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I saw men who wore only the figleaf of old Father Adam, and a people who lived from day to day, and whom the kindly earth sustained. They lived entirely from vegetables and from clear crystal streams and upon marvelous fish from the sea. Ah, how I longed to stay in Paga-Paga and be a natural man. But I must go on.
Again I saw Paga-Paga and the natural folk, who had no need to toil nor spin to live upon the fat of the land and be arrayed in the garments that were always up to the minute in style. Again I saw Honolulu, and, this time, stayed longer, and gave a performance. But, though we were there longer, it was not long enough to make me yield to that temptation to cuddle one of the brown lassies!
Work called me back to civilization and sorrow-fully I heeded its call and waved good-by to the natural folk of Paga-Paga! It was before I came to Paga-Paga that I wrote a little verse inspired by Honolulu. Perhaps, if I had gone first to Paga-Paga don't forget to put in the n and call it Panga-Panga when you say it to yourself! I might have written it of that happy island of the natural folk.
We sailed on from Honolulu until we came to Paga-Paga. So it is spelled, but all the natives call it Panga-Panga. Here I saw more and yet more of the strange and wonderful things I had thought upon so long back, in Dunoon. Here I saw mankind, for the first time, in a natural state.
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