Typee by Herman Melville

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

When Mehevi had departed from the house, as related in the preceding chapter, Kory-Kory commenced the functions of the post assigned him. He brought out, various kinds of food; and, as if I were an infant, insisted upon feeding me with his own hands. To this procedure I, of course, most earnestly objected, but in vain; and having laid a calabash of kokoo before me, he washed his fingers in a vessel of water, and then putting his hands into the dish and rolling the food into little balls, put them one after another into my mouth. All my remonstrances against this measure only provoked so great a clamour on his part, that I was obliged to acquiesce; and the operation of feeding being thus facilitated, the meal was quickly despatched. As for Toby, he was allowed to help himself after his own fashion.