n the uplands of Kapua, South Kona, Hawaii. He makes a conquest of the
island of Maui; its king, Kamalalawalu, flees and hides himself when
Kalaehina defies his taboo. There he rules until Kapakohana, the strong
usurper of Kauai, wrestles with him and pushes him over the cliff
Kaihalulu and kills him.[1]

14. LONOIKAMAKAHIKE

Lonoikamakahike was king of Hawaii after Keawenuiaumi, his father, 64
generations from Wakea. According to the story, he is born and brought
up at Napoopo, Hawaii, by the priests Loli and Hauna. He learns spear
throwing from Kanaloakuaana; at the test he dodges 3 times 40 spears at
one time. He discards sports, but becomes expert in the use of the spear
and the sling, in wrestling, and in the art of riddling disputation, the
_hoopapa_. He also promotes the worship of the gods. While yet a boy he
marries his cousin Kaikilani, a woman of high rank who has been
Kanaloakuaana's wife, and gives her rule over the island until he comes
of age. Then they rule together, and so wisely that everything prospers.

Kaikilani has a lover, Heakekoa, who follows them as they set out on a
tour of the islands. While detained on Molokai by the weather,
Lonoikamakahike and his wife are playing checkers when the lover sings a
chant from the cliff above Kalaupapa. Lonoikamakahike suspects treachery
and strikes his wife to the ground with the board. Fearful of the
revenge of her friends he travels on to Kailua on Oahu to Kekuhihewa's
court, which he visits incognito. Reproached because he has no name
song, he secures from a visiting chiefess of Kauai the chant called "The
Mirage of Mana." In the series of bets which follow, Lonoikamakahike
wins from Kakuhihewa all Oahu and is about to win his daughter for a
wife when Kaikilani arrives, and a reconciliation follows. The betting
continues, concluded by a riddling match, in all of which
Lonoikamakahike is successful.

But his wife brings word that the chiefs of Hawaii, enraged by his
insult to her person, have rebelled against him, only the district of
Kau remaining faithful. In a series of battles at Puuanahulu, called
Kaheawai; at Kaunooa; at Puupea; at Puukohola, called Kawaluna because
imdertaken at night and achieved by the strategy of lighting torches to
make the appearance of numbers; at Kahua, called Kaiopae; at Halelua,
called Kaiopihi from a warrior slain in the battle; finally at Puumaneo,
his success is complete, and Hawaii becomes his.

Lonoikamakah