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

Note 10 — He Kanikau no Pe’ape’a.

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Kauiki, or Kauwiki, is here given fabulous height, it being less than 400 feet elevation; thus myth and tradition combine with historic events to make it, perhaps, the most famous in Maui’s history. With a fort on Kauiki’s summit it was Maui’s stronghold for many years, and in charge of which the subject of this dirge met with the accident which cost him his life. ↑

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