When I was in abroad nearly a generation ago, I was acquainted with a young American couple who had a little son of the age of seven—not practicably companionable with me, because he knew no English.

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He had played from his birth with the young men on his father's plantation, and had preferred their Kanaka language and would learn no other. The family removed to America a month after I arrived in the islands, and straightway the boy began to lose his Kanaka and pick up English.

By the time he was twelve he hadn't a word of Kanaka left; the language had wholly departed from his tongue and from his comprehension. Nine years later, when he was twenty-one, I came upon the family in one of the lake towns of New York, and the mother told me about an adventure which her son had been having.

By trade he was now a professional diver. A passenger boat had been caught in a storm on the lake, and had gone down, carrying her people with her. A few days later the young diver descended, with his armour on, and entered the berth-saloon of the boat, and stood at the foot of the companionway, with his hand on the rail, peering through the dim water. Presently something touched him on the shoulder, and he turned and found a man swaying and bobbing about him and seemingly inspecting him inquiringly. He was paralyzed with fright.