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Updated: May 16, 2025
And all Governor Boki's commoners of fighting men, as well as the haole deserters from ships, so fled, so that the brass guns lay unserved and his handful of chiefs of themselves could do nothing. "Aimoku and Humuhumu made me sit on the sand to the side from the launching of the great double-canoe.
I bent for a half-drunk drinking coconut, but Aimoku kicked it out of my shaking fingers, and Humuhumu smote me with the heel of his hand on my neck. "They walked before me, side by side, their faces solemn and black, and I walked at their heels.
"'I do not mind so much being the moepuu, I said to Humuhumu; 'but I should like to have a drink before I am slain. I got no drink. But I spoke true. I was too sick of the much whisky and rum to be afraid to die. At least my mouth would stink no more, nor my head ache, nor the inside of me be as dry-hot sand.
Nor did I know that Kahekili was dead. Yet did I guess something serious was afoot, for the two men who kicked me were chiefs, and no common men crouched behind them to do their bidding. One was Aimoku, of Kaneche; the other Humuhumu, of Manoa.
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