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pei us and few through the water. Her
! Majesty enjoyed the perilous surf-ride
although she was wet through and
through when we landed at Keanui's
house. Eight strapping kanakas lifted
the canoe and both of us out of the sea
and carried us up to the house at Ka-
pal<a Koolauloa Although Keaunui had
his feast ready we had to go up to Ka-
liuwaa waterfall to battle and get the
brine off and change our clothing The
natives carried both the Queen and my
self to Kaliuwaa. Kekela. the Queens
mother, remained at Kapaka until our
return. This waterfall is also one of the
historical points on the island of Oahu
about which many legends are told.
After swimming, high jumping, diving
and other sports in which the large
crowd joined in the beautiful pool there.
refreshing drinks were passed around
there amidst great hiiarity. The pool is
about fifty feet across, very cold and
quite deep.
HAUULA AND LAIEMALOO.
On our return to Keaunui's we enjoyed
the great feast he had prepared. He had
every Hawaiian luxury that could be.
desired We left there quite late bur
many of our party had gone ahead to
Hauula, Mr. Lanes place. We did not
arrive until 10 D. m. and the whole party
were tired. | stirred them all up and
got the hula people to make noise.
Mr. Lane and wife were very much an
noyed at us for being so slow in arriving
as the luau had been ready some hours
before However they got UP nice
breakfast for all the next morning and
wet got the procession started for Laje-
maloo. Here J. w. Kupau entertained
us. He had eight large houses and one
large lanai. Here we met the great hula
man, Kapuaokahala and his three daugh
tiers. He had the reputation OF being the
greatest hula player in Hawaiinei We
remained here two nights and had a
grand time Ali the residents of the
neighborhood focked TO see the royal
train and they camped out under the hau
and hala trees. There was an abundance
of fat hogs and pigs, beef, poultry and
fish. There was much steam consumed
by the camp-followers so as to keep
everything going lively. The different
kinds of hula. as punIu, alaa, papa, ulI-
uli, pail, paiumauma etc. were witness
ed as performer by this old time hula
master. had to take this crowd of hula
singers to Honolulu with us to keep up
the merriment of the party, and sent the
old crowd back TO their homes in Kane
ohe, Mokapu, Kailua and Kaaawa. This
new party of hula singers and performers
got the whole procession in good humoT.
Here the Queen bought lots of blankets
and calico for the poor people and many
shirts called uewahine and gave them to
them after breakfast on the second day.
We got away for Kahuku where Judge
Kaiuhi entertained us This is the land
of the hala tree We had four very
large houses, and all the walks around
and from house to house were covered
with mating called us. Every one took
care of his own horse and all were well
come The viands were most abundant.
At night | had all the torches burning
which lighted up all Kahuku. Our party
by this time had increased to over three
hundred and the visitors and friends
from the neighborhood was very large.
During the midnight luau | sent word
around through the people that there
should be no one leaving here for Wal
mea or Waialua who had not a wreath
of ha1a-fruit and that we would leave
after breakfast on the morrow. This
caused scramble to the woods in the
dark to gather the fruit for the leis By
daybreak every one had a hala lei on and
we got for Waialua Her Majesty. her
mother and ! drove in carriages but the
were on horseback. In all our
travelling we had had no rain but now
we struck a heavv shower near Judge
Kalanipoo's house at Waimea where We
stopped and enjoyed his hospitality. He
lad more than sufficient preparation for
all our 500 and odd people. The
weather cleared mp and we got off to
,Naialua Judge Kalanipoo sent two OK
arts loaded with provisions on ahead
which were left at Ukca-makaha, Waia-
ua at Kaleikini's place Her Majesty
md | lead the procession but | had two
# my best horesrnen as out-riders who
maintained discipline. Great prepara-
ions had been made by Kaleikini assist
ID by Mrs Apakana for entertaining the
sreat party.
WAIPIO AND MOANA-
LUA
We remained at Waialua four days.
No sooner had we arrived than the ma
ives, men, women and children and
oaded ox-carts from all directions began
o arrive with their hoolcupus. / had
more provisions than I knew what to
10 with. Some OF these were for my
elf but ! passed them all over TO the
Queen. Amongst the hookupus was a
,ox OF white geese. marked on the out
ide "Keoni Kamaki.' Taking it for
-ranted it was for me / gave it to the
Queen. 1t developed afterwards that the
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