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ers and flowers of brilliant colors. I took it for granted 

 that I was looking on those ideals of female loveliness por- 

 trayed in the descriptions of early voyagers. Knowing that 

 a wise law forbade women to visit ships at anchor in any of 

 the Hawaiian ports, I beckoned them to come alongside, as 

 I meant to drop them a fish-hook, as an offering to their 

 graces. I was simply prompted by an innate love of the 

 beautiful, for " I love all that is lovely, love all that I can." 

 The canoe shot alongside, when, dropping their tapa man- 

 tles, to my intense disgust three splendidly formed young 

 fellows, with the agility of monkeys, scrambled up the side 

 and stood beside me. All of them exhibited muscles that 

 might have wrung my neck on provocation ; and I would 

 have kicked them, had it not been for my Welsh veneration 

 for three as against one. So I reluctantly gave them the 

 three hooks I had exhibited. 



About an hour before sundown, when the deck must be 

 cleared of strangers, a giant, one-eyed Kanaka, laden with 

 fruit, approached me, and said something in Hawaiian, his 

 single eye beaming with jolly good- will meanwhile. Wahe- 

 leheli said, in explanation, " He verry much good Kanaka ; 

 he hycamee friend you ; you hycamee friend him ; he give 

 name you ; you give name him ; you takee pig, fruit, house, 

 eberry ting ; he takee shirt, white shirt. All good ; old way 



here." Mr. F told me that a friend would be of use on 



shore, and that Waheleheli had interpreted truly the custom 

 implying exchange of names and possessions for the time 

 being. The white man's name, and a white shirt or two, in 

 brief, would be accepted as a full equivalent for the use of 

 all the Kanaka's possessions during the few days I should 

 have ashore. I struck hands with Kakilolo on this bargain. 

 I became Kakilolo, and he Davikhee ; he gave me all his 

 fruits, and I gave him my white shirt. He had to place at my 

 sole disposal all his worldly possessions, personal service in* 



