Typee by Herman Melville

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

My curiosity had been not a little raised with regard to the description of country we should meet on the other side of the mountains; and I had supposed, with Toby, that immediately on gaining the heights we should be enabled to view the large bays of Happar and Typee reposing at our feet on one side, in the same way that Nukuheva lay spread out below on the other. But here we were disappointed. Instead of finding the mountain we had ascended sweeping down in the opposite direction into broad and capacious valleys, the land appeared to retain its general elevation, only broken into a series of ridges and inter-vales which so far as the eye could reach stretched away from us, with their precipitous sides covered with the brightest verdure, and waving here and there with the foliage of clumps of woodland; among which, however, we perceived none of those trees upon whose fruit we had relied with such certainty.