. In the south seas : a foot-note to history. ngs (apparently) but interfere in thecookery of a turtle. *! got power is his favouriteword; it interlards his conversation; the thought hauntshim and is ever fresh; and when he has asked andmeditates of foreign countries, he looks up with asmile and reminds you, / got power. Nor is hisdelight only in the possession, but in the exercise. Herejoices in the crooked and violent paths of kingshiplike a strong man to run a race, or like an artist in hisart. To feel, to use his power, to embellish his islandand the picture of the island life after a priv
. In the south seas : a foot-note to history. ngs (apparently) but interfere in thecookery of a turtle. *! got power is his favouriteword; it interlards his conversation; the thought hauntshim and is ever fresh; and when he has asked andmeditates of foreign countries, he looks up with asmile and reminds you, / got power. Nor is hisdelight only in the possession, but in the exercise. Herejoices in the crooked and violent paths of kingshiplike a strong man to run a race, or like an artist in hisart. To feel, to use his power, to embellish his islandand the picture of the island life after a private ideal, tomilk the island vigorously, to extend his singular mu-seum— these employ delightfully the sum of his abili-ties. I never saw a man more patently in the righttrade. It would be natural to suppose this monarchy in-herited intact through generations. And so far fromthat, it is a thing of yesterday. I was already a boy atschool while Apemama was yet republican, ruled by anoisy council of Old Men, and torn with incurable feuds. 363. THE KING OF APEMAMA ment, glorious and detested. He died about i860, inthe seventieth year of his age and the full odour of un-popularity. He was tall and lean, says his grandson,looked extremely old, and walked all the same youngman. The same observer gave me a significant de-tail. The survivors of that rough epoch were all de-faced with spearmarks; there was none on the bodyof this skilful fighter. I see old man, no got a spear,said the king. Tenkoruti left two sons, Tembaitake and Tembina-take. Tembaitake, our kings father, was short, mid-dling stout, a poet, a good genealogist, and somethingof a fighter; it seems he took himself seriously, andwas perhaps scarce conscious that he was in all thingsthe creature and nursling of his brother. There wasno shadow of dispute between the pair: the greaterman filled with alacrity and content the second place;held the breach in war, and all the portfolios in the timeof peace; and, when his brother
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