“After this conversation the body was taken into the consecrated house for the performance of the proper rites by the priest and the new King.  The name of this ceremony is uko; and when the sacred hog was baked the priest offered it to the dead body, and it became a god, the King at the same time repeating the customary prayers.

“Then the priest, addressing himself to the King and chiefs, said:  ’I will now make known to you the rules to be observed respecting persons to be sacrificed on the burial of this body.  If you obtain one man before the corpse is removed, one will be sufficient; but after it leaves this house four will be required.  If delayed until we carry the corpse to the grave there must be ten; but after it is deposited in the grave there must be fifteen.  To-morrow morning there will be a tabu, and, if the sacrifice be delayed until that time, forty men must die.’

“Then the high priest, Hewahewa, inquired of the chiefs, ’Where shall be the residence of King Liholiho?’ They replied, ’Where, indeed?  You, of all men, ought to know.’  Then the priest observed, ‘There are two suitable places; one is Kau, the other is Kohala.’  The chiefs preferred the latter, as it was more thickly inhabited.  The priest added, ’These are proper places for the King’s residence; but he must not remain in Kona, for it is polluted.’  This was agreed to.  It was now break of day.  As he was being carried to the place of burial the people perceived that their King was dead, and they wailed.  When the corpse was removed from the house to the tomb, a distance of one chain, the procession was met by a certain man who was ardently attached to the deceased.  He leaped upon the chiefs who were carrying the King’s body; he desired to die with him on account of his love.  The chiefs drove him away.  He persisted in making numerous attempts, which were unavailing.  Kalaimoka also had it in his heart to die with him, but was prevented by Hookio.

“The morning following Kamehameha’s death, Liholiho and his train departed for Kohala, according to the suggestions of the priest, to avoid the defilement occasioned by the dead.  At this time if a chief died the land was polluted, and the heirs sought a residence in another part of the country until the corpse was dissected and the bones tied in a bundle, which being done, the season of defilement terminated.  If the deceased were not a chief, the house only was defiled which became pure again on the burial of the body.  Such were the laws on this subject.

“On the morning on which Liholiho sailed in his canoe for Kohala, the chiefs and people mourned after their manner on occasion of a chief’s death, conducting themselves like madmen and like beasts.  Their conduct was such as to forbid description; The priests, also, put into action the sorcery apparatus, that the person who had prayed the King to death might