KUKAILIMOKU. 



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In the meantime Kamehameha was residing at Kawailiae and a priestl)- oracle 

 had declared that a temple bnilt on the hill Puuokohala in that place would avert the 

 perils of war and insure the final conquest of the group. The king built the heiau 

 called from the name of the hill, and as each part was finished bathed it with the blood 

 of many human sacrifices offered to Kukailimoku/"' 

 From the dedication of this heiau his star was in the 

 ascendant. 



Kahekili and his brother Keawe from Kauai 

 fought the naval battle of Kepuwaliaulaula off the 

 coast of Hamakua, near Waimanu, and were decis- 

 ively routed by Ka- 

 mehameha. The 

 aged Kahekili re- 

 treated to Oahu 

 where he died in 

 July, 1794, leaving 

 the remains of his 

 kingdom to his son 

 Kalanikupule. Be- 

 fore the end of 1 79 1 

 Keoua Kuahunla 

 was treacherously 

 slain at Kawaihae 

 b}- Keeaumokupa- 

 paiaaheahe and his 

 body offered on the 

 altar of Puukohala 



to Kukailimoku. After more than nine years of 

 almost constant warfare Kamehameha was at last in 

 fact king of Hawaii. 



In the spring of 1795 Kamehameha invaded 

 Oahu and in the battle of Nuuanu defeated Kalani- 

 kupule and his allies: the king fled to the mountains 

 but was captured and his body offered to Kukailimoku. Kaiana, who had attained some 

 prominence by a voj-age to China with Captain Meares, and who had deserted Kameha- 

 meha while on this expedition to Oahu, was also slain, and the bones of these two warriors 

 are believed to be among those decorating the kahili handles now in the Bishop Aluseura. 

 Fig. 3, p. 7. In iSoo Kaumualii, king of Kauai, came to Kamehameha at Waikiki and 



FIG. 25. 



FIG. 24. 



23For a good account of the building of this last great temple of 

 the old worship, and the same method was always used, so far as we 

 are informed, see An Accounl 'of the Polynesian Race, its origin and 



Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Vol. I. 



migrations, and the -indent Hntory of the Hawaiian people to the times 

 of Kanieliameha I. By Abraham Korn.inder. London, 1880. II., 327. 



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