@chase_1868 The 1868 cataclysm, also known as the Great Kau Earthquake, was one of the catastrophic events in modern Hawaiian history. The cascade of earthquake, lava flows, fires, and tsunami led to 81 lives lost. Livestock and fertile lands were lost one family's homesite was surrounded by lava and they were subsisted on their garden for some time. In less than a week a boat laden with relief foods and supplies, King Kamehameha V, and Charles de Varigny the minister of Finance. > That was enough for the cabinet who chartered a steamer for government officials to assess the damages and also to transport food and supplies for the victims to Hawai'i Island. The steamer Kīlauea departed Honolulu on 8 April with both the King and the minister of Finance on board. De Varigny's account describes the steamer leaving at 5 pm and immediately "plunging into a cloud of cinders" so that they "promptly lost sight of the island of Oahu." King Kamehameha V commissioned a boat displacement of populations and livestock and lands led to various types of response up to and including the king sending a delegation food and other supplies to the island of Hawaii. The village of [Apua](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apua,_Hawaii) was never resettled. Distribution of food in Keauhou, after the earthquake and volcanic eruption of 1868, for the victims of the disaster, engraving after the drawing of E.Riou, illustrating the voyage to the Sandwich Islands, in 1855-1869, by C. de Varigny: