HIIAKA FINDS A RELATIVE IN MAKA-PU’U—KO’OLAU WEATHER—MALEI
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Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
It’s famine, privation of bread, of meat!
“It is indeed a barren land. Fish is the only food it produces. Our vegetables come from Wai-manalo. When the people of that district bring down bundles of food we barter for it our fish. When we have guests, however, we try to set vegetable food before them.”
To speak again of the kupua Malei, a few years ago, as I am told, a Hawaiian woman on entering a certain cave in the region of Wai-manalo, found herself confronted with a stone figure, from which glowed like burning coals a group of eight flaming eyes, being set in deep sockets in the stone. This rare object was soon recognized as the bodily dwelling of the kupua Malei. This little monolith at a later time came into the possession of Mr. John Cummins of Wai-manalo.
Source notes
1Maka-pu’u, a headland at the eastern extremity of Oahu, on which a lighthouse of the first class has been established within three years. ↑
2Lae o Ka-laau, the south-western cape of Moloka’i, on which is a lighthouse of the first class. ↑
3Makua-ole, literally, fatherless or parentless; seemingly a reference to the lonely inhospitable character of the place. ↑
4Ulu-ma-wao, a hill in the same region as Maka-pu’u point. The name is said to mean a place having a very thin soil. ↑