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  1.  On the Makaloa Mat / London, Jack, 1876-1916
    The Kanaka Surf ON THE MAKALOA MAT Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well ... . And there's Prince Lilolilo. Dashes by me with half a hundred mounted, able-bodied, roystering kanakas in his train  details...
  2.  Island Nights' Entertainments / Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
    -room; and when he chose he could blaspheme worse than a Yankee boatswain, and talk smart to sicken a Kanaka. The way ... . "I never saw such fools of Kanakas as your people here," I said once to Uma, glancing  details...
  3.  Roughing It, Part 7. / Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
    description from the Kanakas. (i.e. natives.) Any horse you hire, even though it be from a white man ... been leading a hard life. If the Kanakas who have been caring for him (inveterate riders they are  details...
  4.  The White Waterfall / Dwyer, James Francis
    threw him off his feet. "Confound it!" he cried. "What's the matter with you?" "One of the Kanakas ... his imitation more real by opening his mouth. The man in the next bunk, a muscular Kanaka, had his face turned  details...
  5.  The Ebb-Tide /
    by a plank. On the forward deck, under a spot of awning, five Kanakas who made up the crew, were squatted ... of the Kanaka seamen like a preconcerted signal; with one accord they looked up from their meal and crowded  details...
  6.  Following the Equator / Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
    Islands--King Liholiho and His Royal Equipment--The Tabu--The Population of the Island--A Kanaka Diver ... . Missionaries Obstruct Business--The Sugar Planter and the Kanaka--The Planter's View--Civilizing the Kanaka  details...
  7.  Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu / Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
    so easily do) into something of the ways and habits of thought of a Kanaka; but he had the wit to recognise ... with the Kanakas, but yet destitute of real authority, so that his boys laughed at him and he must carry  details...
  8.  Roughing It, Part 8. / Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
    and wonder at. There were doubtless plenty of Kanaka sentinels on guard hereabouts at that time ... , but the Kanakas showed the sounder judgment. Shortly we came in sight of that spot whose history is so familiar  details...
  9.  The City That Was; a requiem of old San Francisco / Irwin, Will (William Henry), 1873-1948
    Gilbert Islanders, almost indistinguishable from negroes; lighter Kanakas from Hawaii or Samoa; Lascars ... out in the Eye Wink Dance Hall. The trouble was started by a sailor known as Kanaka Pete, who lived  details...
  10.  South Sea Tales / London, Jack, 1876-1916
    of the schooner which had brought him. When the schooner departed, he called the kanakas down to the beach ... kanakas he threw, but was promptly thrown by a fourth, who, instead of receiving the tobacco, got a bullet  details...

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