aikane

Updated: May 11, 2025

We discharged our hides, horns, and tallow, and were ready to sail again on the following Sunday. I went ashore to my old quarters, and found the gang at the hide-house going on in the even tenor of their way, and spent an hour or two, after dark, at the oven, taking a whiff with my old Kanaka friends, who really seemed glad to see me again, and saluted me as the Aikane of the Kanakas.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

On one of these expeditions, we saw a battle between two Sandwich-Islanders and a shark. ``Johnny'' had been playing about our boat for some time, driving away the fish, and showing his teeth at our bait, when we missed him, and in a few minutes heard a great shouting between two Kanakas who were fishing on the rock opposite to us: ``E hana hana make i ka ia nui! ``E pii mai Aikane! &c., &c.; and saw them pulling away on a stout line, and ``Johnny Shark'' floundering at the other end.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

Was in San Francisco three months ago and saw the Alert there collecting hides. Also saw `Hope' the Kanaka mentioned in my `Two Years. Hope desired his Aikane to me Remembered me well. Hale said his face lighted up as soon as my name was mentioned to him.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

When I came into the oven he looked at me, held out his hand, and said, in a low voice, but with a delightful smile, "Aloha, Aikane! Aloha nui!"

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

When I came into the oven he looked at me, held out his hand, and said, in a low voice, but with a delightful smile, ``Aloha, Aikane!

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast