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varieties - mild, medium and hot. For several years all McDonalds on Hawaii have sold them either with eggs or on sausageburgers. These sausages also form an important ingredient of the commonly available excellent Portuguese bean soup.

Most Hawaiian bakeries have available Portuguese sweet bread known as "pao dulce". No carnival or fair in Hawaii would be complete without the delicious Portuguese "malsada" counter making these tasty morsels of deep fried dough dunked in sugar. One could wish that these Portuguese delicacies were available on Nantucket.

As you can see from the foregoing, the impact of the Portuguese and their culture on the Hawaiian Islands has been considerable. Without the New England whaling ships, many from Nantucket, bringing the first Portuguese to these islands as members of their crews, the subsequent considerable Portuguese immigration to Hawaii would never had taken place.

"I Am Sankoty Light"

by Eleanor Dixon Glidden

"I AM SANKOTY LIGHT" The walls of an old Candle House Cherish and shelter The beauty of me I am old, if age be — Flashed — a century — Hope to the storm tossed Prayer to the lost And home to the whaler In prisms of light.

The ghosts of proud mariners Come every night Through gathering gloom To this shadowy room Close — close — to me. And lest I be lonely They talk of the sea 'Till I wake and remember And drench them with light. "I AM SANKOTY LIGHT."