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fell in the midst of his foes. His enemies thought 
him mortally wounded, and were proceeding to despoil 
him of his ornaments, &c. Kauikeouli approached, 
and called out to them to take care of the paraoa , a 
finely polished ornament, made of a whale’s tooth, 
highly valued by the natives, and worn on the breast 
suspended by a necklace of curiously braided human 
hair, stooping down himself at the same time to untie 
it. Keeaumoku, recovering from a swoon, and seeing 
Kauikeouli bending over him, made a sudden spring, 
and grasped him round his neck, or (as some of the 
natives say) by his long flowing hair, and being a man 
of uncommon stature and strength, held him down. 
Kauikeouli endeavoured, but in vain, to extricate him¬ 
self from his grasp. At this instant, Tamehameha and 
his attendants, having heard that Keeaumoku had 
fallen, hastened to the spot, and one of them, Nari- 
maerua, perceiving the situation of Kauikeouli, rushed 
forward, and ran a spear through his body; another 
stabbed him with a pahoa. He fell upon the body of 
Keeaumoku, and instantly expired. Keoua, his uncle, 
who fought near him, was about the same time wounded 
in the thigh by a spear, and obliged to quit the field. 
As soon as the death of Kauikeouli was known, a 
panic spread through his men, and they quickly fled 
in every direction. Many jumped into the sea, and 
swam to some canoes lying off the place, and the rest 
fled to the mountains or the adjoining puhonua (place 
of refuge) at Honaunau, about four miles distant. 
Among these was Karaiomoku, then a youth, now 
principal chief in the Sandwich Islands. Looking one 
day at the drawing I had made of the puhonua, he 
pointed with his finger to the place by which he enter- 
