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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
From the time that my lameness had decreased I had made a daily practice of visiting Mehevi at the Ti, who invariably gave me a most cordial reception. I was always accompanied in these excursions by Fayaway and the ever-present Kory-Kory. The former, as soon as we reached the vicinity of the Ti -- which was rigorously tabooed to the whole female sex -- withdrew to a neighbouring hut, as if her feminine delicacy ‘restricted' her from approaching a habitation which might be regarded as a sort of Bachelor's Hall.