Pointing to the large irregular place
which is always left blank round the poles, to denote that it is
undiscovered, he looked up and asked- "Pau?" (Done? ended?)
The system of naming the streets and numbering the houses, they
easily understood, and the utility of it. They had a great desire to
see America, but were afraid of doubling Cape Horn, for they suffer
much in cold weather, and had heard dreadful accounts of the Cape,
from those of their number who had been round it.
They smoke a great deal, though not much at a time; using pipes with
large bowls, and very short stems, or no stems at all. These, they
light, and putting them to their mouths, take a long draught,
getting their mouths as full as they can hold, and their cheeks
distended, and then let it slowly out through their mouths and
nostrils. The pipe is then passed to others, who draw, in the same
manner, one pipe-full serving for half a dozen. They never take short,
continuous draughts, like Europeans, but one of these "Oahu puffs," as
the sailors call them, serves for an hour or two, until some one
else lights his pipe, and it is passed round in the same manner.
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