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that the heat of the sun might destroy them. Now this was 
the greatest insult that one chief could offer to another, and 
the gentle Alapaii was roused to resentment. He assembled 
all his followers: the chiefs, his friends, did the same; and 
the two armies met in the valley of Ono Marino, and fought 
for three days. Of the warriors on the side of Kaiamamao 
few besides himself and his son Teraiopu survived. The 
king, indeed, owed his life to the generosity of Alapaii, who 
seeing him in danger from the spear of one of his own vas¬ 
sals, rushed forward and saved him at the risk of his life. 
But the pride of Kaiamamao could not endure defeat, and 
he slew himself, as it appears, on the field of battle. 
Notwithstanding this event, the devotion of the chiefs of 
Hawaii to the family of their kings was shown by placing 
Teraiopu at their head; and as it was shortly after, that 
the most memorable event that has ever occurred in the 
history of these Islands took place, namely, their being 
made known to the civilized world by Captain Cook*, the 
reign of Teraiopu, or Terreeoboo, may be considered as the 
beginning of the certain history of the Sandwich Islands, 
and this a fit place to notice generally their state of civiliza¬ 
tion at the period of the discovery. The Sandwich Islands, 
when first visited bv Captain Cook, were not, as now, united 
* See Ellis, p. 418> 
