Such a heap! All ruddy, ripe, and round--bursting with the good cheer of the tropical soil from which they sprang! "A land of orchards!" cried the doctor, in a rapture; and he snatched a morsel from a sort of fruit of which gentlemen of the sanguine temperament are remarkably fond; namely, the ripe cherry lips of Misa Day-Born, who stood looking on.
Marharvai allotted seats to his guests; and the meal began.

Thinking that his hospitality needed some acknowledgment, I rose, and pledged him in the vegetable wine of the cocoa-nut; merely repeating the ordinary salutation, "Yar onor boyoee." Sensible that some compliment, after the fashion of white men, was paid him, with a smile, and a courteous flourish of the hand, he bade me be seated.

No people, however refined, are more easy and graceful in their manners than the Imeeose.
The doctor, sitting next our host, now came under his special protection.

Laying before his guest one of the packages of fish, Marharvai opened it; and commended its contents to his particular regards.

But my comrade was one of those who, on convivial occasions, can always take care of themselves.