ut trees under contribution as they
passed beneath them; while Kory-Kory played his outlandish pranks for my
particular diversion, and Fayaway and I, not arm in arm to be sure, but
sometimes hand in hand, strolled along, with feelings of perfect charity
for all the world, and especial good-will towards each other.

Our morning meal was soon prepared. The islanders are somewhat abstemious
at this repast; reserving the more powerful efforts of their appetite to a
later period of the day. For my own part, with the assistance of my valet,
who, as I have before stated, always officiated as spoon on these
occasions, I ate sparingly from one of Tinor's trenchers of poee-poee;
which was devoted exclusively for my own use, being mixed with the milky
meat of ripe cocoa-nut. A section of a roasted bread-fruit, a small cake
of "Amar," or a mess of "Kokoo," two or three bananas, or a Mawmee apple;
an annuee, or some other agreeable and nutritious fruit, served from day
to day to diversify the meal, which was finished by tossing off the liquid
contents of a young cocoa-nut or two.

While partaking of this simple repast, the inmates of Marheyo's house,
after the style of the ancient Romans, reclined in sociable groups upon
the divan of mats, and digestion was promoted by cheerful conversation.

After the morning meal was concluded, pipes were lighted; and among them
my own special pipe, a present from the noble Mehevi. The islanders, who
only smoke a whiff or two at a time, and at long intervals, and who keep
their pipes going from hand to hand continually, regarded my systematic
smoking of four or five pipefuls of tobacco in succession as something
quite wonderful. When two or three pipes had circulated freely, the
company gradually broke up. Marheyo went to the little hut he was for ever
building. Tinor began to inspect her rolls of tappa, or employed her busy
fingers in plaiting grass-mats. The girls anointed themselves with their
fragrant oils, dressed their hair, or looked over their curious finery,
and compared together their ivory trinkets, fashioned out of boar's tusks
or whale's teeth. The young men and warriors produced their spears,
paddles, canoe-gear, battle-clubs, and war-conchs, and occupied themselves
in carving all sorts of figures upon them with pointed bits of shell or
flint, and adorning them, especially the war-conchs, with tassels of
braided bark and tufts of human hair. Some, immediately after eating,
threw the