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Title: Beneath Hawaiian palms and stars
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Goodhue, E. S. (Edward Solon)
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Publisher: Cincinnati: Editor Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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foreign guns that came after. WhenKalaniopuu died, his son Kiwalao came into formal pos-session of the throne, but his half-brother (Keona, whomwe may as well call Richard III, and his Uncle KeaweM., watched the new king with jealous eyes, and thirstedfor power. Richard was a half-brother, too. It is wellto make a note of half-brothers in history, and remem-ber what they were. They couldnt well be anything but half-brothers,no matter how kindly disposed they felt; and half-heartedness in anything,is not to be desired. The meremention of half, is a sort of insinuation that it mightjust as well have been a whole; half-white, half-brother,half-well, half-persuaded, half-dead, half-a-man. On the Kona j=ide of Hawaii, there were, at this time,four chiefs related to each other, their names begin-ning with K. The four Ks owned much property,which made them conservative and contented. Theywanted good government, so they grew uneasy over theintrigues at court; seeing Kiwalao waver in purpose;
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THE NEEDLE IAO VALLEY. (From this point Kamehameha threw his enemies off.) SOMEWHAT HISTORICAL 173 his uncle greedy and intolerant, and Richard mean, sly,and unscrupulous. It was the Three Ks, against theFour Ks. At last, when the funeral sermon of the lateking had been preached, Kiwalao read the last will andtestament of his father, certain provisions of which,greatly displeased the Kona chiefs. The best propertyon the island had been left to Keawe M. This madeRichard veryangiy. He swore in Kanaka. He workedhimself into such a pitch of fury, that he took a dozenmen to a cocoanut grove,and cut it down; cut off everytree close to the ground. This meant that he was dis-pleased. Richard relieved himself by slashing down trees. After he had finished with this, the party wentamong some of Kamehamehas people, and commencedcutting them down, Richard offering the dead bodiesin sacrifice. But if Richard had no cause to be angry,others had; for the redistribution of lands was a mostunjust affai

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