In the Time Before LightIan MacMillan Softcover, 452 pp. In the sweltering summer of 1824, British merchant Matthew Davis finds himself drunk and delirious in the port of Honolulu, thinking he might like to hear about the military exploits of the natives, their feather bedecked kings and ferocious armies. Instead, he stumbles into a confrontation with disease and misery and bears witness to the harrowing life story of Kaalokulokupono, an elderly Hawaiian kidnapped in his