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a try, which he took up arms to support, effectually 
destroyed. The natives pointed out to us the place 
where the king’s troops, led on by Karaimoku, were 
first attacked by the idolatrous party. We saw several 
small heaps of stones, which our guide informed us 
were the graves of those who, during the conflict, had 
fallen there. We were then shewn the spot on which 
the king’s troops formed a line from the sea-shore to¬ 
wards 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 them¬ 
selves 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 Ke- 
kuaokalani 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 advancing party. 
He now received a ball in his left breast, and immedi¬ 
ately 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 hus¬ 
band’s death, perceiving Karaimoku and his sister ad¬ 
vancing, she called out for quarter; but the words had 
hardly 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 ; 
