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the landing near Kawaihae bay, lyono held a council of war at 

 which two old priests presented the following plan : Lono was to 

 disgrace them and drive them from court ; they were to seek refuge 

 with the enemy and confidence being gained advice was to be 

 given that a march be made inland toward Waimea where the}- 

 were to claim that Lono was in such a weak position that his de- 

 feat was certain. The plot succeeded, and while Kamalalawalu 

 marched inland, Louo brought his forces along the coast from 

 Kahaluu and cut off the retreat. Kamalalawalu was killed in the 

 engagement that ensued. His body was brought to Kahaluu, a 



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picture of it made on the rock, and the body sacrificed in the 

 nearby heiau of Keeku. 



Fornander's account'- of the main facts of the invasion is 

 similar. Thrum, '^ who has been gathering legendary' lore during 

 the past forty years, has gleaned several accounts referring to the 

 sacrifice — one, that it took place at the heiau of Ohiamukumuku, 

 a quarter of a mile from Keeku ; another that the Maui king was 

 killed at Ohiamukumuku and his bones burned at Makole'a, an- 

 other heiau one hundred yards from Keeku. The second was 

 discredited by Thrum on account of other information which he 

 had to the effect that the bones were saved and later returned to 



'-Polynesian Race, vol. ii, p. 123. 

 "Hawaiian Annual, 1908, pp. 71 and 72. 



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