200 TRANQUILLITY RESTORED. 



tired privately from the banquet, joined the 

 priests in exciting the people to defend their 

 gods by force of arms. An army was raised, 

 and, animated by the presence of the war-god, 

 commenced hostilities against his sacrilegious 

 opponents. When the news of the destruction 

 of the Marais reached the other islands, insur- 

 rections also broke out in each of them. Kare- 

 maku had condemned the sacrilege, and abstain- 

 ed from any part in it ; but as it could not now 

 be prevented, and he foresaw the mischievous 

 consequences of civil commotions, he assembled 

 an army, and, victorious wherever he appeared, 

 succeeded in restoring tranquillity. On the 

 large island O Wahi, however, he encountered a 

 formidable resistance ; but at length, after seve- 

 ral bloody contests, he captured the war-god : 

 the insurgents, who had also lost their leaders in 

 the last battle, believing themselves quite aban- 

 doned by the gods, now dispersed, and Kare- 

 maku,on the restoration of tranquillity, returned 

 to Wahu. 



It is a remarkable fact, that a people who 

 regarded their faith and their priests with so 

 much reverence, as I had myself witnessed 



