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Show hole, water is poured and the hole stopped up quickly. Soon as the water comes in contact with the rocks, steam is generated and in a little while the Kalo is thoronghly cooked. The hole is then opened, the roots taken out and put in water which loosens the skin and it is easily washed off like a boiled potato. The roots are then pounded with a stone pestle, on a slab slightly hollowed. hol-lowed. It is then put into, large guards which the natives call "calabashes." "cala-bashes." It is then mixed with water until it becomes about the . consistency of thin mush and is then set away until it foments, after which it is ready to eat. The natives will collect around a colabash and each use their fingers to eat with instead of having spoons. It is very seldom a native will use a knife, fork or spoon when eating. I have seen hogs cooked whole, in the same way that they cook their roots, and the meat is much sweeter after being cooked this way, than it is when cooked in any other way that I have seen. The Islanders are great for 'getting 'gett-ing up feasts and I will describe one of these in my next. H. W. B. To be continued. said he lived in Honolulu and that his house was on the corner of Queen and Punchbowl Streets, near ; the King's Church or Chapel, andthat he would like to have me live with him and that he desired to learn my language and we could be a help to eaeh other in learning and that if I would agree to this, he would fix up a room for me and he would let me know when to come. I told him I could not promise to stay any definite defi-nite length of time but probably I could stay long enough to learn his language. At this he said -'all right." . While stoping with Kanalua, I picked up a paper printed in the native language, called "The Eleela," or to put it in english it is "The Messenger." By the aid of my Vocabulary. Vo-cabulary. I could read it. It . pretended pre-tended to give an account of the way and manner the Book of Mormon eame forth; that it was by one Joe Smith, a very bad man and warned the natives to be aware of wolves coming in sheep's clothing, etc. In a day or so Judge Maikai sent word for me to come to his house to live, as he said, as long as I wanted to.. When I went I found he had fixed up a nice bed room, with a good bed in it with mosquito bars around it to keep out the little nests. He told me to eat raw fish with poi, and by doing so I would soon learn his language. To this I laughed at him and told him he could eat the, fish raw, but I would take mine cooked. Then he laughed and said, "all right, you eat your way; but if you eat raw fish, you get my language (quick." I soon became fond of Doi; though at first it gagged me. It is made of roots, that are cultivated in water and the natives call it "Kalo." The roots are cooked in a hole made in the ground where a lot of rocks are heated and then the roots are spread over the rocks and covered with mats and then covered with earth, leaving a hole in the top. Into this PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. (Continued) Mr. Maikai was very inquisitive and asked a great many questions. He was a well dressed man. He |