Just what importance they attach to these trinkets and to the wearing of them we could merely guess at.
"I wonder what their names are," said Kit.

"How can we find out?
Would they understand by our using the word _kina_, do you suppose ?" "Try it." Kit then pointed to the one who was talking with me, and said "_kina_" to the other.

She did not seem to understand at first: but, on a repetition of the question, replied, "_We-we_;" at which her companion looked suddenly around.

Then they talked with each other a moment.
_We-we_, as I afterwards learned, meant _white goose_.

I then put the same question to _We-we_, pointing to the other.
"_Caubvick_," she replied.
Just then Wade passed us; and, lo! he had a white-gloved damsel on his arm, promenading along the deck as big as life.
"What's her name ?" cried Kit.
"_Ikewna_," he replied over his shoulder.
How he had found out he would never tell us; perhaps in the same manner we had done.
"I declare, Wade's outdoing us!" exclaimed Kit.