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| Character | Captain | |
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| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Persuasive, Descriptive, Speech, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 1846 | |
| Period | 19th Century | |
| Genre | Drama, Horror, Adventure | |
| Description | The captain warns his crew about the cannibals | |
| Location | Chapter 6 | |
Summary
The story is about two crew members of a whaling ship, "The Dolly", that decide to escape and hide on a tropical island. The two men are Tommo, the narrator, and Toby. The occasion to escape presents itself when the ship stops in the Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific. The story follows them as they try to survive on the island and then as they live with the Typee tribe, a tribe of cannibals. At first they integrate in their lifestyle and enjoy their time with the tribe but then gradually they start fearing for their life and decide to escape. Toby escapes first and Tommo doesn't know if he has been killed or has just escaped and grows paranoid. Eventually Tommo escapes with the help of an Australian whaling captain.
This monologue comes in chapter six. The ship has just arrived to the Marquesas Islands after six months at sea without seeing land. All the crew members are eager to go visit the island but, in this monologue, the captain warns them about the cannibals that inhabit the island.
This monologue comes in chapter six. The ship has just arrived to the Marquesas Islands after six months at sea without seeing land. All the crew members are eager to go visit the island but, in this monologue, the captain warns them about the cannibals that inhabit the island.
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| CAPTAIN Now, men, as we are just off a six months' cruise, and have got through most all our work in port here, I suppose you want to go ashore. Well, I mean to give your watch liberty today, so you may get ready as soon all you please, and go; but understand this, I am going to give you liberty because I suppose you would growl like so many old quarter gunners if I didn't; at the same time, if you'll take my advice, every mother's son of you will stay aboard and keep out of the way of the bloody cannibals altogether. Ten to one, men, if you go ashore, you will get into some infernal row, and that will be the end of you; for if those tattooed scoundrels get you a little ways back into their valleys, they'll nab you--that you may be certain of. Plenty of white men have gone ashore here and never been seen any more. There was the old Dido, she put in here about two years ago, and sent one watch off on liberty; they never were heard of again for a week--the natives swore they didn't know where they were--and only three of them ever got back to the ship again, and one with his face damaged for life, for the cursed heathens tattooed a broad patch clean across his figure-head. But it will be no use talking to you, for go you will, that I see plainly; so all I have to say is, that you need not blame me if the islanders make a meal of you. You may stand some chance of escaping them though, if you keep close about the French encampment,--and are back to the ship again before sunset. Keep that much in your mind, if you forget all the rest I've been saying to you. There, go forward: bear a hand and rig yourselves, and stand by for a call. At two bells the boat will be manned to take you off, and the Lord have mercy on you! |
