{"id":"01KG8AM7ASAPBSER6YSHMG8BGG","cid":"bafkreiclc5bpibvrrncz2q5n7v76sqpa7lmxbxbgqesp5cy4b3h6rilhmy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4191,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:25.200Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 8","source_file":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","start_line":4116,"text":"The easy unstudied graces of a child of nature like this, breathing from\r\ninfancy an atmosphere of perpetual summer, and nurtured by the simple\r\nfruits of the earth; enjoying a perfect freedom from care and anxiety,\r\nand removed effectually from all injurious tendencies, strike the eye in\r\na manner which cannot be pourtrayed. This picture is no fancy sketch; it\r\nis drawn from the most vivid recollections of the person delineated.\r\n\r\nWere I asked if the beauteous form of Fayaway was altogether free from\r\nthe hideous blemish of tattooing, I should be constrained to answer that\r\nit was not. But the practitioners of the barbarous art, so remorseless\r\nin their inflictions upon the brawny limbs of the warriors of the tribe,\r\nseem to be conscious that it needs not the resources of their profession\r\nto augment the charms of the maidens of the vale.\r\n\r\nThe females are very little embellished in this way, and Fayaway, and\r\nall the other young girls of her age, were even less so than those of\r\ntheir sex more advanced in years. The reason of this peculiarity will\r\nbe alluded to hereafter. All the tattooing that the nymph in question\r\nexhibited upon her person may be easily described. Three minute dots, no\r\nbigger than pin-heads, decorated each lip, and at a little distance were\r\nnot at all discernible. Just upon the fall of the shoulder were drawn\r\ntwo parallel lines half an inch apart, and perhaps three inches in\r\nlength, the interval being filled with delicately executed figures.\r\nThese narrow bands of tattooing, thus placed, always reminded me of\r\nthose stripes of gold lace worn by officers in undress, and which are in\r\nlieu of epaulettes to denote their rank.\r\n\r\nThus much was Fayaway tattooed. The audacious hand which had gone so far\r\nin its desecrating work stopping short, apparently wanting the heart to\r\nproceed.\r\n\r\nBut I have omitted to describe the dress worn by this nymph of the\r\nvalley.\r\n\r\nFayaway--I must avow the fact--for the most part clung to the primitive\r\nand summer garb of Eden. But how becoming the costume!\r\n\r\nIt showed her fine figure to the best possible advantage; and nothing\r\ncould have been better adapted to her peculiar style of beauty. On\r\nordinary occasions she was habited precisely as I have described the two\r\nyouthful savages whom we had met on first entering the valley. At other\r\ntimes, when rambling among the groves, or visiting at the houses of her\r\nacquaintances, she wore a tunic of white tappa, reaching from her waist\r\nto a little below the knees; and when exposed for any length of time to\r\nthe sun, she invariably protected herself from its rays by a floating\r\nmantle of--the same material, loosely gathered about the person. Her\r\ngala dress will be described hereafter.\r\n\r\nAs the beauties of our own land delight in bedecking themselves with\r\nfanciful articles of jewellery, suspending them from their ears, hanging\r\nthem about their necks, and clasping them around their wrists; so\r\nFayaway and her companions were in the habit of ornamenting themselves\r\nwith similar appendages.\r\n\r\nFlora was their jeweller. Sometimes they wore necklaces of small\r\ncarnation flowers, strung like rubies upon a fibre of tappa, or\r\ndisplayed in their ears a single white bud, the stem thrust backward\r\nthrough the aperture, and showing in front the delicate petals folded\r\ntogether in a beautiful sphere, and looking like a drop of the purest\r\npearl. Chaplets too, resembling in their arrangement the strawberry\r\ncoronal worn by an English peeress, and composed of intertwined leaves\r\nand blossoms, often crowned their temples; and bracelets and anklets\r\nof the same tasteful pattern were frequently to be seen. Indeed, the\r\nmaidens of the island were passionately fond of flowers, and never\r\nwearied of decorating their persons with them; a lovely trait in their\r\ncharacter, and one that ere long will be more fully alluded to.\r\n\r\nThough in my eyes, at least, Fayaway was indisputably the loveliest\r\nfemale I saw in Typee, yet the description I have given of her will in\r\nsome measure apply to nearly all the youthful portion of her sex in the\r\nvalley. Judge ye then, reader, what beautiful creatures they must have\r\nbeen.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 8"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQ7QHJRR79154PWN9CAH","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AM7AS1XCCMBB0497BGB5Z","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:30.041Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:36.650Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}