Note 7 — Traditional Hawaiian History.
Reading edition
As late as the commencement of this century the Nuuhiwas were every now and then fitting out exploring expeditions in their great canoes in search of a traditional land called Utupu, supposed to be situated to the westward of their archipelago, from which the Akua Tao first introduced the coconut tree. (Univ. Pitt., V. 2, p. 230.) Turnbull relates that when Kaumualii of Kauai was sorely pressed by anticipation of Kamehameha’s invasion and conquest of Kauai, about 1802, he had a vessel built on purpose, in which to embark himself and family and chiefs and seek some foreign land where he would not be subjected to his dreaded rival. ↑