Identifier: logofkaalokai00walk (find matches)
Title: Log of the Kaalokai.
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, F.d Kaalokai (Schooner)
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Publisher: Honolulu, HI. : The Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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stocked cellar. After a bath they feltready for dinner, which was immediatelyserved. Their conversation varied consider-ably, but at last the question of faith wastouched on. My friend averred there was asmuch solid faith to be found in his district ascould be found anywhere, and proved it in thefollowing manner: He invited them to a crocodile shootingmatch after dinner, but as no crocodile putin an appearance, they returned to the bunga-low and spent the balance of the eveningdrinking brandy pawnee, and smoking choiceBurmese cigars. Our surveyor next morning had a quiet con-versation with the proprietor of the hotel, whostated that he would see to it that his guestsshould have some sport. You see, said he,crocodile like small sick child; sick childmake bobbery, crocodile quick come; speakyour friends; give two rupee, poor motherbring sick baby quick. If there is anything that an AmericanizedAnglo-Saxon is celebrated for, it is his disin-terested benevolence; and the tourists being 50
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Americans were no exception to the rule. Onthe proposition being made to them, they bothstated that the poor mother or mothers couldhave not only two rupees, but five! The good host erected a platform aboutseven feet high at a sixty foot range from thewater, for the convenience of the shootingparty. When evening came they were verymuch surprised at the nuimber of sick babiesthere were on hand; in fact, it looked as if aterrible epidemic had struck the district. The party mounted the platform, rifles inhand. Three pieces of animated bait wereplaced about twenty feet from the water. Nosooner did the trio commence to sing, thanthere was a violent commotion in the river.Four huge crocodiles soon appeared, wendingtheir way rapidly towards the bait. Bang!bang! bang! went the rifles. One huge reptilerolled over; the shot that told came from thesurveyor. The other crocodiles soon each hadan immortal soul in his inside, and scamperedaway to the river, under a heavy fire. A coupleof hours were

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