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All Hands , ex-Northwest trader , the godless , beach-combing , clipper-shipless and ship-wrecked skipper who had stood on the beach at Kailua and welcomed the very first of missionaries , off the brig _ Thaddeus _ , in the year 1820 , and who , not many years later , made a scandalous runaway marriage with one of their daughters , quieted down and served the Kamehamehas long and conservatively as Minister of the Treasury and Chief of the Customs , and acted as intercessor and mediator between the missionaries on one side and the beach-combing crowd , the trading crowd , and the Hawaiian chiefs on the variously shifting other side . Nor was Lee Barton neglected . In the midst of the dinners and lunches , the _ luaus _ -LRB- Hawaiian feasts -RRB- and _ poi _ - suppers , and swims and dances in _ aloha _ -LRB- love -RRB- to both of them , his time and inclination were claimed by the crowd of lively youngsters of old Kohala days who had come to know that they possessed digestions and various other internal functions , and who had settled down to somewhat of sedateness , who roistered less , and who played bridge much , and went to baseball often . Also , similarly oriented , was the old poker crowd of Lee Barton 's younger days , which crowd played for more consistent stakes and limits , while it drank mineral water and orange juice and timed the final round of `` Jacks '' never later than midnight . Appeared , through all the rout of entertainment , Sonny Grandison , Hawaii-born , Hawaii-prominent , who , despite his youthful forty-one years , had declined the proffered governorship of the Territory . Also , he had ducked Ida Barton in the surf at Waikiki a quarter of a century before , and , still earlier , vacationing on his father 's great Lakanaii cattle ranch , had hair-raisingly initiated her , and various other tender tots of five to seven years of age , into his boys ' band , `` The Cannibal Head-Hunters '' or `` The Terrors of Lakanaii . '' Still farther , his Grandpa Grandison and her Grandpa Wilton had been business and political comrades in the old days .