During some days he had seasons of delirium which lasted several hours at a time; and while they lasted he talked Kanaka incessantly and glibly; and Kanaka only.

He was still very ill, and he talked to me in that tongue; but I did not understand it, of course.

The doctor-books tell us that cases like this are not uncommon.

Then the doctors ought to study the cases and find out how to multiply them.

Many languages and things get mislaid in a person's head, and stay mislaid for lack of this remedy.
Many memories of my former visit to the islands came up in my mind while we lay at anchor in front of Honolulu that night.