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Cl. 236M, Kaolulu, No 320 Index
F.T. 332-333v3
Kahula, sworn, knows the place now held by Kuaka-Makini's people & Kauai's wife. The entire place now extends from the mud house & occupied by Miller to the Corner of the Road to Lahainaluna belonged to Kaolulu & was always considered his. I know he held as far back as Kamehameha I. Kaolulu was Claimant's father. I know no right Kuakamauna had to it or Makini. Claimant was head of it; never heard it said that it was not his; he always lived there. Some years ago Kuakamauna, Makini & Keiae built some houses on it, they were high in office & influence. Few natives dared dispute with them.
Kinaoi, sworn, confirms the above particular Kaolulu was a head fisherman. Claimant lived on it & had other houses for his canoes & nets & was always thought head & owner of the land. I lived with him thence Kuakamauna reproved by him for coming to build on it he told him it was his (Kailulu) place & he had no right to build there. Claimant has lived there ever since I can remember. Claimant is the only child of K ....
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.... on the land now occupied by Makini's houses. He once lived on the water side of it but after went more back.
Nawakoa, sworn, I know of Kuakamaunas living on the place he now claims from 1839 to now. And of Kaolulu living where Makini now occupies.
Kuahu, sworn, The place I know now claimed by Kuakamauna reaches from Makini's house (now shoemakers) to Palmoa's beer shop. It is Kuakamauna's. I know he first built on before the Kauai War & has held it to this time. I know Kaolulu living where Makini houses stand & that he had a dwelling & canoe house on it.
(No claim appears to have been before made till now & no dates are here given for references - & the whole history seems to have occurred too far back for the interference of the Commission, J.H.P. Lee See Page 82v15)
[No. 236M not awarded; See Award 320 to Kaolulu; R.P. 596 & R.P. 1755; See other awards for Wailuku & Hana; Poluina is the counter claimant, No. 387; No. 5932 (Located in Haanui Waikapu next to 8806:2; N.R. document doesn't mention Maui but N.T. does.)]