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while so doing-, was found liy the searchers. Kainapau was killed on the spot, and his 

 intestines strung out to dry in the sun. That is the dreadful end of the evil-minded, 

 the rebellious and the wrong-doer, a horrible death. 



OF HEMA. 



Hema was one of the most famous warriors in the days of Kamehameha, 

 and a man who was not afraid of the bravery and strength of others. Hema was 

 not trained to be a warrior, or in the art of war. He was not accustomed to the wag- 

 ing of wars, and was never a warrior. He was a steward of Kamehameha, and his 

 duties were to take and keep in charge rations for the king every day. While going 

 abroad in war times he was the bearer of food, and when a battle was in progress 

 and Kamehameha became hungry, then Hema would bring him provisions. 



In all these works pertaining to a steward Hema was an expert, and was sat- 

 isfactory to Kamehameha, but he had not received a chiefly term, nor fame, nor was 

 he a favorite, but on the day that he chose to be a warrior and destroyed the ene- 

 mies of Kamehameha, that day he became a chief and a favorite of Kamehameha, 

 and abandoned his stewardship. 



When Kamehameha was fighting against Keoua at Koapapaa, in Hamakua, 

 at a place called Kealakaha, near to Kaula, and in a deep valley called Kekualele, 

 there a fight occurred between the strongest warriors of Keoua against Kameha- 

 meha. At that particular jilace the standing room was only a fathom in width, and it 

 was there Kamehameha fought against forty" or more of Keoua's warriors. 



After considerable fighting Kamehameha was very much out of breath, and 

 the men of Keoua were being reinforced. Just then Kamehameha expectantly turned 

 to the rear; but there were no chiefs, nor warriors behind him, only Hema the steward. 



While Kamehameha was talking to Hema, the enemies were preparing to take 

 Kamehameha's life, but Hema fearlessly leapt forward and slew the warriors of Ke- 

 oua. By this work of Hema in leaping forward to repulse the enemies, Kameha- 

 meha was victorious that day, and his life was saved, and Keoua defeated. Hence the 

 name Koapapaa until this day, which means that the warriors became a storehouse 

 of death and the lance and the spear the pathway, here and there. The warriors were 

 left there in that valley, a pile of earth. 



W'hen Kamehameha witnessed the matchless bravery of Hema, he said: "Today 

 you become a chief as 1 am, and today vou refrain from carrying and shouldering bag- 

 gage, and you shall be a courtier in my i)resence, and in the presence of the chiefs and 

 the pe()i)le also. He who disobeys vour word shall die. If the delinquent l)e a chief he 

 shall lose his lands.""" Therefore Hema was exalted until his death, and was very fa- 

 mous in the days of Kamehameha. 



On reflection, therefore, perhaps there never was a man on the continents, or on 

 the Isles of the Sea, who had never studied the requirements of a warrior, and who did 

 go to war as Hema was, the unlearned. 



"'Narrow quarters this for an (.■ncnuntcr of forty or nioii people, for in many cases, as here, it states tliat if 



more men against two. a chief be the culprit he shall lose his lands as the pen- 



"In this as in other incidents the decree of a death :''ty, thus making one law for the rich and another for 



penalty seems to have been applicable only to the com- 'h^ poor. 



