[Found in “HE MOOLELO NO KAMEHAMEHA I, Ka Na=i Aupuni o Hawaii”]

There were a great many ships from other lands that stopped here in Hawaii from 1786 to 1790, the year that Kamehameha traveled to war with Maui.

In the month of August 1786, the ship Nootka, commanded by captain Meares, stopped here. And this is the ship that took Kaiana to Kahiki, that being Canton, China. It is said that there were three Hawaiians who traveled with Kaiana on this journey to China, to the city of Canton. It was reported that when Kaiana folks were in the city of Canton, they were welcomed by the British who were living there.

Kaiana was truly a man of distinguished stature, in all manner; that is what was reported of him. And when he walked the streets of Canton, with his mahiole atop his head and his ahuula on, he was looked at with much admiration by the British and the locals of the place.

And when he was brought back to Hawaii nei, it was one of the ships built by Captain Meares, that being the Iphigenia, commanded by Captain Douglas that brought him back to Hawaii nei. When Kaiana returned from China, his friends in Canton gave him cows, goat, and turkey; and besides this, lemon and orange trees, firearms and gunpowder, and a great many other valuables.

{To be continued.}