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HISTORY OF A DAY AS USUALLY SPENT IN TYPEE VALLEY -- DANCES OF THE MARQUESAN GIRLS
Nothing can be more uniform and undiversified than the life of the Typees; one tranquil day of ease and happiness follows another in quiet succession; and with these unsophisicated savages the history of a day is the history of a life. I will, therefore, as briefly as I can, describe one of our days in the valley.