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His marriage with Kauakahi promised him no advancement

Date of account: Published 1888
Source: The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The fables and folk-lore of a strange people
Reference: The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The fables and folk-lore of a strange people · selected passage 62
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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His marriage with Kauakahi promised him no advancement. His hair began to be tinged with gray, and the future presented to him no sign of the fulfilment of the prophecy of his youth. He consulted the kaulas, but they gave him no satisfaction. One of them told him, however, that his fortunes lay to the windward, and he provisioned a double canoe, and, with a competent crew and a few retainers, set sail in that direction without taking leave of any one. He stopped for a few days on Molokai, and a kaula there advised him to go to Maui. He accordingly set sail for that island, where resided two of his sisters, whom he had not seen for many years. One of them, Kapukini, was the wife of Kauhiakama, the moi of Maui; and the other, Pueopokii, of Kaaoao, a prominent chief of Kaupo.

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