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She keeps remembering the
other trips that she's taken,

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of course.

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"She looked into the fire until
Anne was wondering whether she

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had forgotten where she was.

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But then, at last, she said,
'They are telling me again.

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Three times now,
someone has said to me

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that he has been found, that
the grave has been discovered.

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And they have dug him up and
have taken his bones and his

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gun.'

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'Who told you that?'

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Anne asked.

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Kekaha people,' Pi'ilani said.

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'One of them whispered to my
mother but said not to tell me.'

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'Where did they hear it?'

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Anne asked.

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'One said he heard it in town
from somebody he had not seen

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there for a long time.'

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'What kind of person?'

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'He told me it was
nobody from here,

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but they know all about how
to sell things like that,

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and who will give
money for them.'

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'Did he tell you any names?'

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Anne asked.

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'No names,' Pi'ilani said.
'Nobody's names ever,

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but they talked about his gun,
how his gun had been found.

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Somebody had dug it
up, and his bones.'

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'Did you talk about
this with anyone else?'

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'No, Pi'ilani said.

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'I never said anything, only
that nobody knows the place

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where I left him.'

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Anne watched Pi'ilani
looking into the flames.

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'What will you do?' she asked.

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'Go there,' Pi'ilani said.

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'Alone?' Anne asked.

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'Yes, alone,' she
answered, 'by myself.'

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'I am sure that somebody up
here with me could go with you,

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at least for the
most dangerous part.'

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'I have been back
there several times.

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Once Kua went with me into the
valley and came out with me,

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and I have gone in with
others at different times.

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But I'm going by
myself this time.'

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'I will say prayers
for you," Anne said.

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'I was alone,' Pi'ilani said,
'when I came out the first

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time.'

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'How long will you
stay there in Kalalau?'

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Anne asked.

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'I will wait to see what I
find there,' Pi'ilani answered.

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'When they told you the same
thing as other times and you

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went back, were there signs
that someone had been there?'

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'All my life, Pi'ilani said,
'I have known about it.

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I heard about them
trying to find

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where the chiefs were buried, or
where any of us had been hidden.

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I heard about what had
been found with the bones

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and taken away, gold and
canoes and carvings and spears.

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Thieves have been taking
them for a long time.

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And there were many
burials in those valleys

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and in the cliffs going up, and
many are still hidden there.

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And after the soldiers took
everybody out of Kalalau

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and burned down the houses,
nobody was left to see who might

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crawl in over the rocks like
crabs to steal the dead.'

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She remembers the
trip the first time

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as they're going up,
and going into Kalalau

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Valley, on horseback that time.

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And she's telling Anne
Sinclair Knudsen about it.

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"All the way going up
from here to Kilohana,

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I think he was talking
to Kaleimanu in front

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of him on the horse,
and still asleep.

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I heard Ko'olau at
the turns of the trail

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telling stories in his night
voice, floating over the rocks.

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And he stopped when we rode
close to the spring, when

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the wai maka comes out of the
ground, that low cave that you

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could pass without
seeing it there,

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and the clear pool that keeps
moving into the brook of tears.

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He told Kaleimanu, asleep in
his arm, about the spring.

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And the child asked, 'Is
this where Lahi waits

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for the soldiers?'

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And Ko'olau said, 'No,
we are not there yet.'

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And we rode on up the trail.

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And all at once, I heard a
roar, a voice above me, 'uwa'u,

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'uwa'u, like one bird crying,
like one seabird, 'uwa'u,

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the petrel.

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Then I heard Kaleimanu
laughing, and he

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said, 'I know it is no 'uwa'u.

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It is you.' Then I heard it
again farther up, and again,

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Kaleimanu laughing.

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And he said, 'I
know it is you, Kua.

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You are not 'uwa'u.'

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But the sound came again, and
Kaleimanu said, 'It is you, Kua.

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It is at night
the 'uwa'u calls.'

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And still, Kua and Ko'olau
kept making that sound,

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and Kaleimanu laughed.

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But he said, 'Lahi
will eat you.'

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And he told us he was
awake now and kept

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asking what bird he was
hearing because birds

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were all around us.

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He sat up watching
them until we came

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to the high edge at Kilohana
where the trail climbs

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on but the whole
world falls away

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in front through the clouds.

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And the Valley of
Kalalau appears

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to be as deep as the sky."

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