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spot on which the king’s troops formed a line 
from the sea-shore towards the mountains, and 
drove the opposing party before them to a rising 
ground, where a stone fence, about breast high, 
enabled the enemy to defend themselves for some 
time, but from which they were at length driven 
by a party of Karaimoku’s warriors. The small 
tumuli increased in number as we passed along, 
until we came to a place called Tuamoo. Here 
Kekuaokalani made his last stand, rallied his 
flying forces, and seemed, for a moment, to turn 
the scale of victory; but being weak with the 
loss of blood, from a wound he had received in 
the early part of the engagement, he fainted and 
fell. However, he soon revived, and, though 
unable to stand, sat on a fragment of lava, and 
twice loaded and fired his musket on the ad¬ 
vancing party. He now received a ball in his 
left breast, and, immediately covering his face 
with his feather cloak, expired in the midst of his 
friends. His wife Manona, during the whole of 
the day, fought by his side with steady and 
dauntless courage. A few moments after her 
husband’s death, perceiving Karaimoku and his 
sister advancing, she called out for quarter ; but 
the words had scarcely escaped from her lips, 
when she received a ball in her left temple, 
fell upon the lifeless body of her husband, 
and instantly expired. The idolaters having 
lost their chief, made but feeble resistance 
afterwards; yet the combat, which commenced 
in the forenoon, continued till near sunset, 
when the king’s troops, finding their enemies 
had all either fled or surrendered, returned to 
Kairua. 
Karaimoku grieved much at the death of 
