CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 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 MARQUESANS-FEW EVIDENCES OF INTERCOURSE WITH CIVILIZED BEINGS-DILAPIDATED MUSKET-PRIMITIVE SIMPLICITY OF GOVERNMENT-REGAL DIGNITY OF MEHEVI CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX KING MEHEVI-ALLUSION TO HIS HAWAIIAN MAJESTY-CONDUCT OF MARHEYO AND MEHEVI IN CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS-PECULIAR SYSTEM OF MARRIAGE-NUMBER OF POPULATION-UNIFORMITY-EMBALMING-PLACES OF SEPULTURE-FUNERAL OBSEQUIES AT NUKUHEVA-NUMBER OF INHABITANTS IN TYPEE-LOCATION OF THE DWELLINGS-HAPPINESS ENJOYED IN THE VALLEY-A WARNING-SOME IDEAS WITH REGARD TO THE PRESENT STATE OF THE HAWAIIANS-STORY OF A MISSIONARY'S WIFE-FASHIONABLE EQUIPAGES AT OAHU-REFLECTIONS CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN THE SOCIAL CONDITION AND GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE TYPEES CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT FISHING PARTIES-MODE OF DISTRIBUTING THE FISH-MIDNIGHT BANQUET-TIME-KEEPING TAPERS-UNCEREMONIOUS STYLE OF EATING THE FISH CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VALLEY-GOLDEN LIZARDS-TAMENESS OF THE BIRDS-MOSQUITOES-FLIES-DOGS-A SOLITARY CAT-THE CLIMATE-THE COCOANUT TREE-SINGULAR MODES OF CLIMBING IT-AN AGILE YOUNG CHIEF-FEARLESSNESS OF THE CHILDREN-TOO-TOO AND THE COCOANUT TREE-THE BIRDS OF THE VALLEY CHAPTER THIRTY 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 CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE STRANGE CUSTOM OF THE ISLANDERS-THEIR CHANTING, AND THE PECULIARITY OF THEIR VOICE-RAPTURE OF THE KING AT FIRST HEARING A SONG-A NEW DIGNITY CONFERRED ON THE AUTHOR-MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE VALLEY-ADMIRATION OF THE SAVAGES AT BEHOLDING A PUGILISTIC PERFORMANCE-SWIMMING INFANT-BEAUTIFUL TRESSES OF THE GIRLS-OINTMENT FOR THE HAIR CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO APPREHENSIONS OF EVIL-FRIGHTFUL DISCOVERY-SOME REMARKS ON CANNIBALISM-SECOND BATTLE WITH THE HAPPARS-SAVAGE SPECTACLE-MYSTERIOUS FEAST-SUBSEQUENT DISCLOSURES CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE THE STRANGER AGAIN ARRIVES IN THE VALLEY-SINGULAR INTERVIEW WITH HIM-ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE-FAILURE-MELANCHOLY SITUATION-SYMPATHY OF MARHEYO CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR THE ESCAPE THE STORY OF TOBY NOTE. TYPEE Herman Melville Illustrations By Mead Schaeffer CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A LAND-SICK SHIP The sea—Longings for shore—A land-sick ship—Destination of the voyagers CHAPTER II. TO THE MARQUESAS Passage from the cruising ground to the Marquesas—Sleepy times aboard ship—South Sea scenery—Land ho!—The French squadron discovered at anchor in the bay of Nukuheva—Strange pilot—Escort of canoes—A flotilla of cocoa-nuts—Swimming visitors—The _Dolly_ boarded by them—State of affairs that ensue.