. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . orical matters, he can at least appeal to thebest authority we have, It is not necessary to go back beyond the descendant of the renowned Kualii,2Kamakahelei who was Queen (Moi) of Kauai when Cook arrived at Waimea in January,1778. Her first husband was Kaneoneo who was killed on Oahu about 1785-6, and whoseshin-bone forms the kumu of a famous kahili handle in the Bishop Museum (No. 24).With Kaneoneo Kamakahelei had two daughters, one of whom Kapuaamohu became oneof the wives of Kaumualii and grandmother of the late Queen Kapiolani. A
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . orical matters, he can at least appeal to thebest authority we have, It is not necessary to go back beyond the descendant of the renowned Kualii,2Kamakahelei who was Queen (Moi) of Kauai when Cook arrived at Waimea in January,1778. Her first husband was Kaneoneo who was killed on Oahu about 1785-6, and whoseshin-bone forms the kumu of a famous kahili handle in the Bishop Museum (No. 24).With Kaneoneo Kamakahelei had two daughters, one of whom Kapuaamohu became oneof the wives of Kaumualii and grandmother of the late Queen Kapiolani. At the timeof Cooks visit Kamakahelei had another husband the celebrated Keaokulani youngerbrother of Kahekili, Moi of Maui. With Keaokulani Kamakahelei had a son father was killed at the battle of Kukiiahu, Oahu, November, 1794, two years afterthe visit of Vancouver who noticed the young prince as about fourteen years old (he was ?The Polynesian Race, II, 297. aB. P. B. M. Memoirs, IV, 28, 369. Ml MOIKS IU-11,.1 MlM l m \ .., \. THE REIS CAPE. AHUULA OF KAUMUALII. 31 probably several years older). On the death of his mother, a date not recorded butprobably soon after the death of Kaeoknlani, Kanmnalii became Moi of Kauai. All the accounts of this prince picture him as an intelligent and worthy sover-eign. Quoting Alexander: From his personal qualities, both of mind and body, hewas the bean ideal of a Hawaiian chief, and was universally beloved by his subjectsand by foreigners. He was the only Hawaiian who had learned to read and write theEnglish language to any extent. And again (, p. 175), At Kanmualiis urgentrequest Messrs. Whitney and Rnggles went to reside at Waimea, Kanai. No chief gaveChristianity so cordial a reception, or made such rapid improvement as wife Kapuli or Deborah as afterwards christened, exercised great influence overhis mind. (Jarvis, Chap. VII.) In 1 Ski Kanmnalii was persuaded to visit Kamehameha on Oahn to considerthe pol
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