Typee: A Real Romance of the South SeaPage Company publishers, 1892 - 403 páginas |
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adventure appeared arms arva Awha bamboo bay of Nukuheva beach beautiful beneath boat bread-fruit calabash cannibals canoe captain chief CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA civilised Cloth decorative cocoa-nut tree companion countenance delight distance endeavoured escape eyes Fayaway feet fellow fruit gazed girls ground hand Happar head Herman Melville Hoolah inhabitants inmates islanders Jimmy Kolory Kory Kory-Kory L. M. MONTGOMERY leaves light limbs looked Marnoo Marquesas Marquesas Islands mats Mehevi Melville Melville's mind Moa Atua Moby Dick morning mountains Mow-Mow natives nearly never night nuee occasion Omoo once passed peculiar perceived pi-pi poee-poee Pollyanna Polynesian present regard remained rock romance sailor savages scene seemed seen ship shouts side sight singular soon South Seas spear story strange stream Taboo Groves Tahiti tappa tattooing thought tion Toby Toby's tribe Typee valley vale vessel voyage warrior whole yards young
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Página 290 - Not until I visited Honolulu was I aware of the fact that the small remnant of the natives had been civilized into draught horses, and evangelized into beasts of burden. But so it is. They have been literally broken into the traces, and are harnessed to the vehicles of their spiritual instructors like so many dumb brutes!
Página 182 - The fiend-like skill we display in the invention of all manner of deathdealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.
Página xvi - And of winter evenings in New York, by the well-remembered sea-coal fire in old Greenwich-street, he used to tell my brother and me of the monstrous waves at sea, mountain high; of the masts bending like twigs; and all about Havre, and Liverpool, and about going up into the ball of St.
Página 184 - ... prisons ; no proud and hard-hearted nabobs in Typee ; or, to sum up all in one word — no Money ! That ' root of all evil ' was not to be found in the valley. In this secluded abode of happiness there were no cross old women, no cruel step-dames, no withered spinsters, no love-sick maidens, no sour old bachelors, no inattentive husbands, no melancholy young men, no blubbering youngsters, and no squalling brats. All was mirth, fun, and high good-humour.
Página 1 - SIX MONTHS AT SEA ! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific — the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else ! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh provisions were all exhausted.
Página 288 - Let the savages be civilized, but civilize them with benefits, and not with evils ; and let heathenism be destroyed, but not by destroying the heathen. The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent ; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race.
Página 368 - Even at the moment I felt horror at the act I was about to commit; but it was no time for pity or compunction, and with a true aim, and exerting all my strength, I dashed the boat-hook at him. It struck him just below the throat, and forced him downwards. I had no time to repeat the blow, but I saw him rise to the surface in the wake of the boat, and never shall I forget the ferocious expression of his countenance.
Página 183 - I am inclined to think that so far as the relative wickedness of the parties is concerned, four or five Marquesan Islanders sent to the United States as Missionaries, might be quite as useful as an equal number of Americans despatched to the Islands in a similar capacity.
Página 293 - ... the public. To all appearances there were no courts of law or equity. There was no municipal police for the purpose of apprehending vagrants and disorderly characters. In short, there were no legal provisions whatever for the wellbeing and conservation of society, the enlightened end of civilized legislation. And yet everything went on in the valley with a harmony and smoothness unparalleled, I will venture to assert, in the most select, refined, and pious associations of mortals in Christendom.