As I happened to have been in a remarkably sound and refreshing slumber, I could not imagine why the information had not been deferred until morning, indeed, I felt very much inclined to fly into a passion and box my valet's ears; but on second thoughts I got quietly up, and on going outside the house was not a little interested by the moving illumination which I beheld.
When old Marheyo received his share of the spoils, immediate preparations were made for a midnight banquet; calabashes of poee-poee were filled to the brim; green bread-fruit were roasted; and a huge cake of 'amar' was cut up with a sliver of bamboo and laid out on an immense banana-leaf.
At this supper we were lighted by several of the native tapers, held in the hands of young girls.

These tapers are most ingeniously made.

There is a nut abounding in the valley, called by the Typees 'armor', closely resembling our common horse-chestnut.

The shell is broken, and the contents extracted whole.

Any number of these are strung at pleasure upon the long elastic fibre that traverses the branches of the cocoanut tree.