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Title: The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930
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Publisher: Boston, D. Estes & Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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civil war, and this case was no exception to therule. Four chiefs of Kona joined issue underKamehameha, and a fierce battle ensued justsouth of Kealakekua Bay, when Kiwalao waskilled and his victor became ruler over Kona andKohala. The rest of the island was divided amonga brother and uncle of Kiwalao and Kahekili andhis brother Kaeo. An intense and prolonged warfare between therival powers followed, during which Kamehamehaacted a stirring part in assailing West Maui, whileKahekili and his brother Kaeo attacked the districtof Hilo. No faction gained any decisive victory.During a lull in this savage contention, in 1786,American and European ships on their way toCanton began to stop here for supplies, or, engagedin the fur trade on the northwest coast of Amer-ica, ran down here to spend the winter, Waimea,on the island of Kauai, and Kealakekua Bay beingthe harbours most frequented by them. Some of the native chiefs were inclined to lookwith suspicion upon these visitors, and, though a J
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THE NAPOLEON OF THE PACIFIC. 43 brisk trade soon sprung up^ to treat them treacher-ously. Kamehameha showed a more far-seeingpolicy by treating with the strangers fairly^ tryingto gain their confidence by offering them everyhospitality at his disposal and even defendingthem against the faithless treatment of the otherchiefs. In this way he secured the better part ofthe trade^ and came into possession of firearms^powder^ and shot, the articles most in demand bythe natives. In 1789 a treacherous act of his enemies wasthe cause of giving to Kamehameha just such aidand counsel as he needed in the coming conquest.In February, 1790, an American fur-trader namedMetcalf, on his way to China, with two vessels,the Eleanor and Fair American, the latter com-manded by his son, a youth of twenty, anchoredoff Honolaula, Maui. That night, after killingits occupant, some of the natives stole a boat andstove it to pieces to getits nails. The following morning, learning that theoffenders had gone to Olo

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