MARK TWAIN

Heated term but there arc few flics in my room or
hotel.
Mosquitoes. 2 kinds—day and night.

Have to take out a license (#10) to have the Hula
Hula dance performed, and then if the girls dress for it in
the usual manner—that is, with no clothing worth men-
tioning—it must be conducted in strict privacy.

A larkspur planted alongside any shrub here will pro-
tect the same from the prevailing blight.

The King ought to be grateful to the missionaries be-
cause during all the years that the English and French
were making trouble and creating complications and try-
ing to get an excuse to seize the islands the wise councils
of these men saved Kamchamchas II, III, and perhaps
V from making any false step.

Mrs. McFarlane thought I was drunk because I talked
so long.

No word to express gratitude—can but lamely express
virtue of any kind—prolific in epithets to express every
degree of and shade of vice and crime. No word to ex-
press farewell or good-bye.
Wail for joy and for sorrow with the same noise.
Wash clothes well, but beat them all to pieces.
Takes one a good while to cramp and crowd and screw
and diminish himself down to a conception of the small-
ness of this island—this kingdom. One rides 6 or 8 miles
in any direction and here is the ocean bursting upon his
view—seems as if he never will get the damned island
trimmed down as small as it really is.

Soft voice of native girls—liquid, free, joyous laughter.
Kanakas will have horses and saddles and the women
will fornicate—two strong characteristics of this people.

He seems to have been attacked by the general
indolence of the islands, a condition which they
call there the "boo-hoo" fever. He defines it:
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