And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 13:19:50 -1000 From: Sahoni Redbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Moloka'i Aloha X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: Princess Kaiulani - 100 years ago in history.] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------7FCDDF6A8ACF368DD8D8EECB" --- begin forwarded text From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:24:23 -1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Princess Kaiulani - 100 years ago in history. In mid January 1899, Kaiulani and some friends who were visiting the Parker Ranch located in Waimea decided to take a horseback ride. The weather started out cold and clear but turned into a sudden downpour. The group was drenched before they could put on the raingear carried on their saddles. They begged Kaiulani to cover up but instead, she loosened her hair and rode off into the storm. She said "what does it matter? What do I have to live for?" On January 24th, the Honolulu papers reported that Kaiulani was quite ill at the Parker home in Mana, Hawai'i. Her father, Governor Cleghorn and the family Dr., left for Mana to bring her home. She returned to Honolulu on a steamer, in great pain from what the Dr. diagnosed as "inflammatory rheumatism with the complication of ex-opthalmic goiter." On reaching Ainahau, her home in Waikiki, Kaiulani was put to bed. Her health continued to worsen despite all the medical skills of her doctors to stop the rheumatism that was attacking her heart. She had a bad turn the morning of March 5th but seemed to improve during the day. Around midnight, she got worse and her breathing became unsteady. Around 1:30 AM she tried to sit up but by that time, the Doctors could not do anything for her. Her family including her father & her sisters and several close friends including David Kawananakoa (known in the family as "Koa") gathered around her to say good-bye. At 2:00 am on March 6th, 1899 Kaiulani called out one last muffled word and then the room became very still. She had died. For miles around, people had been waiting anxiously for news. They knew the precise hour of her death because her pet peacocks began screaming loudly and shrieking long into the night. (based on the book, "Princess Kaiulani" by Kristin Zambucka) If any of you are still awake at 2:00 tomorrow morning, listen carefully ------ maybe you can hear the ghost of those peacocks screaming again, exactly 100 years later, in grief for Kaiulani, the last hope of the Kalakaua dynasty. --- end forwarded text -- ___________________________________________________________ | Hawai`i - Independent & Sovereign | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawaii-nation.org | |___________________________________________________________| "The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep- seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station." - Queen Lili`uokalani <<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>> &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
