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diff --git a/35437.txt b/35437.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6149fdd --- /dev/null +++ b/35437.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2478 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana +Art League, by various authors + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League: + Kalani; A Legend of Haleakala; Peleg Chapman's Sharks; + 'Twas Cupid's Dart; Legend of Hiku i Kanahele; The Story + of a Brave Woman + +Authors: Emma L. Dillingham, Geo. H. De La Vergne, +W. N. Armstrong, J. W. Girvin, The Native + + +Release Date: March 1, 2011 [EBook #35437] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIX PRIZE HAWAIIAN STORIES *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Andrew Chesley and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +Transcriber's note: + +This book contains Hawaiian words and some dialect ('sailor's cant/slang'; +'Hawaiian English'), which have been retained. + +Examples: +"Caught plenty on 'em," said the sailor. "Been around the Horn and up in +the Artic for sperm and right whales. Plenty of lay money too. Down in +Wyhee (Oh-why-hee* = Hawaii) plenty of gals and bananas." + + * or similar spelling, seen on a statue of Captain James Cook, + k. 1779, Hawaii. + +"the redmen to make their home near his hale and they should be aliis +in ... sent his lunapais into every valley and along the sea to summon +the alii...." + +Sundry missing of damaged punctuation has been repaired. + +The transcriber has corrected typographical errors + from the original book and listed them at the end of this text. + + * * * * * + + + + + Hawaiian + Stories. + + + + + SIX PRIZE + + Hawaiian Stories + + OF THE + + KILOHANA ART LEAGUE + + + Honolulu: + Hawaiian Gazette Company + 1899 + + + + +CONTENTS + + + Kalani--Emma L. Dillingham 5 + + A Legend of Haleakala--Geo. H. De La Vergne 24 + + Peleg Chapman's Sharks--W. N. Armstrong 44 + + 'Twas Cupid's Dart--J. W. Girvin 64 + + Legend of Hiku i Kanahele--Mauricio 85 + + The Story of a Brave Woman--A Native 104 + + + + +Kalani + + + + +CHAPTER I. + + +"_Auhea oe, Nalima? Elua nahae hou o kuu lole!_"[1] "_Auwe, pela?_"[2] +replied the old woman addressed, taking at the same time from Kalani's +hands a coat hat might best be described as one of many colors. The old +man seated himself on the floor of the little hut, and gazed at this +same coat in a manner savoring of dejection. "Yes," he said, "while I +was digging around the taro down by the stream, I left it hanging on a +branch of the big kukui tree, but when I returned to put it on, I found +that it had blown off, caught on a piece of bark and torn that hole. Do +you think you can mend it so that I can wear it on Sunday? You know I +have no other. _Pilikia maoli!_" (sad plight), and Kalani gave a grunt +that embodied many emotions. + +[Footnote 1: "Where are you, Nalima? Here are two new rents in my +clothes!"] + +[Footnote 2: "Oh dear! is that so?"] + +Nalima's small, slightly withered hands were turning the coat tenderly. +Patch had already been placed upon patch, nearly every one differing in +material and color from the original fabric, which was a cotton twill, +and the bleachings of sun and soap had added variety in many shades of +blue and brown. + +Yes, she had a little piece of blue flannel left that would just fit +his new rent, she mused, and the whole thing must be washed again. She +was sure she could have it ready to wear that same night. This hopeful +view enabled her old husband to start again with his _o-o_ (Hawaiian +spade) for the garden patch. He removed his tattered hat as he went, +revealing a head of fine proportions. The forehead was high and full, +and the top bald and shining. Soft, white locks clustered in his neck, +and a white beard several inches in length gave a distinguished look to +his face. Patience looked from his soft dark eyes and the expression +about his mouth was kind and firm. The small rush mat which Nalima had +been braiding when Kalani arrived with his tale of woe was laid aside, +and, from a very meager supply of housewifely stores, a needle, thread, +and bit of flannel were produced. Her dim eyes strained themselves to +adjust the patch to the torn edges, and her trembling hands set the +stitches with patient effort. Meanwhile the thoughts of the old wife +wandered into the past. The long-ago was a happy time to re-live. When +they were young, in Kauikeaouli's time, Kalani had been a _kanaka nui_ +(great man) among Hawaiians. He had been a _luna_ (overseer) in their +valley and had directed the _konohiki_ (chief's resident land-agent) +labor for years. His own _kuliana_ (land-holding) was a large one, and +the rights of the stream for some acres were his. He in his turn +controlled the work of others for himself. Their house was large and +high and had a window of glass in one end; the _hikie_ (bedstead) was a +pile of mats soft and fine, and the bedding was of the finest _kapa_.[3] +There was always a plenty of _poi_[4] in the calabash; ti roots, +kukui-nuts, cocoa-nuts and breadfruit abounded for more delicate dishes. +They themselves were well and strong, and oh! how proud they were of +their boy and girl. Like a dream had been the years between. Sovereign +had succeeded sovereign. Epidemics has decimated the people. The +_konohiki_ labor had lapsed. Strangers had leased the lands, fences now +barred the way, and keys effectually locked the fastnesses from the +ramblers and seekers for shells and ferns. Their own acres had been +cajoled away from them, and only this little hut far up the valley, and +a small plot of land, on which they with difficulty raised a little +_taro_ and a few sweet potatoes, remained. They were allowed to retain +possession of this as compensation for guarding the leased lands of the +valley against trespassers, but they received no money. The children had +grown and gone. The daughter had married and lived a few years at Kona, +Hawaii, then died. The son had braved the Arctic cold and had been a +sailor for years on a whale ship. But many, many moons had passed since +his last visit home; probably he, too, was dead. They themselves were +growing old now; they had no chance to earn money; economy had +crystallized for them into the problem of how long they could make +things last. Kalani would be broken-hearted when his coat was too old to +wear to church, for, rain or sun, he faithfully attended the service at +the mouth of the valley every Sunday afternoon, walking several miles to +do so. While Nalima sewed and mused, Kalani, wrestling with mountain +_nahelehele_ (wild growth) was thinking too. Perhaps the vigor in the +arm that drove the _o-o_ into the grass stirred the thought cells in his +head; the mental result, however, was not retrospection, but +determination to do some thing in the immediate future to help the +present condition of affairs. "I _must_ have a new coat. I cannot wear +my old one to church any longer. I have no money, but perhaps some one +will give me clothes if I ask for them. I have never begged, and Nalima +wouldn't let me beg now if she knew about it; I musn't tell her. It is +more than two years since I have been beyond the church, but there are +_haole_ (foreign) families living not far from there, and I'll go to +them. I'll tell Nalima I'm going to try to sell some eggs, we've got six +saved in the pail, and perhaps I can buy some salmon to bring home to +her. It would taste good (_ono loa_) to her. I'll go tomorrow morning." +And, full of his resolve, Kalani shouldered his o-o and returned to his +hut. + +[Footnote 3: A cloth made from bark.] + +[Footnote 4: The Hawaiian "staff of life." A paste made of pounded +_taro_ root mixed with water.] + + + + +CHAPTER II. + + +"Ruth, please see who is knocking at the side door," said Mrs. Hamilton +early one morning in the month of August. "It's a native man, Mamma," +said Ruth a moment later, "he wants to see you, but says he can wait +until you can come. I think he has never been here before; he is very +old; and he has a small tin pail with him." When Mrs. Hamilton opened +the door leading to the veranda, the rising sun was glorifying a strip +of lawn, glancing among young orange trees, glowing along an hibiscus +hedge, and giving an effect beyond description to a golden-shower tree +in full bloom. On either side of the steps leading to the drive, banks +of ferns stood crisp and cool. The grass was bright with fairy rainbows +strung on drops of dew. "Oh, what a morning to be alive!" thought Mrs. +Hamilton, "what, I wonder, will be the first thing given me to do this +beautiful day?" From the lower step arose, at this instant, Kalani. With +the grace and dignity natural to the Hawaiian, he bared his head, and, +holding his tattered hat in his hand, gave the friendly salutation +"Aloha" which Mrs. Hamilton returned in as friendly a tone. Noting in an +instant the splendid proportions of his head, his fine brow, and the +character which shone from every feature of his up-turned face, it was +with the sincerest interest that she asked in Hawaiian, "What can I do +for you, what would you like?" Kalani took a step sideways into the +ferns, still looking up into her eyes, and, with various apologetic +expressions flitting across his face, finally took hold of the lapel of +his coat with his left hand and, drawing it slightly forward, said, "I +didn't know but perhaps you had a cast-off coat that you would be +willing to give me. This one is very old and has many holes. If I had a +better one I should wear it to church and that would be _maikai loa_ +(very pleasant), but, if not, never mind, it will be all right" (_like +pu, he maikai no ia_). Mrs. Hamilton's quick eye took in at a glance the +entire suit in which this son of the soil stood. His garments showed +their many patches, and she thought that the colors of the remnants +still clinging together, would be difficult to reproduce upon any +painter's palette. Stepping within the bedroom door she found Mr. +Hamilton adjusting his necktie before the mirror. "George," she said, +"do you suppose you have a second-hand coat I might give this man? He +needs one badly enough. There is something singularly appealing about +him, and, you can see in a moment, he is no beggar." + +"Yes, I guess so," said Mr. Hamilton, first taking a glance through the +door at Kalani and then proceeding to his wardrobe. Presently he +returned and handed his wife an entire suit of grey woolen clothes. +"My," said she, "he has asked only for a _coat_! I'll give them to him +one by one. Come out and enjoy the good time with me." Returning to the +veranda she held up the coat. "Do you suppose this will fit you?" she +asked. "Oh yes, yes!" was the quick reply, "you must see for yourself," +and his hands trembled as he carefully withdrew the delicate coat he +wore from his shoulders. "See, see, it fits, it fits!" (_Ku no, ku no!_) +and his hands stroked down the sleeves, and lovingly patted the pocket +flaps. + +His expressions of delight and appreciation were cut short by Mrs. +Hamilton's holding up the trousers. "What do you think about these?" +Kalani shot a lightning glance at Mr. Hamilton, who stood on the veranda +enjoying the scene, and said "Oh, yes, we are just the same size." "He," +pointing to Mr. Hamilton, "isn't any bigger than I am." Taking the +trousers, the old man avowed most solemnly that they would be just right +(_ku pono loa_). "Besides," said he with a look of conscious pride, +"I've got an old wife who can fix them if they are not." So that point +was settled. The vest was now held up. "Of course you don't want this," +said Mrs. Hamilton, "it will make you too warm." "A vest, a vest!" he +cried, "no it won't, oh, I shall be too proud for anything, (_hookano +maoli_) to have a vest!" + +All three were laughing by this time, Kalani as much as the others. +"Dear me," said Mr. Hamilton, "this is getting interesting. I must see +if I can't find him something else." In a moment he was back with a +neat, striped negligee shirt, which he himself offered the old man. The +expression on the shining face of the native as he received this fresh +gift, was something to remember. It was brother looking into brother's +face, with a something too deep for words. It was an expression that one +would like to meet again, in the world beyond. + +"Let's give him a hat," said George Jr., who had joined the group on the +veranda, "there are a lot on the hat-tree to spare." The tattered hat +under Kalani's arm had not spoken in vain. As the boy was searching for +one, his father cried to him, "Bring the silk hat from the top peg." +"No, no," said Mrs. Hamilton, "don't let us spoil a good thing by +allowing the old man to think we are making fun of him." "Fun of him!" +said Mr. Hamilton, "I tell you I know what will please his soul, and +it's a silk hat, now see if it's not." George first handed his mother a +brown derby, only slightly the worse for wear, and then a silk hat still +possessed of a good shine but not the most modern in shape. Having only +the first in evidence, Mrs. Hamilton again addressed Kalani. "Do you +think you could wear this hat?" "That hat for me? Oh how fine! Yes, yes, +I know--" here his words failed, for his eyes had caught sight of the +silk hat, which Mr. Hamilton was in a great hurry to prove would be the +climax of his life. "Here, try this, I guess you can make it stick on," +he said. The brown derby fell among the ferns, and trembling hands +seized the shining beaver. "_Auwe, auwe! heaha keia! ka nani! ka maikai! +Auwe! ka lokomaikai!_"[5] Over the shining bald head it was pressed, +coaxed, urged and settled, and _it was a tight fit_. "There," said Mr. +Hamilton, "I told you so, he would wear that hat if it killed him, +rather than not take it when he had the chance! Of course he never had a +silk hat before in his life." + +[Footnote 5: "Oh my! oh my! what's this! how splendid, how fine! Ah, +what generosity!"] + +The old man was speechless and voluble by turns. His good fortune choked +him, but the joys of possession ran over his eyes and sparkled in every +square inch of his honest face. Ruth brought some wrapping paper, and +Mrs. Hamilton helped fold the articles for easy carrying. "But my hat, +how am I going to carry my hat?" he wailed. "I'll wear this one," +putting the derby on his head, "but this _papale kilika_ (silk hat) is +to wear to church, and how am I to carry it home?" Another paper was +brought, and, with twine, a secure package was made, with a loop to slip +over his arm. Then a fresh idea came to the old man. Conscious of the +humor of the whole situation, he said, "You have left me only one thing +to ask for," and he raised a foot to which was bound a much worn shoe. +"Shoes!" cried Ruth, "May I find some, Mamma?" and in less time than it +takes to tell it she was back with a pair of half-worn brogans that were +more beautiful in Kalani's eyes than the handsomest ten-dollar boots +that ever came out of a shoe emporium. Now there really seemed to be +nothing left but for the old man to go, but he had something to say. + +Lifting his happy face, he said, "You have been very good to me. I have +no money to buy such things for myself, and I was going to ask only for +a coat. I live in Palolo valley, and have no means of earning anything. +I brought a few eggs with me, thinking I could change them for something +to take back to my old wife, but now I would like to give them to you." +He slipped the cover from his pail and held up to Mrs. Hamilton's view +the half dozen small eggs. Tears filled her eyes at his honest, +dignified independence. "No, no," said she, slipping a coin in among the +eggs, "get something for the wife with the eggs, and give her our +_aloha_." + +At last with many an _aloha_ and _auwe_ of benediction, Kalani betook +himself and his new wealth down the drive, and the Hamilton family +answered the breakfast bell. + + + + +CHAPTER III. + + +The barking of a small dog awoke Nalima from a nap. Sitting up, she saw +at a little distance down the valley, someone coming up the path. At +first she thought it was Kalani, then saw that it was a _haole_ hat that +appeared and disappeared among the bushes. "_Auwe_, it's some trespasser +that's come up here because Kalani is away, what shall I do?" While she +yet feared, the figure stood at the door and Kalani's voice reassured +her. + +We may not repeat all that Nalima listened to, for in another tongue +than the Hawaiian, its flavor would be much impaired. The simple souls +accepted the great good fortune of the suit of clothes, the shoes, and +the hats, with childlike simplicity. The long and early walk had given +Kalani a hearty appetite, which the sour poi, spiced with a bit of salt +salmon from the _Pake_ (Chinese) store at Moiliili, soon appeased. +Nalima produced a few mountain apples she had gathered during his +absence, and they felt they had feasted like chiefs of old. + +Nor can we tell of the profound sensation produced in the little +district church the following Sabbath, when Kalani entered dressed in +his new suit, and crowned with his silk hat. This latter he wore until +he took his seat, so that all might see it; then he carefully placed it +on the bench beside him. It seemed as if the possession of this silk hat +bade fair to restore to him his prestige of the long ago. That he should +have been in such high favor with anyone, as to receive such a gift, +surely argued greatly for his birthright, and for the heritage of his +youth, of which the younger generation had not been aware. Certain it +was that soon after this Kalani was made a deacon in the church, and +other honors were accorded him in the months that followed. In the +little hut in the valley, the driest corner was given to the precious +hat, and Nalima gently fondled it as she smoothed it again and again, +hoping to preserve its shining gloss indefinitely. It was not pride but +_satisfaction_ in this _special possession_ that filled Kalani's soul. +He often removed the paper in which it was kept, and, holding it upon +his hand, would relate to Nalima the experiences of that momentous +morning walk, when he became possessed of this treasure. And Nalima +never tired of listening to the tale, though she had long known it by +heart. In closing he always said, "The best of it all was, I know they +were _glad_ to give it to me, and, Nalima, you know what to do with it +if I die first." + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + + +"Mamma," cried Ruth Hamilton, reining her horse beside her mother's +porch one afternoon a year later, "George and I have been for a ride out +to Wailupe and back, and as we came near the Palolo Valley road on our +way home, we saw a funeral procession coming down. It passed the corner +just as we reached it, and, what do you think! On the _top of the coffin +was a silk hat_, and George declares it's the same one Papa gave that +old man that came here one morning a good while ago!" + +Even so, according to the customs which still obtain in many lands, and +which have been handed down through the centuries, of burying one's +choicest possessions with the body of the deceased, Kalani and his silk +hat were not parted in the grave. + + EMMA L. DILLINGHAM. + + + + +A Legend of Haleakala + + +We stood shivering on the brink. At our very feet was the crater of +Haleakala, the House of the sun, but that luminary had gone to his other +realms and left his dwelling dark, unfathomable and void. No voice of +nature was there, no murmuring breeze, no note of bird, no spirit of man +or of God moved in those lone and abysmal depths. Only the brilliant +stars kept watch above, and they were immeasurable miles away. + +We, who stood there in the cool morning air did not add in any way to +the majesty of the scene, wrapped as we were in blankets--red, white and +gray. + +"Like lost spirits waiting for waftage to the other shore," remarked the +tourist. + +"I am sure I have lost my spirits," said a shivering unfortunate, "I +think the guide stole them." + +"It seems to me we look more like a group of savage Apaches on a bleak +mountain summit sketched by Remington," suggested the artist of the +crowd. + +"Ah, there she blows," cried the first speaker pointing toward the east +where a shaft of light had just shot from the dark sea through the gray +clouds. We all turned and looked except the newly married couple. They +gazed into each others eyes as was their custom. + +"I am so cold, dearest," she murmured. + +I supposed he furnished her with a share of his red blanket though I was +not watching. + +"Ladies and gentlemen," said the humorist, "the grand cyclorama of +sunrise on Haleakala is about to open, and as a preliminary, I move to +throw the poet over the brink as a propitiatory sacrifice to the God of +the Sun, who appears to be shocked by our appearance; and besides the +poet will attempt to describe this scene and he can't." + +"Describe nothing," retorted the poet, "my teeth are chattering so my +tongue can't." "Let's throw the guide over, that will propitiate us +anyway." + +But William, the guide, looked so calm and peaceful as he sat with his +back against a rock smoking a short black pipe, that we decided not to +disturb him. + +Meanwhile the sun rose. He has done this so often that it has become a +matter of course with him. But rarely has he risen surrounded with such +pomp of circumstance and kingly glory. It might well have been his +coronation morning, with clouds of heavy gorgeousness upon his shining +shoulders, and the quick heralds of light sent to glorify the distant +mountain heights and to awaken the dark and slumbering sea. We seemed to +be moving in worlds unrealized as the light swept across the reach of +clouds at our feet, broken as a sea of tumbled ice, while around the +outer rim rose forms strange or fantastic, the clouds shaping themselves +into huge animals or rounding into noble palaces or turning into lofty +pinnacles, and on every one the sun had set a crown of flame. The light +with glowing hands pulled slowly back the shadows from the crater until +it stood clearly revealed in its silence and vastness. From West Maui to +Molokai stretched a heavy causeway of cloud beneath which lay the sea +dark and glowing like polished porphyry. The sun was above the cloud and +the common light of day lay round us. + +"Tis past, the visionary splendor fades," remarked the poet, but the +remark was not original with him. + +Our party now adjourned to the stone house on the summit known as +Cruyealece and after drinking some hot coffee and warming ourselves +around the open fire, the humorist and myself testified to our intention +of taking William and walking down into the crater. They all said that +we were decided idiots, and they would take their exercise out in +watching us. The newly married couple said nothing, but looked as I have +stated. + +"I think that haole can't go down," remarked William, pointing to the +humorist. "His legs too thin, they break." + +We all laughed except the humorist who could not see the joke. + +"Break! you fat rascal," he exclaimed, "before I am done with you, you +won't be anything but an animated brown shadow." + +With sarcastic comments which did not disturb our serenity and much +waving of handkerchiefs we began the descent. We went down at a very +rapid gait, the loose dirt smoking at our heels and the canteen thumping +against William's fat sides. In a half hour we reached the floor of the +crater and stopped to take breath. After William had lighted his pipe we +went on our way. First across the black lava flows and broken aa. In the +days of its storm and stress this had been the hot and glowing +life-blood of the great volcano, but now it was cold, black and +congealed. Beyond the flows we came to long stretches of volcanic sands +and the lofty cones rose above us, so perfect in form that it seemed the +slightest breath of air would disturb their symmetry. Their coloring was +wonderful, velvety black, gray and red shading into one another. And +through the vast silence the silvery notes of a bird floated down to us +from the far battlements of the crater. + +After a toilsome tramp we reached the other side where the trees come +down the slope, and throwing ourselves down in the shade we looked +across the burning plain and enjoyed the coolness by way of contrast as +we smoked and took chance shots at stray goats coming down the ridge. + +"Do you know any stories or legends connected with Haleakala, William?" +I asked. + +"Yes, I know one, my grandma always telling." + +"That's right, William," said the humorist, "take down your harp from +the weeping lauhala trees, and sing to us of the departed glories of +your race." + +"You see my grandma great old woman, she kahuna, live at Hana. I hear +this story every since I was keiki. She says it comes down from some old +poets." + +And after gazing across the crater for a while William began in his +native tongue: + +"In former times from the distant Islands of the southern sea came a +strange people to Hawaii. On their spears were the great sharks' teeth, +and their tabu staffs were crowned with kapa black or white. They were +great of stature and became the mois of Hawaii. Then followed a people +from beyond the rising sun. Small and broad they were, and came in ships +such as were never before seen in Hawaiian seas. But stranger than these +peoples was an alien race which came from out the distant north from +whence the great trees come floating down upon the rivers of the sea, +and the tradewinds take their rise, which come to cool our valleys and +the burning sea. + +It was in the days when Hua, the impious king reigned in Hana, on the +third day before the feast of Lono in the early morning when the +fishermen were returning, six canoes came from out a mist that floated +on the sea, and moved quickly in even line toward the curving beach. The +night before the omens had portended some dire event. The sacrifices had +risen from the blood stained lele and stalked beyond the heiau gate, +while, from the heights of Haleakala, issued the groanings of the +Thunder God. As the aliens strode upon the beach they were taller than +our tallest chiefs. Their skins were red as Pele blood that beats within +our heart, but their eyes were black as is that blood when it cools upon +the mountain sides, yet from them shot fire as the lightning from the +thunder clouds. Their heads were encircled by high feather leis which +swept backwards almost to the ground. Feathers were they grey and white +such as never grew upon the birds that fly within the forests or float +upon the sea. + +The King took the strangers to his royal hale and gave them food and +drink. There was a woman with them, the wife of their great chief. She +appeared like a prophetess, only young. Her skin was pale as the white +sea foam. Her dark eyes seemed to gaze afar off, and her smile was like +the flash of sun upon the sea. When Hua saw her he desired her for +himself and his women became as nothing in his eyes. Therefore Hua urged +the redmen to make their home near his hale and they should be aliis in +the land though the priest Luahomoe, warned the king that their coming +would cast a shadow on his life. But the strangers would not dwell with +the king nor with his people, but made their home far up on the slope of +Haleakala where the gray clouds ever hang and the white rain falls +silently to the ground. + +Sometimes when the feather hunters sought the mamo and the oo upon the +mountains they would see a figure of one of these men standing on the +highest mountain peak against the black clouds as though carved of +stone, then, suddenly he would raise his arms towards the sky and a cry +would come quick as a javlin piercing to the heart, or, they would hear +a rustling in the ferns and see a shape like a red moo moving through +the green, but whence it came or whither it went they could never tell. + +It chanced that on a certain day their great chief came down to the +plain and went to see the king who was stretched at ease in front of his +hale on a kapa mat, while the trade winds waved the falling branches of +the kou trees like green kahilis above his kingly head. The great chief +stood and would not sit upon the matting brought by the attendant. Then +the king made a sign to one of his retainers who in a short time, +brought several maidens with flowers decking their dark hair, and +ornaments of pearl and shells upon their ankles and their arms. They +were the fairest in Hua's court. The King waved his hand toward where +they stood and said: + +"Take these, O chief, they are yours, but let the white queen dwell with +me." + +Then the great chief folded his arms and looked down at the king while +Hua's guard gathered close around him, for there was evil in the great +chief's eye, and the king was a very little man before him. Then he +grunted 'Umph' and turning left the presence of the king and went +quickly to his mountain home. + +But Hua's heart was hot within his breast, so he vowed to take the great +chief's life and bring the white queen to his royal hale. Forthwith he +sent his lunapais into every valley and along the sea to summon the alii +and their warriors, but a messenger came the following day from the +great chief saying: + +"I know your plotting and your heart O King. We will make an end of this +matter. Place your kingdom against the possession of the white queen. +Choose your mightiest warrior, and I will meet him. If I die, take the +white queen, but if your warrior dies your people and your lands are +mine, O King. But this one condition, I will choose the place where this +combat is to be fought." + +The crafty Hua thought within his heart, "I will accept this challenge, +and if my champion fall my warriors will surround him and his men and +slay them. Then the white queen shall not escape me." So he assented. The +messenger then took the king and, pointing where the clouds were flowing +through the Kaupo gap, he said: "In yonder hollow mountain fights the +chief." + +The king's heart was troubled then, but he dare not return upon his +spoken word. Among the alii there was none so tall and powerful as the +young Kuala. In all the sports of peace he was pre-eminent. While in war +none would hurl the spear so swiftly, nor use the javlin with such +skilled hands, and when he whirled the battle axe above his head none +could see it for the speed. He was chosen champion by the King. + +For many days the priests consulted the oracles within the enclosure of +the sacred anu, but the omens puzzled them, and they said the Gods were +not at peace among themselves. + +It was on the evening before the day just as the sun sank into the sea, +there came a cloud, blacker than the kapa for the dead, moving slowly +above the sea, and the gray rain following as a veil behind it. The air +around was very still. Then, suddenly the cloud turned to crimson and +the mountain and the thousands on the beach were reddened as though by +the glow from a great fire. All were frightened, but Kuala only laughed +and said, "If it storms now it will be cooler on the morrow." The old +priest shook his head and said, "My son, that mountain height will be +plenty cool enough for thee." + +Late in the afternoon of the destined day the hosts of Maui were +gathered in the arms of the great mountain. Foremost stood the King. +Around his shoulders fell the yellow mamo cloak, and on his head a +helmet yellow as his robe save its crest which was red with the feathers +of the scarlet bird. Behind him stood the priests in feather cloaks red +as the blood of their sacrifices, while in a half circle rose the +hundred alii in cloaks mingled with the royal yellow and the priestly +red. As the sunlight shone upon them they were in form and color as the +rainbows bent over the valleys green, and on the rounded hills of sand +above them stood the warriors thicker than the leaves upon the forest +trees, and their thousand spears made the red hills black. A murmur ran +amongst them as when the voice of the sea comes on the south wind and +the sky is gray. The priests chanted in low tones, the meles of Kuala's +race, and waved their arms as they sang of heroic deeds. Kuala stood +quietly by the king and looked across the lava plain where, in the +distance, could be seen the red men moving, one behind the other, in a +line. They came swiftly. When they reached a hundred paces from where +stood the king, they stopped and the white queen stood forth before +them. Her color was no longer as the pale foam, for the blood beat +quickly in her cheeks, and she breathed as though she had been running, +while her eyes shone so that even Hua turned his glance away. The great +chief stood near her but impassive as though carved of stone. Behind +them the warriors stood lean and red with strange colors on their faces, +and their heads were crowned with warlike feathers. They moved not, nor +looked upon the warriors on the hills, regardless of them as though they +were but crawling ants. Then the messenger of the chief advanced across +the sand and stood before the king. + +"O King, the chief is ready now to offer the victim chosen by you for +the sacrifice." + +Hua replied, "My champion is here at my right hand, and to-night we will +wrap your chief in the funeral kapa, and the black sharks will dine upon +his flesh." He would have spoken more but the messenger turned upon his +heel and left the king. + +Kuala threw aside his feathered cloak and advanced slowly towards the +level sand. Then there rose a shout from the hosts upon the hill louder +than the thunder of the great waves falling on the beach, and the +priests chanted in loud tones beating wildly on their sacred drums. The +great chief advanced to meet his foe but stopped, and with arms +outstretched towards the sun gazed straight into its burning light while +his voice reached to the remotest warrior on the hills, though none +could understand the words, so strange they were. Then he turned and +faced Kuala, who stood twenty paces distant. All was quiet as is the air +before a coming storm. Kuala slowly raised his spear above his head and +bending quickly forward sent it with such force that none could see it +in the air, but the great chief was quicker than the spear and it went +past him deep into the sand. His spear flew so close to Kuala that he +felt the wind of its speed upon his cheek. The second time they raised +their arms together and send the weapons whirling through the air. The +warrior's spear struck some feathers from the great chief's head, whose +weapon went straight to Kuala's heart, but before it touched his body +Kuala caught it with his hands and turned its course aside, but +staggered backwards with the force. Then the warriors cried in +lamentation on the hills, but when they saw he was unhurt a shout arose +louder than the first. The last spear Kuala poised above his head was of +polished koa tipped with ivory, whose point had been dipped in Po's dark +waters, carrying death upon its slightest touch. But it never reached +the red chief's for the two spears met in the air with a great clash and +fell broken on the sand. Then the warriors rushed towards each other and +met midway on the sands, their javelins clashing as they met. Suddenly +the light had faded while gray clouds covered the crater as with a roof, +and the white rain began to fall thick and fast, lying like white stars +on cloaks of the alii and of king. Kuala and the great chief could be +dimly seen as they whirled around each other in the strife faster than +sea birds on the wing. Now rushing together, now stepping quick aside, +but Kuala's breathing could be heard by the king and his alii standing +near; while the great chief moved quicker than the red lightning from +the clouds, without a sound save when his javelin struck the warriors. +But moving backward from Kuala's rush his heel struck upon a stone and +he swayed slightly. Then the warrior's javelin tore his shoulder till +the red blood came. With a cry that made the king and all his followers +shiver as with cold, he sprang past Kuala's javelin and fastened his +teeth within the flesh and his face was like a demon as he tore the +warrior's throat, and Kuala fell slowly back upon the sand, writhing in +quick death. Then the Hulumanu, standing by the King, threw his spear +and pierced the great chief who fell face downward on the sand. From the +hills the warriors came with a mighty rush as slides the land from the +steep mountain sides, while the red men awaited their coming with faces +lean and fierce. They stood as does a rock within the sea when the great +waves surge upon it fall back in beaten foam until one mightier than the +rest o'erwhelms it. So stood, so fell the red men on that day. Hua +marked not the raging of the strife but through the tumult pushed his +way toward where the white queen stood alone. She fled with exceeding +swiftness, moving like a shadow through the falling mist. Hua, in +furious anger, raised his spear and sent it straight towards her as she +fled. Then the cloud grew thicker and closed around them. Instantly a +great cry was heard and the King's people found him bleeding on the sand +with his spear point centering in his breast. Whither the white queen +went none ever knew. But sometimes the hunter, following his lonely +trail through the great mountain, sees a woman's form wrapped in moving +mist and with dark hair floating wildly around the pallor of her face." + +"That's all," said the guide. + +"That's quite a little lie, William," said the humorist. + +"I don't know, the old lady says it is just so." + +As we started on our homeward trail the clouds had rolled through the +two gaps and an opaque mist lay around us. William headed the procession +and we had gone about a quarter of a mile and were near the great cone +when William stopped suddenly and grasped the humorist by the arm, +almost white with terror. + +"Look!" he said, pointing towards where the fog had lifted somewhat, and +a current of air was whirling the mist, and, in the mist a woman's form +and face could be clearly seen. I looked inquiringly at the humorist. + +"Can such things be," he said, "and overcome us like a summer cloud, +without our special wonders?" + +"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio," I suggested. + +Then we went on in silence through the falling mist, but the humorist +took the lead. + + GEO. H. DE LA VERGNE. + + + + +Peleg Chapman's Sharks + + +Mr. Dole and I were standing in front of one of the caves which are +found near the edges of the bay of Hanauma which is situated this side +of Koko Head. We were there for several days of recreation. Mr. Dole was +glad to get away from the Executive building, where his Ministers had +caged various bees in their bonnets. These bees often wrangled with the +bees in his own bonnet, and by temporarily separating them, the +different bees ameliorated their buzzing, and a general rest prevailed. +Mr. Dole said he preferred to take recreation with one who had outgrown +the bee-hive age and the age of other annoying human devices. + +"Do you see that flat stone?" I asked, pointing to one that lay under +some lantana bushes, and was partially concealed by the sand and just +beyond the reach of the surf. + +"I see it," said Mr. Dole. "Do you think that some person with a bee in +his bonnet has been around? Has the stone a story?" + +"Well," I said, "that stone belonged to the foundation of a house which +Peleg Chapman built away back in the 'thirties.'" + +"Tell me the story," said Mr. Dole and he sat down on the grass, as if it +were his Cabinet, and stretched his legs out towards the much sounding +sea. + +I then told him the story as I had obtained it from the most authentic +sources, included in which were some scraps in Peleg Chapman's +handwriting. + +Peleg's father, Silas Chapman, was a poor but honest farmer who lived in +Stockbridge, Massachusetts, near the State line. He had been eminently +successful in achieving poverty, which he shared generously with his +wife and sons. Though mentally dull in most matters, he possessed a rare +gift for training animals of all kinds. He was a master of those +inarticulate sounds, and musical notes which curiously convey ideas to +animals. He talked with his dogs and cats, and made them useful. His +trained squirrels brought him abundance of nuts, and his trained robins +brought him cherries without injuring them. His cows, pigs, and chickens +did curious tricks, and when gathered together in the barnyard, under +his voice and eye, were more orderly than the General Assembly of the +State. These useful animals did much to relieve the family poverty. The +collie dogs stole watermelons and rolled them home, and the tame crows +supplied the cattle with ripe corn from the neighbors' fields. + +Peleg inherited from his father this singular gift of training animals, +and he had listened to his luminous expositions of the subject. + +"Peleg," he said, "all an'mals think. Ef you only larn how they think, +you ken do anything with 'em. Each on 'em has a little different way of +working his gumption, but you kinder sit along side 'on 'em, get to +communin' with 'em in a slow fashion, and you'l find 'em ekal to human +critters." + +Peleg in due time became more skillful than his father, in training +animals. He caught a young eagle over in Lenox, and trained him to +relieve the family poverty by stealing chickens over in York State. The +eagle was not morally very strong, and often brought home the tough +roosters, after eating the tender chickens. + +One day, when Peleg was away, the eagle being in a contrary mood, seized +Silas Chapman's Sunday coat, and flying away with it dropped it into the +Housatonic river. When Peleg reached home, his father told him that the +eagle had done a mean job, and that he must pay for the stolen coat. +Peleg refused on the ground that animals had no morals. + +"Dad," he said, "you be livin' off them thievin' dogs and birds." Then +said his father: "I guess Peleg you and me has got to have some +interestin' conversation in the barn, this evenin'." + +Peleg acted promptly on this suggestion. At four o'clock, with a small +sum of money, he secretly went to the station, and boarded the Boston +express. He left a note to his mother saying he was going off and his +dad might lick the eagle if he caught him. + +On reaching Boston, he wandered about until he reached the Frog pond in +the Common. He had often heard that its waters were sacred in the eyes +of every Bostonian. Feeling much depressed he took out of his pocket a +copy of the Westminster Catechism, which every child studied in those +days, and by accident glanced over the rough wood cuts of Biblical +incidents. His eye fell on that of a very stiff looking whale, with a +very stiff looking Jonah in front of it, waiting with a very resigned +look to be swallowed. + +While he was getting some comfort out of Jonah's resigned look, a +sea-faring man took a seat by his side, on the public bench, and after +glancing at the picture in Peleg's hand, remarked: "purty stiff lookin' +whale I guess." + +"Ever see'd one?" asked Peleg. + +"Caught plenty on 'em," said the sailor. "Been around the Horn and up in +the Artic for sperm and right whales. Plenty of lay money too. Down in +Wyhee plenty of gals and bananas." + +"Goin' again?" asked Peleg. + +"Yes, next week," said the sailor. + +"Take me?" asked Peleg. + +"Guess you can ship on the Julian," said the sailor. "Fresh fo'cas'le +hand gets one hundred and fortieth lay. That's his share of all the oil +and bone the vessel takes in her cruise. Have good luck, plenty of +money," said the sailor. + +Peleg glanced at the stiff figure of the whale, closed the book, and +said, "I'm goin'." + +On reaching New Bedford, he shipped on the Julian, signed ship's +articles, and went on board with a new kit. The vessel sailed for the +Pacific and the Arctic ocean. + +For a few days, Peleg would have been willing to return home and take +the vicarious punishment for the eagle's sins rather than sleep in a +fo'cas'le bunk. But the ship bowled along towards the equator, and the +carefully expurgated yarns of the crew kindled his enthusiasm. + +He caught and trained some sea gulls to fetch fish for the cabin and +for'rad deck so that his shipmates, instead of calling him a blankety +land lubber, took pains to teach him the art of handling ropes, and +chewing old plug tobacco, and reading the sulphurous marine literature +of the age. + +The Julian took five hundred barrels of sperm oil off the island of Juan +Fernandez, and finally dropped her anchor in the harbor of Honolulu, for +the purpose of getting wood and water and fresh provisions. + +On going ashore, Peleg was amazed at the abundance of bananas of which +he was very fond, but for which the price at home was one shilling each. +As he gorged himself, he began to think of exchanging his marine +interest in the Pacific for a residence on the Islands. He felt +justified in deserting, because the air of the forecastle was bad, and +the captain had refused to reconstruct the vessel and place saloon +cabins at the disposal of the crew. He obtained from Mellish & Co., ship +chandlers, an advance of $300 on his lay, and deserted. He concealed +himself at Waimanalo, until the vessel sailed for the Arctic, and then +keeping out of the way of the native police or "kikos," he crossed over +into Manoa valley and followed the coast line from Waikiki towards Koko +Head. Finding the secluded bay of Hanauma he remained there. It was +surrounded by a high ridge, as it was part of an extinct crater, and one +side of it had fallen in towards the ocean, so that it was almost land +locked, and the surf and heavy seas rushed through the narrow opening. + +With the aid of a native, he laid a foundation of flat stones and built +upon them a thatched house. The native brought him fruit and vegetables, +and he caught an abundance of fish. + +While the Julian was off the island of Juan Fernandez, Peleg had studied +the numerous sharks found there. He discovered that the many rows of +teeth in the mouth of the female shark were flexible, and rested on +elastic gums. They could be laid flat, at the will of the shark. The +reason for this curious arrangement was this. Whenever the young sharks +are in danger, the mother shark opens her mouth, lays down her teeth, +and the young sharks pass over without danger, into a pouch in her body +where they remain until the danger is over. He had counted as many as +seventy, each of them about three feet long, at one time diving into +their mother's mouth, and emerging after the danger was over. He +remembered that Prof. Aggasiz or some noted naturalist, had suggested +that in some remote period a female kangaroo had tumbled overboard from +some prehistoric canoe, and, according to Mr. Darwin, had adapted itself +to the new environment, and become a shark. The pouch for the young +which appears on the outside in the case of the kangaroo, appears as a +pouch on the inside of the shark. + +Peleg learned from the natives that at times fish were very scare in the +Honolulu market. During the visits of the whaling fleets which often +numbered over a hundred vessels, the demand could not be supplied with +any regularity. When there was bad weather, the canoes could not put out +to sea, and there was a fish famine excepting so far as it could be +supplied from the local fish ponds that were entirely owned by the +chiefs and King. + +Besides there were some rare fish which the chiefs were especially fond +of which were found only in deep water and could only be obtained under +the most favorable circumstances of tide and weather. Such were the +Kawele-a, the Ahi, the Ono and the Omaka. The Ahi was a very delicate +fish and was found only off the coast of Hawaii, and was seldom seen in +Honolulu markets. + +Peleg said to himself: "Why not train sharks to catch fish? It may be as +dad said, some bother to find out their way of thinkin' and they live in +the water. But they has eyes and ears, and they hasn't got them things +for nothing." + +He caught, with the aid of some natives, an immense female shark, and +before the young ones could hide, he captured them all, and put them in +a pond he built up in the water. He began to educate them. At first they +were quite vicious, and refused to be cheerful. But Peleg knew that from +the crab to the seraphim, the appeal to the appetite was most effective. +After repeated experiments, he found that sharks had a most +extraordinary fondness for salt pork. There was a monotony of freshness +in their ordinary diet, excepting as a sailor with a rich tobacco +flavor, fell in their way once in a while. He also discovered that the +addition of beans to the pork made the food especially attractive, and +the young sharks quickly submitted to discipline with this reward before +them. + +He saw that they thought in their crude way, just as dogs and birds +thought, and their hearing was like that of other animals. By tapping +stones under water he could call them, but he generally used a speaking +tube which he thrust into the water. By using rags of different colors, +he trained them to distinguish between colors. He taught them to fetch +and carry sticks, and then pieces of meat. As they grew older, he +trained them to search for fish in the bay, and to bring them in without +injuring them as they took them in or cast them out of their pouches. +Pork and beans were liberally used as rewards. He was finally successful +in teaching them to distinguish between the grades of fish and as it +were, take orders for special kinds and leave the rest. The most +intelligent learned to travel long distances, even to Maui and Hawaii, +and find the feeding grounds of the rare fish of which he kept samples +in a pond, and exhibited to them whenever he desired a supply of that +variety. + +He never permitted the natives to watch him while in his training +school. He gave names to the expert and reliable sharks. His reading was +limited so that he selected names from the Bible and from the names of +the towns near his home. He called them "Lenox belle," "Barrington +belle," "Pittsfield belle," "Lee belle," "Bashbish belle," "Stockbridge +belle," and many other Berkshire names were used. The Scriptural names +were "Queen of Sheba," "Jezabel," "Mehita-bel" and "Assyrian girl," with +other such names. The word "belle" appealed to his poetic instinct. + +He graduated the sharks after two years of training, and then opened +business. He purchased a canoe, and paddled out to sea, followed by more +than twenty submissive fish. He sent them off singly or by battalion, as +he called it. In the battalion form, they moved out on an extended line +and drove the fish desired towards the caves and small inlets, where +they were easily caught, taken into the pouches, and brought to Peleg's +canoe, and pork and beans were liberally served out in return. + +On the arrival of the next whaling fleet, Peleg entered Honolulu harbor +every morning with a large load of mullet in his canoe or with other +excellent fish. After disposing of them to the whalers, he put out of +the harbor at once, and joined his "sea hounds" as he called them, who +waited for him outside the reef. His enormous catches attracted the +attention of the natives, who once followed him in the hope of finding +his rich fishing grounds. They were especially surprised at his large +catch during stormy weather, when they could not go out in their canoes. +Nor, by watching Hanauma bay could they get any information, as there +were no nets there, and the sharks attracted no attention. + +On one occasion as he was paddling along the Waikiki shore after selling +his load of fish, he met a fleet of native canoes that had no luck. +Taking compassion on them, he dipped his tube under water, gave the sign +for mullet to his sea dogs, shipped his paddle, and lit his pipe. In an +hour the noses of his hunters rubbed against the side of the canoe, and +leaning over, he pulled out of their mouths more than six hundred pounds +of mullet, and threw them into the canoes of the natives. The natives +were stricken with terror at the sight, and dropped their paddles with +the exclamation: "He is a kahuna (sorcerer) of the shark god." + +He was soon regarded as an akua (god). No natives dared to enter the bay +of Hanauma. + +At the end of each whaling season he accumulated considerable sums in +gold, a part of which he hid and a part he invested in the purchase of +shares in whalers. After the season, he engaged in fishing for the rare +fish only, which he supplied to the King and chiefs. Whenever the King +said: "Peleg, my friend, I want some of the Ahi," Peleg sent four of his +leading sharks to the Kona coast, and they returned within ten hours, +with an abundance. + +The King sent for him one day and said to him: "You are the most +valuable man in my kingdom, and as my predecessors rewarded Isaac Davis +and John Young with matrimonial alliances, I would be glad to have you +look around and if you see any attractive female of the royal connection +that you would like to marry, you may take her until otherwise ordered. +I wish for useful men about my throne. I put on no airs, excepting a +white cotton shirt. If you accept my offer you are authorized to wear an +Admiral's cocked hat, and new boots on State occasion." Peleg replied +that he recognized the honor, but that his heart belonged to his sharks +and to the daughter of a carpenter who lived near the York State line, +and he expected to visit her very soon. + +A fanatical native attempted to "anaana" him or pray him to death. He +gathered grass and burned it. The oily kukui nuts were thrown on the +fire, and the whole resources of the Polynesian Black Art were brought +into use. But Peleg lived. + +A missionary, hearing of his remarkable powers, visited him and inquired +about his ancestors, and among other questions asked him if he had +become a heathen and allowed himself to become a kahuna or sorcerer. He +replied that he did not hanker after heathenism, but, he said, that if +he was in the missionary business he would open a conjuring saloon and +beat all their old kahunas at sleight of hand tricks, and that would +soon bring the whole crowd over to his side. The heathen, he said, +couldn't do much thinking but if they saw him pull a rabbit out of his +nose, or take a taro out of a man's ear, they would smash the business +of their own conjuring priests. Seein' was believin'. Conjuring tricks +would finally bust up their superstitions. The missionary said he and +his associates could not look upon the matter in that way, but he would +write to the American Board about it, and ask it to send out a +respectable conjurer of high moral principle who would hitch a moral to +the tail end of every trick, and then challenge a native sorcerer to do +any better. + +Peleg said that although he was a perverted Puritan, he would supply all +of the Honolulu missionaries with fish without charge. + +As he had received a very limited education owing to his father's +flourishing poverty, he seldom wrote any letters. He did not forget his +mother, however. She received from time to time, through Bunker & Co., +of New Bedford, comfortable sums of money, with the statement that they +came from her son, who was somewhere on the equator, and would come home +after awhile. He also sent to Patsy McGloural, who had grown up and did +the chores in the family of a rich paper manufacturer, a sandal wood +box, and a dress of the finest Chinese silk, which he got from one of +the vessels in the sandal wood trade. This dress was the finest in +Berkshire county, and when Patsy put it on and went to church, it +attracted the attention of the women, so that the preacher gave out the +hymn about being "naked, poor and sinful." + +Peleg had invested his money in shares in the whaleships, which made +very profitable voyages, from Honolulu to the Arctic and Japan seas, and +he became rich for a Berkshire man. After ten years of fishing he +resolved to go home. He found a young man who came from the neighboring +town of Hinsdale, on one of the new whalers, and after giving him a long +trial, instructed him in the business. He consulted an attorney in +Honolulu, and executed an instrument establishing the "Peleg Chapman +Shark Trust," the income of which was to be used in feeding his faithful +sharks with pork and beans, and in supplying the poor natives of +Honolulu with fish. + +He then sailed for New Bedford, and on arriving there, went directly +home. He arrested the even course of his father's poverty, but did not +inform his indigent but acute parent of the sources of his fortune. He +built for his mother the finest chicken house in the county, and +presented her with a neat buggy and a gentle horse. He soon married +Patsy, and was known as Squire Chapman. As a leading authority on +travel, he had no equal in those parts. Subsequently, with the aid of a +young student from Williams College, he published in rather Sophomorical +language, a book which had a wide circulation titled, "Chapman's +researches in the islands of the Pacific." + + + + +'Twas Cupid's Dart + +A Hawaiian Love Story. + + +Many years ago there lived in Hoikaopuiaawalau, in Hamakua, on Maui, a +Hawaiian maiden whose story I will tell as I heard it from one who knew +it too well. + +"Her name, which they said was given her by her _kupuna_, Hikiau, who +was a favorite chief under Kamehameha the great, was +Kalaninuiahilapalapa, but we always called her Lani. + +At the time we first met her she was about eleven years of age, very +pretty, with regular features and long, black, silky hair. Like many of +the natives she had beautiful gazelle-eyes, such as one never tires of +gazing into. Probably those eyes cost her most of her--well we will tell +it. + +She lived with her parents in that beautiful little fern-clad valley, +known today as Awalau, where her father worked in a sawmill. He was a +very large and powerful man and as good natured as large men usually +are. + +His name was Kapohakunuipalahalaha, but as that was unnecessarily long, +we shortened it to Nui, and a faithful man Nui was at any kind of work. +Those who know what sawmill work is know that great strength is +appreciated, especially when you are depending on a man to keep his end +of a cant-hook up to time. He was as hospitable as the natives have the +reputation of being, and that is saying a good deal. + +Lani's mother, Kamaka, was a sprightly woman of about thirty-five and +did her part to make "life in the woods" pleasant. Neither mother nor +daughter appeared to have many household cares and seemed to take +delight in wandering up and down the valley in quest of land shrimps, +which they caught in a cornucopia-shaped basket made of wicker work. +These, with the little black fish named oopu which they found adhering +to the stones in the brook, and a fern frond called pohole, together +with poi, the Hawaiian staff of life, constituted the principal part of +their diet. They were also very fond of pig and chicken and never +begrudged the labor or time spent in getting up a luau. From them we had +an insight into the Hawaiian mode of living and were surprised to note +to what an extent the natives are dependent on the sea for a livelihood. +Sometimes Nui would take a day off, whether the master liked or not, and +take his family to the beach, when they employed themselves in fishing. +They would return with the greatest assortment of shell-fish and fish of +many sizes of the most varied colors. Also they would bring limu of +several kinds and odors. Limu, you know, is seaweed, and there appear to +be as many varieties of it as there are of ferns on the land. There is +also a variety of it found in the streams adhering to the rocks on the +bottom, which we were always taught to beware of at home, but which the +natives eat with cooked meats with great gusto. + +They always kept a store of kukui nuts, which they roasted; then +breaking up the kernels fine and mixed with salt, they ate it as a +relish. + +The women took delight in adorning themselves with leis, made either of +the maile, which grew in profusion on the steep sides of the ravines, or +of the _palapalai_, a luxuriant fern which clothes the valleys as with a +garment. Sometimes they would make leis of the fruit of the hala tree, +the _pandanus_, which was also very plentiful in that part of the +island. Sometimes they would inter-twine the bright hala fruit and the +fragrant glossy leaves of the maile, which made a very beautiful lei, +especially on an olive skin as a background. + +Often we were called in to eat with them and learned to like almost all +their native dishes. It was always the custom to call in any stranger +passing, to share their food with them. Their style of cooking, viz: +under ground, or in a saucepan over an open fire, seemed to give the +food a piquancy which had charms for us. + +Lani had a very sweet voice and accompanied her singing with a guitar, +which she played very sweetly and many an evening we passed about the +campfire very comfortably. She could yodel like an inhabitant of the +Swiss Alps and often we would hear her singing and yodeling as she came +up the valley to cross up to the tableland where we were cutting the +large koa trees, preparatory to hauling them to the mill to turn into +the handsome lumber so much sought after for making fine furniture. +There was not a man in the camp who was not charmed with her. + +There was a little Chinaman who came up through our valley, leading pack +horses, whose business was buying _pepeiao_, an ear-shaped fungus which +is found very plentiful on the trunks of decayed trees on the windward +sides of all the islands. The natives gathered and dried these and were +always glad to see the Chinaman come around, as they were enabled to +exchange them for either cash or the sweet cakes which he carried in his +panniers. This fungus contains a good deal of gelatinous matter and was +formerly largely exported to China, where it is used for soup making. +This poor little waif of a Celestial, named Leong Sing, fell in love +with our Lani at first sight and the frequent occasions he took for +wandering up our valley were not warranted by the inextensive trade +which he found. He made the acquaintance of a Chinaman who had a camp in +a neighboring valley, where he was making charcoal from the branches of +the koa trees, which he purchased from us. He got to staying over night +with his friend and would sometimes join our campfire of an evening and +listen to Lani's singing. None of us suspected him of the effrontery of +falling in love with our Lani or of expecting her to reciprocate his +affection. While at work one day in the woods her father told us that +the Chinaman had proposed and wanted to carry her off to Lahaina, where +his uncle had a large store. This was a greater temptation to Lani than +we suspected, as she was very fond of good clothes and the Chinese are +noted for taking the best of care of their wives in that respect. Also +was not Lahaina the capital, where young people were numerous and where +her accomplishments would be appreciated? + +Her father had higher aspirations for his daughter and wished that she +might marry a haole. + +There was a young man in camp, named Frank Willoughby, (evidently a +purser's name) who had come round the Horn in a whaler and had decamped +as soon as the vessel touched at Honolulu, as many of our best and worst +men did. Frank had a good education and was a very fine looking, healthy +young fellow of a most amiable disposition. When Frank heard of the +Chinaman's proposal he said he would kill the saffron-colored Celestial +on sight and break every bone in his body for his presumption. Then we +knew that Frank was badly smitten. + +But he was not the only one who was struck bad, as there was a young +half Hawaiian-Portuguese named Joe Edwards who was also very +denunciatory of the Chinaman and expressed a wish for his speedy demise. +Some of us had noticed that Frank was jealous of Joe, as the latter +could play the ukeke or Hawaiian Jew's harp, very well, and as a +stranger cannot tell what the player is singing on the instrument to his +_dulcinea_, Frank could not understand how far Joe had got along in his +courtship. + +There was another party who was heels over head in love with Lani and +this was so utterly unexpected that when the _denouement_ took place, +"you might knock us all down with a feather." This was a big hulk of a +black Portuguese named Shenandoah, from his having been captured on a +whaler by that Confederate pirate when on her marauding excursion +amongst the whalers in the Arctic, from whence he was returned to +Honolulu with many others. He was a most repulsive, villainous-looking +scoundrel, with black warts on his face; an Iago who could never capture +our Desdemona and consequently never came into our calculations. + +Anyway the Chinaman's name was "mud" from that time on. + +Frank could not talk much native and Lani's English education had been +sadly neglected, but it would not be the first instance where love was +made with the eyes and not the tongue. + +The work in the woods, felling those mammoth koas and hauling them with +cattle to the mill, was looked on more as play than work, but we were +very tired at night just the same. The _ieie_, an almost impenetrable +climbing vine, seemed to take delight in wrapping its rootlets around +those koas, to the vexation of the woodsman, and it would sometimes take +hours to get at the trunk of a tree. In chopping this ieie the axe would +sometimes fly back to the peril of the chopper. Once Frank had the bad +or good luck to get cut in the head with his axe and as he bled very +freely we were much alarmed and took him down to the camp. Kamaka put a +bandage of some native herbs about his head and he remained at home for +two or three days. How far his courtship progressed during his +convalescence we were never able to learn. Joe said he wished he himself +could get his foot cut off or something that he might be invalided. + +Sometime after this the boss told us we could all go down to Wailuku for +a holiday and spend the Fourth of July, which was going to be grandly +celebrated that year on account of some favorable news from home, +provided we would take a load of koa lumber down. Horses were not very +plentiful with us and we were to ride on the load. As Nui and Shenandoah +were to drive the six yoke of oxen and Lani and her mother were to ride +we jumped at the opportunity. + +The cattle were brought in from the woods, after a tedious search for +them, for a bullock can hide himself easier under the parasitic vines +and convolvulus which hang from those mammoth koas than anywhere under +the sun. The wagon being loaded and the load bound on with chains we +eight took our places for an eighteen-mile ride. Lani had provided leis +for each of us and she and her mother had collected an immensity of +ferns and ki leaves for a cushion to make the soft side of the boards +softer, and we had a large hamper of lunch and a merrier party never +started for an ox-cart ride. + +We got away about 5 a. m., Nui and Shenandoah walking on either side of +the team and there never was more fun in a basket of monkeys than on +that wagon. He had our old standbys, Nigger and Puakea on the tongue and +the young cattle ahead and the trouble these cattle caused, "I couldn't +be telling." They would dash ahead and fetch up, then they would turn on +their tracks and get tangled in the chains, then after a lot of bad +language they would get straightened out and make another break, and +this was repeated _ad nauseam_. + +When we got them up out of the valley and the weight of the load was +relieved they made a break to run and almost pulled the heads off the +tongue cattle, who, I believe, would sooner have lost those extremities +than have been so undignified as to go faster than a walk. Down we went +through Kawaiki, and through Huluhulunui, Puaahookui, and Kaluanui +gulches, the young cattle on the tear and the old ones on their +haunches, notwithstanding the chain lock which we had on the wheels. The +only thing to hold on to was the binding chain and after getting our +hands nipped a few times we preferred to maintain our positions by +leaning up against each other. We could not refrain from remarking on +the solicitude which both Frank and Joe exhibited for Lani's welfare, +doing everything they could devise for her comfort. We have helped tip +over a pair of bobs in the snow at home to hear the girls squeal, but we +never had an experience of riding on a bullock cart with a trio of +lovesick people when every instant produced a bump which would drive a +sane person into insanity. + +The sun came up right glorious and gave us the benefit of its full +actinic rays for the whole day. However, had we been in a palace car we +could not have had more fun. + +All across that sunburnt plain from East Maui plantation to the beach at +Kahului we bumped over rocks and into gullies, for who ever knew of a +bullock team fool enough to miss any of those opportunities of getting +even on man for his inhumanity to them. Towards 1 P. M. we reached +Kahului, the cattle with their tongues hanging out this three hours for +lack of water. Here was plenty of it and the whole team rushed into the +sea only to find that this fluid which so much resembled water was not +the kind they were accustomed to. + +Now we were in real danger of getting drowned or getting the wheels +stuck in the quick-sand. Frank suggested that we take the wheels off our +chariot, the way Pharaoh did and float ashore. He was told to kulikuli +and suggest some way out of the difficulty which was feasible. All of us +knew how to direct the drivers however, and if they had listened to us +we would have been there yet. Nui dashed into the water to seaward of +the cattle and striking one of the young leaders on the nose it bellowed +with pain and turned shorewards and we were saved, probably for a worse +fate. We arrived safely at Wailuku and hastened to relieve ourselves of +the superfluous real estate gathered on the way, for the winds of +Kahului isthmus can carry more red dirt per cubic inch than any simoon +in Arabia, and deposit it more evenly on any obstructing surface. + +That evening we met Lani and her mother at the village store and +postoffice and she soon became the recipient of much in the line of +bright colored dress goods. Frank received a remittance from home and +nothing would do but he must give her a side saddle, one of those fancy +looking horse-killers such as they sold for twenty dollars. Joe bought +her a fancy bridle and another member of the party gave her a flaming +scarlet felt saddle cloth. All these to a poor girl who did not own a +horse. Horses were pretty cheap in those days, from $5 up. Frank bought +her a cream colored mare from a bystander for $20 and placing the saddle +and accoutrements on he requested her to mount and try the saddle. + +Shenandoah had been buying dress goods at the instigation of Lani's +mother and when he came out and saw the beautiful girl mounted on the +prancing horse he swore she should never ride it home and commanded her +to dismount. + +This revelation was too much for us. What; this clod of earth dare to +talk in this manner to our Lani? And using tones of authority too! This +was the last straw. Frank opened up on him with a volubility and a +vocabulary which could only have been acquired before the mast on an +American whaler. + +Shenandoah dropped his armful of bundles and made a rush at him to +annihilate him. Frank had played football too much in college to be +badly terrified and when the Portuguese struck at him he lowered his +head and rushed his black opponent, taking him just in the short ribs +with his head, and Shenandoah was _hors de combat_ instanter. It was +sometime before he could take a breath, then had to be taken off to a +room, which he did not leave until we were ready to return to +Hoikaopuiaawalau. + +Frank got a nice horse for himself and he and Lani enjoyed the Fourth of +July. + +At that time there was a fashion among the native women of making their +own hats from rooster skins. A fine bird would be selected, no matter +what the price ($5 has been paid for a bird for that purpose). The skin +was taken off whole and while green put over a mold to dry. Then they +would line them and when rightly made one could almost imagine it was a +live rooster sitting on a nest. Frank got one of the best of these and +gave it to Lani and the next day as he and she rode on either side of +the team, for they drove us home, the sight of her was exceedingly +galling to Shenandoah who had to ride on the empty wagon, the cock +appearing to crow over him at every bounce of her horse. + +However the fun was not out of us yet nor out of the bullock. They never +seemed to tire giving us our money's worth. When we had arrived at +Wailuku we turned them into a corral where there was plenty of food and +drink and they ought to have been satisfied. Not so however, for, about +midnight a man came to our lodgings and said our cattle had got loose +into the cane fields, and, tired as we were we all had to get out and +hunt them through the cane, and corral them once more. + +We sailed across the plains easily enough but when we came to the region +of gulches and night and the rain had set in the anxiety of those on the +wagon for their safety was pathetic. We had some marvellous escapes but +finally arrived in camp in a half drowned condition. + +A couple of days afterwards the charcoal burner came over and told us +that Leong Sing had been there during our absence, and says he, "there he +comes again." That evening he called on Lani and she flatly told him in +some expressive way that she wished no more of his attentions. He +retired to the Chinese camp and we saw him no more. + +The following day the Chinaman came over and asked where Leong Sing was. +We said we did not know. Then said he, "he is dead for his hat is lying +beside the charcoal kiln and it looks as if he had fallen in and been +consumed." We went over to see and things did have that appearance, as +the roof had fallen in and the pit was a mass of flame. The Chinaman +must have taken the rejection of his suit very much to heart to have +destroyed himself by such a horrid route. + +That same day Shenandoah rode off to Makawao on Lani's horse and +reported the death of Leong Sing and swore out a complaint charging +Frank Willoughby with the murder. + +A constable came over and took Frank away and when the coroner's inquest +was held the jury returned a verdict: "died by the hands of some one +unknown to us." At the examination before the magistrate Shenandoah and +Joe Edwards both swore to having repeatedly heard Frank Willoughby +threaten to kill the Chinaman and the magistrate held Frank without bail +to be tried by the next Circuit Court at Lahaina. He was taken off over +the mountains by a policeman. Joe Edwards skipped out for fear he might +be also arrested, for his threats were as pronounced as Frank's. + +When Frank and the guard got into Lahaina he sent for an old friend of +his father's who was practicing law there and he persuaded the Circuit +Judge to accept bail as there had been no body found and no cause for +the calling of a coroner's jury and that the magistrate merely acted on +the hearsay of a pair who were jealous of the prisoner. + +Frank went home with Farwell and the latter advised him to return home +to New York saying that he had frequently written to him advising such a +course and his parents were exceedingly anxious about him. Frank refused +to skip his bail and determined to stand trial like a man. + +Within two weeks the Chinaman, Leong Sing, came in with his uncle who +had gone to search into the matter and Frank was ordered discharged. The +Chinaman had felt so heartbroken that he had wandered away up the ravine +and climbed up on a ridge and kept on walking until he met a heavy +shower and as it is pretty cold up there he turned to go back. +Unfortunately he did not take the same ridge down, a thing likely enough +to occur, as he had walked so far as to have passed the heads of several +ravines, and keeping too much to the right had brought up the following +night at Halehaku, some six miles from his point of departure. The +natives took care of him and in a few days he was enabled to get a horse +and return to camp to the agreeable surprise of the rest of us. + +Frank took Mr. Farwell's advice and went straight home to New York. +Years afterwards we were riding from Waihee to Lahaina by way of +Kahakuloa and arriving at the latter village we felt as if some fish and +poi would taste good. It was a dilapidated looking place and the +shanties were hardly improvements on pigsties, but we decided that it +was better to eat there than to risk going farther and finding none. + +We stopped at the best looking shanty and were told they would prepare +us some _opihi_, a shell fish abundant on the rocks there, the sale of +which is about the only source of livelihood of the few inhabitants. + +Imagine our surprise when we were called to eat to find that our hostess +was none other than Lani and that Shenandoah was our host and that their +eleven little black offsprings were the kids we saw perched on the +fence. + +Lani was an old fagged out woman without any traces of the belle she had +been, and Shenandoah was blacker and uglier than ever. "Apples of +Sodom," said my friend, and we paid for our opihi and poi and departed." + + J. W. GIRVIN. + + + + +Legend +of +Hiku i Kanahele + + +Above the long sloping hills of Kona where the coffee grows luxuriantly, +on the stately mountain of Hualalai, he lived, this Hiku I Kanahele. +That he existed there can be no doubt, for the Kamaainas will tell you +the most remarkable stories concerning him, which have been cherished +with all the old-time love of romance to the present matter-of-fact age, +handed down from generation to generation. They will tell you also that +his father Ku was a Demi-God and his mother Hina a Demi-Goddess, and +will eagerly show you a romantic relic of the past at the foot of the +mountain, the Ke Ana o Hina--Cave of Hina, and will point out to you on +the Kona coast, not far from Kailua, with its soft, dreamy warm +atmosphere and enchanting bay, the palace where Hiku and his bride +resided. + +Ku and Hina had two children: Hiku, kane, and Kawelu, wahine, she being +many years his junior. Hiku, however, did not know of her existence, for +when a very little kaikamahine she was given to the care of the brave +Chief of Holualoa, who reared her as his own child. + +Beautiful as the sunrise was Kawelu, with eyes as large, soft and brown +as the heart of a sunflower, tall, and graceful as the palms which +swayed in the murmuring breezes in her palace garden, with a disposition +sweet as the maile wreaths and ohia leis her maidens wove to adorn her +jet-black hair, or wind around her willowy shapely form. + +Many were the young chiefs who sought her favors, but for all she had +only smiles of friendship, though at times, with the wanton coquetry +innate in the heart of every beautiful woman, she would smile archly and +invitingly upon some handsome Alii, then regard him with a saucy +indifference which made her doubly precious in his eyes. Agile as she +was beautiful, her equal could not be found throughout the Isle in +athletic games. Often, in the pastime of throwing the spear, had she +evaded half a dozen of these dangerous weapons cast at her at once, +catching some with her hands, warding off or eluding the others. None +could hurl the arrows so dextrously as she, nor ride so swiftly on the +holua down the steep hills, and few cared to leap from such lofty rocks +into the swollen streams; and she would think it a light task to swim +for miles upon the gently swelling waters of the blue ocean, saying with +a merry laugh that the dreaded Mano was her good friend. But the pastime +she loved best of all was surf riding, and so wondrously expert was she +in this exhilarating sport, and so beautiful did she appear standing +erect on her board on the crest of an incoming wave, breaking in snowy +foam all around her, so like a radiant Nymph or Goddess freshly risen +from the seething waters, that the onlookers would burst into thunderous +applause, calling her Kawelu the Beautiful, which was borne echoing up +the mountain for many miles; and it was there in his home on the +mountain top that Hiku heard these strange sounds wafted thither by the +vagrant winds. Often had he asked his mother what they meant, but always +evasive were her answers, for well she knew, with her wonderful power of +divining the future, what the result would be if he should know. But at +last, so persistent were his queries, she told him the sounds he heard +were the voices of the people, applauding the most lovely wahine in all +the world, praising her beauty and skill as she rode on the waves, and +that this beautiful maiden was his own sister. Then a great warm desire +filled his breast, and he said: "I must go to her; I must see this +charming sister of mine, and ride with her on the waves." With commands +and entreaties Hina endeavored to detain him, but to no purpose. Then +she told him they would fall in love with each other, and that would +bring great pilikia, for it was considered then a proper thing for the +chiefs to make love to and marry their own sisters. + +The next day Hiku departed for the coast with a surf board made by his +father. Being descended from the Gods he had all their innate beauty of +form and cleverness; and the manner in which he rode the waves called +forth the plaudits of the assembled crowd again and again. + +Kawelu, who at this time was indolently lying on the royal mats in the +palace, her shapely form being lomilomied by her attentive maids, +inquired why the people applauded so heartily, and on being told there +had come a stranger to the shore as strong and graceful and athletic as +a God, and that he was riding her favorite nalu, which were tabu to +those not of Royal birth, hastily encircled her slender waist with her +pa'u, and with the Leipalaoa around her neck (an ivory insignia of +royalty enclosed in human hair), hurried to the beach, and there upon +the white gleaming crests of her own nalu saw the most handsome youth +her liquid eyes smiled upon with a malo around his loins, borne swiftly +towards her, landing almost at her feet. Their eyes met, and both stood +still as though transfixed by some delightful sensation, then with a +sudden joyous impulse she took the Leipalaoa from her bosom and threw it +around his neck, expressing a desire for him, it being a privilege, +graciously accorded her royal station, to ask whom she pleased to be her +lover. Hiku with all the fervor of the poetical nature returned her +impromptu affection, for she appeared to him like one of his beautiful +ancestors, who were Gods and Goddesses, of whom Ku and Hina had told him +marvellous stories in his boyhood. + +The happy lovers repaired to the Chief, the foster father of Kawelu, and +when he learned of Hiku's exalted station readily gave consent to their +union. + +Several months sped swiftly by, never had time tripped along so merrily, +his jaunty footsteps being hastened by hilarious luaus where hulas were +sung and danced; and throughout the happy period the two lovers nestled +together like a pair of cooing doves, never out of each other's +presence. None amongst the hundreds of guests could dance the hulas with +such ease and grace, nor sing so harmoniously; and when linked arm in +arm as they rode on their surf boards on the hissing breakers, their +handsome forms erect and stately, they seemed to the wondering gazers +like the offspring of the Gods from some mystic realm beyond the waste +of waters surrounding their tranquil isle or from one of the millions of +moving worlds that shone above at night, which ever filled them with awe +and amazement. + +But there comes a time in the sweetest moments of our lives when the +causes which induced them cease to operate, when Love itself grows tired +of loving. Hiku had never before been so long away from his parents, and +having drank to satiety of the love of his graceful Kawelu, a strong +yearning filled his heart to see his mother Hina, a yearning which +increased daily, till at length he told his affectionate bride that he +must leave her for awhile. With tears and entreaties she implored him to +stay, fearing this was a ruse to abandon her, that he no longer wished +her caresses; but he became sullen and obstinate, and one day at sunrise +he stealthily left the couch of his sweet young wife, whose eyes were +softly closed in blissful slumber. + +Kawelu awoke; Hiku was gone, and whither? Perhaps forever? These were +the thoughts which swiftly filled her mind, and caused her eyes to weep +rivers of tears. Then she wildly prayed to the Gods to bring him back to +her aching bosom, and finding no response, set out alone along the +mountain trail towards his home, where she surmised he was journeying. +But Hiku with his natural intuition knew of her design, and calling to +his aid the clouds he bade them intercept her path, and the rain he bade +fall to make slippery the ground for her feet, and the branches of the +trees and the ferns and vines to detain her. Despite these obstacles, +with all Love's fond foolishness, Kawelu followed her recreant lover for +many hours, to sink at last exhausted on the cold wet earth, her soft +skin torn by the thorny bushes and branches of the ohias, and her long +silken hair tossed wildly around her form where the ieie vine had +clutched it as she passed. Salt tears flowed from her eyes; her rosy +morning dream of Love had vanished, and the black despair of night had +taken its place. Calling loudly in the unbroken silence of the forest +for her lover, she chanted the following lines pathetically: + + Pii ana Hiku i ke kualono, + Ka lala e kau kolo ana; + I keekeehiia e ka ua, + Helelei ka pua ilalo, + E Hiku hoi e, + Hoi mai kaua e! + +Which roughly translated are as follows: + + Hiku has gone up the mountain, + Where the long winding branches are creeping, + And the blossoms fall thickly around + Where the rain on the branches is weeping: + Oh Hiku! come back to me! + +The radiant tropic morning has dawned, the sun has kissed the raindrops +from the faces of the flowers, but on the sweet gentle face of Kawelu +the raindrops of her heart still fall unceasingly! Vainly her father +tries to soothe her grief, for he had found her weeping and shivering on +the lonely mountain side; vainly her maids cluster around with soft +words of condolence. At length she sleeps, and they leave her, praying +to the Gods to take away this great sorrow, to make her again the warm +ray of sunshine, gladdening all with which it came in contact. When they +returned Kawelu was dead! Grieved beyond endurance by her tragic loss +she sought release in Death for this maddening pain her heart could +never hold, fastening with her own gentle fingers around her smooth +round throat the death-inducing cord! + +Hiku had greeted his mother Hina with a kiss, but she bent upon him +reproachful eyes, and said "My son, you have killed your sister; already +she lies dead through loss of you! You must now go and try to undo the +great wrong you have committed." Then Hiku in despair rushed down the +mountain accompanied by Ku, and reaching the palace of his beautiful +Kawelu found his mother's words to be true, and with loud manifestations +of grief had her body placed in a dark cool room which was tabu to all. + +By his superior intuition Ku discerned Kawelu's soul had gone to Aina +Milu, a region of pleasure in the underwood, a place where the spirits +of those who break Nature's laws go at death, where no sun ever shines. +The entrance to this realm of shades he found to be in the fertile +valley of Waipio, and thither he and the now distracted Hiku swiftly +sped, gathering as they went the Kowali vine, weaving of it a stout +rope. On the side of the valley they discovered a large hole (pointed +out by the natives to the present day) which Ku said was the entrance to +this darksome world of festive spirits. Hiku unwound his huge coil of +rope with the delicate blue and white Kowali flowers entwined in its +strands, and prepared to descend into the dark pit. Previous to doing +so, however, he provided himself with an empty cocoanut shell, and +rubbed his body all over with some rotten kukui nut oil, which emitted a +most offensive odor, and with a kukui nut for a light, whilst Ku firmly +held the rope, he descended into the blackness. + +On reaching the bottom he found himself in a gloomy region amidst thorny +trees without leaves and fruit, dry and barren, with a close heavy +stifling atmosphere, whose odor excited the senses and produced an +intense thirst. Countless numbers of spirits were gathered there, all +active and restless, engaged in the very games they were fond of on +earth. A great luau was being prepared, where thousands of phantom pigs +and chickens were cooking in fires that gave no light. The Demon King +Milu was going that night to marry a beautiful fresh young soul who had +just arrived in his weird realm; and looking towards the throne of the +king Hiku in dismay saw she was none other than his own lost bride. + +Much excitement was created by the presence of Hiku, but he smelled so +badly of the rotten kukui nuts that the spirits did not care to approach +very closely, designing him "Ke akua pilau,"--the bad smelling ghost. + +The merry game of Kilu was going on at the time, and in a few moments +his presence was forgotten in its absorbing delights. The game is one of +love, a wahine taking in her hand a small ball, with which she endeavors +to strike the kanaka she desires, chanting at the same time a verse of a +song, and if successful he becomes her immediate lover. + +Kawelu was still seated on the elevated throne, holding in her dainty +fingers the little ball which was the promoter of this intense +merriment. Her mobile lips were chanting a cooing refrain, one which she +and Hiku together had composed on earth in the glad days of their brief +wedded life. In the midst of it she stopped, and he took up the chant, +all the others remaining silent, as the song was unknown to them. +Instantly she called in a tremulous voice, "Who is this that sings;" as +though some forgotten memory had wakened in her soul. No one spoke; then +she left her place and went amongst the throng, looking into each face +until she came to Hiku, who was crouching low, when she stopped, but +finding in him a bad-smelling ghost she returned and recommenced the +chant. Again she paused a moment when half through, and once more Hiku +took up the refrain. Kawelu was intensely agitated; this time she +observed it was the bad-smelling spirit who chanted the remainder of her +melody, and again approached him, but he during this time had made a +swing of his long rope and was swiftly swinging backwards and forwards, +to the delight of the clustering spirits who had never seen anything of +the kind before. "How smart the bad-smelling ghost is," they said, +whilst Kawelu clapped her hands delightedly at the performance, +expressing a desire to get on the swing; but Hiku, disguising his voice, +said "this is a very difficult thing to learn; you might injure yourself +seriously if you tried it without my help; if you sit in my lap I will +swing you, then afterwards you can swing by yourself." But the swinging +spirit smelled so strongly she would not accept his invitation until +they had placed a long wrapper around him, when she did as he suggested. +Higher and higher Hiku sent the swing; with all the strength of his +nervy, muscular, frame he propelled it back and forth, holding Kawelu +close to his heart the while, which was beating rapidly with trembling +hopes. Suddenly he pulled on the rope, the signal agreed on with his +father to haul him up, and immediately, still moving in long tremendous +sweeps, the swing rose high in the air, higher and higher each instant, +amidst the alarmed shouts of the subjects of Milu, whose shrill cries +echoed gruesomely along the avenues of foliageless trees, "He is +stealing the King's wahine, he is stealing the King's wahine." Milu +leaped madly forward to snatch her from his arms, but slipped on the +Kilu ball, which lay on the ground, he fell heavily forward, and was +trampled under the feet of his excited minions, and swift as were their +movements, the marvellous strength of Ku, hauling up the swing, was more +availing, for it shot up the black shaft with lightning rapidity, the +startled Kawelu struggling wildly to escape, Hiku clasping her tightly +to his breast, holding her easily in his strong grasp, chanting some +mystic words whereby she became smaller and smaller, until he held her +in the hollow of his hand, when he forced her into the empty cocoanut +shell, and holding his fingers firmly over the hole safely returned to +earth, glad to escape from the gloom of this underworld of unwholesome +mirth and ceaseless revelry. Quickly they turned their faces towards +Hualalai, looking in the distance like a dark ominous shadow, and before +many hours their anxious feet echoed in the chamber where lay the mute +body of Kawelu, still under strict tabu, no dog having barked in the +vicinity of its sacred precincts, nor foot of man passed by the spot, +since their departure. + +The spirit leaves the body through the eyes, through the little holes in +the corners of the eyes nearest the nose, when Death calls it. This Ku +and Hiku knew, but they also knew that the spirit cannot return in the +same manner, that it must find its way, if ever it returns, into its +earthly tenement of flesh and blood through the hollow in the sole of +the foot. Placing the cocoanut there, and removing his finger from the +hole, Hiku commanded the spirit of his beloved Kawelu to enter her body, +lying there so pathetically cold and still that the tears sprang to his +eyes as he gazed. The spirit went as far as the knee, when it returned; +again he commanded it to enter, and this time it went to the hip, but +could go no further. Once again he commanded the spirit to seek an +entrance, and with fluttering heart and motionless limbs awaited the +outcome of those terribly anxious moments, for well he knew how many +were the chances of the soul being lost in the intricate channels of the +body, then to his unbounded joy he perceived a slight pulsing movement +of the eyelids, then a gradual unveiling of her liquid dark-brown orbs, +as she murmured, "Why did you wake me; I had so pleasant a sleep; why +did you not let me rest;" but when she felt the warm-impassioned kisses +of her lover on her cold lips, and heard his voice sounding in her ears +like rare music she vaguely remembered having heard before under sweet +conditions, breathing protestations of affection and love, and when his +warm tears of joyous thankfulness fell on her smooth velvetry cheek, she +awoke to a full realization of the tranquil bliss of love, of the +delicious unspeakable harmony poets vainly endeavor to describe, +remembering vividly the weird events of the past few days, and her arms +twined lovingly around the form of her own Hiku, on whose trembling +bosom she softly nestled. + +Centuries have passed; Hiku and Kawelu no longer exist on this plane of +action, but whilst the Hawaiian race endures will live the story of +their love, and the spectral past with its warriors and gods, and its +warm love and worship and song and story will ever be brilliantly +reflected in their hearts. The lovers lived to a mellow old age, ever +faithful to each other, blessed with a numerous offspring, from whom the +kings of Hawaii claimed descent. And the old kamaainas will earnestly +tell you that every bit of this romantic story is absolutely true. + + MAURICIO. + + + + +Story +of a +Brave Woman + + +Three riders came out of the woods, and, turning into the road leading +from Napoopoo to the uplands, slowly began the ascent. As they went up, +the long plains, reaching from the forest covered heights of Mauna Loa +to the ocean, seemed to grow broader, and the sea rose higher, till the +far away horizon almost touched the sinking sun. Lanes of glassy water +stretched from the shore into illimitable distance. A ship lying +motionless looked as if hanging in mid-air. Under the cliff the delicate +lines of cocoanut and palm trees were silhouetted against the ocean +mirror. Far to the south ran the black and frowning coast, relieved here +and there by white lines of foam creeping lazily in from the ocean, only +to look darker as the surf melted from sight. On the plain, little +clusters of trees, or a house, or a thin curl of smoke, indicated the +presence of men: and back of all rose the forest, vast, dim and +mysterious, stretching away for miles till lost in the clouds resting +softly on the bosom of the mountain. + +Such a scene could not fail to arrest attention, and, though our riders +were tired, they reined in their horses to enjoy its quiet beauty. + +"What a wonderful scene! I have been through Europe, feasted my eyes on +the Alps, and have seen the finest that America can produce, but I never +saw its equal," said the tourist. + +"It looks as if such a picture might be the theatre of thrilling romance +and history" said the Coffee Planter. "Is it not here that Captain Cook +was killed? And I think I have heard that a famous battle was fought +somewhere near: the last struggle of the past against advancing +Christianity." + +"Yes," replied the Native, slowly, with a lingering look in his eyes, as +he turned from the inspiring view to his companions. "Yes, this is all +historic ground. Over there under the setting sun, at Kuamoo, was fought +the battle of Kekuaokalani, and there a heroic woman braved and met +death with her husband, a rebel chief. On these plains below and on +yonder heights there have been many thrilling scenes in Hawaii's +history. But all of the romance is not in the past. Do you see those +houses away down the coast, this side of the high lands of Honokua? See +how they glow in the setting sun-light. That is Hookena, and only a few +years ago it witnessed the last act in a simple drama, which can hardly +be excelled in all the tales of heroism in the past. It was told me in +part by the woman who was or is the heroine, for she yet lives. And I +looked at her in wonder, because she was so unconscious of it all." + +"Let us hear the story," said the Planter. "We will sit on that high +point and watch this glorious scene fade into moonlight, while we rest +and listen." They dismounted and stepped from the road to a projecting +rock and, throwing themselves on the grass where none of the wonderful +vision could be missed, listened. The Native looked a little embarrassed +at his sudden transformation from guide to story-teller, but accepted +the position and began. + +"Many years ago a native family lived a few miles above Hookena, on land +which had been occupied by their ancestors for generations, for they +belonged to the race of chiefs. The house was hidden from the road, in +the midst of a grove of orange, bread-fruit, mango, banana and other +trees. It is on storied ground, for many stirring events in the past +history of Hawaii had occurred here. A son and three daughters were the +children. They received more than the usual care and attention given to +Hawaiian children, and had grown to man and womanhood serious and +reflective. The young man, Keawe, was filled with a desire to do +something noble for his dying race. Though he had travelled over the +Islands and had been well received everywhere, yet he was heart-free, +and said he would never marry, but wait untrammelled till his time for +action should come. With eagerness he watched political developments at +the capital. His heart beat wildly when the last Kamehameha died, and +Kalakaua was elected King. Such a method of King-making did not suit his +chivalric ideas. The records of personal prowess, of brave chiefs and +noble women were his delight. He mourned that such records belonged to +the well nigh forgotten past. His ambition was not ignoble. He wanted +the Hawaiians to be worthy of the best civilization, to maintain a +Hawaiian kingdom, because that the native was equal to it. While he +mourned, he condemned the frequent failures, under which the native was +forfeiting the confidence of his white friends. He was one of the +overwhelming majority who regarded Kalakaua's accession as unworthy, and +as the beginning of the end of Hawaiian supremacy. + +One day, while fishing at the beach where he was doing more dreaming +than fishing; sometimes idly watching a laughing company of girls who +were bathing and surf-riding; he was startled by a cry of terror. +Springing to his feet, he saw that one of the girls was desperately +struggling to swim ashore, where her affrighted companions were running +wildly about crying for help. Looking toward the sea he saw a large fin +on the surface rapidly following the swimmer. Accustomed to every +athletic sport; perfectly at home in the water; always cool and self +possessed, he saw, that to overtake her, the shark must pass a low rocky +headland, and in an instant he was there with a long knife in his hand. +He remembered seeing the face of the girl as she struggled desperately +to escape. There was a single terrified glance, but he saw a beautiful +woman, with a face indicating a higher type than usual. There was no +time for admiration. The shark was turning and, with a horrid open +mouth, was about to rush upon its victim. He gave a loud shout, jumped +full upon the huge beast, and in an instant had plunged his knife to the +hilt again and again into its body. Then he was hurled into the seething +brine, as the frightened animal with frantic plunges rushed seaward. +Coming to the surface and looking about he saw the body of the girl near +by. He thought her dead. She was indeed stunned and hurt, for the shark +gave her a fearful blow in turning. It was the work of only a minute to +drag her out. There for a moment he saw the full measure of her youth +and beauty, but did not wait for returning consciousness. Seeing that +she was recovering he walked swiftly away. + +But he was wounded, and, denounce and reproach himself as he would, the +sweet face ever and anon came before his eyes, and sent the blood +tingling and dancing through his veins. He tried to crush out the image, +and determined to enter into active life; to cease dreaming, and begin +then and at once to accomplish his high aims. + +The political campaign, culminating in the election of 1886, had +commenced. Kalakaua had announced the aim of his reign: to increase and +develope the Hawaiian people. "Hawaii for the Hawaiians" made an +inspiring war cry. Keawe entered with energy and hope into the conflict. +Yet it troubled him, and it seemed as if there was something wrong in +opposing the noble Pilipo, who had so long faithfully represented the +people of Kona in the National Legislature. But Kalakaua declared that +Pilipo must be replaced by another man, and was himself coming to assist +in the conflict. With the ancient faith and confidence in the chief, +Keawe put aside his doubts and worked day and night for the success of +the holy cause. It was holy to him and as the day of election drew near, +his belief grew stronger, that at last a deliverer had come and Hawaii +was to be redeemed. Already he saw, in a bright future, a government by +Hawaiians with full friendship for all nations, and cordial relations +with those who had helped his people into the best light of +civilization. The King came, and with him a troop of palace guards from +Honolulu. When all of these were, by the royal will, duly registered as +voters, and means, other than argument and persuasion, were used to help +on the good cause, a chilly sense of something wrong cooled Keawe's +ardor. He met the King and was cordially received. His heart bounded +with pleasure at words of praise for his work. An invitation to a feast +and dance was accepted, and only when he went and saw, did he realize +the mockery and sham behind the fine words. Heart sick, dizzy with a +sore disappointment, early the next morning, when all were sleeping, he +mounted his horse and stole away, alone. The cold mountain air relieved +the pain in his head, but his heart was weary and the future looked +dark. He saw that if there was momentary triumph, all the sooner +disaster must come; and he longed to know how to avert the danger. He +grew weary thinking and trying to hope, and his thoughts went to other +things. Again he was in the water, struggling to save her life. Again +the sweet face appeared before him, so fair and gentle. The sun was hot +now; he had ridden for hours, and, alighting, threw himself on the grass +and looked up through the leafy bower at the bright sky. Perhaps he +slept; at any rate he dreamed that a sweet voice was singing "Aloha oe." +He sat up and listened. It was not a dream, and a strong desire to see +the face of the singer possessed him. The voice drew nearer, then she +passed near by carrying a pitcher, and went to a spring. It was the girl +he had saved from the shark! She wore a loose flowing gown of white, and +a maile branch twisted about her head hardly confined the silky hair +which floated down her back. A coral pin held the gown at her neck. +Short sleeves only partly hid her graceful and shapely arms. + +Keawe arose and stood watching. His heart beat tumultuously. No other +woman had so strongly moved him, and now he would speak and not run +again. A movement startled her, and rising with the dripping pitcher in +her hand, she turned and saw him. That she knew him was instantly +evident; but her eyes modestly dropped and she moved as if to go. But he +was in the path, and, seeing that, she hesitated and turned to go +through the woods, but could not and stood again, looking at her feet +which just peeped from below the gown. Keawe stepped towards her and +said, "Do you remember the shark?" "Yes, I know you," she replied. Her +eyes said more and he saw it again. As he stepped nearer she said, "Why +did you not let me thank you? I thought you might come." It flashed +through his mind that he had wasted two months pursuing an ignis fatuus, +only to have nothing but bitterness at the end, when it might have been +----! "I was afraid to come," he replied. "I wanted to work for Hawaii +and our people." "Yes, I know," she said. "You have spoken bravely. All +Kona trusts in your words!" "Did you believe them?" he quickly asked. +"Do you believe in _me_?" A look was her reply. "Will you believe in me +if I say that I have done with 'Hawaii for the Hawaiians', under such +leadership?" "I will always believe in you. But come, you are tired. My +father will be glad to meet you," she said quickly. "May I drink?" he +said, and held out his hand. She gave him the pitcher, which he held and +looked at the pretty figure standing near the spring. "You are Rebecca +at the well." "And are you Abraham's servant?" "No, I am Isaac himself," +he replied and tried to take her hand. "Oh! but Isaac did not meet +Rebecca at the well!" And, laughing merrily, she ran down the path +towards her home. He followed but though he wanted, the opportunity for +other words did not come; she was so coy. + +It was not the only visit. Very often did business calls take him along +that lovely mountain road and there was always a welcome at the home of +Lilia. He told her of his love, and in April they were married. + +They built a little cottage which nestled snugly in a quiet valley on +the mountain side, and there they passed a few months of perfect +happiness. All loved them. He was regarded as the wise adviser and +friend of the country-side. She became the gentle sister of those who +were ill, or suffering or wayward, and their home was the center of an +influence which helped and lifted. + +But a shadow came into their lives. He grew silent, reserved, almost +afraid of his beautiful Lilia. She watched with eager anxiety and +entreated his confidence, but his lips were sealed. Only his tremulous +voice and shaking hand betrayed suffering. Sometimes she fancied that +his hands grew palsied and his bright eye was dim, but repelled the +fancy with terror. One day he came home with such a look that her heart +stood still, and words died upon her lips. He gazed into her eyes with +passionate agony and, taking her hands, said, "Will you still believe in +me if I say we must part; that I must leave you and go away, and you +must stay here and live out your life--your precious life, so dear to +me--all, all alone?" Then her courage came, and she said, "No, I will +never leave you. You are mine. I must go too, wherever you go!" "But," +said he, "I have seen the examining surgeon to-day, and he says that I +must go by the next trip of the steamer to Honolulu." And then the full +measure of her woe dawned upon the stricken wife. With unutterable +anguish she threw her arms about his body and clasped him tightly to her +breast. "I was allowed to come here and prepare to go, and to bid a last +farewell to all I hold so dear. I shall never see these trees, the +flowers, this house, my friends, nor you, my precious wife, again." But +her face had grown hard and stern, and, relaxing her hold, she told her +plan. It was to take him into a far off deep recess in the woods. There +was up the mountain side a deep crater, overgrown with trees, ferns, +vines and a wild luxuriance of growth, which kindly nature had draped so +softly that its hideousness was lost. It was considered inaccessible, +and only the family knew of an ancient lava cavern which entered its +deepest recess. One of several mouths of the cavern was near the house. +"But the law says that I must go," he urged. "There is no law higher than +my love for you," and he yielded to her imperious urgency. Quickly and +stealthily she carried there such articles as the simplest life might +require, and a few days later, when the officers of the law came, Keawe +was not to be found and no one knew where they had gone. + +With untiring love the wife watched and aided her husband. Together they +built a little bower out of view from the upper edges of the crater, +under the spreading branches of a kukui tree. A little pool, fed by the +constant drip from the over-hanging wall, supplied them with pure water. +Near at hand, under a mass of ferns, maile and ieie, was the mouth of +the cavern. She grew familiar with its turns and windings, till she +almost dared to brave its black recesses without a torch. In one of its +dry and sheltered windings, she stored articles of food and clothing, +thinking that sometime a watch might be stationed at the home on the +hill-side, and she could not venture out. But days melted into weeks; +weeks became months: two years passed, and their hiding place was not +discovered. No one came, though Keawe often longed to see the faces of +friends. But they were afraid to venture near and the cavern echoed only +to her feet, and the silence of the deep pit was only broken by their +voices and the music of birds. At times, a sudden gust rushed down the +steep sides and every tree waved and bowed its head, and the leaves of +the banana rustled and quivered. The sun-light only touched the bottom +in summer and then for a few minutes only. But it was not gloomy, the +glorious sky was always there and the brilliant light, and bloom and +fragrance filled the air. No, it was not always bright, sometimes +tempests whirled far over their heads; trees in the world above tossed +their branches over the abyss, leaves and twigs fell gently, or +branches, and once, a tree, were hurled down with deafening noise. The +roar of thunder, and vast sheets and torrents of rain filled the pit. +Once, in a still night, they were startled and terrified by a sudden +boom far below their feet and the earth shook, stones rattled down the +rocky sides of the abyss, and they remembered the dread power of the +volcano. "It is Pele! she is angry with us!" cried Lilia. "No," replied +her husband, "we have thrown ourselves into the protecting bosom of the +Goddess! We are safe in her arms." They were safe from human sight and +interference, and Lilia's soul feasted in the presence of him she loved. +She poured out upon him such a wealth of devotion, that a miser might +have envied. But alas, though safe from man, he was under the fell power +of disease, and slowly yielded. Day after day he grew weaker and less +able to help himself, until the fond wife performed the most menial +tasks. But they were not menial to her. Every thing for him was a glory +and a joy. + +"I cannot last long," he said one day, "and I want you to have my lands. +Get your mother's young husband, the lawyer, to come, that it may be +settled." He came, and, looking wonderingly about, prepared a deed which +he said would accomplish the object. Keawe was not satisfied. "It sounds +wrong--why should the name of your wife appear?" he asked. "She is your +wife's mother," was the reply, "and you cannot convey to your wife +direct. When this deed is recorded my wife can then convey to your wife. +You must hurry or it will be too late," said the coming man. With some +doubt still, but trusting to his friend's good faith, knowing he was +alone cut off from all the world, Keawe signed, and the deed was taken +away. Patiently they waited for weeks to finish the business, "and +then," said Keawe, "you will have a home." But the lawyer did not come, +and evaded Lilia's eager questions. + +One day when returning to the cavern, her heart stood still as she saw +slowly emerging from its mouth, several police officers, bearing on a +rough litter the helpless form of her beloved Keawe. At a glance she saw +the whole base deception. Her step-father had betrayed their secret +hiding place, and the end had come! With a frantic wail of despair, she +flung herself at their feet and begged and implored. But her entreaties +were vain, and the sick man was taken to Hookena where the steamer was +waiting. At the landing, as the boat drew near the shore, she learned +that he was to go alone and then her grief knew no bounds. As he was put +on board and turned imploring eyes on her, she made a desperate attempt +to go too, and in her struggle her clothing was almost torn away. The +officers of the law thought they were doing their duty, but their eyes +were full of pity. "Keawe! Oh Keawe, my beloved husband!" she cried, +"let me go with you!" But no answer came. The steamer turned her head +towards the sea, and he was gone. She fell to the earth, and lay with +buried face for many minutes. It seemed to her that nothing was left and +bitterly she mourned her loss. But suddenly starting, she asked eagerly +for a horse, which was furnished at once by a sympathetic friend. +Mounting, she went without stopping for rest or food until, on the +second day, Kawaihae was reached. Soon a steamer came, and she went to +Honolulu, only to hear on landing that Keawe had died on the trip down. +Giving way to despair, she dejected sought the house of an aunt, where +she was kindly received, and there she remained for several months." + +"And that is the story," said the Native. + +"It is rather sad, but she was a heroine sure enough," said the Planter. + +The pale light of the crescent moon served only to render the landscape +shadowy. All nature rested: An owl fluttered slowly by and a soft murmur +from far below told that the restless sea alone moved. There was no +other sound. The riders mounted and silently stole away. + + THE NATIVE. + + + + + Transcriber's note: + + The transcriber has corrected typographical errors from the original + book and listed them here. + + On page 15, "wont" changed to "won't." + + On page 30, "statue" changed to "stature." + + On page 33, "waived" changed to "waved." + + On page 34, "mightest" changed to "mightiest." + + On page 36, "then" changed to "them." + + On page 48, "wesminster" changed to "Westminster." + + On page 73, "parisitic" changed to "parasitic." + + On page 73, "convolvulous" changed to "convolvulus." + + On page 94, "gentlefingers" changed to "gentle fingers." + + On page 97, "grief" changed to "brief." + + On page 100, "unyholesome" changed to "unwholesome." + + On page 102, "velvetry" changed to "velvety." + + On page 121, a quotation mark was added ("It sounds wrong--why should + the name of your wife appear?") + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the +Kilohana Art League, by various authors + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIX PRIZE HAWAIIAN STORIES *** + +***** This file should be named 35437.txt or 35437.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/4/3/35437/ + +Produced by David Edwards, Andrew Chesley and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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