kaumualii

Updated: May 1, 2025

Then the chiefess named Kamakahelei, mother of Kaumualii, said, "Let us not fight against our god; let us please him that he may be favorable to us." Then Kamakahelei gave her own daughter as a woman to Lono. Lelemahoalani was her name; she was older sister of Kaumualii. Cook was one of the best of the navigators of the South Seas, a devout churchman, and a believer in the decalogue of Moses.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.