The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-11
KAMEHAMEHA.


outset TO the determination Of the mem
bers Of his clan, secretly arraye'
against the inter-island Kings AM
chiefs. to oppose rule by any other issu
of Keoua. the father of Kamehaneha
1t was one hundred and sixty-seveI
years ago. that this opposition Il
Keoua's other descendants began foi
In the year 1876 Kamehameha was born
This event took place at Halawa, Ko-
haIa. island of Hawaii. but not on June
IL It was in November Of that year.
and June IL was settled upon in the
last century a day upon which TO
celebrate Kamehamehas memory ow-
ing to HawaiPs Independence Day be-
ing celebrated on November %. which
would have made two holidays in the
same month.
Kamehameha did not begin his career
from obscure surroundings as did Bo-
naparte for his father was half-brOther
of RaIaniopuu. the King of Hawaii,
who honored Captain Cook when the
latter landed at Kealakekua in 1777.
War in all it's details was to be the
most important feature of Kamehame-
has education, and it's lessons were
taught him almost as soon as he was
out Of his babyhood. He was taught |
the phrase ''E moe imua, mai hoi hope.
Go Forward. Never Go Backward,) |
which afterwards became his battle /
cry.
1t had been whispered that the chiefs
would make Gay with the issue of Keo-
ia and his wife. Kekuiapoiwa II. and
before Kamehameha's birth, KahaOpu
lani twin-sister of KahakuialSea Ck),
lived with the mother and watched over
her jealousy until the birth of the fu-
ture conqueror. She took the boy to
her home in Kohala, with all his re-
ffnue OF trusted attendants and nursed
him. She reared him to boyhood and
every article of food prepared for him ,
she tasted first TO ascertain whether (
poison had been placed in it. When 4
he could talk, the battle-cry was taught .
him. and then the art of war was alb
sorbed by him by degrees. He was told 7
that the first essential of war was to d
be kind and to teach the people. by IL
Kindness, to love him. He should be a
man Of one word. and when he said 7
yes" he must mean it and vice versa.
A portion of his boyhood was spent in
the care OF AIapai, one of the chiefs, :,
and his wife Keaka- When close to his
majority he was taken by the twin war
rior princes. Kameeiamoku and Kama
m he Sa,.n
IT
upon the Hawaiian coins in the coat-of-
arms, who were giants and noted for -,
their prowess with the spear and war
club. These two princes brought Ka-
mehameha up to manhood and taught
him all the ultimate arts of war. The :,
first thing they did upon assuming care
OF him was to offer up a prayer to the
war god. asking that Kamehameha be- :.
come a great warrior. This prayer was
called s'Hamauku, ka Puaa i ka Lima" -.
The signs to these two princes We're -
favorable. and they declared to their
0wn clan that the god promised to make
a. great warrior of the youth. and that
he would be victorious in his battles.
His training in times of peace was
put to the test early during an in III
ter-island war. He distinguished him ia
self at once. One of his feats in the OF
use Of war implements. was to catch nj
heavy spears. such as were used in his Tic
lay, when thrown at him with tremen- III
ious force. These spears he caught Ct
1- parted attesting to his marvellous ne
strength. The princes also taught him IN
hat when he should command his own ito
rn,v n. sbould lead them 70 encamn Wis
during war. in places away from food sn
senters. and TO make his soldiers build sh
store houses in which to place the pro- pr
visions, for as long as he controlled an
he food. The troops would remain by On
him. tbs
In Eanebaueba.s later y-,r- ,,,,,ot, WI
Il his success was due to John Young no
md Isaac Davis. two white men who
anne into his service in the nineties. eel
whose military knowledge was OF Great Dee
assistance TO the cOnqueror in subduing I"
he Kings OF Maui. Oahu and Kauai SOC
These two men were the first to in era
reduce fire arms among Kamehame- 10
la's troops and they personally trained cal
he two field pieces on Kamehameha's OF
nemies. generally with deadly effect. ou
<amehameha's conquest of the various goo
Stands was accomplished steadily until Ter
n 1910 the island group became one ch'
'ingdom with himself as the sole SOW nee
reign. EN-
II Is a strange coincidence that Ka- POI
nehameha should die at KaiIua, Ha- u
vail. and that the first missionaries SIN
hould land at the same place. These I'M
wo events occ,,r-a5 ,,.itt,i, =, 80 = the
acb other E-a,,abs,,,s,,,, ,,-i-,,- -, A.. rea