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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 17 — CONTENTS.

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This name originated from one of the descendants of Papa and Kumuhonua. Kumuhonua took to wife Kauaohilo and begat Kaenaena; Kaenaena took Waiukeke of Kaliuwaa and begat Lihau. It was said that he excelled in comeliness any other handsome man of that time, and from him descended men of this group who were good to look upon. Lihau took to wife Kapulani and begat Ihiihi, the one whose name is—Pa’upa’u.17 Because the parents and servants [of Ihiihi] became wearied with constant going down to Kahala to get water with which to bathe the child, the parents complained and said: “There is too much labor connected with this work [he pa’u keia hana], and too little benefit. Therefore they named the place18 where their child lived Pa’upa’u.

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