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Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

CHAPTER XIII
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Flies inspire the same disgust, and the women still give their breasts to dogs, pigs, and young kids.
(12.) [This operation is certainly still practiced extensively, if not universally; and the ancient form of _kakiomaka_, or slitting the prepuce, has given way, generally, to the _okipoepoe_, or the complete removal of the foreskin.

The operation in a case that came under my notice on the island of Oahu was performed with a bamboo, and attended with a feast and rejoicings; the subject was about nine years old.] (13.) The islanders, who admire and honor great eaters, have generally stomachs of a prodigious capacity.

Here is an example: To compensate my servants, some seven in number, for the hardships I had made them endure on Mauna Kea, I presented them with an ox that weighed five hundred pounds uncooked.

They killed him in the morning, and the next evening there was not a morsel left.

One will be less astonished at this when I say that these ogres, when completely stuffed, promote vomitings by introducing their fingers into their throats, and return again to the charge.


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