{"id":"01KG8AM2S4MWTEFXBD3B0SFB4K","cid":"bafkreidp7hlwxxc7l7gmjor5ld5w4cvs2vznbdfjkwlbluo2nyzv4mijnm","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5450,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:25.203Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 4","source_file":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","start_line":5379,"text":"By another and final process the ‘Amar’ is changed into ‘Poee-Poee’.\r\nThis transition is rapidly effected. The Amar is placed in a vessel, and\r\nmixed with water until it gains a proper pudding-like consistency, when,\r\nwithout further preparation, it is in readiness for use. This is the\r\nform in which the ‘Tutao’ is generally consumed. The singular mode of\r\neating it I have already described.\r\n\r\nWere it not that the bread-fruit is thus capable of being preserved for\r\na length of time, the natives might be reduced to a state of starvation;\r\nfor owing to some unknown cause the trees sometimes fail to bear fruit;\r\nand on such occasions the islanders chiefly depend upon the supplies\r\nthey have been enabled to store away.\r\n\r\nThis stately tree, which is rarely met with upon the Sandwich Islands,\r\nand then only of a very inferior quality, and at Tahiti does not abound\r\nto a degree that renders its fruit the principal article of food,\r\nattains its greatest excellence in the genial climate of the Marquesan\r\ngroup, where it grows to an enormous magnitude, and flourishes in the\r\nutmost abundance.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER SIXTEEN\r\n\r\nMELANCHOLY CONDITION--OCCURRENCE AT THE TI--ANECDOTE OF MARHEYO--SHAVING\r\nTHE HEAD OF A WARRIOR\r\n\r\n\r\nIn looking back to this period, and calling to remembrance the\r\nnumberless proofs of kindness and respect which I received from the\r\nnatives of the valley, I can scarcely understand how it was that, in the\r\nmidst of so many consolatory circumstances, my mind should still have\r\nbeen consumed by the most dismal forebodings, and have remained a\r\nprey to the profoundest melancholy. It is true that the suspicious\r\ncircumstances which had attended the disappearance of Toby were enough\r\nof themselves to excite distrust with regard to the savages, in whose\r\npower I felt myself to be entirely placed, especially when it was\r\ncombined with the knowledge that these very men, kind and respectful\r\nas they were to me, were, after all, nothing better than a set of\r\ncannibals.\r\n\r\nBut my chief source of anxiety, and that which poisoned every temporary\r\nenjoyment, was the mysterious disease in my leg, which still remained\r\nunabated. All the herbal applications of Tinor, united with the severer\r\ndiscipline of the old leech, and the affectionate nursing of Kory-Kory,\r\nhad failed to relieve me. I was almost a cripple, and the pain I endured\r\nat intervals was agonizing. The unaccountable malady showed no signs\r\nof amendment: on the contrary, its violence increased day by day, and\r\nthreatened the most fatal results, unless some powerful means were\r\nemployed to counteract it. It seemed as if I were destined to sink\r\nunder this grievous affliction, or at least that it would hinder me from\r\navailing myself of any opportunity of escaping from the valley.\r\n\r\nAn incident which occurred as nearly as I can estimate about three weeks\r\nafter the disappearance of Toby, convinced me that the natives, from\r\nsome reason or other, would interpose every possible obstacle to my\r\nleaving them.\r\n\r\nOne morning there was no little excitement evinced by the people near\r\nmy abode, and which I soon discovered proceeded from a vague report\r\nthat boats, had been seen at a great distance approaching the bay.\r\nImmediately all was bustle and animation. It so happened that day that\r\nthe pain I suffered having somewhat abated, and feeling in much better\r\nspirits than usual, I had complied with Kory-Kory’s invitation to visit\r\nthe chief Mehevi at the place called the ‘Ti’, which I have before\r\ndescribed as being situated within the precincts of the Taboo Groves.\r\nThese sacred recesses were at no great distance from Marheyo’s\r\nhabitation, and lay between it and the sea; the path that conducted to\r\nthe beach passing directly in front of the Ti, and thence skirting along\r\nthe border of the groves.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 4"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQ7N0JD72BFQ4GQJBJ2M","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AM2S4Y0R8RHRHMEWRSSQH","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AM2S4HM2B4SHQ69N2P12Y","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:25.380Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:37.873Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}