tions, and returning home, toiling and
sweating, with a bundle, under which most women would have sunk.

To tell the truth, Kory-Kory's mother was the only industrious person in
all the valley of Typee; and she could not have employed herself more
actively had she been left an exceedingly muscular and destitute widow,
with an inordinate supply of young children, in the bleakest part of the
civilized world. There was not the slightest necessity for the greater
portion of the labour performed by the old lady: but she deemed to work
from some irresistible impulse; her limbs continually swaying to and fro,
as if there were some indefatigable engine concealed within her body which
kept her in perpetual motion.

Never suppose that she was a termagant or a shrew for all this: she had
the kindliest heart in the world, and acted towards me in particular in a
truly maternal manner, occasionally putting some little morsel of choice
food into my hand, some outlandish kind of savage sweetmeat or pastry,
like a doting mother petting a sickly urchin with tarts and sugar-plums.
Warm indeed are my remembrances of the dear, good, affectionate old Tinor!

Besides the individuals I have mentioned, there belong to the household
three young men, dissipated, good-for-nothing, roystering blades of
savages, who were either employed in prosecuting love affairs with the
maidens of the tribe, or grew boozy on "arva" and tobacco in the company
of congenial spirits, the scapegraces of the valley.

Among the permanent inmates of the house were likewise several lovely
damsels, who instead of thrumming pianos and reading novels, like more
enlightened young ladies, substituted for these employments the
manufacture of a fine species of tappa; but for the greater portion of the
time were skipping from house to house, gadding and gossiping with their
acquaintances.

From the rest of these, however, I must except the beauteous nymph
Fayaway, who was my peculiar favourite. Her free pliant figure was the
very perfection of female grace and beauty. Her complexion was a rich and
mantling olive, and when watching the glow upon her cheeks I could almost
swear that beneath the transparent medium there lurked the blushes of a
faint vermilion. The face of this girl was a rounded oval, and each
feature as perfectly formed as the heart or imagination of man could
desire. Her full lips, when parted with a smile, disclosed teeth of a
dazzling whiteness; and when her