Pacific Tales

There was once a South Sea Island supercargo named Denison who had
a Kanaka father and mother. This was when Denison was a young man.
His father's name was Kusis; his mother's Tulpé. Also, he had
several brown-skinned, lithe-limbed, and big-eyed brothers and
sisters, who made much of their new white brother, and petted and
caressed and wept over him as if he were an ailing child of six
instead of a tough young fellow of two-and-twenty who had nothing
wrong with him but a stove-in rib and a heart t...