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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pakia, by Louis Becke
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+Title: Pakia
+       1901
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+Author: Louis Becke
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+Release Date: April 19, 2008 [EBook #25105]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PAKIA ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+PAKIA
+
+From "The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories"
+
+By Louis Becke
+
+C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
+
+1901
+
+Late one evening, when the native village was wrapped in slumber, Temana
+and I brought our sleeping-mats down to the boat-shed, and spread them
+upon the white, clinking sand. For here, out upon the open beach, we
+could feel a breath of the cooling sea-breeze, denied to the village
+houses by reason of the thick belt of palms which encompassed them on
+three sides. And then we were away from Malepa's baby, which was a good
+thing in itself.
+
+Temana, tall, smooth-limbed, and brown-skinned, was an excellent savage,
+and mine own good friend. He and his wife Malepa lived with me as a sort
+of foster-father and mother, though their united ages did not reach mine
+by a year or two.
+
+When Malepa's first baby was born, she and her youthful husband
+apologised sincerely for the offence against my comfort, and with many
+tears prepared to leave my service. But although I was agreeable to let
+Malepa and her little bundle of red-skinned wrinkles go, I could not
+part with Temana, so I bade her stay. She promised not to let the baby
+cry o' nights. Poor soul. She tried her best; but every night--or rather
+towards daylight--that terrible infant would raise its fearsome voice,
+and wail like a foghorn in mortal agony.
+
+We lit our pipes and lay back watching a moon of silvered steel poised
+'midships in a cloudless sky. Before us, unbroken in its wide expanse,
+save for two miniature islets near the eastern horn of the encircling
+reef, the glassy surface of the sleeping lagoon was beginning to quiver
+and throb to the muffled call of the outer ocean; for the tide was about
+to turn, and soon the brimming waters would sink inch by inch, and
+foot by foot from the hard, white sand, and with strange swirlings and
+bubblings and mighty eddyings go tearing through the narrow passage at
+eight knots an hour.
+
+Presently we heard a footfall upon the path which led to the boat-shed,
+and then an old man, naked but for his _titi_, or waist-girdle of grass,
+came out into the moonlight, and greeted us in a quavering, cracked
+voice.
+
+"_Aue!_ white man, my dear friend. So thou and Temana sit here in the
+moonlight!"
+
+"Even so, Pakfa, most excellent and good old man. Sit ye here beside us.
+Nay, not there, but here on mine own mat. So. Hast thy pipe with thee?"
+
+The ancient chuckled, and his wrinkled old face beamed as he untwisted a
+black and stumpy clay from his perforated and pendulous ear-lobe, which
+hung full down upon his shoulder, and, turning it upside down, tapped
+the palm of his left hand with it.
+
+"See!" he said, with another wheezing, half-whispered, half-strangled
+laugh, "see and hear the emptiness thereof! Nothing has been in its
+belly since cockcrow. And until now have I hungered for a smoke. Twice
+did I think to come to thee to-day and ask thee for _kaitalafu_ (credit)
+for five sticks of tobacco, but I said to my pipe, 'Nay, let us wait
+till night time.' For see, friend of my heart, there are ever greedy
+eyes which watch the coming and going of a poor old man; and had I
+gotten the good God-given tobacco from thee by daylight, friends would
+arise all around me as I passed through the village to my house. And
+then, lo, the five sticks would become but one!"
+
+"Pakia," I said in English, as I gave him a piece of tobacco and my
+knife, "you are a philosopher."
+
+He stopped suddenly, and placing one hand on my knee, looked wistfully
+into my face, as an inquiring child looks into the eyes of its mother.
+
+"Tell me, what is that?"
+
+I tried to find a synonym. "It means that you are a _tagata poto_--a
+wise man."
+
+The old, brown, bald head nodded, and the dark, merry eyes danced.
+
+"Aye, aye. Old I may be, and useless, but I have lived--I have lived.
+And though when I am dead my children and grandchildren will make a
+_tagi_ over me, I shall laugh, for I know that of one hundred tears,
+ninety and nine will be for the tobacco and the biscuit and the rice
+that with me will vanish!"
+
+He filled and lit his pipe, and then, raising one skinny, tattooed arm,
+pointed to the moon.
+
+"Hast such a moon as that in _papalagi_ land?"
+
+"Sometimes."
+
+"Aye, sometimes. But not always. No, not always. I know, I know. See, my
+friend; let us talk. I am full of talk to-night. You are a good man, and
+I, old Pakfa, have seen many things. Aye, many things and many lands.
+Aye, I, who am now old and toothless, and without oil in my knees and my
+elbows, can talk to you in two tongues besides my own.... Temana!"
+
+"_Oi_, good father Pakia."
+
+"Go away. The white man and I would talk."
+
+I placed my hand on the bald head of the ancient "Temana shall go to the
+house and bring us a bottle of grog. We will drink, and then you shall
+talk. I am one who would learn."
+
+The old man took my hand and patted it "Yes, let us talk to-night And
+let us drink grog. Grog is good to drink, sometimes. Sometimes it is
+bad to drink. It is bad to drink when the swift blood of youth is in our
+veins and a hot word calls to a sharp knife. Ah! I have seen it! Listen!
+Dost hear the rush of the lagoon waters through the passage? That is the
+quick, hot blood of youth, when it is stirred by grog and passion, and
+the soft touch of a woman's bosom. I know it I know it. But let Temana
+bring the bottle. I am not afraid to drink grog with _thee_, Ah, thou
+art not like some white men. Thou can'st drink, and give some to a poor
+old man, and if prying eyes and babbling tongues make mischief, and the
+missionary sends thee a _tusi_ (letter), and says 'This drinking of grog
+by Pakia is wrong,' thou sendest him a letter, saying, 'True, O teacher
+of the Gospel. This drinking of grog is very wrong. Wherefore do I send
+thee three dollars for the school, and ask thy mercy for old Pakfa, who
+was my guest.'"
+
+I slapped the ancient on his withered old back.
+
+"To-night ye shall drink as much grog as ye like, Pakfa. The missionary
+is a good man, and will not heed foolish talk."
+
+Pakfa shook his head. "Mareko is a Samoan. He thinketh much of himself
+because he hath been to Sini (Sydney) and stood before many white
+gentlemen and ladies, and told them about these islands. He is a vain
+fool, though a great man here in Nukufetau, but in Livapoola{*} he would
+be but as a pig. Livapoola is a very beautiful place, full of beautiful
+women. Ah! you laugh.... I am bent and old now, and my bones rattle
+under my skin like pebbles in a gourd. Then I was young and strong.
+Listen! I was a boat-steerer for three years on a London whaleship. I
+have fought in the wars of Chile and Peru. I can tell you many things,
+and you will understand.... I have seen many lands."
+
+Temana returned with a bottle of brandy, a gourd of water, and three
+cups.
+
+"Drink this, Pakfa, _taka ta-ina_{**} And talk. Your talk is good to
+hear. And I can understand."
+
+     * Liverpool.
+
+     **Lit, dear crony.
+
+He drank the liquor neat, and then washed it down with a cupful of
+water.
+
+"_Tapa!_ Ah, the good, sweet grog! And see, above us is the round moon,
+and here be we three. We three--two young and strong, one whose blood
+is getting cold. Ah, I will talk, and this boy, Temana, will learn that
+Pakia is no boasting old liar, but a true man." Then, suddenly dropping
+the Nukufetau dialect in which he had hitherto spoken, he said quietly
+in English--
+
+"I told you I could speak other languages beside my own. It is true, for
+I can talk English and Spanish." Then he went back into native: "But
+I am not a vain old man. These people here are fools. They think that
+because on Sundays they dress like white men and go to church five times
+in one day, and can read and write in Samoan, that they are as clever
+as white men. Bah! they are fools, fools! Where are the strong men of my
+youth? Where are the thousand and two hundred people who, when my father
+was a boy, lived upon the shores of this lagoon? They are gone, gone!"
+
+"True, Pakfa. They are gone."
+
+"Aye, they are perished like the dead leaves. And once when I said in
+the hearing of the _kaupule_ (head men) that in the days of the _po-uri_
+(heathen times) we were a great people and better off than we are now, I
+was beaten by my own grand-daughter, and fined ten dollars for speaking
+of such things, and made to work on the road for two months. But it is
+true--it is true. Where are the people now? They are dead, perished;
+there are now but three hundred left of the thousand and two hundred who
+lived in my father's time. And of those that are left, what are they?
+They are weak and eaten up with strange diseases. The men cannot hunt
+and fish as men hunted and fished in my father's time.
+
+"_Tah!_ they are women, and the women are men, for now the man must work
+for the woman, so that she can buy hats and boots and calicoes, and
+dress like a white woman. Give me more grog, for these things fill my
+belly with bitterness, and the grog is sweet. Ah! I shall tell you many
+things to-night."
+
+"Tell me of them, old man. See, the moon is warm to our skins. And as we
+drink, we shall eat. Temana here shall bring us food. And we shall talk
+till the sun shines over the tops of the trees on Motu Luga. I
+would learn of the old times before this island became _lotu_
+(Christianised)."
+
+"_Oi._ I will tell you. I am now but as an old, upturned canoe that is
+used for a sitting-place for children who play on the beach at night.
+And I am called a fool and a bad man, because I sometimes speak of the
+days that are dead. Temana, is Malepa thy wife virtuous?"
+
+"_Se kau iloa_" ("I do not know"), replied Temana, with a solemn face.
+
+"Ah, you cannot tell! Who can tell nowadays? But you will know when some
+day she is fined five dollars. In my time if a man doubted his wife, the
+club fell swiftly, or the spear was sped, and she was dead. And, because
+of this custom, wives in those days were careful. Now, they care not,
+and are fined five dollars many times. And the husband hath to pay the
+fine!" He laughed in his noiseless way, and then puffed at his pipe.
+"And if he cannot pay, then he and his wife, and the man who hath
+wronged him, work together on the roads, and eat and drink together
+as friends, and are not ashamed. And at night-time they sing hymns
+together!"
+
+"People must be punished when wrong is done, Pakia," I said lamely.
+
+"Bah! what is five dollars to a woman? Is it a high fence set with
+spears over which she cannot climb? If a man hath fifty dollars, does
+not his wife know it, and tell her lover (if she hath one) that he may
+meet her ten times! Give me more water in this grog, good white man with
+the brown skin like mine own!"
+
+The old fellow smoked his pipe in silence for a few minutes; then again
+he pointed to the moon, nodded and smiled.
+
+"_Tah!_ What a moon! Would that I were young again! See, in the days of
+my youth, on such a night as this, all the young men and women would be
+standing on the outer reef fishing for _malau_, which do but take a bait
+in the moonlight. _Now_, because to-morrow is the Sabbath day, no man
+must launch a canoe nor take a rod in his hand, lest he stay out beyond
+the hour of midnight, and his soul go to hell to burn in red fire for
+ever and ever. Bah!"
+
+"Never mind these things, Pakia. Tell me instead how came ye to serve
+in the wars of Chile and Peru, or of thy voyages in the _folau manu_
+(whaleship)."
+
+His eyes sparkled. "Ah, those were the days! Twice in one whaleship did
+I sail among the ice mountains of the far south, where the wind cuts
+like a knife and the sea is black to look at _Tapa!_ the cold, the
+cold, the cold which burneth the skin like iron at white heat! But I
+was strong; and we killed many whales. I, Pakfa, in one voyage struck
+thirteen! I was in the mate's boat.... Look at this now!" He held up his
+withered arm and peered at me. "It was a strong arm then; now it is but
+good to carry food to my mouth, or to hold a stick when I walk." The
+last words he uttered wistfully, and then sighed.
+
+"The mate of that ship was a good man. He taught me many things. Once,
+when we had left the cold seas and were among the islands of Tonga,
+he struck me in his rage because I threw the harpoon at a great sperm
+whale, and missed. That night I slipped over the side, and swam five
+miles to the land. Dost know the place called Lifuka? 'Twas there I
+landed. I lay in a thicket till daylight, then I arose and went into a
+house and asked for food. They gave me a yam and a piece of bonito, and
+as I ate men sprang on me from behind and tied me up hand and foot.
+Then I was carried back to the ship, and the captain gave those pigs of
+Tongans fifty dollars' worth of presents for bringing me back."
+
+"He thought well of thee, Pakia, to pay so much."
+
+He nodded.
+
+"Aye, for I was a good man, and worth much to him. And I was not
+flogged, for the mate was my friend always. All the voyage I was a lucky
+man, till we came to a place called Amboyna. Here the mate became sick
+and died, so I ran away. This time I was not caught, and when the ship
+was gone, I was given work by an Englishman. He was a rich merchant--not
+a poor trader like thee. He had a great house, many servants, and many
+native wives. Thou hast but two servants, and no wife. Why have ye no
+wife? It is not proper!"
+
+I expressed my deep sense of the insignificance of my domestic
+arrangements, and gave him another nip of brandy.
+
+"But, like him, thou hast a big heart. May you live long and become a
+_mau koloa_ (rich man). Ah! the grog, the good grog. I am young again
+to-night... And so for two years I lived at Amboyna. Then my master went
+to Peretania--to Livapoola--and took me with him. I was his servant, and
+he trusted me and made much of me.
+
+"Ah, Livapoola is a fine place. I was six months there, and wherever my
+master went I went with him. By and by he married, and we went to live
+at a place by the sea, in a fair white house of stone, with rich lands
+encompassing it. It was a foreign place, and we crossed the sea to go
+there. There were many women servants there, and one of them, named
+Lissi, began to smile at, and then to talk to me. I gave her many
+presents, for every week my master put a gold piece in my hand. One day
+I asked him to give me this girl for my wife. He laughed, and said I was
+foolish; that she was playing with me. I told her this. She swore to me
+that when I had fifty gold pieces she would be my wife, but that I must
+tell no one.... Ah! how a woman can fool a man! I was fooled. And every
+gold piece I got I gave to her to keep for me.
+
+"I have said that there were many servants. There was one young man,
+named Harry, whose work it was to take my master about in his _puha tia
+tia_ (carriage). Sometimes I would see him talking to the girl, and then
+looking at me. Then I began to watch; but she was too cunning. Always
+had she one word for me. Be patient; when we have the fifty gold pieces
+all shall be well. We shall go away from here, and get married.'
+
+"One night, as I lay upon the grass, smoking my pipe, I heard voices,
+the voices of the man Harry and Lissi. They were speaking of me. They
+spoke loudly, and I heard all that was said. 'He is but a simple fool,'
+she said, with a laugh; 'but in another month I shall have the last
+of his money, and then thou and I shall go away quietly. Faugh! the
+tattooed beast!' and I heard her laugh again, and the man laughed with
+her, but bade her be careful lest I should suspect."
+
+"She was a bad woman, Pakfa," I began, when he interrupted me with a
+quick gesture.
+
+"I crept back into the house and got a knife, and waited. The night was
+dark, but I could see. Presently they came along a narrow path which led
+to the house. Then I sprang out, and drove my knife twice into the man's
+chest. I had not time to kill the woman, for at the third blow the knife
+broke off at the hilt, and she fled in the darkness. I wanted to kill
+her because she had fooled me and taken my money--forty-six gold pieces.
+
+"There was a great wood which ran from my master's house down to the
+sea. I ran hard, very hard, till I came to the water. I could see ships
+in the harbour, quite near. I swam to one, and tried to creep on deck
+and hide, but heard the sailors talking. Presently I saw a vessel--a
+schooner--come sailing slowly past. There was a boat towing astern. I
+swam softly over, and got into the boat, and laid down till it was near
+the dawn. There was but little wind then, and the ship was not moving
+fast, so I got into the water again, and held on to the side of the
+boat, and began to cry out in a loud voice for help. As soon as they
+heard me the ship was brought to the wind, and I got back into the boat
+I was taken on board and given food and coffee, and told the captain
+that I had fallen overboard from another ship, and had been swimming
+for many hours. Only the captain could speak a little English--all the
+others were Italians. It was an Italian ship.
+
+"I was a long time on that ship. We went first to Rio, then down to the
+cold seas of the south, and then to Callao. But the captain never gave
+me any money, so I ran away. Why should a man work for naught? By and by
+an American whaleship came to Callao, and I went on board. I was put in
+the captain's boat. We sailed about a long time, but saw no whales, so
+when the ship came to Juan Fernandez I and a white sailor named Bob ran
+away, and hid in the woods till the ship was gone. Then we came out
+and went to the Governor, who set us to work to cut timber for the
+whaleships. Hast been to this island?"
+
+"No," I replied; "'tis a fair land, I have heard."
+
+"Aye, a fair, fair land, with green woods and sweet waters; and the note
+of the blue pigeon soundeth from dawn till dark, and the wild goats leap
+from crag to crag."
+
+"Didst stay there long, Pakia?"
+
+He rubbed his scanty white beard meditatively. "A year--two years--I
+cannot tell. Time goes on and on, and the young do not count the
+days. But there came a ship which wanted men, and I sailed away to Niu
+Silani.{*} That, too, is a fair land, and the men of the country have
+brown skins like us, and I soon learnt their tongue, which is akin to
+ours. I was a long time in that ship, for we kept about the coast, and
+the Maoris filled her with logs of _kauri_ wood, to take to Sydney. It
+was a good ship, for although we were paid no money every man had as
+much rum as he could drink and as much tobacco as he could smoke, and a
+young Maori girl for wife, who lived on board. Once the Maoris tried
+to take the ship as she lay at anchor, but we shot ten or more. Then we
+went to Sydney, where I was put in prison for many weeks."
+
+     * New Zealand
+
+"Why was that?"
+
+"I do not know. It was, I think, because of something the captain had
+done when he was in Sydney before; he had taken away two men and a
+woman who were prisoners of the Governor had seen them on board at Juan
+Fernandez; they went ashore there to live. But the Governor of Sydney
+was good to me. I was brought before him; he asked me many questions
+about these islands, and gave me some silver money. Then the next day I
+was put on board a ship, which took me to Tahiti. But see, dear friend,
+I cannot talk more to-night, though my tongue is loose and my belly warm
+with the good grog. But it is strong, very strong, and I fear to drink
+more, lest I disgust thee and lose thy friendship."
+
+"Nay, old man. Have no fear of that. And see, sleep here with us till
+the dawn. Temana shall bring thee a covering-mat."
+
+"Ah-h-h! Thou art good to old Pakfa. I shall stay till the dawn. It is
+good to have such a friend. To-morrow, if I weary thee not, I shall tell
+thee of how I returned to Chile and fought with the English ship-captain
+in the war, and of the woman he loved, and of the great fire which burnt
+two thousand women in a church."
+
+"_Tah!_" said Temana incredulously; "two thousand?"
+
+"Aye!" he snapped angrily, "dost think I be drunk, boy? Go and watch thy
+wife. How should an ignorant hog like thee know of such things?"
+
+"'Sh, 'sh, old man. Be not so quick to anger. Temana meant no harm. Here
+is thy covering-mat. Lie down and sleep."
+
+He smiled good-naturedly at us, and then, pulling the mat over him to
+shield his aged frame from the heavy morning dew, was soon asleep.
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