kanahau

Updated: May 13, 2025

"She is moi kanahau; as beautiful as the flowers of the hutu in my own beloved valley of Atuona. She is not of America. She is of Chile. She has paid many piasters for the coming here. She has paid forty piasters. She has been at home in Las Palmas, in the islands of small golden birds. "I will write you more in this paper. I seek your permission to marry Jeanette. She asks it, as I do.

Frederick O'Brien - White Shadows in the South Seas