pi-pi

In the centre of the mantel was a stuffed bird-of-paradise, while about the room were scattered gorgeous shells from the southern seas, delicate sprays of coral sprouting from barnacled pi-pi shells and cased in glass, assegais from South Africa, stone axes from New Guinea, huge

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Just beyond the pi-pi, and disposed in a triangle before the entrance of the house, were three magnificent bread-fruit trees.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

Like all the other edifices of any note, it was raised upon a small pi-pi of stones, which, being of unusual height, was a conspicuous object from a distance.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

Sometimes in the cool of the evening my devoted servitor would lead me out upon the pi-pi in front of the house, and seating me near its edge, protect my body from the annoyance of the insects which occasionally hovered in the air, by wrapping me round with a large roll of tappa.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

A few yards from the pi-pi was a large shed built of cocoanut boughs, where the process of preparing the 'poee-poee' was carried on, and all culinary operations attended to.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

I descended from the pi-pi, and attended by Kory-Kory, who on this occasion did not show his usual commiseration for my lameness, but seemed only anxious to hurry me on, walked away from the place.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

I would get up boldly in the course of the night, and drawing the slide, issue from the house, and pretend that my object was merely to procure a drink from the calabash, which always stood without the dwelling on the corner of the pi-pi.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

In passing along the piazza, previously to descending from the pi-pi, I observed a curiously carved vessel of wood, of considerable size, with a cover placed over it, of the same material, and which resembled in shape a small canoe.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

I stood with Kory-Kory leaning against the railing of the pi-pi awaiting their advance, when

Typee Herman Melville 1855

Just before leaping from the pi-pi he clasped my hand, and looking significantly at me, exclaimed, 'Now you see -- you do what I tell you -- ah! then you do good; -- you no do so -- ah! then you die.'

Typee Herman Melville 1855