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Updated: June 24, 2025
He was a brave boy, and being of a very poor family, had clambered up the steep side of the wall of rock, so that he might find the kanapu eggs in the clefts and holes, and sell them to people in exchange for food for his mother and sisters. As he clung to the jagged face of the rock, he saw my mother falling through the air, and in an instant he sprang after her.
"Ay, Roka," said the trader, "we be near the land, for the kanapu never wandereth far from the shore." Low as he spoke, Tessa heard him, for she slumbered but lightly. She rose and sat up, deftly winding her loosened hair about her head. "Is it land, Harvey?" "Land is near, Tessa. We can hear the kanapu calling to each other."
"Listen," whispered the native, "dost hear the call of the kanapu? There be many of them about us in the air; so this land of Pikirami must be near."
Harvey nodded and listened, and though his ear was not so quick as that of the sailor, he soon caught the low, hoarse notes of the kanapu, a large bird of the booby species, which among the islands of the North-West Pacific fishes at night-time and sleeps most of the day; its principal food being flying-fish and atulti or young bonito, which, always swimming on the surface, fall an easy prey to the keen-eyed, sharp, blue-beaked bird.
It so happened that half-way down the cliff, which is twelve fathoms high, there was a boy named Manaia. He was collecting the eggs of the sea-bird called Kanapu and his canoe was anchored just in front of the base of the cliff.
We're near the land; we can hear some kanapu about us, so we can't be more than five or six miles away." "The land is there," said Roka to Harvey, pointing to a dark shadow abeam of the boat, "and we could see it but for the rain-clouds which hide it from us."
Some of these were what whalemen call 'shoal birds, 'wide-awakes, 'molly-hawks, 'whale birds' and 'mutton birds. Among them were some hundreds of frigate birds, the katafa of the Ellice Islanders, and a few magnificently plum-aged fishers, called kanapu by the natives of Equatorial Polynesia.
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