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his companion-in-arms Karaimoku, next attacked Oahu*, 
and the next year added it to his dominions. Warned 
by the conduct of Tianna’s brother, who rebelled against 
him while absent on the expedition to Oahu, Tamehameha 
from that time required all the superior chiefs to accom¬ 
pany him to war, and left Hawaii to the government of 
John Young, his English friend. Ten years elapsed before 
the conquest of the whole of the Islands was accomplished, 
notwithstanding the force, and arms, and ammunition 
Tamehameha had accumulated, and his large army, in 
which he reckoned thirty Europeans, all skilled in the 
use of fire-arms f. The final conquest of Taui in 1817 
was immediately followed by the submission of the smaller 
Islands dependant on it, and Tamehameha having ended 
his wars, applied himself to improving his commerce and 
strengthening and beautifying his towns and ports. Mean¬ 
time a friendly intercourse had been kept up with the 
English government, on which Tamehameha depended for 
* Kotzebue says, the king of Oahu fled to the mountains, on the landing 
of Tamehameha, and there put an end to his own existence, that he might not 
fall into the hands of his enemy. 
f Liziansky says, that in 1804, Tamehameha had 600 muskets, eight four- 
pounders, one six-pounder, five three-pounders, forty swivels, and six small 
mortars; he also had twenty-one schooners, built after the Britannia, carrying 
swivels, and some commanded by Europeans. Horses had been introduced 
from South America, but were not yet applied to any useful purpose. 
