Omoo By Herman Melville





















































































































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Now, Jack, said I, before entering, hear every word, and tell me
what you can as the missionary goes on - Page 212
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"Now, Jack," Said I, Before Entering, "Hear Every Word, And Tell Me What You Can As The Missionary Goes On."

Jack's was not, perhaps, a critical version of the discourse; and at the time, I took no notes of what he said.

Nevertheless, I will here venture to give what I remember of it; and, as far as possible, in Jack's phraseology, so as to lose nothing by a double translation.

"Good friends, I glad to see you; and I very well like to have some talk with you to-day. Good friends, very bad times in Tahiti; it make me weep. Pomaree is gone - the island no more yours, but the Wee-wees' (French). Wicked priests here, too; and wicked idols in woman's clothes, and brass chains.

"Good friends, no you speak, or look at them - but I know you won't - they belong to a set of robbers - the wicked Wee-wees. Soon these bad men be made to go very quick. Beretanee ships of thunder come and away they go. But no more 'bout this now. I speak more by by.

"Good friends, many whale-ships here now; and many bad men come in 'em. No good sailors living - that you know very well. They come here, 'cause so bad they no keep 'em home.

"My good little girls, no run after sailors - no go where they go; they harm you. Where they come from, no good people talk to 'em - just like dogs. Here, they talk to Pomaree, and drink arva with great Poofai.

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