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took out an order blank and requested us to name our
heart's desire. We named some bacon sandwiches and some
ice cream and some coffee. He brought them all out to us
and we ate them there in the car. It was a new and plea-
sant wrinkle.
Panini then took us back to the Moanna Hotel where we
went to bed a pair of thoroughly initiated visitors.
In the morning we welcomed the arrival of the new day
by taking another swim in the ocean. After breakfast
Doctor Bryant of the Bishop Museum put in his appearance
in the role of diplomatist. Through the courtesy of his
ancient Ford coupé we visited the aquarium, the Pineapple
experiment station, the Pali, the U.S. Army garrison, and
finally the Bishop Museum, where we met and had a long
talk with Doctor Gregory of the Whitney South Sea Expedi-
tion. We inspected the collection of Hawaiian material,
tapa, adzes, mats, netting, fishing implements, etc., and
looked over the bird collection. The Aorangi was sched-
uled to sail at noon. We hurried down to the shopping
district where Hannibal bought a kimono and I laid in a
stock of cigarettes and smoking tobacco. When we arrived
at the pier what was our great surprise to see Doctor
and Mrs. Gregory down there to see us off with leiis.
A little further down was Panini with more leiis. It was
altogether too teary for anything. She and Doctor Bryant
stayed down on the pier until long after the boat had
slipped away from her berth and we could still see them
waving when we were turned around and reaching out of the
bay for the hazy mysteries that lay beneath the southern