Typee Courage Quotes

[...] the deathlike coldness of the place, the appalling darkness and the dismal sense of our forlorn condition, almost unmanned me. (7.29)

Yes, Shmoopers, even a sailor can be afraid of the dark.

I for one prefer to chance a bold descent into the valley, and risk the consequences. (8.30)

Look at that adjective: he prefers a "bold descent," not just any plain descent will do. What do you make of that?

But we struggled against them manfully, well knowing our only hope lay in advancing. (9.2)

In Typee and many other places, gendered adjectives like "manfully" say that it's part of a man's job to be tough.