Note 22 — CONTENTS (continued 6)

He went back to Hawaii and fought Keoua in Hamakua, where Keoua was defeated22 and escaped to Kau, and afterwards died at Kawaihae, in Kohala. That battle was called Koapapaa.23 Here is the explanation of the name: the warriors of Keoua were reduced by death, and were as nothing before Kamehameha and his warriors, and were left on the ground as a lot of logs piled up in an umu (underground oven), and very much scorched by the heat of the fire.