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Religion was made the bait to allure him in revolting against the established government; but in addition to the disinterested honour of being Defender of the Faith, he was to have the crown of the kingdom, if success attended his standard. The rebels were soon encountered by the government or freedom party, and in a slight engagement, the former gained a success. On this intelligence reaching the King, a council was held; and Kalaimoku (William Pitt), his trusty adviser, urged an immediate attack with all the royal forces on the insurgents at head-quarters. First, however, Hoapili, guardian to the King's sister, and Naihe the orator, were sent to the rebel camp on an embassage of conciliation. They were accompanied by the queen-mother, Keopuolani, to whom Hoapili had stood, even in her royal consort's lifetime, in the position of what may be called her acting husband. The rebel chief was their nephew. The negotiation, however well intended, was ineffectual, and the ambassadors were glad to retreat from the enemy's camp with their lives. The rebels immediately marched from their position to Kailua, where the King lay, hoping to surprise and take the position. Kailua is situated in a small bay on the western side of Hawaii, a few miles north of the scene of Cook's death. The King's troops were prepared to meet the enemy, and advanced to meet them. At Kuamoo they formed a line on the shore, having the sea at their back, and on the enemy appearing, drove them before them up a rising ground till the rebels gained a shelter from a stone fence, and for a time. made a stand; but they were at length driven from their position by a party of Kalaimoku's warriors. The insurgents were now in flight; but, rallied by their misguided chief, himself wounded and weak from loss of

blood, they made a final stand. Kekuaokalani, with the courage that belonged to his race, fought desperately; but he fainted and fell during the engagement. He revived, however; and sitting on a fragment of lava, for he was too weak to stand, twice loaded his musket and fired on the advancing party. He was then struck by a ball in the left breast, and covering his face with his feather-cloak, he expired, amidst friends who surrounded him. Again we are called upon to admire a woman's devotion. His wife, Manona, had fought by his side the whole day with dauntless courage; but as soon as she saw him lying dead, the motive which animated her withered up, and she called for quarter to Kalaimoku and his sister, who were advancing. As the words were leaving her lips, a ball struck her temple; and the faithful wife fell on the lifeless body of her husband, and instantly expired.

The engagement, which commenced in the forenoon, was continued till sunset, the idolaters fighting on, though dispirited by the loss of their leader. By evening, the King's troops were left masters of the field, their enemies having by that time surrendered or fled.

Thus ended the last battle which the narrator of Hawaiian history has to record. War is a great evil; but experience has shown it to be not an unmixed evil. It evokes fierce passions, but it calls forth at the same time dormant virtues, which are apt, in the piping time of peace, to be forgotten, like an undrawn sword rusting in its scabbard. Endurance, self-sacrifice, loyalty, discipline, hold no mean rank in the conclave of moral qualities. The courageous Hawaiian women generally followed the men to battle, to tend their wants, and especially to assist them when wounded. The more courageous of them, or the more affectionate, would

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advance to the front of the battle, side by side with their husband, bearing a calabash of water in one hand, and poising a dart or holding a stone with the other. If their warrior was killed, they seldom thought it worth while, themselves, to survive.

Mr. Ellis visited the site of the battle of Kuamoo. He found the place thickly studded with small piles of stones, marking the graves of those who died in the conflict. A tumulus larger than the rest, indicated the spot where the chief and his heroic wife died together. A few yards nearer the sea, a tomb ten feet long and six wide, formed of piled stones, covered the grave where Kekuaokalani and Manona were interred. Many lovely flowering bushes grew around it, and a beautiful convolvulus in fullest bloom covered the tomb with its foliage and blossoms.

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OME young Hawaiians had been taken to the United States, and there educated. The blessings of Christianity, which they valued in their effects on themselves, they desired to impart to their fellow-countrymen, by returning to the islands. This desire, and an interest relating to the Sandwich Islands, which had sprung up in the minds of the religious community in America, determined the sending of some missionaries to Hawaii. No intelligence had at that time been received of the events which have just been narrated. When the missionaries went forth, therefore, it was with the belief that the idolatrous system which had hitherto prevailed would be opposed to them.

The courageous pioneers of Christianity despatched from Boston by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, were accompanied by several native youths, among whom was George Kaumaulii, son of the former King of Kauai, and who, having acquired the English tongue, were able to render the important assistance of acting as interpreters. On the 4th of February, 1820, according to Ellis,* they arrived in

By Jarves's account, the day was the 20th of March.

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Hawaii; and by a striking coincidence, if we may not say by a directing providence, landed at Kairua, the very scene of the last battle of idolatry. Instead of those difficulties which they had every right to suppose awaited them, they found the laws of tabu abolished; the priesthood, as a body, dissolved; the nation set free from its degrading superstitious system; and, religionless, lying ready, like a fallow ground, to receive the seed of a new husbandry. The difficulties which awaited the missionaries were of another kind.

They were visited on board their vessel, the 'Thaddeus,' by Kaliamoku and the two dowager queens, by whom they had previously been kindly received. Hewahewa, too, the ex high-priest, welcomed them cordially, calling them his brother priests.' We must respect this man, who, without law, was a law unto himself, and acted faithfully to the extent of the light he possessed. He could not, of course, intuitively precognise the system of Christianity; but he was able, before that system was revealed to him, to discover by reason the falsity of his national idolatry, and, with a noble self-sacrifice, assist in the overthrow of the religion which upheld him in a position only a little inferior to the King's. He had publicly renounced heathenism, and had apprehended Monotheism, proclaiming his belief in the One Supreme Being. I knew,' he said, 'that the wooden images of our deities, carved by our own hands, were incapable of supplying our wants; but I worshipped them, because it was the custom of our fathers. My thoughts have always been, that there is one only great God, dwelling in the heavens.'

The conduct of the High Priest, Hewahewa, on this occasion recalls to mind a parallel in the history of our own land, when at the preaching of Paulinus, Edwin of Northumbria was converted to Christianity.