►Young Kalawainui Becomes Kaluhikai

Hawaii Star Bulletin
June 26, 1953
Clarice B. Taylor's Tales About Hawaii

The Young Kalawainui Becomes Kaluhikai

Hidden Alii, No. 11

     Moopu'u II lingered at Kaluanui on Windward Oahu long enough to collect a boatload of taxes with which he returned to Hawaii, thus making his trip look natural.

     During his stay on Oahu, he did not explain to his uncle about the temple incident. He casually said Kalawainui would like to stay on Oahu until the next tax collecting trip.

     So Moopu'u II returned to Hawaii alone. Months later he came back to Oahu with two canoes. One he loaded with tax goods, the other left Windward Oahu with two in it, himself and Kalawainui. 

     As the two canoes rounded Koko Head they parted company. The canoe loaded with tax goods sailed straight for Hawaii, the other coasted along the Oahu shoreline to Waianae.

     At Waianae the young Kalawainui stepped ashore to start a new and strange life as a fisherman. Moopu'u II paddled away without looking back.

THE FISHERMAN

     Kalawainui carried fishing equipment and a bundle wrapped in ti leaves to hide its beautiful tapa covering. When he met other fishermen, he answered their first question by saying his name was Kaluhikai (Tired and Weary). He said he came from over the Waianae mountains.

     Since it was impolite for a Hawaiian to ask too many questions, the Waianae people did not press Kaluhikai for further information about his family. They took it for granted that he did not know his geneology.

     Kaluhikai had no trouble making himself and home, for Hawaiian custom decreed hospitable treatment for all strangers.

     Time went by and Kaluhikai took a wife, the daughter of a Waianae fisherman, and the couple had four children.

HUMBLE FAMILY

     Kalehua, the wife, thought nothing strange about her husband and showed no curiosity when he hid a tapa covered bundle in their house and cautioned her never to open the bundle. She thought it probably an old family fishing god.

     And so Kaluhikai grew old and died when his four children were still young. Kalehua lived on the learn the true identity of her husband one day in 1870 when Queen Emma came to call and asked to see the hidden bundle.

     The four children were given family names when they came to the wards of Queen Emma. The family surname became Kaho'alii and the children received Christian given names as well as Hawaiian names.

     The oldest girl was Maud Niaupio Kaho'alii. She died while attending the Priory. The second girl, Fanny Malulani Kaho'alii married Abraham St. Chad Piianaia and had a family.

     The brothers were Alexander Kaho'alii and Ilihia Kaho'alii. Alexander died young and Ilihia became a teacher at the old Royal School. He, too, died without children, so Fanny's children were the only descendants of the Hidden Alii.

Next: Piianaia Family, Queen's Relatives.

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► Queen Emma Hunts for Hidden Alii

Honolulu Star Bulletin. June 19, 1953 - Tales About Hawaii, Clarice B. Taylor 

QUEEN EMMA HUNTS
FOR HIDDEN ALII

HIDDEN ALII, No. 4

     It was a sunny day in the 1870s when Queen Emma and her mother The High Chiefess Kekala set out on their journey to Waianae, Oahu in search of the lost relatives of the Hidden Alii.

     They had no trouble locating the widow Kalehua when they arrived at Waianae. They found her living in a humble grass house with two children running about, a boy and a girl.

     The woman was flustered when she discovered that her callers were the gracious Queen Emma and her mother. She had only seen them at a distance before.

HUMBLE FISHERMAN

     She said "Yes" her name was Kalehua, but when the Queen asked if her husband was Kalawainui, the woman looked dismayed and said she had never heard of such a man. Her husband's name was Kaluhikai (Tired and Weary), a humble fisherman not a "Big Fisherman."

     The baffled Queen looked at the lovely young girl and the handsome boy in dismay. She asked many questions but could get no further information about the husband from Kalehua.

     The dejected Queen and her mother left Waianae and returned to Honolulu where they hastily summoned Kauhai and upbraided him for giving them information which led to a dreary trip for nothing.

     Kauhai assured the Queen she was on the right track, but he told her she would never discover the hidden alii by asking for him by his correct name. She must learn his assumed name and then ask for him.

     Queen Emma made a second trip to Waianae. This time she took Kauhai with her.

BUNDLED SECRET

     When the group reached the home of Kalehua, Kauhai did not stop to ask questions about the husband. He said to the woman, "Where is the bundle your husband left with you and told you never to open?"

     Immediately Kalehua ran to an inner room and came back with a bundle wrapped in beautiful tapa. She laid the bundle at the Queen's feet without opening it.

     Queen Emma's hands trembled as she opened the bundle. In it, she found a feather shoulder cape worked with a design used only by members of her family and a girdle of red feathers.

     Kalehua stared. She had never seen the contents of that bundle and she told Kauhia that her husband had never told her his true name or that he was an alii.

Next: Queen gains a family

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► 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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