Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 34, Number 6, 1 June 2017 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

TttlS 18 Tti£ S'I OttV 01* 0LD HAWAII JAMES M1C11£N£R N£V£R 'I'OLL) Onee There Was Fire follows the rise Kamehameha the Great, who conquered and united the Hawaiian lslands to found the Kingdom of Hawaii. The first among his people to understand the significance of Capt. James Cook's "discovery" of the Hawaiian lslands in 1778-79, Kamehameha exploited European weapons and advisers to defeat his rivals. His story is told by his nephew, writing in 1859, when the forces originally harnessed by Kamehameha have already begun to undermine the kingdom he fought so hard to create.

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