Piimaiwaa of Hilo was his most valiant warrior.

_Ia ia ka mama kakaua_--to him belonged the baton of war, a figurative expression denoting the general-in-chief.

Pakaa was one of the favorites of Umi, and Lono was his kahuna.
While Umi reigned over the eastern shores of the island, one of his cousins, Keliiokaloa, ruled the western coast, and held his court at Kailua.

It was under the reign of this prince, about two centuries before the voyage of Captain Cook, that a ship was wrecked near Keei, in the district of Kona, not far from the place where the celebrated English navigator met his death in 1779.

It was about 1570[C] that men of the white race first landed in the archipelago.