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The long name of Sandwich-Islanders is dropped, and they are called by the whites, all over the Pacific Ocean, ``Kanakas, from a word in their own language, signifying, I believe, man, human being, which they apply to themselves, and to all South-Sea-Islanders, in distinction from whites, whom they call ``Haole. This name, ``Kanaka, they answer to, both collectively and individually.
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