Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-21

uONOLOLO 61Ah-
were sings made just as the ancient
sings OF the Hawaiians were made,
each with its black and blessed stone,
la demonstrating little stone such
as David might have used TO slay his
! Goliath of Gath ~..-
Wise Tells the Story Of Landing.
/ In brief summary Of the story of
the landing OF Kamehameha |, John
| Wise, in whose hands the entire work
of preparing for the pageant lay. said
! this morning while he waited for the
coming of the canoes:
1T was in 1895 that Kamehameha
landed here. He had been King of
Hawaii island, and had just proved vie
tor of Maui in a hard-fought battle,
near Wailuku. Fortunately for him,
he had surprised and captured the
sloop Snow, commanded by the son of
Captain Metcalf, of the schooner Eli
more, and with her managed to get
hold of two cannon and a number of
muskets. These won his fight for
> him.
With him were his five wives and
/ the following chiefs, all heads of dis
tricts of Hawaii: Keaweaheula, repre-
sented this morning by Keaweamahi,
the commander in chief of the army,
under the king; Chief Keeaumoku,
represented by Kauhi; Kameeiamoku,
represented by Haumea; Kamanawa,
represented by Kealohapauole; Kalei-
paihole, represented by Kulewa and
lKeaweokahipona, represented by Lii
!, kalani. Also there was Chief Keanu, a
widely travelled chief. VINO had been in
! China and up on the northwest coast.
] This last chief proved traitor to
! his king, quitting him on the island of
Maui and coming on here to Oahu
with five thousand of his own follow
/ ers. Keanu's wife, o"er whom the
trouble is said to have arisen, remain
ed faithful to Kamehameha, and Keanu
was the first to fall in the battle on
| the sands here. The white man,
Young, shot him down at the COM
mand of the King, with the first bullet
! that was fired. After the landing here
| the Oahuans ran into the mountains,
frightened by the cannon and the
: muskets, and were easily beaten by
Kamehaheha in the fight at the Pail
that followed"
kukailimoku Lands First.
! Just about that time the canoes,
which had been hanging about in the
offing, as they say in the sailor books,
began coming inshore. They were
headed by the canoe bearing the rep
tresentative of the ancient Kahuna, or
priest, who. sitting majestically in his
! seat, with red headcloth of his rank
/ showing vivid patch against the
blue OF the sea and the sky. came
: sweeping on the sands, where he
sprang out, and siezing handful, be-
gan the formal incarnation of his
creed, asking the blessing of the
], Feather God, Kukailimoku, or to give
the translation, God Who Siezed All
the Land" on the undertaking of the
monarch in the following canoe.
Elmehameha was standing, majes-|
| tic, king in all but birth, in his place
lin the big double canoe while this
was going on. When the priest fin
j ished his prayer and offering to the
Feather God, he gave the signal and
his boat swept inshore, with a rush
! of water, spurred by the strong brown
! arms OF the paQdlerS,
,, King Reaches Shore.
After him swept the other canoes,
the whitened water flashing golden in,
the sun, and splashing a featnery
spray over the waving feathers, and
the great yellow cloaks of the mon
arch and his chiefs. The great peieu,
or double canoe crashed against the
sand with rasping sound that sent
shiver down the spines of the more
imaginative among the crowds, the
king stepped out, waded through the
glittering wavelets to the beach and
the pageant was over, save for the
marching and counter marching before
i the winking eyes of the cameras.
1t was a maze of color, a delight to-
the eye, and appeal to the art sense:
this pageant of Kamehameha the
Great. That being so, it seems almost
unfair to touch upon the shortcomings
Inseparable from such an affair, given
for the first time. That there were
some such it can not be denied. More
!, canoes were needed, and more room
far, far more room Also, in future
/ will it be necessary to. handle the
! crowds in some better manner than
the slipshod, hit-or-miss methods used
this morning. 1t was not the fault OF
the police so much as the insurmount-
! sble difficulties presented by the
grounds selected for the pageant.
There was no room to move, and when
I, the hula dances started after the land
! ing, camera men, and a few, FAR 200
few by comparison, packed INTO a
dense oval shaped mass, shutting out
the view of thousands that stood i'm
patient on the outer rim unable to
see what was going on.
! Already plans are being laid for next
year and the undoubted success of this
mornings pageant have made it GER
tain that it will be attempted on far
! freater scale in 1914. Said John Wise
! this morning after the pageant 81
am tickled at the way things went af-
i ter all our troubles. Next year if
shold be in charge of affairs again. 1
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