kai-kai

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Tell 'm that fella Ornfiri make' m kai-kai take along whale-boat.

Chapter 16 2010
Well, we started them along their way, though they went in on the beach to kai-kai several miles back.

Chapter 11 2010
'But there is against starving 'em,' I said; 'you know yourself there ain't any kai-kai to speak of aboard of us, and there ain't a crumb on the Martha.'

Chapter 18 2010
He catch plenty good fella kai-kai, {2} plenty good fella money.

Chapter 2 2010
'Don't let the kai-kai worry you, Captain Munster,' says she; 'if I can find grub for eighty-four mouths on the Martha, the two of you can do as much by your two vessels.

Chapter 18 2010
Alaskan tobacco-pouches beaded with heraldic totem designs, a boomerang from Australia, divers ships in glass bottles, a cannibal kai-kai bowl from the Marquesas, and fragile cabinets from China and the Indies and inlaid with mother-of-pearl and precious woods.

SAMUEL 2010
"My word, he finish close up, kai-kai altogether."

Chapter 23 2010
"My word, bush fella kai-kai along that fella boy," Binu Charley remarked.

Chapter 24 2010
The King of Rewa warned him that the mountain dwellers would surely kai-kai him -- kai-kai meaning "to eat" -- and that he, the King of Rewa, having become Lotu, would be put to the necessity of going to war with the mountain dwellers.

THE WHALE TOOTH 2010
"We'd all been pretty well on native kai-kai, as it was," said Sparrowhawk.

Chapter 18 2010