The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-11
.OLO I INES
IN HAWAII
|RecoIIections OF
Reverend Dr..
Bishop.
GLIMpSES OF
MISSIONARY LIFE
Personal Memories of Famous
Chiefs and Well-Known White
Pioneers Of Oahu.

fIOtiCEIS VI Odtiu.
In the current issue of The Friend,
the editor, Rev. DR.. S. E. Bishop, con-
tinues his series of recollections as fol-
lows:
/ think that at Eva We saw much less
of the higher class of chiefs than while
living at Kailua. Their residence was at
Lahaina or at Honolulu, where 1 seldom
saw them. / do not remember ever in
my childhood to have seen Kauikeaouli
(Sing Kamehameha lid or his sister.
Nahienaena, both of whom I often heard
mentioned. There was one chief whose
face was familiar, named Kealiiahonui,
who was conspicuous for his stature and
personal beauty He was brought to
Honolulu in 1923 by the then tyrannical
Regent Kaahumanu, who took him and
his father, King Kaumualii of Kauai as
her joint husbands. At her conversion in
1925, she put away her younger husband
was also familiar with the person of
Auhes. Kekauluohi, the mother of King
Lunalilo
The Premier Kinau, half-sister of the
King, l often saw. On one memorable
occasion, she and her husband, the re-
Waiawa, where we lived. They had been
making a sort of royal progress around
the Island. and were travelling in great
state. They had come through that day
twenty miles from Waialua, and were
received by the Konohik and people TN
der great lanai covered with cocoanut
leaves, where they sat upon the large
sofa on which they travelled. This sofa
was mounted upon an immense platform
composed of long poles crossing each
other in such manner that fifty men
at once could lift and trot off with their
royal load. The mission family went up
and paid our respects in company with
the principal people of the district There
was great gathering of people both
those of Eva and those who accompa-
MED the chiefs from Waialua. Our peo-
pie Frustrated themselves and crawled
up into the royal presence.
The head man of Waialua was quite
conspicuous in active attendance on the
great personages, and was got up in SUI
perior costume. Our own head man, ka-
nepaiki. seemed to be absent, until L al
last espied him squatting at some dis
lance among the common natives; dress
| ed in an old dirty shirt and malo. Elk
pressing my surprise my father explain
ed that the high chiefs would think much
IIiOTe VI utiIt IOI Ills UuHlllly lIlan OF Tile
| ostentatious gentleman from Waialua
had never seen Kanepaiki so poorly
dressed. Possibly the fact of Kinau be.
| ing owner of Eva made some difference
RELOCATING him TO the position of mere
servant, whereas the WaiaIua man had
been acting as entertainer.
kinau was tall and portly chiefess
| weighing from $50 to 800 pounds Her
features were coarse and unattractiye
yet not forbidding. She then had three
sons and a daughter Two of the sons
became the Kings Kamehameha " and
v. An older son, Moses, died in youth
after having developed a violent and un-
Icontrollable nature, of which I once wit
| messed a sample in his childhood We
were embarking for Kauai early in 1899
in company with Mr. and Mrs. Amos F.
Cooke and the old Governor of Kauai
kaikioewa, who was the official Kahu
or guardian of little Prince Moses The
youngster had made up his mind to go
with his guardian. He came down to
Robinson's wharf, where we were about
to set sail, and laid hold Of the side of
the brig, yelling and bowling His guar
dian all the time continued to dissuade
and expostulate. No one dared to use
force upon the furious child. This con-
tinued for more than two hours, until
nearly night. Finally his father, the
Governor Kekuanaoa, sent down file of
soldiers with orders to arrest and con-
vey the little prince him to the palace
near by. This released us from further
detention, and we set SAIL 1t was a
tiresome, but very curious experience. To
Mr. and Mrs. Cooke it was doubtless an
instructive experience, since about a year
later, as I think, they were placed in
charge of the Royal School, for the
children of the Chiefs, over whom they
maintained family rule of gentle but
firm discipline, to which the little
princes had been strangers.
To revert to the royal visit at Waiawa.
several days had been previously occu-
pied in preparing food for the entertain
ment of the chiefs and their great reti-
nue.. taxing all the resources of the
people. Probably the food was taken
from the patches, always the best ones,
which were set apart for the use of the
landlord, and cultivated by the weekly
labor of al the natives. Not lar inland
from our house Were dug three immense
"imu" ovens. These were deep and
broad pits, holding twenty or thirty bar
rels each of taro. One or two cords of
wood were piled In each pit and covered
with lava stones perhaps two feet Deep
The burning of the wood brought most
"a tic StoAtS u InOTe IMAM red neat,
When the wood was consumed, the hot
stones were leveled and the taro piled
upon them, together with sweet potatoes.
and large hogs wrapped in banana leaves
The interiors of the hogs were first nli-
ed with red hot stones. as well as cavi-
ties opened between the shoulder blades
and ribs. Other meats were added, such
as goats. fowls and fish, the smaller be-
ing wrapped in XII leaves.
AS soon as the piles of vegetables and
meats were suitably laid up In the pits.
the whole mass was covered deeply with
fresh grass and rushes. The earth dug
from the pits was then piled upon the
grass, covering 1t deeply, but leaving a
small opening on the summit of the
mound. Into this was suddenly poured
water to the amount of three or four
barrels. The earth was instantly piled
into the opening, sealing in the violently
escaping steam generated by the red hot
stones. The ovens were then left to
stew in their own juice" for several
hours On opening, the contents were
found to be most thoroughly cooked BY
| the steam. The meats were peculiarly
savory. Probably there Is no more sat.