I felt these last symptoms for sixty hours the first time I tasted this Polynesian liquor.

The effects of awa on the constitution of habitual drinkers are disastrous.

The body becomes emaciated, and the skin is covered, as in leprosy, with large scales, which fall off, and leave lasting white spots, which often become ulcers.
(15.) This usage still exists in certain families toward great personages or people they wish especially to honor; but it is disappearing every day.

Formerly when a Kanaka received a visit from a friend of a remote district, women were always comprised in the exchange of presents on that occasion.

To fail in this was regarded as an unpardonable insult.