Crossword-Solution: LIMU 4 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The brief duty visit over, Martha arose and accompanied her back to the bungalow, putting money into her hand, commanding proud and beautiful Japanese housemaids to wait upon the dilapidated aborigine with _poi_, which is compounded of the roots of the water lily, with _iamaka_, which is raw fish, and with pounded kukui nut and _limu_, which latter is seawood tender to the toothless, digestible and savoury.

The hands of both of them, little altered or defaced by age, were wonderful in their slender, tapering finger-tips, love-_lomied_ and love-formed while they were babies by old Hawaiian women like to the one even then eating _poi_ and _iamaka_ and _limu_ in the house.

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.

Her house became a Mecca for native men and women, usually performing pilgrimage privily after darkness fell, with presents always in their hands—squid fresh from the reef, _opihis_ and _limu_, baskets of alligator pears, roasting corn of the earliest from windward Cahu, mangoes and star-apples, taro pink and royal of the finest selection, sucking pigs, banana _poi_, breadfruit, and crabs caught the very day from Pearl Harbour.

And behold, everything was got, from the choicest of royal taro to sugar-cane joints for the roasting, from _opihis_ to _limu_, from fowl to wild pig and _poi_-fed puppies—everything save one thing.