Identifier: paradiseofpacifi00brow (find matches)
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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ever had the godsbeen so defied and the offender spared, as far asthey knew. Then surprise gave place to horrorand consternation, as they saw the king partakeof the food prepared for the women. Some ofthose present hastily left the tables ; others, see-ing that the high priest seemed to sanction thekingly example, watched the scene with breathlessinterest. The tabu is broken! some one whispered.Others took up the words, until passed from lipto lip the cry, The tabu is broken! Themurmur swelled in volume to a shout heardbeyond the pavilion, and taken up by the crowdoutside, was carried to the remotest corner ofKona. The royal feast over and the multitude clamor-ous over the late proceedings, Hewahewa cappedthe climax by saying: Seeing we have made such a bold beginning,my king, we can stop only with the death ofthe gods and the destruction of the heiaus! So be it! exclaimed the desperate Liholiho^who was beginning to realise what he had done- If the gods can punish, we have done enough
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THE LAST DEFENDERS OF THE OLD FAITH. 79 already to cost us our lives. Down with the godsand let the full measure of their w^rath make merryour fates ! First resigning publicly, then and there, hispriestly office, Hewahewa applied the torch tothe sacred temple, and the smoke arising abovethe smouldering ruins of that day s)3read untilit was wafted from Hawaii to Niihau, until theheiaus, images, and sacred belongings of a relig-ion more than fifteen hundred years old wereashes, and the reverential people of the islandkingdom without a religion or the knowledge ofa god. If a weak king had yielded blindly to thisastounding overthrow of religious principles,there were those with belief in the old faithstrong enough, and with the courage of their con-victions bold enough to attempt to stay the tideof events. The leader in this defence was acousin of the king, one Kekuaokalani, a trueKamehameha, both in physique and warlikespirit. Standing a full head above the ordinarymen in height, there w

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