Names of lands and islands known to the ancient Hawaiians, and mentioned in the mele, kaao, pule or moolelo: Kahiki was the general name for all foreign lands outside of Hawaii nei; lands or places said to have been visited by Kaulu, or Ulu, the brother of Nanaulu, children of Kii in the genealogy of Welaahilaninui (although in the mele of Kaulu, in which these places recur, Kaulu calls himself the “Kama a Kalana”[2]) are as follows: Wawau, Upolu (Upolo), Pukalia-iki, Pukalia-nui, Alala, Pelua, Palana, Holani, Kuina, Ulunui, Uliuli, Melemele, Hii-kua, Hii-alo, Hakalauai-apo, Kukulu-o-Kahiki, Moanawaikaioo (maelstrom); Kapakapakaua and Ulupaupau were places in Kahiki visited by Hema and by Kahai-a-Hema, nephew of Puna-imua; Kahiki-ku and Kahiki-moe were visited by Kila, Moikeha’s son. Thence came Laa, or Laa-mai-kahiki, his brother.
Tahiti lands, from which Olopana came when he settled on Oahu and married Hina, and built the Heiau of Kawa’ewa’e in Kaneohe, include the following: Keolewa; Haenakulaina; Kauaniani; Kalakeenuiakane; Nuumehelani; Kuaihelani; Kapaahu, the place of Kapuheeuanui who fished the islands out of the sea; Moaulanuiakea, Nuuhiwa and Polapola, known in the tale of Moikeha—see the mele of Kamahualele; Keapapanuu and Keapapa-lani, in the mele of Pakui said to have been created after Kahiki-ku and Kahiki-moe and before Hawaii, by Papa and Wakea; Kahiki-nui-kaialeale, supposed to be New Zealand.
Kauhiakama, the son of Kamalalawalu was carried prisoner from Maui by the Oahu chiefs and burnt at Apuakehau, in Waikiki, and his skull was used as an ipu honowa (excrement receptacle), hence the vindictiveness of Kahekili to the Oahu chiefs.
Keelanihonuaiakama was the daughter of Peleioholani and was killed by the Molokai chiefs, hence Peleioholani’s wars and vindictiveness toward them.
Peleioholani was son of Kualii, king of Oahu. He conquered Molokai in the time of Keawa, and put his son Kumahana as king of Maui, say 1764.
Kapiiohokalani was a brother of Peleioholani; Kaneoneo was the son of Kumahana.
Kumahana, son of Peleioholani, followed him as king of Oahu, about 1770, and three years afterward he was dethroned (wailana-ia), when Kahahana was sent for from Maui and became king of Oahu.
Keeaumoku rebelled against Kalaniopuu in Hawaii and went over to Maui, about 1765. In 1767 he rebelled against Kahekili and was defeated at Waihee, afterwards off Molokai whither Kahekili had pursued him, and he fled to Hana where Kaahumanu was born to him and his wife, Namahana, about 1768. Mahihelelima was then chief of Hana.