Typee (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

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by  Herman Melville

TYPEE

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

Herman Melville

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Typee

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

Herman Melville

PSAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered
trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and
Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither
sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management
Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a
registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses
this product. All rights reserved.
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ISBN 0-497-25272-4
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Contents

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1

PREFACE..........................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN................................7
CHAPTER ONE THE SEA—LONGINGS FOR SHORE—A LAND-SICK SHIP—DESTINATION
OF THE VOYAGERS—THE MARQUESAS—ADVENTURE OF A MISSIONARY’S WIFE

AMONG THE SAVAGES—CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTE OF THE QUEEN OF NUKUHEVA25
CHAPTER TWO PASSAGE FROM THE CRUISING GROUND TO THE MARQUESAS—
SLEEPY TIMES ABOARD SHIP—SOUTH SEA SCENERY—LAND HO—THE FRENCH
SQUADRON DISCOVERED AT ANCHOR IN THE BAY OF NUKUHEVA—STRANGE PILOT—
ESCORT OF CANOES—A FLOTILLA OF COCOANUTS—SWIMMING VISITORS—THE DOLLY

BOARDED BY THEM—STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT ENSUE................................................33
CHAPTER THREE SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LATE OPERATIONS OF THE FRENCH AT
THE MARQUESAS—PRUDENT CONDUCT OF THE ADMIRAL—SENSATION PRODUCED BY
THE ARRIVAL OF THE STRANGERS—THE FIRST HORSE SEEN BY THE ISLANDERS—
REFLECTIONS—MISERABLE SUBTERFUGE OF THE FRENCH—DIGRESSION
CONCERNING TAHITI—SEIZURE OF THE ISLAND BY THE ADMIRAL—SPIRITED

CONDUCT OF AN ENGLISH LADY...................................................................................41
CHAPTER FOUR STATE OF AFFAIRS ABOARD THE SHIP—CONTENTS OF HER
LARDER—LENGTH OF SOUTH SEAMEN’S VOYAGES—ACCOUNT OF A FLYING WHALE-
MAN—DETERMINATION TO LEAVE THE VESSEL—THE BAY OF NUKUHEVA—THE
TYPEES—INVASION OF THEIR VALLEY BY PORTER—REFLECTIONS—GLEN OF TIOR—

INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE OLD KING AND THE FRENCH ADMIRAL.............................47
CHAPTER FIVE THOUGHTS PREVIOUS TO ATTEMPTING AN ESCAPE—TOBY, A FELLOW

SAILOR, AGREES TO SHARE THE ADVENTURE—LAST NIGHT ABOARD THE SHIP........59
CHAPTER SIX A SPECIMEN OF NAUTICAL ORATORY—CRITICISMS OF THE SAILORS—

THE STARBOARD WATCH ARE GIVEN A HOLIDAY—THE ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAINS65
CHAPTER SEVEN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN—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.............................................................................................73
CHAPTER EIGHT THE IMPORTANT QUESTION, TYPEE OR HAPPAR?—A WILD GOOSE
CHASE—MY SUFFERINGS—DISHEARTENING SITUATION—A NIGHT IN A RAVINE—

MORNING MEAL—HAPPY IDEA OF TOBY—JOURNEY TOWARDS THE VALLEY...............85

CHAPTER NINE PERILOUS PASSAGE OF THE RAVINE—DESCENT INTO THE VALLEY..95
CHAPTER TEN 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.......................105
CHAPTER ELEVEN 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......................................................................................................................117
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CHAPTER TWELVE 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—ADVENTURES
IN THE DARK—DISTINGUISHED HONOURS PAID TO THE VISITORS—STRANGE

PROCESSION AND RETURN TO THE HOUSE OF MARHEYO.........................................133
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ATTEMPT TO PROCURE RELIEF FROM NUKUHEVA—PERILOUS

ADVENTURE OF TOBY IN THE HAPPAR MOUNTAINS—ELOQUENCE OF KORY-KORY..145
CHAPTER FOURTEEN A GREAT EVENT HAPPENS IN THE VALLEY—THE ISLAND
TELEGRAPH—SOMETHING BEFALLS TOBY—FAYAWAY DISPLAYS A TENDER HEART—
MELANCHOLY REFLECTIONS—MYSTERIOUS CONDUCT OF THE ISLANDERS—
DEVOTION OF KORY-KORY—A RURAL COUCH—A LUXURY—KORY-KORY STRIKES A

LIGHT A LA TYPEE.......................................................................................................153
CHAPTER FIFTEEN KINDNESS OF MARHEYO AND THE REST OF THE ISLANDERS—A
FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE BREAD—FRUIT TREE—DIFFERENT MODES OF PREPARING

THE FRUIT...................................................................................................................163
CHAPTER SIXTEEN MELANCHOLY CONDITION—OCCURRENCE AT THE TI—ANECDOTE

OF MARHEYO—SHAVING THE HEAD OF A WARRIOR..................................................169
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTH AND SPIRITS—FELICITY OF THE
TYPEES—THEIR ENJOYMENTS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF MORE ENLIGHTENED
COMMUNITIES—COMPARATIVE WICKEDNESS OF CIVILIZED AND UNENLIGHTENED

PEOPLE—A SKIRMISH IN THE MOUNTAIN WITH THE WARRIORS OF HAPPAR.............175
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN SWIMMING IN COMPANY WITH THE GIRLS OF THE VALLEY—A
CANOE—EFFECTS OF THE TABOO—A PLEASURE EXCURSION ON THE POND—
BEAUTIFUL FREAK OF FAYAWAY—MANTUA-MAKING—A STRANGER ARRIVES IN THE
VALLEY—HIS MYSTERIOUS CONDUCT—NATIVE ORATORY—THE INTERVIEW—ITS

RESULTS—DEPARTURE OF THE STRANGER...............................................................185
CHAPTER NINETEEN REFLECTIONS AFTER MARNOO’S DEPARTURE-BATTLE OF THE

POP-GUNS—STRANGE CONCEIT OF MARHEYO—PROCESS OF MAKING TAPPA..........201
CHAPTER TWENTY HISTORY OF A DAY AS USUALLY SPENT IN TYPEE VALLEY—DANCES

OF THE MARQUESAN GIRLS........................................................................................209
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THE SPRING OF ARVA WAI—REMARKABLE MONUMENTAL
REMAINS—SOME IDEAS WITH REGARD TO THE HISTORY OF THE PI-PIS FOUND IN THE

VALLEY........................................................................................................................215
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PREPARATIONS FOR A GRAND FESTIVAL IN THE VALLEY—
STRANGE DOINGS IN THE TABOO GROVES—MONUMENT OF CALABASHES—GALA

COSTUME OF THE TYPEE DAMSELS—DEPARTURE FOR THE FESTIVAL.....................221

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE FEAST OF CALABASHES...........................................229
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR IDEAS SUGGESTED BY THE FEAST OF CALABASHES—
INACCURACY OF CERTAIN PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF THE ISLANDS—A REASON—
NEGLECTED STATE OF HEATHENISM IN THE VALLEY—EFFIGY OF A DEAD WARRIOR—
A SINGULAR SUPERSTITION—THE PRIEST KOLORY AND THE GOD MOA ARTUA—
AMAZING RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE—A DILAPIDATED SHRINE—KORY-KORY AND THE

IDOL—AN INFERENCE.................................................................................................237
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE GENERAL INFORMATION GATHERED AT THE FESTIVAL—
PERSONAL BEAUTY OF THE TYPEES—THEIR SUPERIORITY OVER THE INHABITANTS OF
THE OTHER ISLANDS—DIVERSITY OF COMPLEXION—A VEGETABLE COSMETIC AND
OINTMENT—TESTIMONY OF VOYAGERS TO THE UNCOMMON BEAUTY OF THE
MARQUESANS—FEW EVIDENCES OF INTERCOURSE WITH CIVILIZED BEINGS—
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DILAPIDATED MUSKET—PRIMITIVE SIMPLICITY OF GOVERNMENT— REGAL DIGNITY OF

MEHEVI........................................................................................................................251
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX KING MEHEVI—ALLUSION TO HIS HAWIIAN MAJESTY—
CONDUCT OF MARHEYO AND MEHEVI IN CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS—PECULIAR
SYSTEM OF MARRIAGE—NUMBER OF POPULATION—UNIFORMITY—EMBALMING—
PLACES OF SEPULTURE—FUNERAL OBSEQUIES AT NUKUHEVA-NUMBER OF
INHABITANTS IN TYPEE—LOCATION OF THE DWELLINGS—HAPPINESS ENJOYED IN
THE VALLEY—A WARNING—SOME IDEAS WITH REGARD TO THE PRESENT STATE OF
THE HAWIIANS—STORY OF A MISSIONARY’S WIFE—FASHIONABLE EQUIPAGES AT

OAHU—REFLECTIONS.................................................................................................261
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN THE SOCIAL CONDITION AND GENERAL CHARACTER OF

THE TYPEES.................................................................................................................273
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT FISHING PARTIES—MODE OF DISTRIBUTING THE FISH—
MIDNIGHT BANQUET—TIME-KEEPING TAPERS—UNCEREMONIOUS STYLE OF EATING

THE FISH.....................................................................................................................281
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VALLEY—GOLDEN LIZARDS—
TAMENESS OF THE BIRDS—MOSQUITOES—FLIES—DOGS—A SOLITARY CAT—THE
CLIMATE—THE COCOANUT TREE—SINGULAR MODES OF CLIMBING IT—AN AGILE
YOUNG CHIEF—FEARLESSNESS OF THE CHILDREN—TOO-TOO AND THE COCOANUT

TREE—THE BIRDS OF THE VALLEY.............................................................................285
CHAPTER THIRTY A PROFESSOR OF THE FINE ARTS—HIS PERSECUTIONS—
SOMETHING ABOUT TATTOOING AND TABOOING—TWO ANECDOTES IN ILLUSTRATION

OF THE LATTER—A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE TYPEE DIALECT...................................293
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE STRANGE CUSTOM OF THE ISLANDERS—THEIR CHANTING,
AND THE PECULIARITY OF THEIR VOICE—RAPTURE OF THE KING AT FIRST HEARING A
SONG—A NEW DIGNITY CONFERRED ON THE AUTHOR—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN
THE VALLEY—ADMIRATION OF THE SAVAGES AT BEHOLDING A PUGILISTIC
PERFORMANCE—SWIMMING INFANT—BEAUTIFUL TRESSES OF THE GIRLS—OINTMENT

FOR THE HAIR.............................................................................................................303
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO APPREHENSIONS OF EVIL—FRIGHTFUL DISCOVERY—SOME
REMARKS ON CANNIBALISM—SECOND BATTLE WITH THE HAPPARS—SAVAGE

SPECTACLE—MYSTERIOUS FEAST—SUBSEQUENT DISCLOSURES............................309
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE THE STRANGER AGAIN ARRIVES IN THE VALLEY—SINGULAR
INTERVIEW WITH HIM—ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE—FAILURE—MELANCHOLY SITUATION—

SYMPATHY OF MARHEYO............................................................................................321

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR THE ESCAPE........................................................................327

THE STORY OF TOBY...................................................................................................337

NOTE............................................................................................................................351

GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................353

Herman Melville 1

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR

Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on
standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently
assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this
edition of Typee by Herman Melville was edited for students who are actively building their
vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®), GRE®,
LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations.1

Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of
synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in
other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic
words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are “difficult,
and often encountered” in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided
for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language,
and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within
context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not
already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it
has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the
book; Synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary.

Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-online-
dictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected]

The Editor
Webster’s Online Dictionary
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1 P S A T ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered
trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and
Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither
sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management
Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a
registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses
this product. All rights reserved.

Herman Melville 3

PREFACE

More than three years have elapsed since the occurrence of the events
recorded in this volume. The interval, with the exception of the last few months,
has been chiefly spent by the author tossing about on the wide ocean. Sailors are
the only class of men who now-a-days see anything like stirring adventure; and
many things which to fire-side people appear strange and romantic, to them
seem as common-place as a jacket out at elbows. Yet, notwithstanding the
familiarity of sailors with all sorts of curious adventure, the incidents recorded in
the following pages have often served, when ‘spun as a yarn,’ not only to relieve
the weariness of many a night-watch at sea, but to excite the warmest
sympathies of the author’s shipmates. He has been, therefore, led to think that
his story could scarcely fail to interest those who are less familiar than the sailor
with a life of adventure.%
In his account of the singular and interesting people among whom he was
thrown, it will be observed that he chiefly treats of their more obvious
peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from
entering into explanations concerning their origin and purposes. As writers of
travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse on these
subjects, he deems it right to advert to what may be considered a culpable
omission. No one can be more sensible than the author of his deficiencies in this
and many other respects; but when the very peculiar circumstances in which he

Thesaurus
advert: (n) advertisement, blameful, condemnable, liable, tranquilize, placate, quiet, dampen.
announcement, ad, advertising, criminal, to blame, responsible. singular: (adj, n) extraordinary; (adj)
poster, advertizing; (v) notice, allude, ANTONYMS: (adj) innocent, odd, individual, particular, peculiar,
mention, pay attention, attend. inculpable, blameless. phenomenal, rare, queer, single,
barbarous: (adj) barbaric, savage, elapsed: (adj) gone, forgotten, lapsed, quaint, exceptional. ANTONYMS:
gothic, brutal, heathen, truculent, back, beyond, onwards, over and (adj) ordinary, normal, together,
rude, fell, ferocious, fierce, done. usual, customary.
uncivilized. ANTONYMS: (adj) nice, excite: (v) arouse, enliven, disturb, tossing: (n) cast; (adj) moving.
cultured, civilized, sophisticated, agitate, awaken, incite, inspire, rouse, weariness: (n) exhaustion, tiredness,
refined, humane. electrify; (n, v) energize; (adj, v) lassitude, languor, asthenopia,
culpable: (adj) guilty, blameworthy, quicken. ANTONYMS: (v) calm, defatigation, grogginess, listlessness,
censurable, reprehensible, blameable, pacify, bore, soothe, stifle, boredom, ennui, prostration.