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- # SECOND BATTLE WITH THE HAPPARS--SAVAGE SPECTACLE--MYSTERIOUS FEAST
## Overview
This section, titled "SECOND BATTLE WITH THE HAPPARS--SAVAGE SPECTACLE--MYSTERIOUS FEAST," is a segment of a larger work, likely a book or manuscript. It details events occurring on a specific morning, marked by the sounds of an impending solemnity and the narrator's suspicions about its nature. The text describes the narrator's interactions with Kory-Kory and Fayaway, their movements around the valley, and their avoidance of certain areas.
## Context
This section is part of [CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO](arke:01KG8AJRVDF15YJG4FE8SFQY08), which covers themes of apprehension, discovery, cannibalism, and a mysterious feast. The chapter is contained within the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection and was extracted from the file `typee.txt`. This section follows the events described in "SECOND BATTLE WITH THE HAPPARS--SAVAGE SPECTACLE" and precedes the section titled "SUBSEQUENT DISCLOSURES."
## Contents
The narrative begins with the narrator being awakened by thundering sounds, similar to those heard on a previous occasion, indicating an imminent and potentially "horrible solemnity." The inhabitants of the house, except for Marheyo, his son, and Tinor, depart for the Taboo Groves. The narrator's attempts to visit the Ti are met with refusal and diversionary tactics by Kory-Kory. The narrator observes that many inhabitants are not participating in the "Hoolah Hoolah" (feast), and those asked explain that it is intended for the principal chiefs. This observation, along with prior knowledge from Nukuheva about cannibal banquets being exclusive to chiefs and priests, strengthens the narrator's suspicions about the true nature of the festival.
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- The next morning, shortly after sunrise, the same thundering sounds
which had awakened me from sleep on the second day of the Feast of
Calabashes, assured me that the savages were on the eve of celebrating
another, and, as I fully believed, a horrible solemnity.
All the inmates of the house, with the exception of Marheyo, his son,
and Tinor, after assuming their gala dresses, departed in the direction
of the Taboo Groves.
Although I did not anticipate a compliance with my request, still, with
a view of testing the truth of my suspicions, I proposed to Kory-Kory
that, according to our usual custom in the morning, we should take a
stroll to the Ti: he positively refused; and when I renewed the request,
he evinced his determination to prevent my going there; and, to divert
my mind from the subject, he offered to accompany me to the stream. We
accordingly went, and bathed. On our coming back to the house, I was
surprised to find that all its inmates had returned, and were lounging
upon the mats as usual, although the drums still sounded from the
groves.
The rest of the day I spent with Kory-Kory and Fayaway, wandering about
a part of the valley situated in an opposite direction from the Ti,
and whenever I so much as looked towards that building, although it was
hidden from view by intervening trees, and at the distance of more than
a mile, my attendant would exclaim, ‘Taboo, taboo!’
At the various houses where we stopped, I found many of the inhabitants
reclining at their ease, or pursuing some light occupation, as if
nothing unusual were going forward; but amongst them all I did not
perceive a single chief or warrior. When I asked several of the people
why they were not at the ‘Hoolah Hoolah’ (the feast), their uniformly
answered the question in a manner which implied that it was not intended
for them, but for Mehevi, Narmonee, Mow-Mow, Kolor, Womonoo, Kalow,
running over, in their desire to make me comprehend their meaning, the
names of all the principal chiefs.
Everything, in short, strengthened my suspicions with regard to the
nature of the festival they were now celebrating; and which amounted
almost to a certainty. While in Nukuheva I had frequently been informed
that the whole tribe were never present at these cannibal banquets, but
the chiefs and priests only; and everything I now observed agreed with
the account.
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