Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-17

and not find story as pretty IS the
! account OF the wocing OF Cmi and
| Piikea, which the Hawaiians have
handed down from generation to gen,
GRAFTON. at last To be written, like the
Odyssey, after many years. History
/ has ignored it, as it ignored the fall
Of Troy and the love affair of that
| ancient city, but the story is all the
prettier and more refreshing for being
omitted from the crowded achiYes of
! the islands 1t shines with clear
/ light through the years of four CEN
/ turtles to the present day, and reaches
US with all the. beauty Of romance,
with all the beauty of the scenes of
Uni and Piikea's wooing.
II takes you years back, this love
episode, when the world Of Hawaii
was. young, in the time when Uni and
his followers guided their canoes by
the stars, singing in the lonely nights
to the beauty OF things and of love.
/ 1t was in the dawn of the sixteenth
century that the young king, Uni,
dreamed on his love of the Princess
| Piikea of Maui, whosel beauty was
celebrated the islands over. Yes, his
tory as We read it today, ignores this
pretty romance and waits impatiently
for the coming of the great Kane
hamehas.
John II Wise. whose careful trans
lations of old Hawaiian manuscripts
win be of lasting interest, has the
credit of bringing to light many of
4 fba o4oad onnn,1pto ,1f IIy,oy,. l.sa.E o,,d
the spectacle to be given during the
Carnival, representing the young
kings wooing and winning of the
Princess Piikea is based upon his
| TRANSACTIONS
1t is love story and has a happy
ending. And through the whole ro-
nance there is nothing so sweet and
touching as the friendship of King
Uni and his friend, OmaoRamau. Like
in THE Friendship of Amis and
Amile," the old French. legend, one is
willing to sacrifice all for the other
Omaokamau, young. handsome, brave,
| is sent to Maui by the king to win
the princess for him, and there for
six months he remained, true to Uni,
pleading for the princess hand for
his king and friend. All the while
he Is pleading for another, Piikea's
eyes watch him coyly, and at last she
asks with daring chic:
Why sue for anyone else? Why
not sue for yourself. Omaokamau?"
why SOP he questions.
what more does a woman want?'
she asks, looking at him critically.
HYour position, your mien, your come
~ appearance woman could not
ask for more"
| And to this the faithful Omaoka.
mau makes answer:
Why, you are wrong. My king is
superior to me in every way. Fur
thermore, it was the king who sent
me to sue for your hand"
Thus he shows her that he cannot
be changed from his original purpose,
or be faithless to his king. Shortly
after this the father gives his con-
sent to the princess marriage with
Uni, the canoes are made ready, and
the voyage to the island of Hawaii is
begun.
1t is here that the spectacle opens.
the arrival of the princess, her
greeting by the king. She has hardly
met him before. she refers to 0nao.
kanau again. and laughingly chides
Uni for sending such handsome
man to sue for her hand.
'Gt is not safe to send such hand
some man on such mission?" she
smiles.
''Ah," retorts the king. but know
him better than you do!''
Though of course the prettiest in
eident in the life of Uni is this
scene: when he sees Piikea for the
first time and embraces her.: it would
be very interesting if other chapters
IN his life could be shown. He was
horn 10 generations before the time
OF Kamehameha His father was
King Liloa of Hawaii and his mother
Akahiakulena--who figured in one of
the secret amours of the ruler.
Liloa instructed the woman that if
a male child were born to them she
was to call it Uni. Hes gave her,
when they parted, a feather Gordon,
walrus tooth necklace, and a spear,
with instructions that these be given
to the boy, if a boy were born, that
he ould indemnity him. The woman
raised Uni as best she could and
allowed her husband to think the lad
VAS his son.
The man was cruel, and at the
boys every Maynard act, he was
beaten. These beatings became so
frequent and so severe that at last
tie mother interfered. and declared
that her husband had no right to
strike the lad.
He is not your son" she asserted.
is it the kings then?" inquired
the man with pointed irony.
"Yes; he is the kings son, she re-
piled.
Uni was then in his 14th or 18th
year. The mother considered, after
she lad disclosed the real father of
the boy, that he should be sent at
once to the King. And she therefore
gave him the feather Gordon, the wal
rus tooth necklace and the spear and
sent him forth to Liloa. He was ac-
co!npanied on the journey by three OF