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TMK : ( 3 ) 8 - 1 -008 : 004 ' Report No . 827 - 031821 Kamakau also describes the departure and ensuing return of Captain Cook to Kealakekua Bay, and the growing suspicions that the new arrival was in fact not the return god Lono. The subsequent theft of a boat led to James Cook's death along the Ka'awaloa flats.According to Kamakau: ...Palea no longer believed in the divinity of Lono and he plotted to steal a boat. He and his men secretly took a boat from Lono's ship and, Conveying it to Onouli,then broke it up to get the iron in it, also perhaps because they were angry with the white men for striking Palea with a club. It was this theft of the boat by Palea that led to the fight in which Captain Cook was killed. When Captain Cook and the sailors awoke in the morning and found their boat gone they were troubled; so Captain Cook went ashore at Ka'awaloa to inquire about the boat of Ka-lani-'opu'u, the ruling chief. Kalani-'opu'u denied any knowledge of the affair... [Cook] returned to the ship, and the officers discussed the affair and resolved to take the high chief Ka-lani-'opu'u on board and hold him there until the boat was found and restored... Cook landed with his company at Ka'awaloa between Ka-lani-'opu'u's place at'Awili and Keawe-a- heulu's at Hanamua.As a result of the conference held in the men's eating house before Ka-lani- 'opu'u,his older chiefs,and his sons, Ka-lani-'opu'u consented to go on board the ship. Ke-ku-hau- pi'o,meanwhile,seeing Cook on his way to Ka'awaloa,hastily set out from Ke'ei with another chief named Ka-limu.The strangers,seeing a man sitting at the outrigger of the canoe wearing a feather cape, shot at him. The shot struck Ka-limu and killed him. Ke-ku-hau-pi'o then hurriedly turned back and landed at Ka'awaloa.Just then Ka-lani-'opu'u and some of the chiefs dressed in chiefly array and carrying their war-clubs, appeared on the shore, ready to go on board the ship. Ke-ku- hau-pi'o cried, "0 heavenly one! stop! it is not safe on the sea; Ka-limu is dead. Go back to the house." When Ka-Iola heard that Ka-limu was dead, shot by the strangers, she ran out of the sleeping house,threw her arms about the shoulders of Ka-lani-'opu'u and said, "0 heavenly one! let us go back!"Ka-lani-'opu'u turned to go back.Captain Cook tried to grasp him by the hand,but Ka-lani-mano-o-ka-ho'owaha stuck his club in the way, and Ka-lani-'opu'u was borne away by his chiefs and warriors to Maunaloia, and the fight began. Captain Cook struck Ka-lani-mano-o-ka- ho'owaha with his sword, slashing one side of his face from temple to cheek. The chief with a powerful blow of his club knocked Captain Cook down against a heap of lava rock. Captain Cook groaned with pain.Then the chief knew that he was a man and not a god,and,that mistake ended, he struck him dead together with four other white men.The rest of the party fled to their boats and shot the gun,and many of the Hawaiians were killed.Some of those who were skillful with the sling, shot stones after the boat. Of one of these named Moa the strangers said, "Mahi-moa is a bad one. He twists his sling and the stone flies forth. He who flees,dies; he who stands still lives." When the strangers on the ship knew that their chief was dead,they shot their guns from the ship while the natives tried to ward off the shots with their sleeping mats.The bodies of Captain Cook and the four men who died with him were carried to Kalani-'opu'u at Maunaloia, and the chief sorrowed over the death of the captain.He dedicated the body of Captain Cook,that is,he offered it as a sacrifice to the god with a prayer to grant life to the chief (himself) and to his dominion. • Then they stripped the flesh from the bones of Lono [Cook]. The palms of the hands and the intestines were kept;the remains (pela)were consumed with firel.The bones, Kalani-'opu'u was kind enough to give to the strangers on board the ship, but some were saved by the kahunas and worshipped...[Kamakau 1961:102-103] ...After the death of Captain Cook and the departure of his ship, Ka-lani-'opu'u moved to Kainaliu near Honua'ino and,after some months,to Keauhou where he could surf in the waves of Kahalu'u and Holualoa... [Kamakau1961:102-105] HAUN &ASSOCIATES 1 12 1