. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. llie I [a use (ff No firs, 109 tliis lioiisc after descriljiiig tlic "Waipio Kiiimkn," and it is so illustrative cif tlic times just preceding- the coming of the wliite men as settlers rather tlian as explorers or traders tliat I cpiotc it in full ?^ Fearfully did Kaliekili avenge the death of Hucu on llie revollcd (lalni rliicfs. Gallicrini^ his forces together, he overran the district of Koira and liwa, and a war of extermination ensued. Men, women and childrt'n we
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. llie I [a use (ff No firs, 109 tliis lioiisc after descriljiiig tlic "Waipio Kiiimkn," and it is so illustrative cif tlic times just preceding- the coming of the wliite men as settlers rather tlian as explorers or traders tliat I cpiotc it in full ?^ Fearfully did Kaliekili avenge the death of Hucu on llie revollcd (lalni rliicfs. Gallicrini^ his forces together, he overran the district of Koira and liwa, and a war of extermination ensued. Men, women and childrt'n were killed witliont diseritninatioii and w-itlnjut mercy. The streams of ^?klakalio. STMinrr viicw in , with kunai; i\ tui- !K I'lC, KOUXl and Niuhelewai in Koiui, and that of Hoaiai in I-'.wa, are said to have heeti literally (^hoktMi with the corpses of the slain. The native Oahu aristocracy were ahiiost entirely cxtirpatctl. It is related that one of the Maui chiefs, uaiued Kalaikoa. caused the hones of the slain to he st'raped and cleanetl, atid that the quantity colleete<l was so great that he hnilt a house for himself, the walls of which were laid tip entirely of the skeletons of the slain. The skulls of hdani, Koiniinamu and Kalakioonui adorned the portals of this horritde house. Tlic was called "Kauwahni" and was situated at Lapnkea iii Moanahia, as one passes hy the old upper road to I{wa. The site is still pointed ont, but the bones have received burial. We come now to the transition period when the foreign iiifliicnee and example \¥ere felt in, the native habitations: and we find that native and foreign patterns were nintnal infliienecs, and first we will consider the foreign ways and ideas adopted I)}- the ^''The Polyiu-Hia!i Race. II, 226. IzqVI. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly r
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