"Kanaka" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his chin thoughtfully. "Well, thar's that Kanaka Joe, who used to be sorter sweet on Mornie,—he's an ugly ...
— The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... enough to have called together the entire settlement. The ditches and claims were not only deserted, but "Tuttle's grocery" had contributed its gamblers, who, it will be remembered, calmly continued their game the day that French Pete and Kanaka Joe shot each other to death over the bar in the front room. The whole camp was collected before a rude cabin on the outer edge of the clearing. Conversation was carried on in a low tone, but the name of a woman ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... me—me big fella marster my country. You no like 'm this fella white marster. Me no like 'm. Plenty good you put hundred cocoanut, two hundred cocoanut, three hundred cocoanut along cutter. Him finish, you go sleep 'm good fella. Altogether kanaka sleep m good fella. Bime by big fella noise along house, you no savve hear 'm that fella noise. You altogether ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London
... more ardently. Unlike the magistrate, Cruchot spoke to him in the Kanaka tongue, and this, like all Chinagos and all foreign devils, ...
— When God Laughs and Other Stories • Jack London |
