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raggedMaliaawaybythehair.Someofthehaolesailors
grumbled;buttheywerefewinthelandinthosedaysandthekanakas
many.AndneverwasMaliaseenofmenagain.Konukalanialoneknew
themannerofherslayingandhenevertold.Andinafteryearswhat
common men like Anapuni and me should dare to question him?
NowshehadtoldAnapunibeforeshewasdraggedaway.But
Anapuni'sheartwasblack.Mehedidnottell.Worthyhewasofthe
killingIhadintendedforhim.Therewasagiantharpoonerinthecircle
whosesingingwaslikethebellowingofbulls;andgazingonhimin
amazementwhileheroaredsomesongoftheseawhennextIlooked
acrossthecircletoAnapuniAnapuniwasgone.Hehadfledtothehigh
mountainswherehecouldhidewiththebird-catchersaweekofmoons.
This I learned afterward.
I?Isatonashamedofmydesireofwomanthathadnotbeenso
strongasmyslave-obediencetoachief.AndIdrownedmyshamein
largedrinksofrumandwhiskytilltheworldwentroundandroundin-
sidemyheadandoutandtheSouthernCrossdancedahulainthesky
andtheKoolauMountainsbowedtheirloftysummitstoWaikikiandthe
surfofWaikikikissedthemontheirbrows.Andthegiantharpoonerwas
stillroaringhisthelastsoundsinmyearasIfellbackonthelauhala
matand was to all things for the time as one dead.
WhenIawokewasatthefaintfirstbeginningofdawn.Iwasbeing
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