► Daughter of Hidden Alii

Honolulu Star Bulletin. June 18, 1953 - Tales About Hawaii, Clarice B. Taylor 

MALULANI KAMAIKUI,
DAUGHTER OF HIDDEN ALII

HIDDEN ALII, No. 3

     When Abraham St. Chad Piianaia returned from England and began teaching at Iolani School, he became acquainted with a lovely Hawaiian girl attending St. Andrews Priory as a ward of Queen Emma.

     Fanny Malulani (Soft Breeze of the Tradewind) Kamaikui spent her time away from school at the home of Queen Emma. It was there that Abraham St. Chad Piianaia courted her and made her his wife.

     Mr. Piianaia would never have known the girl had it not been that she was a close relative of the Queen's and the daughter of the true "Hidden Alii."

     Her father's life had been most dramatic and if the Queen had not taken an interest in discovering his whereabouts, Fanny Malulani would probably have grown up in Waianae as an unknown fisherman's daughter who did not know her father's true family name was Kamaikui.

A LOST UNCLE

     Queen Emma was very kind to all her relatives and the Hawaiians who had served in her families. But she yearned to help the nearest relative of all, an uncle who was lost to his family as a young man and hidden away to save his life.

     The Queen had heard the story many times from her mother Kekelaokalani. She knew the uncle might still be living in some out of the way place or that he might have a family.

     The trouble was that Kekoa(?) did not know the real or assumed name of this uncle, so the woman felt helpless when they decided to begin the hunt to locate him.

THE BIG FISHERMAN

     They did the logical thing. They sent for a relative living in Nuuani (spelled/typed exact, perhaps "Nuuanu") Valley and asked him if the story of the hidden alii had ever been told by his father Moopu 2nd, the man who had hidden the young alii.

     This relative Kauhaipu-o keku Haupio-ike-kanaka (spelled/typed exact from excerpt) said "Yes." His father told him in confidence of the hiding and had told him the true name of the hidden alii. The name, Kahaipu said was Kalawainui (The Big Fisherman) and the place was Waianae, Oahu.

     Kauhaipu said they would find Kalawainui dead but that his widow, Kalehua, was living at Waianae with the children.

     Queen Emma and her mother Kekela triumphantly set out for Waianae to find Kalehua and her children. It was a lond trip in those days because it had to be made with horse and buggy.

Next: Quest for Hidden Alii 

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