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Kahaualea Ahupuaa, District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume A, No. 1, pps 208-211
The Ahupuaa of Kahaualea, District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit
On this, the sixteenth day of July A.D. 1873, the petition of C.R. Bishop, for the settlement of the boundaries of Kahaualea, in Puna, Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit came on to be heard at the house of J. Ili at Kalapana by adjournment from the 10 instant from Kapoho.
Present: J. Ili for applicant, K. Hookano Naeole for the Hawaiian Government, L. Kaina and others
Petition read as follows
Honolulu, June 4th 1873
(Copy)
R. A. Lyman, Esquire, Commissioner of Boundaries &c, &c, for Hawaii, Hilo
Dear Sir:
Your letter of 28th ultimate is received. You will please define and settle boundaries of the lands “Kaualea” in Puna, if it belongs to His Majesty.
You will also please define and settle the boundaries of the land “Puua” in Puna, belonging to Leleiohoku. Appoint some suitable person to attend to the matter on behalf of Leleiohoku, and make the expense as light as possible for the whole land is worth very little. I think it has not been surveyed.
If it is necessary to have it surveyed, please let me know and given me an idea of the cost for same.
Very truly Yours,
(Signed)C.R. Bishop
Testimony
Kalakalohe, kane, sworn, I was born at Panau, Puna, Hawaii at the time of Akakai o Mokuakai. I lived at Panau till 1843. I then moved to Hilo, and two years ago moved to Kaapahu, a land in Puna adjoining Kahaualea. I used to be a bird catcher, and am a kamaaina of Kahaualea. Kahiliole, my father (now dead) pointed out the boundaries to me, when we went up to divide the birds [page 209] with the bird catchers of Kahaualea. Keaweheana, the konohiki of the land gave my father charge of the bird catchers. the land had ancient fishing rights extending out to sea.
The sea bounds Kahaualea on the makai side and at the shore there is a rocky point on the Kau side of a lauhala grove, called Kupapau; the grove in on Kahaualea and the point is on the boundary. I do not know all the boundaries near shore. Poupou is on the Kau side.
(Note: L. Kaina says most of this land has been sold into the edge of the woods)
Kaloi, a swampy place in the woods is the mauka corner of Poupou 1st and 2d and thence Pulama bounds Kahaualea; thence the boundary runs mauka to Keahuaimakakoloa, a pile of stones six feet high or more, on the pahoehoe. Pulama ends there and Kamamoa then bounds Kahaualea to i Ookauuewe, two hills on Kamamoa, the boundary running between these two hills and a hill called Puuaialoa. Thence mauka to Kaloi, two small ponds of water on the pahoehoe. Mamamoa ends just makai of this place and Panaunui joins and bounds Kahaualea; thence follow up the old trail on the mauka side of the woods; said woods being on Panau, the boundary still follows the trail mauka to a place called Pepeiao, mauka corner of Panau. Said Pepeiao is quite a large pool of water. I did not go with the party that surveyed Panau but my kaikoeke, Keanuenue, who did go with them told me, that at the hill Puuhuluhulu they straightened the line to the mauka side of Pepeiao. The old boundary runs to Ka Pohui, a place where the lava flow that destroyed Nanawale came out by the road from Panau to Hilo. There are large rocks standing there; the same belongs to Panau and the nahelehele to Kahaualea; From thence the boundary runs to Hilo side of Puuhuluhulu, a hill on the plains about quarter of a mile on the Hilo side of the Puna road to Kilauea; thence to a place called Olapalapa where Panau nui ends and Apua joins and bounds Kahaualea, The boundary between Kahaualea and Apua runs from Olapalapa to Mawae a small crater; Kahaualea cuts off Apua and joins Keauhou at Kamokukoolau, a grove of ohia trees, and the boundary between Keauhou and Kahaualea runs [page 210] up the old trail from Keauhou to Kalauea; to Kapuai, makai of Kilauea; thence to Kalauea iki, which is on Kahaualea, and Waikahikahi ike comes to the brink of the crater on the road Poliokeawe. Makai of Poliokeawe, Waikahekahe ike cuts Kahaualea off; thence the boundary between Kahaualea and Waikahekahe ike runs to Olapalapa mauka of the junction of the roads. From thence the boundary runs to Pohakuloa, a pool or s ....
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.... o 97, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the true, lawful and equitable boundaries are as follows, viz.:
Beginning at the East corner of Grant No. 2688, Waiiki, at a mark X cut in the rock at the sea shore, and running as follows, viz.:
1. North 43° 45' West Magnetic 66.60 chains along Grant No. 2688, Waiiki;
2. North 35° 45' West Magnetic 11.60 chains along Grant No. 2940, Kaina;
3. North 29° 30' West Magnetic 22.35 chains along the same;
4. North 15° 00' West Magnetic 8.27 chains along the same;
5. North 22° 00' West Magnetic 26.00 chains along the same;
6. North 34° 00' West Magnetic 34.00 chains along the same;
7. North 40° 00' West Magnetic 33.50 chains along the same;
8. North 9° 45' West Magnetic 6.75 chains along the same to mark E cut in the pahoehoe at the North corner [page 91] of Kaina Grant;
9. North 33° 29' West true 5248 feet along Grant No. 3681. Canerio;
10. South 65° 58' West true 6168 feet along the same;
11. North 73° 00' West Magnetic of J.M. Lidgate survey, 372 chains more or less, along boundary of Ahupuaa of Kamoamoa to hill Puaialua;
12. South 23° 30' West Magnetic 240 chains along Kamoamoa to a point north of a hill and on the boundary of the Ahupuaa of Panau Nui;
13. North 71° 54' West magnetic of H.M. Lyman survey, called North 71° West on the Lidgate survey, 312 chains along Panau Nui to a point to be located by the next course and distance run backward from Puu Huluhulu;
14. South 8° 15' West Magnetic of the H.M. Lyman survey, Certificate of Boundaries No. 56, 114.50 chains along the boundary of Panau Nui to the Government trig. Station on hill Puu Huluhulu;
15. North 70° 00' West true 4430 feet along Ahupuaa of Apua, Certificate of Boundaries No. 55, to an ohia tree marked XX at the junction of the Puna and Keauhou trails;
16. North 26° 00' West true 16100 feet along the boundary of the Ahupuaa of Keauhou, Certificate of boundaries No. 62 to Kaluaiki crater;
17. North 72° 45' East true 19700 feet along Ahupuaa of Keaau, Certificate of Boundaries No. 61, the Magnetic declination allowed being 9° 15' East;
18. North 75° 15' East true 228346 feet along boundary of Keaau allowing magnetic declination 9° 15' East
19. South 55° 00' East true 24200 feet along Government land to an ohia tree on top of a sharp hill about 50 feet high, the North side of which is perpendicular, marked K which bears North 36° 00' East tree about 1300 feet from Kalalua hill;
20. South 64° 00' True 8150 feet along Government land to place called Kalaeolomea and ohia tree marked Z;
21. South 32° 00' East true 4100 feet along same to Kuaana;
22. South 24° 00' true 2800 feet along same to a pile of stones 1750 feet mauka of ohia tree "C"
23. South 21° 30' East true 11370 feet along the Government land Kapaahu to a cocoanut tree on the West boundary of Grant [left blank] to Kaloi; [page 92]
24. South 25° 30' East true 1780 feet along the Kaloi Grant to the West angle of the Kaikuahine Grant;
25. South 37° 45' East magnetic 24.74 chains along Grant No. 2903, Kaikuahine to H cut in Pahoehoe;
26. South 37° 45' East magnetic 26.36 chains along Grant No. 2216 Kaiakehi;
27. South 37° 30' East magnetic 26.14 chains along Grant No. 1004, Kauka, to the sea shore;
28. South 55° 00' West true 3200 feet along the sea shore, the boundary being high water line to the initial point;
29. And Containing an area of 26000 acres
Compiled from the surveys of F.S. Lyman, and J.M. Lidgate, and of adjacent Grants and boundary Certificates, by Curtis J. Lyons, Assistant on Government Survey
It is there adjudged, and I do hereby decide and certify that the Boundaries of the said land are, and hereafter shall be as hereinbefore set forth.
Given under my hand at Hilo, Island of Hawaii, the eleventh day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.
Rufus A. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries, Third & Fourth Judicial Circuits, Hawaiian Islands
For Petition & evidence see Book D, No. 5, page 92 to 97.
[No. 171, Kahaualea Ahupuaa, District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, 26000 acres, 1895]