Perceiving that the people took him for the long vanished and lamented god Lono, he encouraged them in the delusion for the sake of the limitless power it gave him; but during the famous disturbance at this spot, and while he and his comrades were surrounded by fifteen thousand maddened savages, he received a hurt and betrayed his earthly origin with a groan.

It was his death-warrant.

Instantly a shout went up: "He groans!--he is not a god!" So they closed in upon him and dispatched him.
His flesh was stripped from the bones and burned (except nine pounds of it which were sent on board the ships).

The heart was hung up in a native hut, where it was found and eaten by three children, who mistook it for the heart of a dog.

One of these children grew to be a very old man, and died in Honolulu a few years ago.