Note 20 — PREFACE. (continued 5)

When the news was first brought here about Olopana being in Tahiti, the people of Hawaii were so divided in the belief that he was actually alive and in Tahiti that it was decided, as a means of settling these differences, to send Ulu, the king of Kau, in a canoe made of bulrushes.20 After Ulu set out nothing more was heard of him, not even if he had reached Tahiti. After some time had elapsed a certain priest was sent in search of Ulu, but while in mid-ocean the priest discovered that Ulu had died, so he returned. Shortly after the return of the priest, Kapukini, a chief of Puna, was made king of Hawaii, there being no king over the island of Hawaii at this time.