Crossword-Solution: KOU 3 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

This spasm of activity has been chequered with champagne parties: Happy and Glorious, Hawaii Ponoi paua: kou moi—(Native Hawaiians, dote upon your monarch!) Hawaiian God save the King.

Yes, and careless that all should see his extended favour, I must dip into his _pa paakai_ for my pinches of red salt, and limu, and kukui nut and chili pepper; and into his _ipu kai_” (fish sauce dish) “of _kou_ wood that the great Kamehameha himself had eaten from on many a similar progress.

When it had gone, not too willingly--for our faithful friend disliked parting from us and distrusted this new guide--the abbot, who was named Kou-en, led us into the living room or rather the kitchen of the monastery, for it served both purposes.

With some misgivings we explained this to the abbot Kou-en, offering to remove to one of the empty rooms in the ruined part of the building, supporting ourselves with fish that we could catch by cutting a hole in the ice of the lake above the monastery, and if we were able to find any, on game, which we might trap or shoot in the scrub-like forest of stunted pines and junipers that grew around its border.

Very little, and that mostly about the army of the Greek king who is mentioned in the writing.” We inquired what he could possibly know of this matter, whereon Kou-en replied calmly--“In those days when the faith of the Holy One was still young, I dwelt as a humble brother in this very monastery, which was one of the first built, and I saw the army pass, that is all.