Lei niho palaoa just like new?

[Found under: “NA MEA KUPONO NO NA HOME” (Things Good for the Home)]

For Hawaiian women’s lei palaoa, or boar tusk, or perhaps elephant ivory fashioned into stick pins, they can certainly be cleaned with turpentine [aila hoomaloo], and dried out in the sun for two or three days; and its shine will be like a new one.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLII, Helu 27, Aoao 5. Iulai 5, 1907.

Kaiana abroad, 1787 (cont.)

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

Ahuula, the father, the son of Keawe, the King of Hawaii; and Kaupekamoku, the mother. Kaiana sailed for Kauai and his brothers stayed on Kauai, they being Namakeha and Nahiolea.

When Kaiana stopped at Hawaii, he met with Kamehameha, and Kamehameha made Kaiana one of his favorites (as is usual of Kamehameha, who cherished all of the living). Kaiana gave Kamehameha many rifles and cannons. Kamehameha held back Kaiana to remain on Hawaii, saying:

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Kaiana abroad, 1787 (cont.)

[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.

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Kaiana abroad, 1787

[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.

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La Hoihoi Ea in 1865.

News of the Royal Court

The health of the King these past days has been good, and in the evening of this Wednesday he sailed for Molokai aboard the ship of Captain Thomas B. Hanham [Kapena Hanehama]. Accompanying him was His Excellency J. O. Dominis and His Excellency F. W. Hutchison, just as we stated the other week. They will travel to Molokai, and Maui, and perhaps all the way to the Kanilehua rain of Hilo. God save the King.

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Surveying the summit of Haleakala, 1876.

[Found under: “Na Nu Hou Kuloko”]

Shivering in the cold.–On the Saturday of big rain before the 28th of November, heavy raindrops made a clatter atop the tents of the surveyors staying on the summit of Haleakala. They were patient until their books and surveying tools were soaked, then they left the grounds and returned to Makawao, where they arrived alive.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XV, Helu 50, Aoao 2. Dekemaba 9, 1876.