meawahine

Updated: May 27, 2025

I sketched, at this very Hoopuloa, the portrait of an old woman, still vigorous, Meawahine, who told any who would hear her that her breasts were completely developed when her chief gave her as wife to the celebrated English navigator. Old Kanuha was the senior of all these centenaries.

Charles Nordhoff - Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands