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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: spying the inaccuracy. For him, for Mr. Tati Salmon,
hereditary high chief of the Tevas, the note is solely
written: a small attention from a clansman to his chief.
Note 12, "LET THE PIGS BE TAPU." It is impossible to explain
TAPU in a note; we have it as an English word, taboo.
Suffice it, that a thing which was TAPU must not be touched,
nor a place that was TAPU visited.
Note 13, "FISH, THE FOOD OF DESIRE." There is a special word
in the Tahitian language to signify HUNGERING AFTER FISH. I
may remark that here is one of my chief difficulties about
the whole story. How did king, commons, women, and all come
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