An hour later he was beneath the banyan tree at the Moana beach bar.

He found himself returning to Makiki, a neighborhood of low rise apartment buildings and condominiums on a steep hillside, half an hour's walk, in different directions, to the university and to the Ala Moana Shopping Center.

The day after Christmas, he was at the Moana leaning back with a beer and thinking about Sperandeo's book on stock trading when someone asked, "Caffe Ladro?"

Joe didn't need to look at the over-sized plastic menu; he'd read it dozens of times in the Ala Moana Tops.

He didn't want to wait for change, so he left a large tip and walked up Ala Moana Boulevard, relieved, but with the odd feeling that he was walking toward her rather than away.

He went directly to the Moana.

Good choice, the Moana, by the way.

Can you make it, 6:30 at the Moana?

He scooted back to the Moana.

They made their way back to the Moana and said goodbye.

He walked to the Moana and watched the sunset.

Joe went straight to the Moana.

Joe and Rhiannon crossed the boulevard at the Ewa end of Ala Moana park and walked toward the beach.

" She was staying at the Moana on Morgan's recommendation.

He was half an hour early at the Moana, wearing his best blue aloha shirt, his mustache trimmed, his fingers drumming on the bar.

"I love the Moana," he said.

The sound of traffic on Ala Moana was muted.

Later that morning, he walked to Tops again and on to the Ala Moana Shopping Center.

He crossed Ala Moana Boulevard to the yacht harbor where rows of large sailboats were moored behind a stone breakwater.

Hati Na te moana

"Maru," said the chief, when we sat on the mats at late supper after a return from the lagoon, "it is a pity you were not here when the Tahitians had their 'ar'ia and pahi, our large canoes for navigating on the moana faa aro, the landless sea.

The Hosea C. Brewsters, of Winnebago, Wisconsin, were the people you've met on the veranda of the Moana Hotel at Honolulu, or at the top of Pike's Peak, or peering into the restless heart of Vesuvius.

Scattered about this plateau are lakes of every shape and size, from Taupocalled Te Moana (the sea) by the Maoristo the tiniest lakelets and ponds.