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Pomander Collection of Haivaiian Folk-lore. 



THE FOURTH BATTLE, AT KOAPAPAA. 



This battle was a secret invasion by Keoua. When Kamehameha had gone to 

 Maui and then to Molols:ai, at Kaunakahakai, a messenger arrived from Hawaii, ap- 

 prising him of Keoua's cruelty to his (Kamehameha's) subjects, by robbing them of 

 their property, by the wantonly killing of men, women and children, the cutting of taro 

 from the fields with overbearing arrogance, and all other malicious acts. Women 

 who were with child were trampled under ffiot, jiierced with small l:)ambus and with 

 sticks and stones. 



When Kamehameha heard of these acts of Keoua, his love for the people of 

 his three possessions, Kona, Kohala and Hamakua, was manifested, as they were 

 cruelly slaughtered by Keoua. Kamehameha then abandoned his idea of going to 

 Oahu. 



He went back to Hawaii and fought Keoua in Hamakua, where Keoua was de- 

 feated" and escaped to Kau, and afterwards died at Kawaihae, in Kohala. That bat- 

 tle was called Koapapaa."' Here is the explanation of the name: the warriors of Ke- 

 oua were reduced by death, and were as nothing before Kamehameha and his war- 

 riors, and were left on the ground as a lot of logs piled u]) in an ;////// (underground 

 oven), and very much scorched by the heat of the fire. 



The death of Keoua by which Kau became a possession of Kamehameha, hap- 

 pened in this way: When the temple (heiau) at Puukohola," in Kawaihae was luiilt, 

 Keoua was sent for in Kau,''' with deceitful words thus : "O Keoua, your cousin, 

 Kamehameha, has requested that you come and make friends, and live together in 

 harmonv, and to cast aside all strife." On these cunning and deceitful words, Keoua 

 came with his double canoes and landed at Kawaihae."" Before his arrival the umu 

 had been prepared and was red hot. Keoua was then roasted." And thus Keoua 

 was killed by Kamehameha, who came into possession of Kau, making four divisions 

 of land in Hawaii, in his possession, namelv, Kau, Kona, Kohala and Hamakua. 



THE FIFTH BATTLE, CALLED KE-PU-WAHA-ULAULA." 



This was Kamehameha's fifth battle which he fought against the rebel chief s'** 

 Kahekili and Kaen. The latter came from Kauai to Oahu and met Kahekili, both 

 going to Hawaii, and at Kohala fought Kamehameha. They were defeated. In this 



"Alexander's Brief History says of this war with 

 Keoua that "two bloody but indecisive battles were 

 fought near Paauhau, Keoua falling back to Hilo, while 

 Kamehameha recruited his losses at Waipio." On Ke- 

 oua's return to Kau from this engagement, by way of 

 Kilauea, a large portion of his army was destroyed by 

 a volcanic eruption of cinders and sand. This took place 

 in November, 1790. 



"Koapapaa, parched warriors. 



"'This famous heiau, which takes the name of its lo- 

 cation, was hnished in 1791. 



■'The two emissaries sent on this mission were Kea- 

 weheulu and Kamanawa. 



"The native historian Kamakau says Keoua was killed 

 by Keeaumoku with a spear as he was leaping ashore 

 to greet Kamehameha. 



"'Keoua and others were said to have been offered up 

 as sacrifices at the Puukohola heiau, in celebration of 

 Kamehameha's victory. 



"'This was a sea tight from a fleet of canoes and one 

 or two small vessels off the Hamakua coast in which 

 Kamehameha's men, aided by some foreigners, with 

 firearms and a mounted gun, won the day over the com- 

 bined Maui and Kauai invaders. The flame from the 

 mouth of the cannon in this action gave the name of 

 "the red mouthed gun" to the battle. 



''"Kahekili, king of Maui and Oahu, and Kaeo, king 

 of Kauai, had joined forces for the invasion of Hawaii 

 to overcome Kamehameha's rising power. Not licing 

 under the sway of Hawaii's king they could not be 

 termed "rebels." 



