When their patron, the high chief of the family, has made them feel the weight of his displeasure, these inferior chiefs become notoriously miserable, worse than the lowest of the Kanakas (generic name of the natives).
(5.) [Kamehameha IV.

and V.were only noble through their mother, Kinau, the wife of Kekuanaoa.

They were adopted by Kamehameha III.
(Kauikeaouli).] (6.) The old historian Namiki, an intelligent man, and well versed in the secrets of Hawaiian antiquity, has left precious unedited documents, which have fallen into our hands.

His son, Kuikauai, a school-master at Kailua, one of the true historico-sacerdotal race, has given us a genealogy of his ancestors which ascends without break to Paao.
(7.) A tradition exists, mentioned by Jarves, that Paao landed at Kohoukapu before the reign of Umi.

According to the same author, Paao was not a Kanaka, but a man of the Caucasian race.