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The remains of Mailekini Heiau are those of a temple used before the time of Kamehameha. Its early history was kept orally and secretly within the priesthood and was never recorded, leaving many mysteries around it. Historians agree that Mailekini Heiau predates Pu'ukoholā, though by how many years is unknown. In the early 1800s, Kamehameha converted Mailekini Heiau into a fort and placed up to 21 cannons on its front walls. In 1823, an English missionary observed that it was nearly equal in dimensions to Pu'ukoholā but inferior in every other respect. Sections of the back walls are somewhat higher in color, marking emergency stabilization work performed by the National Park Service in the 1970s.
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