. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ains. By theaid of a couple of English traders, Captains Brownand Gordon, then visiting at Honolulu, Kalani ofOahu defeated his rival and put him to he began to grow jealous of his allies,and having an ambition of his own to rule overall of the islands, he planned to kill them andthen, with the ships and a fleet of war canoes, sailto Hawaii to attack Kamehameha. He managedto murder the captains, but in such a bunglingmanner that the sailors escaped with the vessels,going to Hawaii direct, when they tu
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ains. By theaid of a couple of English traders, Captains Brownand Gordon, then visiting at Honolulu, Kalani ofOahu defeated his rival and put him to he began to grow jealous of his allies,and having an ambition of his own to rule overall of the islands, he planned to kill them andthen, with the ships and a fleet of war canoes, sailto Hawaii to attack Kamehameha. He managedto murder the captains, but in such a bunglingmanner that the sailors escaped with the vessels,going to Hawaii direct, when they turned themover to Kamehameha with all their arms andammunition. This was the conquerors opportunity, and,assisted by his marshals, he mustered over six-teen thousand warriors, and with the best equipped,as well as the largest army Hawaii had known,in the spring of 1795 set sail with his immensefleet of canoes for Maui. This island was givenover to him without a battle, and then he cap-tured Molokai in the same easy manner. By this time Kalanikupule had rallied his forces,. THE NAPOLEON OF THE PACIFIC. 49 ten thousand strong, and prepared to make adesperate stand in the Nuuanu Valley, near wherethe ice-works are now located. Kamehamehareached Waialae Bay the last of April, where helearned that one of his trusted chiefs, who hadagreed to meet him there, had deserted him, andwith all of his followers joined the enemy. Nothing daunted by this, Kamehameha lost nofurther time in marching against his foes, whenthe two armies met in that deadly grapple whichwas not only to decide the fates of kings butthe whole future of the Hawaiian Islands. TheOahuans proved themselves true to their reputa-tion as fighters, and there, with the cloud-sweptcliffs behind, the home-land of Kaulau belowthem, with the blue sea shimmering through thecocoanuts, and in plain sight of the thatched roofsof their grass houses, they gave their lives inheroic contest for the lost cause. Slowly pressedback toward th
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