290 Foniandcr CoUcctioii of Haiva'uaii Folk-lore. 



Kahekili at W'aikiki informing- him of the fact. KahekiH immediately returned pre- 

 emptory orders to slay Kahahana and Alapai, and he sent a double canoe down to Ewa 

 to bring- their corpses up to W'aikiki. This order was faithfully executed by Kekuama- 

 noha; and it is said that the mournful chant which still exists in the Hawaiian anthology 

 of a bygone age under the name of "Kahahana" was comjaosed and chanted by his 

 \^ idow as the canoe was disappearing with her husband's corpse down the Ewa lagoon 

 on its way to Waikiki. 



The cruel treachery practised on Kahahana and his sad fate, joined to the over- 

 bearing behaviour and rapacity of the invaders, created a revulsion of feeling in the 

 C)ahu chiefs, which culminated in a wide-s])read conspiracy against Kahekili and the 

 Maui chiefs who were distributed over the several districts of Oahu. Kahekili him- 

 self and a number of chiefs were at that time living at Kailua; IManonokauakapekulani, 

 Kaiana, Namakeha, Nahiolea, Kalaniulumoku, and others, were quartered at Kaneohe 

 and Heeia; Kalanikupule, Koalaukane, and Kekuamanoha were at Ewa, and Hueu was 

 at Waialua. 



The Oahu leaders of the conspiracy were Elani, the father of Kahahana, Pupuka 

 and Makaioulu, above referred to, Konamanu, Kalakioonui, and a number of others. 

 The plan was to kill the Maui chiefs on one and the same night in the different dis- 

 tricts. Elani and his band were to kill the chiefs residing at Ewa; Makaioulu and 

 Pupuka were to kill Kahekili and the chiefs at Kailua ; Konamanu and Kalakioonui 

 were to dispatch Hueu at Waialua. By some means the conspiracy became known to 

 Kalanikupule, who hastened to inform his father, Kahekili, and the Maui chiefs at 

 Kaneohe in time to defeat the object of the conspirators ; but, through some cause now 

 unknown, the messenger sent to advise Hueu, generally known as Kiko-Hueu, failed to 

 arrive in time, and Hueu and all his retainers then living at Kaowakawaka, in Kawai- 

 loa, of the Waialua district, were killed. The conspiracy was known as the "IVaipio 

 Kiiiiopo" (the Waipio assassination), having originated in Waipio, Ewa. 



Fearfully did Kahekili avenge the death of Hueu on the revolted Oahu chiefs. 

 Gathering- his forces together, he overran the districts of Kona and Ewa, and a war of 

 extermination ensued. Men, women, and children were killed without discrimination 

 and without mercy. The streams of Makaho and Niuhelewai in Kona, and that of 

 Hoaeae 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, Kona- 

 manu, and Kalakioonui adorned the jiortals of this horrible house. The house was 

 called "Kauwalua," and was situated at Lapakea in Moanalua, as one passes by the old 

 u])per road to Ewa. The site is still ])ointed out, but the bones have received burial. 



The rebellion of the Oahu chiefs appears to have had its sui)porters even among 

 the chiefs and followers of Kahekili. Kalaniulumoku, the son of Kamehamehanui and 

 nephew of Kahekili, took the part of the Oahu chiefs, and was sui)ported by Kaiana, 



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