The Hawaiian Islands, Ukuleles & Pynchon

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p.14-15: Since their Hawaiian escapades a few years previous (The Chums of Chance and the Curse of the Great Kahuna), Miles had become an enthusiastic ukulelist, and tonight, after securing the scullery and restoring the mess decks to their usual spotless state, he produced one of many of the four-stringed instruments which he kept in his sky-chest, and, after strumming a brief introduction, accompanied the boys as they sang [...]

p. 27: “More of a medley, I believe, encompassing Hawaiian and Philippino mo- tifs, and concluding with a very tasteful adaptation of Monsieur Saint-Saëns’s wonderful ‘Bacchanale,’ as recently performed at the Paris Opera.”

p.411: “Look here, Chick, are you quite resolved in this? You remember the last time, over that Hawaiian volcano—”

p.1030: There were great waves passing through the Æther, Viridian explained, which a person could catch, and be carried along by, as the sea-wind carries the erne, or as Pacific waves are said to carry the surfers of Hawaii.