Koolau

Koolau is an outlaw and a one-time cowboy on Nihau (off the west coast of Kauai, smallest of Hawaii's inhabited islands), who speaks of Molokai as a prison, the result of the will of ruling white men.

“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008

Then he remembered, and once again, and for a moment, he was Koolau, the leper.

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"Who brought the sickness, Koolau?" demanded Kiloliana, a lean and wiry man with a face so like a laughing faun's that one might expect to see the cloven hoofs under him.

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"It would be better to kill him," said Koolau to Kapahei, who still sat in the same place.

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Two hours later, from another thicket, Koolau watched a body of police trying to make the ascent from the opposite side of the valley.

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Koolau had been driven to this refuge from the lower valley by the beach.

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"We want Koolau, the leper," answered the man who led the native police, himself a blue-eyed American.

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"That's all right, Koolau," the sheriff said soothingly.

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It was given to Koolau to taste a deeper bitterness, for they hurled imprecations and insults at him as they went by; and the panting hag who brought up the rear halted, and with skinny, harpy-claws extended, shaking her snarling death's head from side to side, she laid a curse upon him.

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Before they could clamber down Koolau could have picked off the last man.

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