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No. 462, Mahuka, February 13, 1847
N.R. 182-183v2
Greetings to you two Land Commissioners: I hereby tell you of my kuleanas from Kaai, on which I live, on Maui. Here is the first: Six taro patches, /receive/ in 1840. I lived at these taro patches until the ali`is sailed for Oahu in 1844, then I asked Kaai for land. I got Koloapelu until last year. Kaai took the Po`alima supervisor and placed him in my kuleana, saying "Your dwelling is mine." Haa absolutely refused. Six taro patches were taken, and the land. Only small patches remain, not enough to ....
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.... the konohiki gave other lands as replacement for him to work on, but because this land he was claiming was not being utilized properly,
Mahuka had become fearful that it might become a pressed land altho' there were attendants there; however, the konohiki assured him that the patches including the six additional ones were Friday (lands) and I know that Mahuka worked successfully with those patches but weariness is the only reward he had received therefrom. It (land) was taken in the month of May 1846.
[Award 462; Kaloapelu Waikapu; 2 ap.; .38 Ac.]