owed after, and soon
disappeared in the groves. These movements were accompanied by wild
shouts, in which "Happar, Happar," greatly predominated. The islanders
were now to be seen running past the Ti, and striking across the valley to
the Happar side. Presently I heard the sharp report of a musket from the
adjoining hills, and then a burst of voices in the same direction. At this
the women, who had congregated in the groves, set up the most violent
clamours, as they invariably do here as elsewhere on every occasion of
excitement and alarm, with a view of tranquillizing their own minds and
disturbing other people. On this particular occasion they made such an
outrageous noise, and continued it with such perseverance, that for
awhile, had entire volleys of musketry been fired off in the neighbouring
mountains, I should not have been able to have heard them.

When this female commotion had a little subsided I listened eagerly for
further information. At last bang went another shot, and then a second
volley of yells from the hills. Again all was quiet, and continued so for
such a length of time that I began to think the contending armies had
agreed upon a suspension of hostilities; when pop went a third gun,
followed as before with a yell. After this, for nearly two hours nothing
occurred worthy of comment, save some straggling shouts from the hillside,
sounding like the halloos of a parcel of truant boys who had lost
themselves in the woods.

During this interval I had remained standing on the piazza of the "Ti,"
which directly fronted the Happar mountain, and with no one near me but
Kory-Kory and the old superannuated savages I have before described. These
latter never stirred from their mats, and seemed altogether unconscious
that anything unusual was going on.

As for Kory-Kory, he appeared to think that we were in the midst of great
events, and sought most zealously to impress me with a due sense of their
importance. Every sound that reached us conveyed some momentous item of
intelligence to him. At such times, as if he were gifted with second
sight, he would go through a variety of pantomimic illustrations, showing
me the precise manner in which the redoubtable Typees were at that very
moment chastising the insolence of the enemy. "Mehevi hanna pippee nuee
Happar," he exclaimed every five minutes, giving me to understand that
under that distinguished captain the warriors of his nation were
performing prodigies of va