The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-09

Tahiti and other more distant islands
and were little by little conquering the
group of islands for themselves. The
eldest son of this king was Kaupeepee,
a handsome, gay and warlilke youth,
who. If anything, hated the newcomers
more than his father did. He relin-
pushed his claim to the throne in order
to devote himself to the task of making
never ending war upon the strangers.
His father gave him rocky promonto-
ry on the north side of the island of
Molokai, and this Kaupeepee and his
followers fortified until it was well nigh
impregnable.
Kaupeepee was not inclined to tie
himself to any of the women he had
met. Then he began to hear stories of
the beauty of the wife of Hakalanileo,
one of the despised new chiefs of Ha-
wall. Quite out of curiosity he deter
mined to have a look at the beauty.
Disguised as simple traveller he Wis
tied Hawaii and accepted the hospitali-
ty of the chief, chucklng to himself all
the time at the CONSERVATION it would
arouse if the household knew whom it
was harboring He had an excellent
chance to study Hina's destinations.
Hina and party of friends one day
went out into the surf to battle. To the
CONSERVATION of the women, a canoe,
carefully hidden among the rocks,
pounced out upon them almost as they
stepped into the water. Kaupeepee was
in the canoe and in a minute had the
screaming Hina in his arms and turn
ing, made a dash for a large war canoe
that lay out at sea, reaching it in safe
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Shore he spread the sails, and thus the
wind waited Hina away from Eakala-
nileo.
All the way to the fortress of Haupu
Hina wept and would not be comforted.
Kaupeepee dscreetly said nothing and
ordered the crew to treat her with great
respect and consideration. When they
reached Haupu, she was carried with
great deal of ceremony into handsome
suit of apartments on one of the ter
races of the promontory. 1t was fur
nished with magnifieence which was
new to her. She recalled that Kaupee
pee was a kings son and wished that
poor Hakalanileo were equally rich and
we'll born and handsome. Hina even
began to feel a trfle aattered that this
handsome young prince should pay her
the compliment of abducting her when
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and noble ladies who would be only too
glad to throw themselves into his arms.
Hina had two little boys in her pretty
home in Hawaii, and it was for these
she mourned, perhaps more sincerely
| than for her elderly and doting hus-
! band.
| After partalxing of the meal set before
| her Hina dispatched a messenger for
| Kaupeepee.
! what can do for your" asked the
| prince, bowling low and feeling a little
triumph when he noted that Hina had
not shed a single tear since she had
landed.
"Set me free, that I may go to my
children in Hawaii" said Hina.
Impossible" replied Kaupeepee. with
adroit fiattery. do you think l would
have dared so much merely to set you
free? What would be the worlds opin-
ion of the man who, possessing such a
woman as the beautiful Hina, the pearl
of Hawaii, did not think her worth the
keeping? Only when the walls of Haupu
are battered down and Kaupeepee is
dead shall you go hence"
This declaration frightened as we'll
| as rather charmed the captive. The
| prince looked so immovable and yet so
handsome that Hina did not weep as
| bitterly as she ought to have done at
this answer. Besides, it was a generally
accepted principle in eleventh century
| Hawaii that only the brave deserved
| the fair.
| you will yet be happy in Haupu,"
| suggested the Hawaiian Paris.
"Alas. Can the Gagged bird be happy?"
| replied Hina mournfully. 81 am your
prisoner"
mot more than / am yours, AID il
you but permit me | mean to be king
jailer. Let us as fellow prisoners shut
out no sunshine. My gates are only
bar against intrusion
And as the years went on, like Helen
of Troy, Hina learned to forget that she
was a captive.
Meantime the widowed Hakaialileo
unable to learn by whom he had 5ee-
robbed, visited every one of the Sand
witch Islands in search of his lost wife.
For Is years he kept up the hopeless
quest. He offered sacrifices in the tenn
pies and consulted the oracles in vain.
Old I'LL said that the spirits had moth
ing more to say. Having predicted the
event. it was now their duty not to
thwart it.
After Is years, when the sons of Hina
were well grown to manhood, the rumor
reached Hawaii that Hna was a WILL
ing prisoner in the fortress of Haupu.
Immediately an expedition was fitted
out against Kaupeepee by the two sons
of Hina They attacked the promonto-
ry simultaneously by land and sea. The
expedition from the sea was repulsed
by an avalanche of rocks which the be-
seiged sent rolling from the heights.
The land expedition, after failing in
an attack, determined to try strategy.
The Greeks effected an entrance into
Troy by means of a wooden horse. The
sons of Hina won their way to Haupu
by means of a wooden tower, which they
stealthily moved up to the wall one
dark night 50 that their warriors could
climb over and open the gate.
None of Kaupeepees army escaped.
Hina was found uninjured and well
coined her sons with joy. She wept
over the body of Kaupeepee and asked
that his body be given to his brother.
now king of Molokai, for burial with