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whereupon Kaopulupulu the higli priest of Oahu said: "These people are foreigners; 

 they are surely the people that will come and dwell in this land" (p. 169). 



In 1779 Kahahana, the Oahu King-, had but lately returned from Maui where 

 he assisted Kahekili in his wars against Kalaniopuu of Hawaii. The rupture between 

 Kahekili and Kahahana did not occur till afterward, in 1780-81 (pp. 197-8). 



Kauhi, of Maui, landing at Waikiki on an expedition against Oahu, was met 

 by the chiefs of Oahu, defeated and slain, his body exposed at the Apuakehau (Wai- 

 kiki ) heiau\ and great indignities were committed with his bones. The memory of this 

 great outrage instigated his descendant, Kahekili, to the fearful massacre of the Oahu 

 chiefs, when, after the battle of Niuhelewai, he had defeated Kahahana and conquered 

 the island (p. 208). 



The death of Kahahana closed the autonomy of Oahu (p. 269). 



In order to understand the political relations between Kahekili and Kahahana, 

 the king of Oahu, and the causes of the war between them, it is necessary to go back to 

 the year 1773, when Kumahana, the son of Peleioholani, was deposed by the chiefs and 

 makaainaua of Oahu. Though Kumahana had grown-u]) children at the time, yet the 

 Oahu nobles passed them by in selecting a successor to the throne, and fixed their eyes 

 on young Kahahana, the son of Elani, one of the powerful Ewa chiefs of the Maweke- 

 Lakona line, and on his mother's side closely related to Kahekili and the Maui royal 

 family. Kahahana had from boyhood been brought up at the court of Kahekili, who 

 looked upon his cousin's child almost as a son of his own. What share, if any, indirectly, 

 that Kahekili may have had in the election of Kahahana, is not known; but when the 

 tidings arrived from Oahu announcing the result to Kahekili, he a])])ears at first not to 

 have been overmuch jjleased with it. The Oahu chiefs had dejjuted Kekelaokalani, a 

 high chiefess, a cousin to Kahahana's mother and also to Kahekili, to proceed to Wai- 

 luku, Maui, and announce the election and solicit his approval. After some feigned or 

 real demurrer, Kahekili consented to Kahahana going to Oahu, but refused to let his 

 wife Kekuapoi-ula ^o with him, lest the Oahu chiefs should ill-treat her. Eventually, 

 however, he consented, but demanded as a price of his consent that the land of Kualoa 

 in Koolaupoko district should be ceded to him, and also the palaoa-pac ( the whalebone 

 and ivory) cast on the Oahu shores by the sea. 



Hampered with these demands of the crafty Kahekili, Kahahana started with his 

 wife and company for Oahu, and landed at Kahaloa in Waikiki. He was enthusiasti- 

 cally received, installed as Moi of Oahu, and great were the rejoicings on the occasion. 



Shortly after his installation, Kahahana called a great council of the Oahu chiefs 

 and the High Priest Kao])ulu])ulu, and laid before them the demands of Kahekili regard- 

 ing the land of Kualoa and the palaoa-pac. At first the council was divided, and some 

 thought it was but a fair return for the kindness and protection shown Kahahana from 

 his youth by Kahekili ; but the high priest was strongly oi)posed to such a measure, and 

 argued that it was a virtual surrender of the sovereignty and independence of Oahu, 

 Kualoa being one of the most sacred places on the island, where stood the sacred drums 

 of Kapahiiula and Kaalin-ulapunaivai, and also the sacred hill of Kauakahi-a-Kahoowaha ; 



'Helumoa was the name of this temple. 

 Memoirs B. P. B. Museum, Vol. VI. — 19. 



