My Ty (1810)

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ROUND THE WORLD
IN THE YEARS 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804:
IN WHICH THE AUTHOR VISITED THE PRINCIPAL ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN,
AND THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS OF PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND
by John Turnbull
Philadelphia: Benjamin and Thomas Kite
1810

   This is another book on the American Antiquarian Society's micro-cards; these are just awful to read.

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   When these ceremonies were gone through, Pomarie began to examine every object around him, often expressing his admiration with loud and energetic expressions of _my ty, my ty_ (very good, very good.)
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   This ava or yava is a root of a hot intoxicating quality, which soon benumbs the senses....
Pg. 164:
   The tarra, yam, and sweet potatoe, are productions common to all the islands.... (...)
   The mountain plantain (Pg. 165--ed.) is of the greatest service to the natives; for with these, some cocoa-nut water, and a little mahie (a little sour paste made of the bread-fruit when ripe) well beat up together, they make a dish called pop poye, eaten by all ranks from the king to the lowest of inhabitants.  The same food is universally used in Otaheite.
(Pop poye=poi?  OED has that about ten years later--ed.)
Pg. 197:
   Not one corner nor crevice of the house but was filled with natives; My tye, My tye, Good, Very good, resounded from every part.
Pg. 281:
   Popoy is a dish in general use amongst these people; it is a mixture of the bread-fruit and mahie, well beat up together, and mixed with the juice of the cocoa-nut; the mountain plantain is sometimes added; it nearly resembles our frumentary.
Pg. 282:
   The Oura or bread-fruit, the bread of all the Society Islands, grows on a tree not unlike a middle-size oak; the leaves both in colour and substance much resemble a fig-leaf, but are much larger and have scolloped edges.