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from the blood-consuming fire ! 5? — “ O, great Kel- 
kuewa,” said Kinau, “ your words are like water to the 
parched tarro, they are like the waters of the ocean to 
the expiring fish which the fisherman returns to its 
element. I feel my heart lightened, the cold hand of the 
spirit of darkness has moved from my heart ! O, Kel- 
kuewa,” continued the enraptured girl, “ they say you 
have no daughter, I will be your daughter, I will make 
your taipas, I will water your tarro-patches, though I 
fetch the water from the other side of the mountain of 
Nuanu. 5 * The enchanter seized the hand of Kinau, 
assisted her over the Pele, and saw her descend to the 
valley of her fathers. 
The morn of the day in which the tragedy was to be 
ended appeared. Before the sun had risen, thousands of 
the islanders were moving towards the plains of Why- 
teetee, on which the immolation of the victims was to 
take place. Lamentations were heard over the whole 
island— the plains of Whyteetee were soon covered with 
countless multitudes— five immense fires were lighted. 
As the sun rose, the odour from the sandal-wood which 
they contained perfumed the whole of Oahoo. In an 
enclosure (about one hundred feet long, and fifty from 
front to back, the front wall of which was about six feet 
high, and the back one about twelve, formed of loose 
stones or masses of lava piled upon each other, and 
situated upon a rising ground at the end of the plains 
facing the sea) the five victims were placed. 
On a mass of rocks about one hundred feet high, 
which rise abruptly out of the plains and command a 
