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BRIG HAM ON HAW AH AN FEATHER WORK. 



site shore and under the shadow of Haleakala, the "House of the Sun," that vast vol- 

 cano that forms East ]\Iaui. To the invader Kahekili sent his younger brother Alapai 

 witli this remarkable message: "Say to him 'wait until the black kapa [shroud] cover 

 me and mv funeral rites shall be performed then come and receive your kingdom with- 

 out the peril of war' — for indeed he is my son and 

 from me he received his name after that of my 

 elder brother."" 



Even Hawaii was not to become one king- 

 dom without many a struggle. Keawemanhili, 

 uncle of Kiwalao, had been the chief adviser in the 

 coiirse which led 

 to the disaffec- 

 tion and death 

 of his nephew, 

 and after that 

 event he held 

 court in the dis- 

 trict of Hilo, 

 while K c o u a- 

 kuahuula, half 

 brother of Kiwa- 

 lao, ruled Kau, 

 both disputing 

 the authority of 

 Kamehameha. 

 A long and 

 bloody war resulted in the submission of the king of 

 Hilo who assisted Kamehameha in his attack on Ka- 

 hekili, a proceeding which roused the ire of Keoua who 

 immediatelv marched against his former ally and 

 killed him in the battle of Alae. In the ^-ear 1790 

 Kamehameha invaded Maui and defeated Kalaniku- 

 pule, son of Ivahekili with great slaughter in the battle of lao. While this was going on 

 in Maui, Keoua, hot with the vic9:or3- over Keawemanhili, marched into the district of 

 Hamakua, Kamehameha's territorv. This hastened the return of Kamehameha and 

 after several battles, in which gunpowder was used on both sides, Keoua retreated to Hilo. 

 While marching thence to renew the contest his army passing by the volcano of Kilanea 

 was partly destroyed by the last explosive eruption recorded from that crater." 



2'It is generally believed that Keouakalanikiipuapaikalaiiimii. --Hor a full account of that eruption and the destruotion of Keoua's 



nephew of Alapainui. was the father of Kamehameha, hut of this no forces see y<Aes on the Volcanoes of the Haiuaiian Islands, ll'ilh a His- 



nian can know. The pratftice of adoption still farther complicated tory of their varions Eittptions. By William T. Brigham, Boston, iS68, 



genealogies. in the Memoirs of the Boston Society of A'at/aal History, I., 404. 



FIG. 22. 



FIG. 23. 



