[13] Mă-tă-vă-ee.
[14] Haa-mă-nāy-mă-này.
[15] Ta-ce-ō.
CHAPTER VI
THE ISLAND BEACON FIRES
Papeiha[16]
(Date of Incident, 1823)
The edge of the sea was just beginning to gleam with the gold of the rising sun. The captain of a little ship, that tossed and rolled on the tumbling ocean, looked out anxiously over the bow. Around him everywhere was the wild waste of the Pacific Ocean. Through day after day he had tacked and veered, baffled by contrary winds. Now, with little food left in the ship, starvation on the open ocean stared them in the face.
They were searching for an island of which they had heard, but which they had never seen.