CHAPTER XV, 
madison’s island—typee war. 
The Taeehs, the Happahs, and Shouernes now made fresh 
complaints of the insults and aggressions of the Typees; one they 
had threatened to drive off the land; they had thrown stones at, 
and otherwise insulted individuals of the other tribes. The Taeehs 
and Happahs became very solicitous for war, and began to utter 
loud complaints that (as all the other tribes in the island had form¬ 
ed an alliance with me) they should be tolerated in their insolence 
and excused from supplying us as the rest had done. The more 
distant had now discontinued bringing in their supplies, and the 
other tribes had fallen off considerably, complaining that we had 
nearly exhausted all their stock, while the Typees were enjoying 
abundance. Lead us to the Typees, said they, and we shall be 
able to furnish you from their valley; you have long threatened 
them; their insults have been great; you have promised to protect 
us against them, and yet permit them to offer violence to us; and 
while you have rendered every other tribe tributary to you, you 
permit them to triumph with impunity. Our canoes are in readi¬ 
ness, our warriors impatient, and for less provocations, had you not 
been here, we should have been engaged in hostilities. Let us 
punish those Typees; bring them on the same terms to which we 
have agreed, and the whole island will then be at peace, a thing 
hitherto unknown, but the advantages of which we can readily 
conceive. These were the sentiments expressed by the chiefs 
and warriors of the Taeehs and Happahs. Tavee seemed de¬ 
termined to keep aloof from all quarrels; he was separated from 
us by the valley of the Typees, and they had it in their power to 
retort on him at pleasure; him and his people, concluded it, there¬ 
fore, the wisest to bear their insults and escape their stones in the 
best manner they could; not however without complaining occa- 
sionally to me on the subject; but they seemed determined to take 
no active part with us in the war. 
