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A monument erected by his fellow countrymen now marks the place where he fell on the shores of Kealakekua." In 1893 the queen was deposed and a provisional government was established, to be succeeded, in 1894, by the Republic of Hawaii. In 1900, by an act of Congress, the Hawaiian Islands became a territory of the United States.
But the people always expected his return, and thus they were easily led to accept Captain Cook as the restored god. Some of the old natives believed Cook was Lono to the day of their death; but many did not, for they could not understand how he could die if he was a god. Only a mile or so from Kealakekua Bay is a spot of historic interest the place where the last battle was fought for idolatry.
While ashore with a part of his crew at a landing that is now the village of Kealakekua, one of the ship's boats was stolen by natives. Now Cook had learned to manage South Sea islanders in a very practical, though not the most tactful, way.
What the sailors call "raindogs" little patches of rainbow are often seen drifting about the heavens in these latitudes, like stained cathedral windows. Kealakekua Bay is a little curve like the last kink of a snail-shell, winding deep into the land, seemingly not more than a mile wide from shore to shore.
Of the labor given to the erection of a house of worship at Kealakekua, the same work furnishes us with the following particulars: "The stones were carried upon the shoulders of men forty or fifty rods. The coral for making the lime they procured by diving in two or three fathom water and detaching blocks, or fragments.
However, they had their merits; the Romans exhibited the higher pluck, but the Kanakas showed the sounder judgment. Shortly we came in sight of that spot whose history is so familiar to every school-boy in the wide world Kealakekua Bay the place where Captain Cook, the great circumnavigator, was killed by the natives, nearly a hundred years ago.
But the people always expected his return, and thus they were easily led to accept Captain Cook as the restored god. Some of the old natives believed Cook was Lono to the day of their death; but many did not, for they could not understand how he could die if he was a god. Only a mile or so from Kealakekua Bay is a spot of historic interest the place where the last battle was fought for idolatry.
What the sailors call "raindogs" little patches of rainbow are often seen drifting about the heavens in these latitudes, like stained cathedral windows. Kealakekua Bay is a little curve like the last kink of a snail-shell, winding deep into the land, seemingly not more than a mile wide from shore to shore.
However, they had their merits; the Romans exhibited the higher pluck, but the Kanakas showed the sounder judgment. Shortly we came in sight of that spot whose history is so familiar to every school-boy in the wide world Kealakekua Bay the place where Captain Cook, the great circumnavigator, was killed by the natives, nearly a hundred years ago.
From this wall the place takes its name, Kealakekua, which in the native tongue signifies "The Pathway of the Gods."
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