yal
in heart, affectionate of disposition, and domestic in his
habits."

1888. H. S. Cooper, `The Islands of the Pacific,' p. 5:

"The kanakas, who at present populate Hawaii, are, as a rule,
well made and intelligent. That there is a cross of the Malay
and Indian blood in them few can doubt."

1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 64:

"Natives of the South Sea Islands, who in Australia are called
kanakas--a capable and intelligent race, especially to this
kind of work [on plantations], for they are strong, and endure
the tropical heat far better than the whites."

1892. Gilbert Parker, `Round the Compass in Australia,'
p. 298:

"Thus, it is maintained by the planters, the kanaka, necessary
as he is to the conditions of North Queensland, opens up
avenues of skilled labour for the European, and makes
population and commerce possible where otherwise there would
be complete stagnation."

2892. `The Times,' Dec. 28:

"The principal open-air labour of the sugar plantations is
furnished by kanakas, who are the native inhabitants of certain
groups of South Sea Islands not at present under the protection
of any European flag."

1893. R. L. Stevenson, `Island Night's Entertainments,'
p. 41:

"What we want is a man-of-war--a German, if we could--they know
how to manage kanakas."

1893. Rudyard Kipling, `Banjo Song':

"We've shouted on seven-ounce nuggets,
We've starved on a kanaka's pay."

1893. C. H. Pearson, `National Life and Character,' p.32:

"In Australasia . . . the Maori, the Kanaka, and the Papuan
are dying out. We cannot close our eyes to the fact that
certain weak races--even when, like the kanaka, they possess
some very high qualities--seem to wither away at mere contact
with the European. . . . The kanakas (among whom we may include
the Maories)."

<hw>Kangaroo</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) an aboriginal word.
See <i>Marsupial</i>.

(a) The Origin of the Name. The name was first obtained in
1770, while H.M.S. <i>Endeavour</i> lay beached at the
Endeavour River, where Cooktown, Queensland, now is. The name
first appears in print in 1773, in the book brought out by the
relatives of Mr. Parkinson, who was draughtsman to Banks the
naturalist, and who had died on the voyage. The object of this
book was to anticipate the official account of Cook's Voyage by
Hawkesworth, which appeared later in the same year. It is now
known that Hawkesworth's book was like a rope twisted of four
stran