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Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

CHAPTER XIII
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The ones that have been thus fed at a woman's breast are called _ilio poli_, and are most esteemed.
(4.) The Kahualii are still genuine parasites in the Hawaiian nation.

They are, to use the language of a Catholic missionary, the Cretans of whom Paul speaks: "Evil beasts, slow bellies;" a race wholly in subjection to their appetite, living from day to day, always reclining on the mat, or else riding horses furiously; having no more serious occupation than to drink, eat, sleep, dance, tell stories; giving themselves up, in a word, to all pleasures, lawful and unlawful, without scruple or distinction of persons.

The Kahualii are very lazy.

They are ashamed of honest labor, thinking they would thus detract from their rank as chiefs.

Islanders of this caste are almost never seen in the service of Europeans.


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