Disdaining this rule, Keawe contracted numerous marriages, which gave him as mothers of his children women of low birth.

The posterity of this chief, noble without doubt, but of impure origin, likes not to have its lame genealogy recalled.

It is with the sensitiveness of the Hawaiians on this subject, as with many other things in this world: they attack bitterly the amours of Keawe, and seem to forget that Umi, their great chief, whose memory they preserve with so much care, was of plebeian blood by his mother.
It seems certain that King Keawe usually resided at the bay of Hoonaunau, in Kona.

The heiau of Hoonaunau, where may still be seen the stakes of ohia (_Metrosideros_) planted by Keawe, is called _Hale a Keawe_--The house built by Keawe.

It served also as a City of Refuge.[19] VARIOUS DOCUMENTS ON THE PROVINCE OF KA'U.
The people of Ka'u are designated in the group under the name of _Na Mamo a ke kipi_--The descendants of the rebellion.