I am not acquainted with the process which is in use, but believe that fumigation is the principal agency employed.

All the remains which I saw presented the appearance of a ham after being suspended for some time in a smoky chimney.
But to return from the dead to the living.

The late festival had drawn together, as I had every reason to believe, the whole population of the vale, and consequently I was enabled to make some estimate with regard to its numbers.

I should imagine that there were about two thousand inhabitants in Typee; and no number could have been better adapted to the extent of the valley.

The valley is some nine miles in length, and may average one in breadth; the houses being distributed at wide intervals throughout its whole extent, principally, however, towards the head of the vale.