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They cracked the calabashes; soured the "poee;" induced the colic; begat the spleen; and almost rent people in twain with stitches in the side.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

When old Marheyo received his share of the spoils, immediate preparations were made for a midnight banquet; calabashes of poee-poee were filled to the brim; green bread-fruit were roasted; and a huge cake of 'amar' was cut up with a sliver of bamboo and laid out on an immense banana-leaf.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

In a few moments a boy entered with a wooden trencher of poee-poee; and in regaling myself with its contents I was obliged again to submit to the officious intervention of my indefatigable servitor.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

My zealous body-servant brought from the house a calabash of poee-poee, half a dozen young cocoanuts -- stripped of their husks -- three pipes, as many yams, and me on his back a part of the way.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

Hogs and poee-poee were baking in numerous ovens, which, heaped up with fresh earth into slight elevations, looked like so many ant-hills.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

Here he received another welcome from his Nukuheva wives, and after some refreshments in the shape of cocoanut milk and poee-poee, they entered a canoe (the Typee of course going along) and paddled off to a whaleship which was anchored near the shore.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

The duplication of words, as 'lumee lumee', 'poee poee',

Typee Herman Melville 1855

-- All along the piazza of the Ti were arranged elaborately carved canoe-shaped vessels, some twenty feet in length, tied with newly made poee-poee, and sheltered from the sun by the broad leaves of the banana.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

Thus I ate poee-poee as they did; I walked about in a garb striking for its simplicity; and I reposed on a community of couches; besides doing many other things in conformity with their peculiar habits; but the farthest

Typee Herman Melville 1855

If she did not understand the art of making jellies, jams, custard, tea-cakes, and such like trashy affairs, she was profoundly skilled in the mysteries of preparing 'amar', 'poee-poee', and 'kokoo', with other substantial matters.

Typee Herman Melville 1855