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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 6 — PREFACE.

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Sacred Albino, kekea kapu of the original, if not an error, would refer to the traditional arrival of the “poe ohana kekea”, which dates back to the thirteenth century; castaways on Maui, from a vessel called Mamala. Besides the captain were five others, both men and women. Of this party Neleike it is said became the wife of Wakalana, a ruling chief of Maui, and the mother of his son Alo-o-ia, and that they became the progenitors of the “poe ohana kekea”, white people with bright eyes; the sacred Albino of ancient time. ↑

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