Ma lalo o ka noho aliʻi ʻana o ka mākeke kūʻai kūʻai kūʻai kī Pelekane, ua piha ka mākeke ʻeke kī ʻeleʻele , i ulu ʻia ma ke ʻano he mea kanu kālā i waho ma nā ʻāina Komohana.Ua lanakila ke kī ʻeleʻele i ka mākeke kī ʻEulopa mai ka hoʻomaka ʻana.He maʻalahi ke ʻano o ka hana ʻana.E hoʻohana i ka wai i hoʻolapalapa hou ʻia e hana no kekahi mau minuke, hoʻokahi puna o ka ipuhao, hoʻokahi puna i kēlā me kēia kanaka, a ʻoliʻoli i ke kī ma ke ala pololei a maʻalahi.

I ka hopena o ke kenekulia 19, he kaʻa koʻikoʻi nō hoʻi ke kī no nā ʻaha kanaka a me ka ʻohana, e like me ka noho pū ʻana no ke kīʻaha ahiahi, ka ʻākoakoa ʻana i loko o ka māla kī, a i ʻole ke kono ʻana i nā hoaaloha a me nā mea kaulana i kahi pāʻina kī.ʻO ka hoʻomohala ʻana a me ka hoʻomohala honua i ʻae ʻia i nā ʻoihana nui e lawe mai i ke kī ʻeleʻele i nā tausani o nā hale ma ʻEulopa, ʻoi aku ka maʻalahi me ka mea i hana ʻia. ʻeke kī, a laila nā kī mākaukau e inu (RTD), he kī ʻeleʻele nā ​​mea a pau.

ʻO ke kī ʻeleʻele e komo ana i ʻEulopa mai India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon ma mua) a me East Africa ua hoʻokumu i nā māhele mākeke.E like me nā ʻano ʻono i hoʻokumu ʻia, e like me ke kī kakahiaka ikaika, ke kī ahiahi mālie, hui pū me ka waiū;ʻeleʻele kī i loko o ka mākeke lehulehu ka mea nuikīʻeleʻele pūʻolo.Ua mālama pono ʻia kēia mau kī ʻeleʻele kiʻekiʻe, a ʻo ka hapa nui o lākou he mau huahana kī kī hoʻokahi.Ma hope o ka hoʻokūkū koʻikoʻi ma nā mākeke kūloko a me ka honua, ua huki nui lākou i ka manaʻo ma ke ʻano he huahana kū i waho.Hoʻopiʻi nui lākou i nā mea kūʻai aku e ʻimi nei i kahi mea hou me ka nalowale ʻole o ke ʻano o kahi kī maikaʻi.