Up came the brass and the accordion, and forth went the inebriated
strains.

Between their draughts of beer--they drank always from the bottles--the
Tahitians often recurred to the song of Kelly. Having no g, l, or s
among the thirteen letters of their missionary-made alphabet, they
pronounced the refrain as follows:


Hahrayrooyah! I'm a boom! Hahrayrooyah! Boomagay!
Hahrayrooyah! Hizzandow! To tave ut fruh tin!


Landers being very big physically, they admired him greatly, and
his company having been two generations in Tahiti, they knew his
history. They now and again called him by his name among Tahitians,
"Taporo-Tane," ("The Lime-Man"), and sang:


E aue Tau tiare ate e!
Ua parari te afata e!
I te Pahi no Taporo-Toue e!

Alas! my dear, some one let slip
A box of limes on the lime-man's ship,
And busted it so the juice did drip.


The song was a quarter of a century old and recorded an accident