THEY WILL DO EVERYTHING THEY POSSIBLY CAN
to make you comfortable. They will feed you on baked dog or poi, or raw fish, or raw salt pork,
fricasseed cats—all the luxuries of the season. (Laughter.) Everything the human heart can desire,
they will set before you. (Laughter.) Perhaps, now, this isn't a captivating feast at first glance, but
it is offered in all sincerity, and with the best motives in the world, and that makes any feast
respectable, whether it is palatable or not. But if you want to trade, that's quite another thing—
that's business! And the Kanaka is ready for you. He is a born trader, and he will swindle you if
he can. He will lie straight through, from the first word to the last. Not such lies as you and I tell,
(Laughter.) but gigantic lies, lies that awe you with their grandeur,
