The House of Bones. 



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this house after describing the "Waipio Kimoku," and it is so illustrative of the times 



just preceding the coming of the white men as settlers rather than as explorers or 



traders that I quote it in full :'^ 



Fearfully did Kaliekili avenge the death of Hueu ou the revolted Oahu chiefs. Gathering his 

 forces together, he overran the district of Kona and Ewa, and a war of extermination ensued. Men, 

 women and children were killed without discriminatiou and without mercy. The streams of Makaho 



FIG. 93. STREET VIEW IN HONOLULU, WITH KINAU IN THE FOREGROUND: 1837. 



and Niuhelevvai in Kona, and that of Hoaiai in Ewa, are said to have been literally choked with the 

 corpses of the .slain. The native Oahu aristocracy were almost entirely extirpated. It is related 

 that one of the Maui chiefs, named Kalaikoa, caused the bones of the slain to be scraped and cleaned, 

 and that the quantity collected was so great that he built a house for himself, the walls of which 

 were laid up entirely of the skeletons of the .slain. The skulls of Elani, Kouamanu, and Kalakioonui 

 adorned the portals of this horrible house. The house was called "Kauwalua" and was situated at 

 Lapukea in Moanalua, as one passes by the old upper road to Ewa. The site is still pointed out, 

 but the bones have received burial. 



We come now to the transition period when the foreign influence and example 

 were felt in the native habitations : and we find that native and foreign patterns were 

 mutual influences, and first we will consider the foreign ways and ideas adopted by the 



5°The Polynesian Race, II, 226. [ 2Q'^1 



