I stumbled upon one curious character in the Island of Mani.

He became a sore annoyance to me in the course of time.

My first glimpse of him was in a sort of public room in the town of Lahaina.

He occupied a chair at the opposite side of the apartment, and sat eyeing our party with interest for some minutes, and listening as critically to what we were saying as if he fancied we were talking to him and expecting him to reply.

I thought it very sociable in a stranger.