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1949-12 Haoles Discover Waikiki DECEMBER FORECAST 1949 Hcioles Discover Waikiki OUTRIGGER CANOE CLUB - HONOLULU HAOLES DISCOVER WAIKIKI By Edwin North McClellan Waikiki—Spurting-Water—centuries ago was without fishers, swimmers, canoe- paddlers and surf-boarders. Shark-Gods and Shark-Queens glanced toward this glis- tening coral-strand and saw no man or woman. Later, maybe five centuries after Christ was born, the Menehuncs— Hawaiian aborigines—might have been seen drag- ging their diminutive outrigger-canoes from the valleys to Waikiki Beach. It is said that their voices could be heard at Waikiki all the way from Nuuanu and Kalihi. About six centuries later, more and bigger Polynesian pioneers arrived in (Nathaniel Portlock) and Queen Char- Oahu and discovered that Waikiki was lotte (George Dixon) . a good place at which to enjoy life. "On the first of June (1786) we came Polynesians continued to populate to anchor in a bay on the south side of Oahu—with its magnificent Kalelniawehe Whahoo (Oahu) ," recorded Captain Nil and freshwater stream of Apua- Dixon. .yhau near where the modern Outrigger "We came to anchor in the bay which Canoe Club is situated today. Oahu I distinguished by the name of King Kings and Queens from ancient days George's Bay," explained Captain Port- selec ted Waikiki as their royal residence. lock. This is Waialac Bay. Captain Port- Royal prerogatives meant taboos and lock called the east point of this bay, Waikiki, bccausc of them, often was a Point Dick in honor of Sir John Dick, taboo-Beach reserved for surfboarding the expedition's first patron. To the west and surf-canoeing by royalty of Oahu point of King George's Bay, Portlock and their champions upon whom thev gave the name of Point Ross after George laid wagers. Ross, his second patron. This was Dia- There were numerous legal actors who mond Head. played royal roles in the Drama of Wai- kiki long before Kahaliana—son of Pele- The ships no sooner had come to ioholani — became King of Oahu about anchor than canoes were observed pad- 1773, and lived at Ulukou in Waikiki. dling around Diamond Head from Why- Kahaliana probably was at Waikiki, on teetee (or Whitetette) which we now January 18, 1778, when Captain fames call Waikiki — which the haoles soon Cook—discoverer of Hawaii—and Ameri learned was the home of King Tahee- • SJi John Ledyard became the first liaoles teere (Kahekili) . The natives brought Jicc any of the Hawaiian Islands as they coconuts, plantains, sugarcane, and a looked northeast by east at Oahu and sweet root (ti). In return for this food at Waikiki. None of the Cook Expedi- the visitors gave the Hawaiians small tion landed on Oahu at this time and it pieces of iron, nails and trinkets. is improbable that they visited Waikiki "Great numbers of both sexes were in when that expedition anchored off Wind- the water, impelled by curiosity to pay ward Oahu on February 27, 1779, and us a visit, notwithstanding our distance some of its officers and men went ashore from the shore," wrote Portlock whom on Oahu. the natives called Potipoti. Dixon re- ceived Nittie as his Hawaiian name. THE HAOLES COME Early on the morning of June 2, 1786, There may have been Americans serv- Captains Portlock and Dixon went ing aboard the ship commanded by Cap- ashore. They found excellent water but tain John Hanna that visited Hawaii in the coral reef made it impracticable to 1785—the first since Cook—but it is not get it aboard ship with haole boats. How- known whether this vessel anchored in ever, the Hawaiians solved this problem Waikiki Bay. However, the following by carrying the water in their outrigger- year of 1786 the first liaoles saw Waikiki. canoes to the ships in gourds or cala- They were on board the King George bashes. Their wages were iron nails. [ 5 ] WAIKIKI BAY, CALLED QUEEN CHARLOTTE HAWAIIAN HOSPITALITY On June 3d, Mates Samuel Hayward The haoles saw, or heard ol, many of the King George anil George White Hawaiian customs. They saw the hula of the Queen Charlotte returned from a and heard Hawaiian songs. Captain Port- reconnaissance of the west area of King lock explained that "in their songs, or George's Bay. They reported to Captain hcevas, they attend more to the gesticula- Portlock that from a rise of land (prob- tions of the body than the management ably Kaimuki) they had observed Point and modulations of the voicc," and that Ross (Diamond Head) a fine bay. This, the "women are the best performers in probably, was Waikiki Bay. Portlock antl their amusements of this kind." Dixon sailed for Niihau on June 5, John Nicol, who served aboard the 1786, without visiting Waikiki Bay. King George, wrote that almost every one aboard took a native woman for a Enroute to Niihau, as the two ships ap- wife; that in the evenings the women proached Point Ross (Diamond Head) would call for their husbands by name a vast number of double-canoes came out and spend the night aboard ship. Nicol of Whytcetce (Waikiki) Bay which Cap- explained that the Gunner chose for a tain Portlock named Queen Charlotte wife the "fattest woman" he ever saW Bay, and described as an excellent body "we were forced to hoist her on boarir of water. Portlock named the flattish- and "no hammock in the ship would hold point forming the bay's southern extreme her." One day, when the taboo against Bank's Point in memory of Sir Joseph women being on the ships was operating, Banks. As the ships breasted Diamond bccause a woman had eaten pork on Head, an old friendly priest boarded the ship, Captain Dixon learned that there King George and presented Captain Port- had been a festival at the top of a hill- lock with a "good leathered cap as a probably in the heiau on the slope of present" Irom King Kahekili. Portlock Diamond Head—in which a human-sae- and Dixon returned to Oahu anchoring lilice had been offered. their ships in Waialae Bay on Novem- Although these haoles described the ber 30, 1786. The Uaole visitors found prowess of Hawaiians at swimming, div- out that a taboo was on by order of tilt- ing and canoeing, they did not mention King. Portlock sent presents to Kahekili surf-boarding. For a brief period they with a rec]iK'st that the taboo be lifted. maintained the first hospital-camp oil "My old friend, the priest," came along, Oahu—near Diamond Head—but had to side in a large double-canoe "decorated give it up because of the curiosity of the with branches of coconut," recorded Hawaiians. Portlock. The priest handed up from his The natural desire of the Hawaii;( ninoe a small pig, and told Captain to acquire haole things created some fric- Portlock that King Kahekili had just ar- tion between the natives and the whites, rived in the Bav with a large fleet of but nothing serious occurred. As an ex- canoes and soon would be on board the ample, in reciprocity of a gift of a large King George, when the taboo would be shark by Captain Dixon, King Kahekili oil. King Kahceteere (Kahekili) arrived, sent a big fine hog as an equivalent of the as announced, in a very large double- shark, by his son (probably Kalanikupulc canoe paddled by sixteen stout men. A royal kava-chewer named Towanooha who succeeded Kahekili as King and was (accompanying the King) told Portlock defeated at Waikiki and Nuuanu Pali of an exceedingly snug harbor (named in 1795 by Kamehameha) but that Whyteetee) where the ships could lie Prince, explained Dixon, "with a degree with safety. On another visit, the King of honesty peculiar to this country, sold had with him two of his nephews—Piapia us the hog for a large toe." (son of the King of Kauai) and Myaro Captain Portlock finally got around to (son of the sister of Tahceteere or Kahe- reconnoitering Waikiki. On the thir- kili) . Kahekili made many other visits teenth of December he despatched his to the haole ships. Third Mate Samuel Hayward and Dix- [ 6 ] oil's Third Male George While in the King George's long boat (which had been schooner - rigged and decked) around Diamond Head (Point Ross) to Waikiki (Queen Charlotte) Iiav, which TWO OF A KIND Towanooha had described and which the /moles had observed from their ships. I Iavward was instructed to make an ac- curate survey of the Bay. Christmas Matching DESCRIBES WAIKIKI Suits... I Iavward's party returned on the fif- teenth, Mate While reporting that "Tee- rclecrc (Kahekili) generally resided in litis Iiav, which is (ailed bv the natives, Wiiitette Bay." According lo Portlock, Hand-tailored Mate I Iavward was guided bv I'owa- by Mar mo •Vioha to a small inlet in Oucen Char- of Imported .Jlllc Iiav, "with very deep water but no and Domestic place lor a ship to ride in salctv. (lose r lo a sandv beach where the natives gen- \\ oolens erally landed with their canoes. Adjoin- ing "to the beach, in a beautiful vallev, surrounded bv line groves of coconut trees and a delighllul eountrv. there was a large town where (as Towanooha in- formed him) the King (Kahekili) gen- Choice of a num- erally resided, and the district around it ber of colors and patterns plus was (ailed Whvtecice" (Waikiki). And House of Marino so. the first litiolr.s had discovered Wai- distinctive hand tailoring — now kiki. But. Captains Portlock and Dixon within the price range of ready- again sailed away Ironi Waialae Bay with- made suits! Have your Christmas fit- out ancoring their ships in Waikiki Iiav tings now! or paving King Kahekili a visit in his thatched palace amidst the coconut grove of I Iukou at Waikiki.
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