"From the last week in June until September...
the disease raged in Honolulu.
The dead fell like dried kukui twigs tossed down by the wind. Day by day, from morning till night, horse-drawn carts went about from street to street of the town, and the dead were stacked up like a load of wood, some in coffins, but most of them just piled in, wrapped in cloth, with heads and legs sticking out.
When the graveyard at Honuakaha was filled, Keoneʻula was taken for a burial ground and the plains of Kaiwiʻula and the rocky land of Mauʻoki and Laepohaku. From Maunalua to Moanalua in the district of Kona, the dead lay buried. Death spread to ʻEwa, to Halawa, to Waimanalo, until it surrounded Oahu.
Some large tracts were entirely denuded, some had but a few survivors.
Not a family but bore its loss..."
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