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But I liked him. I had no objection to the Anaconda either, except that she went to the bottom of the Pacific without any argument about that, and left me stranded on a little island there along with Kreps, and a hen named Veronica, and a Kanaka named Kamelillo. There was a fourth that got stranded there too.
What if she were twice widowed, the daughter of a kanaka mother, the wearer of white-devil skirts and corsets and high-heeled slippers! He wanted her. It seemed it was written that she should be joint ancestor with him of the line that would continue the ownership and management through the generations, of Ah Kim Company, General Merchandise.
This is the wizard, or medicine man, or voodoo worker, who does by prayer and spell what his employers would do with a club if it were not for the awkward institution of the law. When a Kanaka has endured an injury he hires a kahuna to pray his enemy to death.
Her satisfaction was suddenly checked, however, by the sight of the Kanaka girls joining the procession and making as though to follow. "No, they mustn't come!" she cried out jealously. "Please, Mr. Mathison, tell them they mustn't come! This is to be for men only!" "Turn them back!" thundered Bob. "Don't yer 'ear the little lady's horders? Scamper, ye jades!"
There was no fog nor mist, nor hint of fog or mist, yet the dimness of distance produced the impression. There were no defined clouds, yet so thickly were the heavens covered by a messy cloud-pall that the sun failed to shine through. "Ready about!" Captain Warfield ordered with slow sharpness. The brown, breech-clouted Kanaka sailors moved languidly but quickly to head-sheets and boom-tackles.
The result is, that no horse has a chance to eat, drink, rest, recuperate, or look well or feel well, and so strangers go about the Islands mounted as I was to-day. In hiring a horse from a Kanaka, you must have all your eyes about you, because you can rest satisfied that you are dealing with a shrewd unprincipled rascal.
Why does not any man do this that I do? Any man of all the men who work for me, feed out of my hand, and let me do their thinking for them me, who work harder than any of them, who eats no more than any of them, and who can sleep on no more than one lauhala mat at a time like any of them?" "I am out of the cloud, Kanaka Oolea," said Kumuhana, with a visible brightening of countenance.
But when she reached the door of her home, she looked back, and knew in her heart that she already loved the king and did not want him to go away. It did not take long for the matter of the marriage to be settled. For Mana Kanaka, sad though he was to lose his dear only child, was glad that she should be a queen, and have some one to take care of her when he was gone.
He boarded with the Kanaka lady at Hello till his money give out, and then he married her to save board. He wouldn't talk about his married life just shivered instead. "'But w'at about this good thing you was mentioning, Mr. Rosebury? asks Cap'n George, polite, but staring hard at the bag. Jule and the cook was in the cabin likewise.
Our porter helped to put them on, but they drove the cart themselves. The porter thinks they went down town. It was about one." "Still in time for the City of Pekin," observed Jim. "How many of them were here?" I inquired. "Three, sir, and the Kanaka," replied the clerk. "I can't somehow find out about the third, but he's gone too." "Mr. Goddedaal, the mate, wasn't here then?" I asked. "No, Mr.
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