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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 hyoamee 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- 



