Telling the lies download6/14/2023 The passage in the epigraph announces it, and his first two books develop it. (Chapter 2,Typee)1 The "war or peace" theme that runs through Melville's work makes an immediate appearance. The whole group of islands had just been taken possession of by Rear-Admiral Du Petit Thouars, in the name of the invincible French nation. To my eye nothing could be more out ofkeeping than the presence of these vessels but we soon learnt what brought them there. There they were, floating in that lovely bay, the green eminences of the shore looking down so tranquilly upon them, as if rebuking the sternness of their aspect. No description can do justice to its beauty but that beauty was lost to me then, and I saw nothing but the tri-colored flag of France trailing over the stern of six vessels, whose black hulls and bristling broadsides proclaimed their warlike character. 95 ADLER JOYCE SPARER ADLER MELVILLE'S TYPEE AND OMOO: OF "CIVILIZED" WAR ON "SAVAGE" PEACE Towards noon we drew abreast the entrance to the harbor, and at last we slowly swept by the intervening promontory, and entered the bay of Nukuheva.
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