Posted: September 24th, 2006
 The Federalist Papers
The year is 1787. America is a fledgling confederation of 13 colonies. A new Constitution has been written in Philadelphia, to replace the Articles of Confederation. Do you think that this new constitution should become the supreme law of the land?
Vote: YES or NO
The Federalists want you to vote yes. As America roils with intense debate on this fateful issue, a series of essays begin to appear in three New York newspapers, written by the mysterious persona Publius. These essays urge the American people to ratify the constitution, explaining and defending it in detail. After their debut in New York, the essays subsequently appeared in newspapers across the nation.
We know today that Publius was actually three different people: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. Their painstaking efforts to explain and promote the United States Constitution have become a primary source for the interpretation and understanding of the highest law of the United States of America.
Thomas Jefferson called the Federalist Papers the "best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written."
They are available in their entirety on this site, as 85 separate audio narrations. All together, these narrations comprise 20 hours 30 minutes of audio, and total 602.1 MB.
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Federalist No. 7
CONCERNING DANGERS FROM DISSENSIONS BETWEEN THE STATES, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 9
THE UNION AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINST DOMESTIC FACTION AND INSURRECTION
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Federalist No. 10
THE UNION AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINST DOMESTIC FACTION AND INSURRECTION, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 11
THE UTILITY OF THE UNION IN RESPECT TO COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND A NAVY
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Federalist No. 14
OBJECTIONS TO THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION FROM EXTENT OF TERRITORY ANSWERED
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Federalist No. 15
THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THE UNION
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Federalist No. 16
THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THE UNION, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 17
THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THE UNION, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 18
THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THE UNION, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 19
THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THE UNION, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 20
THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THE UNION, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 23
THE NECESSITY OF A GOVERNMENT AS ENERGETIC AS THE ONE PROPOSED TO THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION
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Federalist No. 25
THE POWERS NECESSARY TO THE COMMON DEFENSE FURTHER CONSIDERED, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 26
THE IDEA OF RESTRAINING THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY IN REGARD TO THE COMMON DEFENSE CONSIDERED
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Federalist No. 27
THE IDEA OF RESTRAINING THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY IN REGARD TO THE COMMON DEFENSE CONSIDERED, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 28
THE IDEA OF RESTRAINING THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY IN REGARD TO THE COMMON DEFENSE CONSIDERED, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 37
CONCERNING THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE CONVENTION IN DEVISING A PROPER FORM OF GOVERNMENT
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Federalist No. 38
THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED, AND THE INCOHERENCE OF THE OBJECTIONS TO THE NEW PLAN EXPOSED
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Federalist No. 40
THE POWERS OF THE CONVENTION TO FORM A MIXED GOVERNMENT EXAMINED AND SUSTAINED
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Federalist No. 43
THE POWERS CONFERRED BY THE CONSTITUTION FURTHER CONSIDERED, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 45
THE ALLEGED DANGER FROM THE POWERS OF THE UNION TO THE STATE GOVERNMENTS CONSIDERED
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Federalist No. 47
THE PARTICULAR STRUCTURE OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWER AMONG ITS DIFFERENT PARTS
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Federalist No. 48
THESE DEPARTMENTS SHOULD NOT BE SO FAR SEPARATED AS TO HAVE NO CONSTITUTIONAL CONTROL OVER EACH OTHER
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Federalist No. 49
METHOD OF GUARDING AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENTS OF ANY ONE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT BY APPEALING TO THE PEOPLE THROUGH A CONVENTION
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Federalist No. 51
THE STRUCTURE OF THE GOVERNMENT MUST FURNISH THE PROPER CHECKS AND BALANCES BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS
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Federalist No. 57
THE ALLEGED TENDENCY OF THE NEW PLAN TO ELEVATE THE FEW AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MANY CONSIDERED IN CONNECTION WITH REPRESENTATION
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Federalist No. 58
OBJECTION THAT THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS WILL NOT BE AUGMENTED AS THE PROGRESS OF POPULATION DEMANDS CONSIDERED
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Federalist No. 59
CONCERNING THE POWER OF CONGRESS TO REGULATE THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS
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Federalist No. 60
CONCERNING THE POWER OF CONGRESS TO REGULATE THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 61
CONCERNING THE POWER OF CONGRESS TO REGULATE THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS, CONTINUED
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Federalist No. 66
OBJECTIONS TO THE POWER OF THE SENATE TO SET AS A COURT FOR IMPEACHMENTS FURTHER CONSIDERED
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Federalist No. 72
THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED, AND RE-ELIGIBILITY OF THE EXECUTIVE CONSIDERED
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Federalist No. 74
THE COMMAND OF THE MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES, AND THE PARDONING POWER OF THE EXECUTIVE
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Federalist No. 77
THE APPOINTING POWER CONTINUED AND OTHER POWERS OF THE EXECUTIVE CONSIDERED
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Federalist No. 81
THE JUDICIARY CONTINUED, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE JUDICIAL AUTHORITY
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Federalist No. 84
CERTAIN GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTIONS TO THE CONSTITUTION CONSIDERED AND ANSWERED
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Posted: October 18th, 2008
Typee by Herman Melville
Typee was Herman Melville's first book, recounting how he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, to become captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime. The author was awed and charmed by the strangeness and beauty of the island and its people. Many sought to discredit the work, calling it a total fabrication. But a rebuttal came when its events were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard T. Greene, who appears in the story as the character Toby.
The entire narration of the book lasts 11 hours 32 minutes, and totals 335.6 MB.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2006
Typee Chapter 1
THE SEA - LONGINGS FOR SHORE - A LAND-SICK SHIP - DESTINATION OF THE VOYAGERS - THE MARQUESAS - ADVENTURE OF A MISSIONARY'S WIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES - CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTE OF THE QUEEN OF NUKUHEVA
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 2
PASSAGE FROM THE CRUISING GROUND TO THE MARQUESAS - SLEEPY TIMES ABOARD SHIP - SOUTH SEA SCENERY - LAND HO - THE FRENCH SQUADRON DISCOVERED AT ANCHOR IN THE BAY OF NUKUHEVA - STRANGE PILOT - ESCORT OF CANOES - A FLOTILLA OF COCONUTS - SWIMMING VISITORS - THE DOLLY BOARDED BY THEM - STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT ENSUE
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 3
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LATE OPERATIONS OF THE FRENCH AT THE MARQUESAS - PRUDENT CONDUCT OF THE ADMIRAL - SENSATION PRODUCED BY THE ARRIVAL OF THE STRANGERS - THE FIRST HORSE SEEN BY THE ISLANDERS - REFLECTIONS - MISERABLE SUBTERFUGE OF THE FRENCH - DIGRESSION CONCERNING TAHITI - SEIZURE OF THE ISLAND BY THE ADMIRAL - SPIRITED CONDUCT OF AN ENGLISH LADY
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 4
STATE OF AFFAIRS ABOARD THE SHIP - CONTENTS OF HER LARDER - LENGTH OF SOUTH SEAMEN'S VOYAGES - ACCOUNT OF A FLYING WHALE-MAN - DETERMINATION TO LEAVE THE VESSEL - THE BAY OF NUKUHEVA - THE TYPEES - INVASION OF THEIR VALLEY BY PORTER - REFLECTIONS - GLEN OF TIOR - INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE OLD KING AND THE FRENCH ADMIRAL
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 5
THOUGHTS PREVIOUS TO ATTEMPTING AN ESCAPE - TOBY, A FELLOW SAILOR, AGREES TO SHARE THE ADVENTURE - LAST NIGHT ABOARD THE SHIP
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 6
A SPECIMEN OF NAUTICAL ORATORY - CRITICISMS OF THE SAILORS - THE STARBOARD WATCH ARE GIVEN A HOLIDAY - THE ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAINS
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 7
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN - DISAPPOINTMENT - INVENTORY OF ARTICLES BROUGHT FROM THE SHIP - DIVISION OF THE STOCK OF BREAD - APPEARANCE OF THE INTERIOR OF THE ISLAND - A DISCOVERY - A RAVINE AND WATERFALLS - A SLEEPLESS NIGHT - FURTHER DISCOVERIES - MY ILLNESS - A MARQUESAN LANDSCAPE
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 8
THE IMPORTANT QUESTION, TYPEE OR HAPPAR? - A WILD GOOSE CHASE - MY SUFFERINGS - DISHEARTENING SITUATION - A NIGHT IN A RAVINE - MORNING MEAL - HAPPY IDEA OF TOBY - JOURNEY TOWARDS THE VALLEY
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 10
THE HEAD OF THE VALLEY - CAUTIOUS ADVANCE - A PATH - FRUIT - DISCOVERY OF TWO OF THE NATIVES - THEIR SINGULAR CONDUCT - APPROACH TOWARDS THE INHABITED PARTS OF THE VALE - SENSATION PRODUCED BY OUR APPEARANCE - RECEPTION AT THE HOUSE OF ONE OF THE NATIVES
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 11
MIDNIGHT REFLECTIONS - MORNING VISITORS - A WARRIOR IN COSTUME - A SAVAGE AESCULAPIUS - PRACTICE OF THE HEALING ART - BODY SERVANT - A DWELLING-HOUSE OF THE VALLEY DESCRIBED - PORTRAITS OF ITS INMATES
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 12
OFFICIOUSNESS OF KORY-KORY - HIS DEVOTION - A BATH IN THE STREAM - WANT OF REFINEMENT OF THE TYPEE DAMSELS - STROLL WITH MEHEVI - A TYPEE HIGHWAY - THE TABOO GROVES - THE HOOLAH HOOLAH GROUND - THE TI - TIMEWORN SAVAGES - HOSPITALITY OF MEHEVI - MIDNIGHT MUSINGS - ADVENTURES IN THE DARK - DISTINGUISHED HONOURS PAID TO THE VISITORS - STRANGE PROCESSION AND RETURN TO THE HOUSE OF MARHEYO
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 13
ATTEMPT TO PROCURE RELIEF FROM NUKUHEVA - PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF TOBY IN THE HAPPAR MOUNTAINS - ELOQUENCE OF KORY-KORY
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 14
A GREAT EVENT HAPPENS IN THE VALLEY - THE ISLAND TELEGRAPH - SOMETHING BEFALLS TOBY - FAYAWAY DISPLAYS A TENDER HEART - MELANCHOLY REFLECTIONS - MYSTERIOUS CONDUCT OF THE ISLANDERS - DEVOTION OF KORY-KORY - A RURAL COUCH - A LUXURY - KORY-KORY STRIKES A LIGHT A LA TYPEE
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 15
KINDNESS OF MARHEYO AND THE REST OF THE ISLANDERS - A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE - DIFFERENT MODES OF PREPARING THE FRUIT
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 16
MELANCHOLY CONDITION - OCCURRENCE AT THE TI - ANECDOTE OF MARHEYO - SHAVING THE HEAD OF A WARRIOR
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 17
IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTH AND SPIRITS - FELICITY OF THE TYPEES - THEIR ENJOYMENTS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF MORE ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITIES - COMPARATIVE WICKEDNESS OF CIVILIZED AND UNENLIGHTENED PEOPLE - A SKIRMISH IN THE MOUNTAIN WITH THE WARRIORS OF HAPPAR
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 18
SWIMMING IN COMPANY WITH THE GIRLS OF THE VALLEY - A CANOE - EFFECTS OF THE TABOO - A PLEASURE EXCURSION ON THE POND - BEAUTIFUL FREAK OF FAYAWAY - MANTUA-MAKING - A STRANGER ARRIVES IN THE VALLEY - HIS MYSTERIOUS CONDUCT - NATIVE ORATORY - THE INTERVIEW - ITS RESULTS - DEPARTURE OF THE STRANGER
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 19
REFLECTIONS AFTER MARNOO'S DEPARTURE - BATTLE OF THE POP-GUNS - STRANGE CONCEIT OF MARHEYO - PROCESS OF MAKING TAPPA
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 20
HISTORY OF A DAY AS USUALLY SPENT IN THE TYPEE VALLEY - DANCES OF THE MARQUESAN GIRLS
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 21
THE SPRING OF ARVA WAI - REMARKABLE MONUMENTAL REMAINS - SOME IDEAS WITH REGARD TO THE HISTORY OF THE PI-PIS FOUND IN THE VALLEY
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 22
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
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 24
IDEAS SUGGESTED BY THE FEAST OF CALABASHES - INACCURACY OF CERTAIN PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF THE ISLANDS - A REASON - NEGLECTED STATE OF HEATHENISM IN THE VALLEY - EFFIGY OF A DEAD WARRIOR - A SINGULAR SUPERSTITION - THE PRIEST KOLORY AND THE GOD MOA ARTUA - AMAZING RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE - A DILAPIDATED SHRINE - KORY-KORY AND THE IDOL - AN INFERENCE
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 25
GENERAL INFORMATION GATHERED AT THE FESTIVAL - PERSONAL BEAUTY OF THE TYPEES - THEIR SUPERIORITY OVER THE INHABITANTS OF THE OTHER ISLANDS - DIVERSITY OF COMPLEXION - A VEGETABLE COSMETIC AND OINTMENT - TESTIMONY OF VOYAGERS TO THE UNCOMMON BEAUTY OF THE MARQUESANS - FEW EVIDENCES OF INTERCOURSE WITH CIVILIZED BEINGS - DILAPIDATED MUSKET - PRIMITIVE SIMPLICITY OF GOVERNMENT - REGAL DIGNITY OF MEHEVI
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 26
KING MEHEVI - ALLUSION TO HIS HAWIIAN MAJESTY - CONDUCT OF MARHEYO AND MEHEVI IN CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS - PECULIAR SYSTEM OF MARRIAGE - NUMBER OF POPULATION - UNIFORMITY - EMBALMING - PLACES OF SEPULTURE - FUNERAL OBSEQUIES AT NUKUHEVA - NUMBER OF INHABITANTS IN TYPEE - LOCATION OF THE DWELLINGS - HAPPINESS ENJOYED IN THE VALLEY - A WARNING - SOME IDEAS WITH REGARD TO THE CIVILIZATION OF THE ISLANDS - REFERENCE TO THE PRESENT STATE OF THE HAWIIANS - STORY OF A MISSIONARY'S WIFE - FASHIONABLE EQUIPAGES AT OAHU - REFLECTIONS
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 28
FISHING PARTIES - MODE OF DISTRIBUTING THE FISH - MIDNIGHT BANQUET - TIMEKEEPING TAPERS - UNCEREMONIOUS STYLE OF EATING THE FISH
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 29
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VALLEY - GOLDEN LIZARDS - TAMENESS OF THE BIRDS - MOSQUITOES - FLIES - DOGS - A SOLITARY CAT - THE CLIMATE - THE COCONUT TREE - SINGULAR MODES OF CLIMBING IT - AN AGILE YOUNG CHIEF - FEARLESSNESS OF THE CHILDREN - TOO-TOO AND THE COCONUT TREE - THE BIRDS OF THE VALLEY
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 30
A PROFESSOR OF THE FINE ARTS - HIS PERSECUTIONS - SOMETHING ABOUT TATTOOING AND TABOOING - TWO ANECDOTES IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE LATTER - A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE TYPEE DIALECT
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 31
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
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 32
APPREHENSIONS OF EVIL - FRIGHTFUL DISCOVERY - SOME REMARKS ON CANNIBALISM - SECOND BATTLE WITH THE HAPPARS - SAVAGE SPECTACLE - MYSTERIOUS FEAST - SUBSEQUENT DISCLOSURES
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Chapter 33
THE STRANGER AGAIN ARRIVES IN THE VALLEY - SINGULAR INTERVIEW WITH HIM - ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE - FAILURE - MELANCHOLY SITUATION - SYMPATHY OF MARHEYO
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Posted: March 22nd, 2006
Typee Appendix
PROVISIONAL CESSION TO LORD GEORGE PAULET OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
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