Tameamea

Well might Karemaku exclaim, "Tameamea, thou hast died too soon!"

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Kawarao trusted to his skill in throwing the javelin; but Tameamea could defend himself from several antagonists at once, and scarcely ever missed his aim.

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During my former visit here, the painter Choris, who made the voyage with me, and was afterwards murdered in Mexico, took an excellent likeness of Tameamea.

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With the arrival of the white men begins the chronology of O Wahi, from the first white king to Tameamea, making seven successive reigns.

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Tameamea left to his successor above a dozen good ships, all manned with natives.

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His eldest son and legitimate successor, Lio Lio, or, as the English call it, _Rio Rio_, -- for there is some difficulty in distinguishing between the L and the R of the Sandwich Islanders, -- now assumed the government, under the name of Tameamea the Second.

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On the 8th of May, in the year 1819, Tameamea terminated his meritorious career, to the great sorrow as well of the foreign settlers as of his native subjects.

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Even Tameamea himself, for his usual attire, wore only a shirt, trowsers, and red waistcoat, without a coat; he possessed, however, many richly embroidered uniforms, but kept them for grand occasions.

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He was still in mourning for his beloved Tameamea, and his hat was bound with crape.

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Then, while the tears trickled down her cheeks, she bared her right arm, and showed me, tattooed on it in the O Wahi language -- "Our good King Tameamea died on the 8th of May 1819."

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