Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

FIRST MISSIONARY CRUSADERS

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Kamamalu, the consort of Liholiho (Kamehameha II), who
was also his half-sister (one of the strange characteristics of
the intermarriage of members of the royal and chiefly families
to preserve the line of descent), was among the first to greet
the missionaries. She was gracious to the women of the pioneer
band and undertook their guidance in acquainting them with the
ccustoms of the court.
Kaumualii, governor of Kauai and once its king, embraced
Christianity and aided in the establishment of the station on his
island, being assisted in this work by his son George. It was a
strange fatality that it should fall to his lot to give )hysical assistance and guildance to the missionaries in carryingl the Gospel
to Kauai, and that later he should become passive in accepting
Christianity. Governor Kaulmualii spoke a little Engllish. His
accel)tance of Christianity was intense. The story is told of him
that he would swim the Wailua river holdingl his Bilble in one
hand and studying it as he stroked the water with the other.
Hoapili (Ulumahiehie), son of Kameeiamoku by KIealiiukahekili, was a cousin of Kaahunanlu. He was a firm supporter of
the Christian religion. He was the father of Liliha, the beautiful chiefess who gave a vast acreage of lands in H-onolulu to
the missionaries to be (!evote(l to the cause of education. Ierhusband, the chief Boki, was insistent in tlis presentation, although it was llis wife's land and hers to give, not his. However, it was given and accepted, and l)laced in the keepillg of
Rev. Hiram BPingham, the title, however, being vested in the
Amlerican Board of Missions which lie represented, and by that
board transferred to Punahou Academy, founded in the early
eighteen-forties, becoming the first educational institution of its
kind west of the Missouri river.
No monument has vet been erected to the memory of Liiliha,
or Boki, for the great impetus which they, as full-blooded Hawaiians, who had emerged from the shattered religion of the
Hawaiians, gave to the new religion and the cause of education. Within Punahou's land such a monument, or a tablet,
placed upon the historic andl possibly legendary stone "I'ohaku,"