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

On this return of Kaiana from China, the ship did not stop here in Hawaii first, but past all the shores of America, and there the ship went trading for a long period; so all of the animals that were given him died. On the ship’s sail to Hawaii, they heard of Kaeo’s bad intentions toward him, so they sailed all the way and arrived at Hana, Maui on December 6, 1788 and from there they arrived at Kealakekua.

When the ship Iphigenia anchored in Kealakekua Bay it was on the 29th of December 1788, according to some historians, and according to others, it was in the month of January 1789; Kamehameha was there at the time and he sailed on double-hulled canoes numbering twelve on his voyage welcoming Kaiana. The canoes were covered in ahuula, and the sacred kahili of that Nation Conqueror stood. While the canoes of Paiea were making their way across the sea on the path to where the ship stood, the ship gave a cannon salute to the King of the Kona districts, the Kohala districts, and portions of Hamakua.

(Jarvis says in his Hawaiian history (4th edition, page 68) that it was in Kawaihae Bay that the ship gave its cannon salute when Kamehameha was staying there.)

Kamehameha met with Kaiana aboard the ship, and so too did the ruling chiefs of Hawaii nei meet with Kaiana, it was understood that there was no place on Kauai for Kaiana to live, therefore Kamehameha held back Kaiana so the two of them would live on Hawaii, and Kaiana agreed to this detaining by Kamehameha.

And as was shown in earlier installments, Kaiana was an alii who dwelt with Kamehameha, therefore, this call by Kamehameha holding back Kaiana to live with him on Hawaii, was not something unfamiliar to Kaiana, so he lived together with Kamehameha.

Perhaps it should be added here the things reported by the historian S. M. Kamakau shown in the copy of his hand-written history in the possession of the writer [J. M. Poepoe] for these old matters pertaining to Hawaiian history are disappearing; that is pertaining to the coming of Kaiana; his returning and meeting with Kamehameha at Kona, as shown:

When Kamehameha was staying at Kona, Hawaii, a ship anchored at Kealakekua; the commander was Kapena Kane [Captain Douglas]. Kaiana was aboard the ship, he was a grandchild of Keawe.

{To be continued.}