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adventure appeared arms arva Awha bamboo bay of Nukuheva beach beautiful beneath boat bread-fruit calabash cannibals canoe captain Charles Livingston Bull chief civilised Cloth decorative cocoa-nut tree companion countenance delight distance elevated endeavoured escape eyes Fayaway feet fellow fruit gazed girls ground hand Happar head Herman Melville Hoolah inhabitants inmates islanders Kanaka Kolory Kory Kory-Kory leaves light limbs looked Marnoo Marquesas Marquesas Islands mats Mehevi Melville Melville's mind Moa Atua Moby Dick morning mountains natives nearly never night nuee observed occasion old Marheyo Omoo once passed peculiar perceived pi-pi poee poee-poee POLLYANNA Polynesian present regard remained repose rock sailor savages scene seemed seen ship shouts side sight singular soon South Seas spear stood strange stream Taboo Groves Tahiti tappa tattooing thought tion Toby Toby's tribe Typee Valley vale vessel voyage warrior whole yards young
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.