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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
Sadly discursive as I have already been, I must still further entreat the reader's patience, as I am about to string together, without any attempt at order, a few odds and ends of things not hitherto mentioned, but which are either curious in themselves or peculiar to the Typees.