In the story, Johnny Lingo (played by MaKee K. Blaisdell) is a shrewd, but honest and well-liked Polynesians trader. It is actually told from the perspective of a White people shopkeeper, Mr. Harris (played by Francis Urry). Lingo has come to one island to bargaining for a wife. Mahana (played by Naomi Kahoilua), the young woman he desires, is considered by her neighbors and even her father to be of little value— sullen, Beauty#Ugliness, and undesirable. As the bargaining is about to begin, women of the island Boasting to each other of how many cows their husbands had given for each of them, and comment that Mahana's father will be lucky to see one cow as Lingo's offer. The counselor advises Mahana's father to ask for three cows so that finally, Moki (Mahana's father, played by Joseph Ah Quin) will at least get one cow.
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