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Two old crones seized on my ankles, murmuring lomi, lomi, and subjected them to the native process of shampooing. They had unrestrained curiosity as to the beginning and end of my journey. I said "Waimea, Hamakua," when they all chorused, "Maikai;" for a ride of forty miles was not bad for a wahine haole.
A majestic wahine with small, bare feet, a grand, swinging, deliberate gait, hibiscus blossoms in her flowing hair, and a le of yellow flowers falling over her holuku, marching through these streets, has a tragic grandeur of appearance, which makes the diminutive, fair- skinned haole, tottering along hesitatingly in high-heeled shoes, look grotesque by comparison.
Long ago many, many years before the haole came to plant his sugar cane in their deep, rich soil these hills were the homes of several beautiful goddesses. The makai and largest hill, called Halai, was the home of Hina Keahi, eldest daughter of the goddess Hina, who lived at Waianuenue the cave behind Rainbow Falls in the Wailuku River and sister of Maui the demi-god.
She said, in reply to his demands, that the wahine haole had not promised to take his horse; that she would not pay him for his time and trouble in bringing over the horse that morning and riding after us; that he might ride all the way to Honolulu with us or go to law about the matter, both of which he threatened.
The long name of Sandwich-Islanders is dropped, and they are called by the whites, all over the Pacific Ocean, ``Kanakas, from a word in their own language, signifying, I believe, man, human being, which they apply to themselves, and to all South-Sea-Islanders, in distinction from whites, whom they call ``Haole. This name, ``Kanaka, they answer to, both collectively and individually.
They cropped at the grass without nervousness, perhaps more from habit than hunger. They did not seem to be obtaining much sustenance; clearly they found it hard to bite off mouthfuls of forage. Rather, they chewed sidewise, like a cat, at the tough rubbery tendrils. "I tank I want to go home anyways I tank I want to get out of dis haole," remarked Gootes.
Tai Fu accented. "Mrs. Chang Lucy was ever that," Ah Kim murmured like the dutiful son he was. "I speak of Li Faa," his mother corrected with stick emphasis. "She is only half Chinese, as you know. Her mother was a shameless kanaka. She wears skirts like the degraded haole women also corsets, as I have seen for myself. Where are her children? Yet has she buried two husbands."
When the haole set foot on shore there, he counted four hundred thousand. Time was when so great was the congestion in these islands, as in the Marquesas and Hawaii, that the priests and chiefs instituted devices for checking it. Infanticide seemed the easiest way to prevent hurtful increase. Stringent rules were made against large families.
And when it was afloat all the chiefs were athirst, not being used to such toil; and I was told to climb the palms beside the canoe-sheds and throw down drink-coconuts. They drank and were refreshed, but me they refused to let drink. "Then they bore Kahekili from his house to the canoe in a haole coffin, oiled and varnished and new.
Me no! None of them liked to have anything said about Captain Cook, for the sailors all believe that he was eaten, and that they cannot endure to be taunted with. ``New Zealand Kanaka eatee white man; Sandwich Island Kanaka, no. Sandwich Island Kanaka ua like pu na haole, all 'e same a' you! Mr.
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