In re Kamarawa

Decision of

Judd, C.J.

It appears that in December, 1879, on the arrival of a number of Gilbert Islanders to the Board of Immigration, a married couple among them, Ti Tau and Toaua, from Apaiang, gave *387their daughter to a Hawaiian woman, Kealoha, and her husband, Makanui. The Gilbert Islanders understood that they were binding their child for three years, or until their indenture of labor here should expire, and it was so interpreted to them by a Hawaiian named Kaikala who had learned the language.

The Hawaiian foster-parents understood that the child was given to them absolutely. The Secretary…