Now it was time to check out the legitimate approaches to the Ali'i ... if nothing else, to eliminate them. I had it in the back of my mind that some monarchies—I don't know where I'd picked this up—have always allowed the populace to contact their ruler directly—to "cry Harold," or whatever the frag the term was. Who knew, maybe King Kamehameha had something similar in place. I fired up the telecom and started browsing through the online directory.