untain--Disappointment--Inventory
of articles brought from the ship--Division of the stock
of bread--Appearance of the interior of the island--A
discovery--A ravine and waterfalls--A sleepless
night--Further discoveries--My illness--A Marquesan
landscape.
VII A WILD-GOOSE CHASE 45
The important question, Typee or Happar?--A wild-goose
chase--My sufferings--Disheartening situation--A night in
the ravine--Morning meal--Happy idea of Toby--Journey
towards the valley.
VIII INTO THE VALLEY 54
Perilous passage of the ravine--Descent into the valley.
IX CAUTIOUS ADVANCE 63
The head of the valley--Cautious advance--A
path--Fruit--Discovery of two of the natives--Their
singular conduct--Approach towards the inhabited parts of
the vale--Sensation produced by our appearance--Reception
at the house of one of the natives.
X MORNING VISITORS 75
Midnight reflections--Morning visitors--A warrior in
costume--A savage AEsculapius--Practice of the healing
art--Body-servant--A dwelling-house of the valley
described--Portraits of its inmates.
XI ADVENTURE IN THE DARK 90
Officiousness of Kory-Kory--His devotion--A bath in the
stream--Want of refinement of the Typee damsels--Stroll
with Mehevi--A Typee highway--The Taboo groves--The hoolah
hoolah ground--The Ti--Timeworn savages--Hospitality of
Mehevi--Midnight musings--Adventure in the
dark--Distinguished honours paid to the visitors--Strange
procession, and return to the house of Marheyo.
XII ADVENTURE OF TOBY 101
Attempt to procure relief from Nukuheva--Perilous
adventure of Toby in the Happar Mountains--Eloquence of
Kory-Kory.
XIII A GREAT EVENT 109
A great event happens in the valley--The island
telegraph--Something befalls Toby--Fayaway displays a
tender