Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Okay, maybe this is the father or uncle or something.
Yes.
Must be the father or uncle.
It was the same old place, because you remember… [thinking] was it Manuel Freitas
Freitas, who worked with you folks
Manuel.
His wife was Josephine
Josephine.
She’s still alive, she’s living on O‘ahu. She was an Ako.
Yes.
That was Ka‘eo’s place, right next to them Where Manuel was living
The old house, Rally.
[thinking] Where the house that you’re saying is next to Mahone’s, that house was built
by Manuel. The land was sold to him by my father.
That house was built by your father, Manuel didn’t build that house, Rally.
Yes, my father built the house then.
For Manuel and gave him the land.
For Manuel and then after Manuel retired or left the ranch, he bought it from the ranch.
Mahone Ka‘eo lived right next.
That’s right.
And that land I think, belonged to Yokoyama. [thinking] And Josephine, Manuel’s wife,
was an Ako, and they lived makai side of the road where the old telephone office was.
Yes, Aungsts’ place, Hölualoa. That’s right just makai of Aungsts’, Telephone Exchange
Yes, that’s where the Akos, and I think that’s where Josephine lived with her father. She
might have been born down Palani Road, I don’t know.
Kealakehe side
Kealakehe.
That old property.
The mother lived down
Makaleka.
Makaleka, that’s right. Wow boy, what a memory! I may as well ask you, is there anything
you’ve thought about Honoköhau, that we should have spoken about
Makai
Makai. I really loved your description of trails and going down off of that edge, Kealakehe,
coming down into the Honoköhau iki and across like that.
Yes.
And the fishponds, no one was using the fishponds that you remember Or your
father…there’s no formal lease agreements, it seems
There was… [thinking]
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