. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. throuoh dinner-time and afterwards we had achoir of native boys singing to us native songs,with accompaniments on the tarapatch, a kind ofsmall guitar. Some of the songs were very sweet andtender, particularly one which w^e made them repeatagain and again, beginning, Ninni-mai, apeelee—which, being interpreted, is Come to me close,close until you touch me. The Kanakas al
. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. throuoh dinner-time and afterwards we had achoir of native boys singing to us native songs,with accompaniments on the tarapatch, a kind ofsmall guitar. Some of the songs were very sweet andtender, particularly one which w^e made them repeatagain and again, beginning, Ninni-mai, apeelee—which, being interpreted, is Come to me close,close until you touch me. The Kanakas also sangus the music of the Hoola dance, and performedsome of its figures, which were of a decidedly Poly-nesian character, and not quite such as could betaught in a polite dancing academy of New York orLondon. The musicians finally came off to the shipwith us in our steam-launch, and continued theirnative chants of love and farewell until the anchor i6 WANDERING WORDS was weighed, when they departed with the Honour-able Sam and all our other kind and warm-heartedfriends for the shore, singing Aloha loe as long aswe could hear, and taking with them our gratefulthoughts. March 8fh, 1892. II WATCHING THE STARS B. inti;ri:)u ok tiu. i,u;k (JHSKUVATOKY. /. 19.
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