—Testimony of Voyagers to the uncommon Beauty of the Marquesas—Few Evidences of Intercourse with Civilized Beings—Dilapidated Musket—Primitive Simplicity of Government—Regal Dignity of Mehevi |
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CHAPTER XXVI.
King Mehevi—Allusion to his Hawiian Majesty—Conduct of Marheyo and Mehevi in certain delicate matters—Peculiar system of Marriage—Number of Population—Uniformity—Embalming—Places of Sepulchre—Funeral obsequies at Nukuheva—Numbers of Inhabitants in Typee—Location of the Dwellings—Happiness enjoyed in the Valley—A Warning—Some ides with regard to the Civilization of the Islands—Reference to the Present of the Hawiians—Story of a Missionary’s Wife—Fashionable Equipages at Oahu—Reflections |
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CHAPTER XXVII.
The Social Condition and General Character of the Typees |
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
Fishing Parties—Mode of distributing the Fish—Midnight Banquet—Time-keeping Tapers—Unceremonious style of eating the Fish |
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CHAPTER XXIX.
Natural History of the Valley—Golden Lizards—Tameness of the Birds—Mosquitos—Flies—Dogs—A solitary Cat—The Climate—The Cocoa-nut Tree—Singular modes of climbing it—An agile young Chief—Fearlessness of the Children—Too-Too and the Cocoa-nut Tree—The Birds of the Valley |
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CHAPTER XXX.
A Professor of the Fine Arts—His Persecutions—Something about Tattooing and Tabooing—Two Anecdotes in illustration of the latter—A few thoughts on the Typee Dialect |
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