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could on Kahekili's forces. It was a chivalrous undertaking', a forlorn hope, and 

 wholly unauthorized by Kahahana, but fully within the spirit of the time for personal 

 valor, audacity, and total disregard of consequences. The names of those heroes were 

 Pupuka,' Makaioulu, Puakea, Pinau, Kalaeone, Pahua, Kauhi, and Kapukoa. Starting 

 direct from Apuakehau in W'aikiki, where Kahekili's army was encamped and organiz- 

 ing preparatory to a march inland to fight Kahahana, the eight Oahu warriors boldly 

 charged a large contingent of several hundred men of the ]\Iaui troops collected at the 

 heiau. In a twinkling they were surrounded by ox^erwhelming numbers, and a fight 

 commenced to which Hawaiian legends record no parallel. Using their long spears and 

 javelins with marvellous skill and dexterity, and killing a prodigious number of their 

 enemies, the eight champions broke through the circle of spears that surrounded them. 

 But Makaioulu, though a good fighter was a bad runner, on account of his short bow- 

 legs, and he was overtaken by Kauhikoakoa, a Maui chief. Makaioulu was soon tripped 

 up, secured, and bound by Kauhikoakoa, who swinging the captive up on his own 

 shoulders, started off with him for the camp to have him sacrificed as the first victim of the 

 war. This aiTair took ])lace on the bank of the Punaluu taro patch, near the coconut 

 grove of Kuakuaaka. Makaioulu, thus hoisted on the back of his ca])tor. caught sight of 

 his friend Pupuka, and called out to him to throw his spear straight at the navel of his 

 stomach. In hopes of shortening the present and prospective tortures of his friend, and 

 knowing well what his fate would be if brought alive into the enemy's camp, Pupuka 

 did as he was bidden, and with an unerring aim. But Makaioulu, seeing the spear 

 coming, threw himself with a \'iolent effort on one side, and the sj^ear went through the 

 back of Kauhikoakoa. Seeing their leader fall, the Maui soldiers desisted from further 

 pursuit, and the eight champions escaped. 



In the beginning of 1783 — some say it was in the month of January — Kahekili, 

 dividing his forces in three columns, marched from Waikiki by Puowaina, Pauoa, and 

 Kapena, and gave battle to Kahahana near the small stream of Kaheiki. Kahahana's 

 army was thoroughly routed, and he and his wife Kekuapoi-ula fled to the mountains. 

 It is related that in this battle Kauwahine, the wife of Kahekili, fought valiantly at 

 his side. 



Oahu and Molokai now became the conquest of Kahekili, and savagely he used 

 his victory. 



For upwards of two years or more Kahahana and his wife and his friend Alapai* 

 wandered over the mountains of Oahu, secretly aided, fed, and clothed by the country 

 people, who commiserated the misfortunes of their late king. Finally, weary of such a 

 life, and hearing that Kekuamanoha, the uterine brother of his wife Kekuapoi-ula, was 

 residing at Waikele in Ewa, he sent her to negotiate with her brother for their safety. 

 Dissembling his real intentions, Kekuamanoha received his sister kindly and spoke her 

 fairly, but having found out the hiding-place of Kahahana, he sent messengers to 



'Pupuka, an Oahu chief of considerable importance, minated, and not being maritally connected vvith the vic- 



was fatlier of Inaina, the wife of Nahiolea, and mother torious side, no scions were left to chant their names, 



of Kekuanaoa, late governor of Oahu. Tradition is si- «i have been unable to learn who this Alapai was, and 



lent on the descent and connections of the other heroes of what family, 

 of this band- They and theirs were probably all exter- 



