[Typee by Herman Melville]@TWC D-Link bookTypee CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 7/12
They all thought and acted alike.
I do not conceive that they could support a debating society for a single night: there would be nothing to dispute about; and were they to call a convention to take into consideration the state of the tribe, its session would be a remarkably short one.
They showed this spirit of unanimity in every action of life; everything was done in concert and good fellowship.
I will give an instance of this fraternal feeling. One day, in returning with Kory-Kory from my accustomed visit to the Ti, we passed by a little opening in the grove; on one side of which, my attendant informed me, was that afternoon to be built a dwelling of bamboo.
At least a hundred of the natives were bringing materials to the ground, some carrying in their hands one or two of the canes which were to form the sides, others slender rods of the habiscus, strung with palmetto leaves, for the roof.
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