{"product_id":"2940013704213","title":"Pacific Tales","description":"There was once a South Sea Island supercargo named Denison who had\u003cbr\u003ea Kanaka father and mother.  This was when Denison was a young man.\u003cbr\u003eHis father's name was Kusis; his mother's Tulpé.  Also, he had\u003cbr\u003eseveral brown-skinned, lithe-limbed, and big-eyed brothers and\u003cbr\u003esisters, who made much of their new white brother, and petted and\u003cbr\u003ecaressed and wept over him as if he were an ailing child of six\u003cbr\u003einstead of a tough young fellow of two-and-twenty who had nothing\u003cbr\u003ewrong with him but a stove-in rib and a heart that ached for home,\u003cbr\u003ewhich made him cross and fretful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Denison hasn't got much to do with this story, so all I need\u003cbr\u003esay of him is that he had been the supercargo of a brig called the\u003cbr\u003eLeonora; and the Leonora had been wrecked on Strong's Island in the\u003cbr\u003eNorth Pacific; and Denison had quarrelled with the captain, whose\u003cbr\u003ename was \"Bully\" Hayes; and so one day he said goodbye to the\u003cbr\u003eroystering Bully and the rest of his shipmates, and travelled\u003cbr\u003eacross the lagoon till he came to a sweet little village named\u003cbr\u003eLeassé, and asked for Kusis, who was the head man thereof.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Give me, O Kusis, to eat and drink, and a mat whereon to sleep;\u003cbr\u003efor I have broken apart from the rest of the white men who were\u003cbr\u003ecast away with me in the ship, and there is no more friendship\u003cbr\u003ebetween us.  And I desire to live here in peace.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen Kusis, who was but a stalwart savage, nude to his loins, and\u003cbr\u003etattooed from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, lifted\u003cbr\u003eDenison up in his brawny arms, and carried him into his house, and\u003cbr\u003eset him down on a fine mat; and Tulpé, his wife, and Kinia, his\u003cbr\u003edaughter, put food before him on platters of twisted cane, and bade\u003cbr\u003ehim eat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen, when the white man slept, Kusis called around him the people\u003cbr\u003eof Leassé and told them that that very day a messenger had come to\u003cbr\u003ehim from the King and said that the white man who was coming to\u003cbr\u003eLeassé was to be as a son to him, \"for,\" said the King, \"my stomach\u003cbr\u003eis filled with friendship for this man, because when he was rich\u003cbr\u003eand a supercargo he had a generous hand to us of Strong's Island.\u003cbr\u003eBut now he is poor, and hath been sick for many months, so thou,\u003cbr\u003eKusis, must be father to him and give him all that he may want.\"","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121257529584,"sku":"2940013704213","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013704213_p0.jpg?v=1763584188","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013704213","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}