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We both thought for a moment that it was our persecutor of the morning who had followed us as he had threatened, but it proved to be a native from the head of the valley who wanted to see Kekoa. Miss P directed him to the grass hut where our host slept, and he went away, and we were not disturbed again. Next morning we had breakfast like the supper, and asked for our horses.
Kekoa and his wife begged us to stay longer, but we could not, and parted from them with much regret. We afterward sent them some large photographs of scenes in Honolulu, and received an affectionate message from them in return.
After supper other natives came in, and Miss P conversed with them in Hawaiian. Being tired and stiff from my long ride, I went into the next room and lay down on the bed. Mrs. Kekoa came in presently and began to lomi-lomi me.
Along the shores of the bay some women were wading, their dresses held above their knees, picking shellfish and green sea-moss off the rocks for supper. We rode up to the cottage of Kekoa, a native minister who had studied under Miss P 's father.
Kekoa and his wife slept in a grass hut several rods farther up the valley, and Miss P and I had the house to ourselves. In the middle of the night we were awakened by the sound of a man talking in through the open window of our room.
Altogether, it was much above the common native houses, and was evidently not used every day, but kept for the reception of guests travelling ministers and the like. When Kekoa came he welcomed us warmly on account of the attachment he had for Miss P 's father, and told us to consider the house ours as long as it pleased us to stay.
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