[Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff]@TWC D-Link bookNorthern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands CHAPTER XIII 84/114
At Kailua, in the hamlet of Puaaaekolu, a beautiful field, known by the name of Mooniohua, recalls one episode of Hua's misery.
Here it was that, one day, running after food which he could never attain, he fell asleep, weary with fatigue and want.
The word Mooniohua is probably a corruption of _Moe ana o Hua_--The couch of Hua. THE STORY AND SONG OF KAWELO. Kawelo, of the island of Kauai, was a sort of giant; handsome, well made, muscular, his prodigious strength defied animate and inanimate nature.
In his early youth, he felt a violent passion kindle in his bowels for the Princess Kaakaukuhimalani, so that he sought in every way to touch her heart.
But the princess, too proud, and too high a lady, did not deign to cast her eyes upon him. Despairing of making her reciprocate his love, Kawelo poured into his mother's bosom his grief and his tears.
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