He was also known as Keliiokaloa. 176
He was King of Hawaii.87
"He [Umi] was succeeded by his son, Keliiokaloa." 101
"Of these eight children of Umi, Kealiiokaloa first, and Keawenui-a-Umi afterwards, succeeded their father as sovereigns of Hawaii." 180
"The story most often cited as evidence that before Cook's time Europeans had visited Hawaii is definitely presented for the first time in a summary of the history of the Islands composed by pupils at the American mission-school at Lahainaluna on the Island of Maui, and preinted by the pupils themselves in 1838. The title of the little volume if 'Ka Moolilo Hawaii.' Its contents were arranged for publication by a teacher at the school, Rev. Sheldon Dibble, a missionary of high literary attainments, but it is commonly cited under the name of the principal Hawaiian historian and brilliant author, David Malo. The English version, as quoted by the historian Fornander, runs as follows:
'In the time of Kealiiokaloa, king of Hawaii and son of Umi, arrived a vessek at Hawaii. Konalihoa was the name of the vessel and Kukanaloa was the name of the foreigner (white man) who commanded, or to whom belonged the vessel. His sister was also with him on the vessel . . . According to Fornander, this story was generally current in many of the Islands, and the landing of the strangers was locatlized in various places. The version above quoted, however, which places the event on the west coast of Hawaii, is regarded by him as the original one. Several attempts have been made to determine the time when the event related happened. Fornander, on the basis of the native genealogies, caluclated that kIng Kealiiokaloa, during whose time the strangers are said to have arrived at Hawaii, reigned between the years 1521 and 1530." 102 |