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PRESTON. 
As an adverb: liana aloha ae la kela ia ia — 
that person treated him with friendship (love). 
Even the pronoun I can be used as a verb. A native, relat¬ 
ing his reply to the question as to who possessed a hat, said: 
Owau aba la no hoi au , owau, 
which translated literally is: 
I “ ied ” to him, I 
that is, 
I said to him I had. 
But then our language is sometimes given similar license. 
A schoolmaster once asked for an example of an interroga¬ 
tive pronoun used as a verb. No one was able to reply suc¬ 
cessfully except a mischievous urchin who had been thrashed 
for saying what, and his answer was, “ Give me that stick and 
Til what you. ” 
V.— Special Peculiarities. 
Volubility .—The language of Hawaii is extremely voluble. 
The comparative ease with which the same ideas may be re¬ 
peatedly expressed in a different form, and apparently as 
new material, is shown by the following incident which hap¬ 
pened during my visit. 
Owing to the mixed composition of the Hawaiian legisla¬ 
ture, it is necessary to employ continually two languages. 
All speeches in English are immediately translated into Ka¬ 
naka, and vice versa. On this occasion the interpreter inno¬ 
cently exposed a fundamental characteristic of the native 
tongue in replying to a member. An Hawaiian had spoken 
possibly ten minutes since his last words were translated. A 
friend, anxious that nothing of importance should be lost, 
asked why the interpreter did not perform his duty and give 
the English-speaking members the benefit of the words just 
uttered. The reply was: “ He has said nothing fresh yet.” 
