Note 2 — PREFACE. (continued 3)
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This has reference to stewardship of a tract or tracts of land, the konohiki of an ili or ahupuaa, whose tenure of office was ever subject to the whim, fortune of, or change in the district chief, who in turn held under the king. Even a well-cultivated ili giving satisfactory tax returns of its products was, as likely as not, to be the envy of sycophant followers of the chief who would seek to supplant him. ↑