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EPISODE · Mar 5, 2026 · 18 MIN

Omoo Chapter Chapters 49-50

from The Herman Melville Library · host Herman Melville

In which an unflattering survey is made of the Tahitians’ social condition, revealing the blight of idleness and foreign maladies that have eroded their industriousness and numbers, casting a sombre view upon their prospects. Thereafter, attention returns to the company aboard the Julia, where a sudden and peculiar indisposition of the long and taciturn doctor unfolds with some comic and humanising detail.

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Omoo Chapter Chapters 49-50

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In which an unflattering survey is made of the Tahitians’ social condition, revealing the blight of idleness and foreign maladies that have eroded their industriousness and numbers, casting a sombre view upon their prospects. Thereafter, attention...

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