ck by the soldiers of the King. As he ran,
he was struck in the back by a spear, but he persevered and leaped into
the sea at Malae and was drowned, his blood discoloring the water. His
dead body was taken and placed up in the temple at Puehuehu. After
the kapu days therefore the King, with his chiefs and soldiers,
moved to Puuloa, Ewa, bringing with them the priest Kaopulupulu, and
after some days he was brought before the King by the soldiers, and
without groans for his injuries was slain in the King's presence. But
he spoke fearlessly of the vengeance that would fall upon the King
in consequence of his death, and during their murderous attack upon
him proclaimed with his dying breath: "You, O King, that kill me here
at Puuloa, the time is near when a direct death will be yours. Above
here in this land, and the spot where my lifeless body will be borne
and placed high on the altar for my flesh to decay and slip to the
earth, shall be the burial place of chiefs and people hereafter, and
it shall be called 'the royal sand of the mistaken'; there will you
be placed in the temple." At the end of these words of Kaopulupulu
his spirit took flight, and his body was left for mockery and abuse,
as had been that of his son in the sea of Malae, at Waianae.

After a while the body of the priest was placed on a double canoe
and brought to Waikiki and placed high in the cocoanut trees at
Kukaeunahi, the place of the temple, for several ten-day periods (_he
mau anahulu_) without decomposition and falling off of the flesh to
the sands of Waikiki.

When King Kahekili of Maui heard of the death of the priest
Kaopulupulu by Kahahana, he sent some of his men thither by canoe,
who landed at Waimanalo, Koolau, where, as spies, they learned from
the people respecting Kaopulupulu and his death, with that of his son;
therefore they returned and told the King the truth of these reports,
at which the affection of Kahekili welled up for the dead priest, and
he condemned the King he had established. Coming with an army from
Maui, he landed at Waikiki without meeting Kahahana, and took back
the government of Oahu under his own kingship. The chiefs and people
of Oahu all joined under Kahekili, for Kahahana had been a chief of
wrong-doing. This was the first sea of Kaopulupulu in accordance with
his prophetic utterance to his son, "This land is the sea's."

Upon the arrival here at Oahu of Kahekili, Kahahana fled, with
his wife Kekuapoi, and frie