Hiwa: A Tale of Ancient Hawaii

IN the morning after the battle word was brought to the palace that Aa had been found on the field still alive. Aelani commanded that he should be taken to the _heiau_, or templ...

HIWA repeated her visits to Waipio many times as the years went by. In her anxiety to know the condition of affairs she frequently ventured where she was likely to be seen and r...

THE Hawaiian Islands, as all the world knows, are entirely of volcanic origin. The soil, whether red or black, that produces a hundred tons of sugar-cane and fourteen tons of su...

IT was well for Hiwa and Aelani that a generous soil and a soft climate gave them food and warmth. The separation from her lover, the hardships of the escape, the lacerations in...

AA was brave as well as cruel. He did not doubt that Hiwa's spirit had appeared in his camp and on the heights of Kukuihaele; but, although it troubled him greatly, he hoped it...

FEW queens on thrones or in exile--indeed, few merely rich women can command such leisure as Hiwa might have had. She had no social functions, no social duties. Even the questio...

THE first glimmering of dawn rested on Waipio Valley. The _moi kane_, his great nobles and chief officers of state, his personal attendants, his guards, heralds, priests, divine...

HIWA wished to make the secret entrance to the crater known to Kaanaana, and they both thought it should not be disclosed to any one else. So he accompanied her on her return, t...

"HIWA," said Papaakahi, The Mighty, not long before his death and about two years prior to the events already narrated, "you have grown to be a woman. It is time for you to marry."

EIGHT hundred and nineteen men, armed and provisioned, were on hand at daybreak the next morning. Aelani made a stirring speech, telling them that Ii was dead, and that Aa was p...

A GREAT longing came upon Hiwa to see her lover once more, and to learn what was taking place in the kingdom. The royal city was only eight miles away, and a swim of that distan...

WHEN Hiwa returned from Waipio, and had satisfied the cravings of hunger, she lay down and slept until the shades of evening fell. She slept fourteen hours, and then arose and a...

A WOMAN lay on the ground. She was about twenty years of age, of regal stature; for among ancient Hawaiians men and women of kingly stock were gigantic, fully six feet in height...