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What are kanakas?

What are kanakas? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of kanaka
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He and the Kanakas had succeeded in righting the boat and clambering into her.
So soundly did the kanakas sleep through that long hot day that they did not see the cutter run out through the passage and head south, close-hauled on the southeast trade.
He frequently declared that England was the finest country in the world, sir, and he felt a lively superiority over Americans, Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas.
Before they got him into the river he had impelled the Kanakas to capture the prau.
Concurrently several of us were off the map hanging with the kanakas out in the Sandwich Islands.
Kanakas had been aboard the first exploration and trading ships to reach the Pacific Northwest Coast.

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