The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-04-07

apparently, of everything in the house.
The principle subject of conversation be-
tween him and Phillips. appeared to be
the two runaways from the brig-Jim and
myself He expressed great curiosity to
know where We had gone to. "Do you go
for to think" said he, that the Long Eel
low has been and slowed them away?"
This was the name of Phillips younger
brother, Nagariungio, as applied to bim by
the foreigners, on account of his extreme
height and slimness OF build. "Yes,' re-
piled Phillips, draining off pot of rum,
81 think he got them two fellows down at
Nukuluku. He like white man very
much" The contrary was the case, as
Gipsy Jim must have very well known,
for Sharks Tooth, unlike most of the
chiefs of Rewa, had no foreigners living
with him. In fact, he was the least inclin-
ed to sociabillty, as well as being the poor
est and less powerful of the royal family of
Rewa-all Of which might have resulted
from the fact of his being the youngest of
the three brothers constituting the said
family of Rewa, and its tributaries.
After imbibing pot after potfull of the
rum, Gipsy Jim and Phillips rolled over
on the mats, both apparently badly drunk,
but the latter was cunning enough to pre-
tend inebriation, while with the gipsy it
was a real fact, and he lay out on his back,
dead drunk. In few moments Phillips
arose, and coming over to the opposite side
Of the "tau manu-" from where the gipsey
lay, he whispered to us-to the effect that
he understood that fellows object. 1t was
to spy out whether we were in the neigh
borhood. He had, however. fooled and
got him drunk. On our expressing sur
prise that the large quantity of liquor that
he had drank had produced SO little appar-
ent effect upon him, while 1t had laid the
foreigner so completely out, he replied,
with smile of conscious triumph-"Oh, l
always drink three or four white men drunk,
then begin to feel little drunk too, my
self"
A natiye-one of the chiefs confidential
attendants-here made his appearance and
whispered some words to his master, who
then said to US, Somebody come to see
me, goodbye, for little time" Peeping
again beneath the mosquito bar, | saw
enter the house, person who had all the
appearance of young Fiji chief He
had the usual large, flowing marc around
his waist, and the "naisala" or turban, of
white tapa on his head, but no other cloth
ing. Except that the color of his skin
was extremely light for a native of the
country, he would pass easily for one of
them. Sitting down with Phillips, they
commenced to converse in English, much
to my surprise, for had never heard that
there was another native, besides our host,
who talked English. My astonshment
was increased as listened, and heard the
newcomer using as good language as one
could expect to hear in any place where
the English language is spoken. Where,
thought |, could that almost naked savage
have learned to speak English with so pure
and faultless an accent? Occasionally, he
interlarded his speech with a few words of
FJian, with which language he was evil
IDENTIFY quite familiar, and once, to my utter
astonishment, he repeated Latin adage,
and then, after laugh at Phillips puzzling
as to what the meaning was explained
that the words inculcated the idea that
one should speak no i'll of the dead.
After the two had spent half an hour in
chatting, drinking rum and smoking seleu-
kas. Phillips whispered few words to the
other, pointing at the same time at Gipsy
Jim-who still lay stretched out in drunk
en- insensibility-and then the pair came
in behind the mosquito bar. "Boys," said
Phillips, this one of your country people.
But he no belong to Merica now; he big
man in Fiji" Thus introduced, the stran-
ger. who had SO aroused my curiosity, pro-
ceeded to satisfy it, by giving me short
account of his adventures, which l will re-
late in my next.
To be continued.