The Hawaiians Page #2

Where's this drilling rig?

In hock,

for 900 dollars.

If you're broke, make me a deal,

and I'll steal it back.

I can get the money,

whas the deal?

Whiskey and grub money

for every day it takes.

Too cheap.

I was hoping

you weren't all hot air.

Nice to have met you,

Mr Overpeck.

Don't make a mistake,

that was the price of a dry well.

If i find water, and i will.

I want 3,000 acres of your land.

Have a drink.

Foo Sen is a very wise man.

We do what he says, savvy?

Savvy.

You're going to have a boy,

his name is Kee Ah Chow.

You, girl.

You understand me?

The wife of Kee Mun Ki lives

in China, in the Low Village.

She's naturally the mother

of all his sons.

You'll care for all

of his sons...

until he returns with them

to his wife in China.

You understand?

When baby comes,

I take care, yes?

When you're delivered

of Mun Ki's son...

his wife in China will change

her name to "Mother of Wu Chow."

The mother of five continents.

How am i called?

Your name will become

"Aunt of Wu Chow."

The Aunt of five continents.

When baby comes,

I'm the auntie?

In China, man, he bring baby.

I bring very good.

His name Kee Ah Chow,

all same Asia.

Asia? That little Pake?

He'd better have broad shoulders.

Pakes very strong.

Pretty soon come,

Africa...

America...

Australia.

I forget other name.

Here...

for luck.

Whip, there's something...

What wrong with me?

There's nothing wrong

with you.

Just hurry up and have

that baby so we...

Wu Chow's Auntie.

I'd be deeply grateful

if you could manage to...

that is if you still have enough?

Missy doesn't have any milk.

Missy's sick?

No, she'll be all right. The milk

will probably come in a day or two.

Thank you,

more than I can...

Who told you,

you could start a garden here?

Making money,

I sell in town.

Don't you have enough work?

I give you half,

all right?

Why do you need money for?

I'll see your family's fed.

Take money, buy land,

buy this land, maybe.

You can't buy this land,

is practically in my parlour.

Anyway, Chinese don't buy land.

They take money back to China.

I'm never going back!

All right.

Grow what you can,

and keep the money.

I may need to borrow

from you someday.

Overpeck!

Overpeck!

Damn!

Damn your scabby,

rummy soul.

Hello, love.

Get out to that rig.

You can take that food

right back down the hill.

He traded the last batch for booze,

he can work hungry for a while.

Food from garden,

doesn't cost anything.

Then take it in town

and sell it.

Pretty soon, water.

Pretty soon, dry hole.

Dry hole number four.

Come on, get in here.

Garden food belongs to me,

you said.

Any whiskey in there?

What makes you so sure

he'll find water?

Not sure. No sure in China,

I come here.

I have baby, garden...

alongside great man Hoxworth.

I think pretty soon water.

What the matter, honey?

I don't know.

Maybe is too soon.

You're fine,

the baby's fine.

Hell, it seems like

a year to me.

I don't want to stop you.

Good night.

Purity...

what are you doing?

Thinking back

a thousand years or so.

Thinking of the first canoes

that came up from Bora Bora.

Why did our people

come here?

Our people?

A little Hawaiian blood

doesn't make us natives.

It does if we want it to.

There was no one here

and they came thousands of miles.

Who knows how many lives

were lost in those canoes.

The missionaries,

the whalers...

the Chinese,

it was easy for them.

But, not for our people.

They were magnificent, Whip.

Is coming,

I promise you.

You've been saying that

for two years.

Is coming, i can feel it,

thas why I've got you here.

I can hear it.

I've got the land and now,

I've got the water.

The only difference between

a sugar planter and me is money.

Don't you want to see me

turn respectable?

You're not just asking for a loan?

You're trying to blackmail us.

That right. I'll disgrace you a lot

less as a planter than a beachcomber.

- No.

- You'd be broke again next year.

There's not money enough

in sugar to pay for irrigation.

The water is free.

But, not the labour to dig ditches

and keep them open.

You know very well,

we'd have to foreclose.

You're not a farmer

and certainly not a businessman.

I don't know if sugar

will pay or not.

But, i've got something nobody

else does, artesian water...

and miles of land.

Sooner or later,

is got to be worth money.

We can't see the sooner and

we're not interested in the later.

Take my advice,

and go back to the sea.

I'll see you in hell first.

And be damn glad of the trip.

What the matter, Micah,

cat got your tongue?

Pious bastards.

Don't you care?

Of course I do,

but they're all pirates.

They came here, took everything,

and now, they won't part with it.

I sure thought they'd fall

off a few points in my direction.

What will we do now?

I don't know. I'll have to

go back to sea, I guess.

Whip, i don't want you to go.

All right, I'll stay.

By God, i'll stay.

We'll lick them yet.

I've got enough cash to plant

a few acres of sugar. I can...

We can mortgage

the house...

We could sell the house.

We could sell the house

and just live.

We can live the way

our ancestors lived.

In a grass hut?

On fish and poi?

Yes! Listen...

You didn't marry some kanaka,

you married me...

remember? You love me?

Yes.

I love you.

That how it all began.

I can't understand you.

How could i? We haven't

shared a bed for 6 months.

No, Whip.

Whip, please.

What is it?

What wrong?

I don't know.

I know this.

If i ever needed you,

is now.

And all you can do is tell me

to go to some beach and play dead.

Nothing to worry about.

Most babies get cranky sometimes.

Noel was just an excuse.

Is Purity i want you to see.

Did you notice

the way she is?

Why all this Hawaiian culture?

She's filled the house

with this stuff.

I can't get near her.

Thank you.

Was it having the baby?

Is that what did it?

It may be a post-natal depression

but then again...

it may not.

Purity isn't just

one quarter Hawaiian...

she's one quarter royal Hawaiian.

You know how those families

have been intermarrying for years.

She's losing her mind?

Is possible.

Yes.

Here chick, chick.

Come here, chicken.

Here's my big fella.

Wu Chow's Auntie...

You did a good job nursing Noel.

I've got another baby for you.

What kind of baby?

Pineapple, from halfway around

the world, French Guiana.

The French won't export any.

I had a sailor friend steal this

seed plant, and smuggle it out.

It looks dead.

Just about. Ill take

a green thumb like yours.

Plant them among the vegetables,

and don't say a word.

If you can make them grow

and taste sweet...

I'll smuggle out some more

to plan at Hanakai.

We grow.

We grow.

You, come with me.

Maybe Captain Hoxworth

will loan us money.

Money? For what?

Buy littee bittee land.

You'll like. I know.

No good buying land

in this country.

I want a field.

Buy field in China.

I want a field here.

No savvy Punti!

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