which story […] Catullus more elegantly converted

—Oh ’tis well y’are come, there was within me fresh Rebellion, and reason was almost unking’d agen.

They were armed with a species of fire-arms, pikes, swords and targets, bows and arrows, and wagadashes, described as like a Welsh hook.

Though I'd often eaten sashimi, poke was then completely new to me—delicious rubies of cubed fish dressed in light sesame oil, garnished with minced bits of reddish-brown seaweed and the ground centers of kukui nuts (see recipe, next page).