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Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

CHAPTER XIII
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"I do not wish," said the dying chief, "that my bones should be made into arrows to shoot mice, or into fish-hooks." So it is very difficult to find the burial-place of such or such a chief.

Mausoleums have been built in some places, and it is said that here are interred the nobles and kings; but it would seem that there are only empty coffins, or the bodies of common natives substituted for those of the personages in whose honor these monuments have been raised.
THE HISTORY OF KEAWE.
Whatever the historian, David Malo, may say, it is very doubtful whether there were several chiefs of the name of Keawe.

It is probable that there was only one high chief of this name, that he was the son of Umi, and was called Keawe the Great--_Keawe nui_ _a Umi_.

David Malo was interested, as the natives know, in swelling the genealogy of the alii, and he wished to flatter both nobility and people by distinguishing Keawe nui, of the race of Umi, from another Keawe.

There are two Keawe, as seven Maui, and nine Hina.


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