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The men, like those in the canoes, wore the taro, but the women were dressed with the loose blue gowns I have described, and with wreaths of flowers round their heads. We ran in among the masses of lava which lined the shore, and were kindly helped by the people to land. We observed that they were all especially grave, for nowhere are more merry creatures found than the native women.
Forty square feet of taro, it is estimated, will support a person for a year, and a square mile of taro will feed over 15,000 Hawaiians. By-the-way, you will hear the natives say kalo when they speak of taro; and by this and other words in common use you will presently learn of a curious obliquity in their hearing.
Yet I did not attempt to drink, for these were chiefs and I was a common man. "'No, said Eoppo, commanding the chiefs to throw overboard the coffin. 'There are not two moepuus, therefore there shall be none. "'Slay the one, the chiefs cried. "But Eoppo shook his head, and said: 'We cannot send Kahekili on his way with only the tops of the taro.
Then he got it out again without meaning to, and punched himself in the nose with it such a funny little nose, no bigger than a small button! Then he opened his mouth wide and yawned. "See how sleepy the little mouse is," said the Mother. "Run out and play now, my children, and let him rest." Taro and Take left the room softly and went out on the porch.
"If my father was to conquer another tribe who had offended him, and, instead of putting them to death, was to pardon them all, and to give them a country rich in bread-fruit trees and taro grounds, they would be bound to love and serve Him, and give Him the best produce of their lands." "Exactly," said my mother.
It produced practically no edible fruit, excepting a few berries, and one or two nuts, the outer rind of which was eatable. There were no useful roots such as the potato, the turnip, or the yam, or the taro. In birds alone was the country well supplied, and they were more beautiful of plumage than useful as food.
Late at night we arrived at home once more. Some days later I left Talamacco for Wora, near Cape Cumberland, a small station of Mr. D.'s, Mr. F.'s neighbour. What struck me most there were the wide taro fields, artificially irrigated.
Without flocks and herds or domestic fowls, theirs was the constant toil of the cultivator. Their taro and their kumara fields had to be dug, and dug thoroughly with wooden spades. Long-handled and pointed at the end, these implements resembled stilts with a cross-bar about eighteen inches from the ground on which the digger's foot rested. Two men worked them together.
She put the blistered papers with the staggery letters away in the cupboard to keep. "I will show them to Father when he comes home," she said. I wish there was room in this book to tell you about all the good times that Taro and Take have, but they have so many holidays and such good times on every one of them that it would take two books to tell about it all.
He opened the first and took out a roll neatly wrapped and tied with a silk string. It was this picture of a Japanese lady who has run out quickly to take her washing off the line because of a shower of rain. He held it up high so the Twins could see it. "Ho, ho," laughed Taro. "The lady has lost her clog, she is in such a hurry!"
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