46 Director's Annual Report. 
the landing near Kawaihae bay, Lono held a council of war at 
which two old priests presented the following plan: Lono was to 
disgrace them and drive them from court; they were to seek refuge 
with the enemy and confidence being gained advice was to be 
given that a march be made inland toward Waimea where they 
were to claim that Lono was in such a weak position that his de- 
feat was certain. The plot succeeded, and while Kamalalawalu 
marched inland, Lono brought his forces along the coast from 
Kahaluu and cut off the retreat. Kamalalawalu was killed in the 
engagement that ensued. His body was brought to Kahaluu, a 
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HIG. 15. 
picture of it made on the rock, and the body sacrificed in the 
nearby heiau of Keeku. 
Fornander’s account’ of the main facts of the invasion is 
similar. ‘Thrum,% who has been gathering legendary lore during 
the past forty years, has gleaned several accounts referring to the 
sacrifice—one, that it took place at the heiau of Ohiamukumuku, 
a quarter of a mile from Keeku; another that the Maui king was 
killed at Ohiamukumuku and his bones burned at Makole’a, an- 
other heiau one hundred yards from Keeku. ‘The second was 
discredited by Thrum on account of other information which he 
had to the effect that the bones were saved and later returned to 

1 Polynesian Race, vol. ii, p. 123. 
3 Hawaiian Annual, 1908, pp. 71 and 72. 
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