Vulgar words in Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (Page 1)
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Finally, the king had always in his service the _Hula_, who, like the buffoon or jester of the French kings, must amuse his majesty by mimicry or dancing.
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History affords us an example in the Kahuna Kaleihokuu of Laupahoehoe, who had in his service so considerable a body of retainers that he was able in a day, by a single act of his will, to put to death the great chief Hakau, of Waipio, and substitute in his place Umi, the bastard son (_poolua_) of King Liloa, who had, however, been adopted by Kaleihokuu.
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By his numerous marriages with chiefesses and common women without distinction, this king has made the Hawaiian nobility, the present alii say, bastard and dishonored.