e was still less outward
licentiousness visible than was a matter of hourly occurrence in the
other groups.

_Note._--In all the lighter sketches upon Polynesia, I cannot
resist paying the faint tribute of my own individual admiration to
Mr. Melville. Apart from the innate beauty and charming tone of his
narratives, the delineations of Island life and scenery, from, my
own personal observation, are most correctly and faithfully drawn.

At Nukeheva and Tahiti I made inquiry about his former associates,
and without in the least designing to sully the enchanting romance
of his fair Typee love, I may mention having seen a "nut-brown"
damsel, named Fayaway, from that valley, who apparently was maid of
all work to a French Commissary of the garrison. She was attired in
a gaudy yellow robe de chambre, ironing the Crapeau's trowsers!
_Credat Judeus!_ There was also a diminutive young _oui oui_
tumbling about the mats, so it is presumable she had become
childish of late; yet the proof is not strong, for it is quite as
much in vogue among these southern groups to change names and give
away infants, as the fashion in the Sandwich Islands of knocking
out a couple of front teeth to evince grief at the decease of near
friends or relatives, and the nymph alluded to may not be the
original Fayaway after all.

Mr. Melville's friend, Dr. Johnstone, whom he has immortalized in
Omoo, was excessive wroth, and refused to be pacified, resolving
shortly to prosecute the English publishers for libel. He politely
permitted me to transcribe some items from his dose book, declaring
however, that the "embrocation" so relished by the Long Ghost, was
a villanous preparation, having the least taste of gin in the
world, and made up from laudanum, turpentine, and soap linament!
Here is the memorandum:--

"Ship, Lucy Ann, Captain Vinton.
October 10th, 1842. Melvil Herman. Stocks.

Embrocation 75
19th. Do 75
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$1 50"

I felt no inclination to task it, since I found the Doctor's other
prescriptions unexceptionable. The Ghost must have b