3: Happiness.
4: A libertine, profligate.
5: My love to you, Pakia; are you well?
6: White foreigners.
7: Frank.
8: Small-pox.
9: An accordion.
10: Idler, gad about--a Samoan expression.
11: German.
12: The Tokelau and Ellice Islanders are much amused at the white man"s method of hauling in a heavy fish hand _over_ hand. This to them is "_faka fafine_"--i.e., like a woman.
13: Cayse.
14: NOTE BY THE PUBLISHER.--This incident is related by the author in "By Reef and Palm" under the t.i.tle of "The Rangers of the Tia Kau."
15: PUBLISHER"S NOTE.--This Alan Strickland is the "Allan" who has so frequently figured in the author"s other tales of South Sea life, notably in the works ent.i.tled "By Reef and Palm" and "The Ebbing of the Tide."
16: Councillors.
17: _Apo! lima_! "Be quick with your hand!" The pa.s.sage is narrow and dangerous, even for canoes, and the steersman, as he watches the rolling surf, calls out _Apo, lau lima_! to his crew--an expression synonymous to our nautical, "Pull like the devil!"