CHAPTER XXXIV

[Footnote 75: Kaonohiokala, Mr. Emerson tells me, is the name of one of

the evil spirits invoked by the priest in the art of _po'iuhane_ or

"soul-catching." The spirit is sent by the priest to entice the soul of

an enemy while its owner sleeps, in order that he may catch it in a

coconut gourd and crush it to death between his hands. "_Lapu lapuwale_"

is the Hawaiian rendering of Solomon's ejaculation "Vanity of

vanities!"]

[Illustration: A NATIVE GRASS HOUSE OF THE HUMBLER CLASS (HENSHAW)]

APPENDIX

HAWAIIAN STORIES

ABSTRACTS FROM THE TALES COLLECTED BY

FORNANDER AND EDITED BY THOMAS G. THRUM.

THE BISHOP MUSEUM, HONOLULU

HAWAIIAN STORIES

I. SONG of CREATION, as translated by Liliuokalani

II. CHANTS RELATING THE ORIGIN OF THE GROUP:

From the Fornander manuscript:

A. Kahakuikamoana

B. Pakui

C. Kamahualele

D. Opukahonua

E. Kukailani

F. Kualii

III. HAWAIIAN FOLKTALES, ROMANCES, OR MOOLELO:

From the Fornander manuscript:

A. Hero tales primarily of Oahu and Kauai

1. Aukelenuiaiku

2. Hinaaikamalama

3. Kaulu

4. Palila

5. Aiai

6. Puniaiki

7. Pikoiakaalala

8. Kawelo

9. Kualii

10. Opelemoemoe

11. Kalelealuaka

B. Hero tales primarily of Hawaii

1. Wahanui

2. Kamapuaa

3. Kana

4. Kapunohu

5. Kepakailiula

6. Kaipalaoa

7. Moikeha

8. Kila

9. Umi

10. Kihapiilani (of Maui)

11. Pakaa and Kuapakaa

12. Kalaepuni

13. Kalaehina

14. Lonoikamakahiki

15. Keaweikekahialii (an incident)

16. Kekuhaupio (an incident)

C. Love stories

1. Halemano

2. Uweuwelekehau

3. Laukiamanuikahiki

4. Hoamakeikekula

5. Kapunokaoheloai

D. Ghost stories and tales of men brought to life

1. Oahu stories

Kahalaopuna

Kalanimanuia

Pumaia

Nihoalaki

2. Maui stories

Eleio

Pamano

3. Hawaii stories

Kaulanapokii

Pupuhuluena

Hiku and Kawelu

E. Trickster stories

1. Thefts

Iwa

Maniniholokuaua

Pupualenalena

2. Contests with spirits

Kaululaau (see Eleio)

Lepe

Hanaaumoe

Punia

Wakaina

3. Stories of modern cunning

Kulepe

Kawaunuiaola

Maiauhaalenalenaupena

Waawaaikinaaupo and Waawaaikinaanao

Kuauamoa

I. SONG OF CREATION (HEKUMULIPO)

The "account of the creation of the world according to Hawaiian

tradition" is said to celebrate Lonoikamakahiki, also called Kaiimamao,

who was the father of Kalaniopuu, king of Hawaii at the time of Cook's

visit. The song was "composed by Keaulumoku in 1700" and handed down by

the chanters of the royal line since that day. It was translated by

"Liliuokalani of Hawaii" in 1895-1897, and published in Boston, 1897.

From the Sea-bottom (?) (the male) and Darkness (the female) are born

the coral insect, the starfish, sea urchin, and the shellfish. Next

seaweed and grasses are born. Meanwhile land has arisen, and in the next

era fishes of the sea and plants of the forest appear. Next are born the

generations of insects and birds; after these the reptiles--all the

"rolling, clinging" creatures. In the fifth era is born a creature half

pig, half man; the races of men also appear (?). In the sixth come the

rats; in the seventh, dogs and bats; in the eighth is born the woman

Lailai (calmness), the man Kii, and the gods Kane and "the great

octopus" Kanaloa. Lailai flies to heaven, rests upon "the boughs of the

_aoa_ tree in Nuumealani," and bears the earth. She weds Kii and begets

a generation of gods and demigods.

In the course of these appear Wakea and his three wives, Haumea, Papa,

and Hoohokukalani. Wakea, becoming unfaithful to Papa, changes the feast

days and establishes the taboo. Later the stars are hung in the heavens.

Wakea seeks in the sea for "seeds from Hina," with which to strew the

heavens. Hina floats up from the bottom of the sea and bears sea

creatures and volcanic rocks. Haumea, a stranger of high rank from

Kuaihelani at Paliuli, marries her own sons and grandsons. To her line

belong Waolena and his wife Mafuie, whose grandchild, Maui, is born in

the shape of a fowl. The brothers of his mother, Hina, are angry and

fight Maui, but are thrown. They send him to fetch a branch from the

sacred _awa_ bush; this, too, he achieves. He desires to learn the art

of fishing, and his mother gives him a hook and line with which he

catches "the royal fish Pimoe." He "scratches the eight eyes" of the bat

who abducts Hina. He nooses the sun and so wins summer. He conquers (?)

Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, and Oahu. From him descends "the only high chief of

the island."

H. CHANTS RELATING THE ORIGIN OF THE GROUP

A. KAHAKUIKAMOANA

This famous priest chants the history of "the row of islands from

Nuumea; the group of islands from the entrance to Kahiki." First Hawaii

is born, "out of darkness," then Maui, then Molokai "of royal lineage."

Lanai is a foster child, Kahoolawe a foundling, of whose afterbirth is

formed the rock island Molokini. Oahu and Kauai have the same mother but

different fathers. Another pair bear the triplets, the islets Niihau,

Kaulu, and Nihoa.

B. PAKUI

According to this high priest and historian of Kamehameha I, from Wakea

and Papa are born Kahikiku, Kahikimoe ("the foundation stones," "the

stones of heaven"), Hawaii, and Maui. While Papa is on a visit to

Kahiki, Wakea takes another wife and begets Lanai, then takes Hina to

wife and begets Molokai. The plover tells Papa on her return, and she in

revenge bears to Lua the child Oahu. After this she returns to Wakea and

bears Kauai and its neighboring islets.

C. KAMAHUALELE

The foster son of Moikeha accompanies this chief on the journey to

Hawaii and Kauai. On sighting land at Hawaii he chants a song in honor

of his chief in which he calls Hawaii a "man," "child of Kahiki," and

"royal offspring from Kapaahu."

D. OPUKAHONUA

This man with his two brothers and a woman peopled Hawaii 95 generations

before Kamehameha. According to his chant, the islands are fished up

from Kapaahu by Kapuheeuanui, who brings up one piece of coral after

another, and, offering sacrifices and prayers to each, throws it back

into the ocean, so creating in succession Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, and the

rest of the islands of the group.

E. KUKAILANI

A powerful priest, 75 generations from Opukahonua, on the occasion of

the sacrifice in the temple of the rebel Iwikauikana by Kenaloakuaana,

king of Maui, chants the genealogies, dividing them into the time from

the migration from Kahiki to Pili, Pili to Wakea, Wakea to Waia, and

Waia to Liloa.

F. KUALII

The song of Kualii was composed about 1700 to celebrate the royal

conqueror of Oahu. It opens with an obscure allusion to the fishing up

by Maui from the hill Kauwiki, of the island of Hawaii, out of the

bottom of the sea, and the fetching of the gods Kane and Kanaloa,

Kauakahi and Maliu, to these islands.

III. HAWAIIAN FOLK TALES, ROMANCES, OR MOOLELO

A. HERO TALES PRIMARILY OF OAHU AND KAUAI

1. AUKELENUIAIKU[1]

The eleventh child of Iku and Kapapaiakea in Kuaihelani is his father's

favorite, and to him Iku wills his rank and his kingdom. The brothers

are jealous and seek to kill him. They go through the Hawaiian group to

compete in boxing and wrestling, defeat Kealohikikaupea, the strong man

of Kauai; Kaikipaananea, Kupukupukehaikalani, and Kupukupukehaiaiku,

three strong men of Oahu, and King Kakaalaneo of Maui; but are afraid

when they hear of Kepakailiula, the strong man of Hawaii, and return to

Kuaihelani.

Aukelenuiaiku has grown straight and faultless. "His skin is like the

ripe banana and his eyeballs like the blood of the banana as it first

appears." He wants to join his brothers in a wrestling match, but is

forbidden by the father, who fears their jealousy. He steals away and

shoots an arrow into their midst; it is a twisted arrow, theirs are

jointed. The brothers are angry, but when one of them strikes the lad,

his own arm is broken. The younger brother takes up each one in turn and

throws him into the sea. The brothers pretend friendship and invite him

into the house, but only to throw him into the pit Kamooinanea, where

lives the lizard grandmother who devours men. She saves her grandchild

and instructs him how to reach the queen, Namakaokahai. For the journey

she furnishes him with a box for his god, Lonoikoualii; a leaf,

_laukahi_, to satisfy his hunger; an ax and a knife; her own tail, in

which lies the strength of her body; and her feather skirt and _kahili_,

by shaking which he can reduce his enemies to ashes.

When his brothers see him return safe from the pit they determine to

flee to foreign lands. They make one more attempt to kill him by

shutting him into a water hole, but one soft-hearted brother lets him

out. The hero then persuades the brothers to let him accompany them. On

the way he feeds them with "food and meat" from his club, Kaiwakaapu.

They sail eight months, touch at Holaniku, where they get _awa_, sugar

cane, bananas, and coconuts, and arrive in four months more at

Lalakeenuiakane, the land of Queen Namakaokahai. The queen is guarded by

four brothers in bird form, Kanemoe, Kaneapua, Leapua and Kahaumana,

by two maid servants in animal form, and by a dog, Moela. The whole

party is reduced to ashes at the shaking of the queen's skirt, except

the hero, who escapes and by his good looks and quick wit wins the

friendship of the queen's maids and her brothers. When he approaches the

queen he must encounter certain tests. The dog he turns into ashes; to

befriend him the maids run away and the bird brothers transform

themselves into a rock, a log, a coral rock, and a hard blue rock, in

order to hide themselves. He escapes poisoned food set before him. Then

he worships each one by name, and they are astounded at his knowledge.

The queen therefore takes him as her husband. She is part human, part

divine; the moon is her grandfather, the thunder-and-lightning-bolt is

her uncle. Aukelanuiaiku must know her taboos, eat where she bids him,

not come to her unless she leads him in.

The bird Halulu with feathers on her forehead, called Hinawaikolii, who

is the queen's cousin, carries the hero away to her nest in the cliff,

but he kills her with his ax, and her mate, Kiwaha, lets him down on a

rainbow.

The two live happily. Their first child is to be called

Kauwilanuimakehaikalani, "the lightning seen in a rainstorm," and for

him sugar cane, potato, banana and taro are tabooed. The queen can

return to life if cut to pieces; can turn herself into a cliff, a

roaring fire, and a great ocean; and has the power of flight. All her

tricks the queen and her brothers teach to the hero. Then she sends him

with her brothers to meet her relatives. He goes ahead of his guides,

encounters Kuwahailo, who sends against him two bolts of fire, Kukuena

and Mahuia, and two thunder rocks, Ikuwa and Welehu, all of which he

wards off like a puff of wind. Next they meet Makalii and his wife, the

beautiful Malanaikuaheahea.

The next adventure is after the water of life with which to restore the

brothers to life. The first trip is unsuccessful. Instead of flying in a

straight line between the sky (_lewa_) and space (_nenelu_--literally,

mud) the hero falls into space and is obliged to cling to the moon for

support. Meanwhile his wife thinks him dead and has summoned Night, Day,

Sun, Stars, Thunder, Rainbow, Lightning, Water-spout, Fog, Fine rain,

etc., to mourn for him. Then, through her supernatural knowledge she

hears him declare to the moon, her grandfather, Kaukihikamalama, his

birth and ancestry, and learns for the first time that they are related.

On the next trip he reaches a deep pit, at the bottom of which is the

well of everlasting life, the property of Kamohoalii. It is guarded by

two maternal uncles of the hero, Kanenaiau and Hawewe and a maternal

aunt, Luahinekaikapu, the sister of the lizard grandmother, who is

blind. The hero steals the bananas she is roasting, dodges her anger,

and restores her sight. She paints up his hands to look like

Kamohoalii's and the guards at the well hand him the gourd Huawaiakaula

with its string network called Paleaikaahalanalana. The rustling of the

_lama_ trees, the _loulou_ palms and the bamboo, as Aukelenuiaiku

retreats, wakens Kamohoalii, who pursues; but with a start of one year

and six months, the hero can not be overtaken.

The brothers are restored to life and the hero hands over to them his

wife and kingdom and lives humbly. When he woos Pele and Hiiaka, his

wife drives them over seas until they come to Maunaloa, Hawaii. Then the

brothers leave for Kuaihelani, and Aukelenuiaiku desires also to see his

native land again. There he finds the lizard grandmother overgrown with

coral and his parents gone to Kauai.

[Footnote 1: Compare Westervelt's Gods and Ghosts, p. 66.]

2. HINAAIKAMALAMA

Kaiuli and Kaikea are gods who change into _Paoo_ fish and live in the

bottom of the sea in Kahikihonuakele. They have two children, the girl

Hinaluaikoa and the boy Kukeapua. These two have 10 children,

Hinaakeahi, Hinaaimalama, Hinapaleaoana, Hinaluaimoa, all girls, Iheihe,

a boy, Moahelehaku, Kiimaluhaku, and Kanikaea, girls, and the boys

Kipapalaula and Luaehu. As Hinaaikamalama is the most beautiful she is

placed under strict taboo under guard of her brother Kipapalaula. He is

banished for neglect of duty, crawls through a crack at Kawaluna at the

edge of the great ocean. The king treats him kindly, hence he returns

and gets his sister to be the king's wife. In her calabash, called

Kipapalaulu, she carries the moon for food and the stars for fish.

King Konikonia and Hinaaikamalama have 10 children, the youngest of

whom, the boy Maikoha, is found to be guilty of sacrilege and banished.

He goes to Kaupo and changes into the _wauke_ plant. His sisters coming

in search of him, land at Oahu and turn into fish ponds--Kaihuopalaai

into Kapapaapuhi pond at Ewa; Kaihukoa into Kaena at Waianae; Kawailoa

into Ihukoko at Waialua, and Ihukuuna into Laniloa at Laie. Kaneaukai,

their brother, comes to look for them in the form of a log. It drifts

ashore at Kealia, Waialua, changes into a man, and becomes fish god for

two old men at Kapaeloa.[1]

[Footnote 1: The rock called Kaneaukai, "Man-floating-on-the-sea," on

the shore below Waimea, Oahu, is still worshiped with offerings. The

local story tells how two old men fish up the same rock three times.

Then they say, "It is a god," and, in spite of the weight of the rock,

carry it inshore and place it where it now stands and make it their fish

god. Thrum tells this, story, p. 250.]

3. KAULU

Kukaohialaka and Hinauluohia live in Kailua, Oahu, with their two sons,

Kaeha and Kamano. A third, Kaulu, remains five years unborn because he

has heard Kamano threaten to kill him. Then he is born in the shape of a

rope, and Kaeho puts him on an upper shelf until he grows into a boy.

Meanwhile Kaeha is carried away by spirits to Lewanuu and Lewalani where

Kane and Kanaloa live, and Kaulu goes in search of him. On the way he

defeats and breaks into bits the opposing surfs and the dog Kuililoloa,

hence surf and dogs remain small. In the spirit land he fools the

spirits, then visits the land where their food is raised, Monowaikeoo,

guarded by Uweleki and Uweleka, Maaleka, and Maalaki. He fools these

guards into promising him all he can eat, and devours everything, even

obscuring the rays of the sun. In revenge the shark Kukamaulunuiakea

swallows his brother. Kaulu drinks the sea dry in search for him,

catches a thunder rock on his _poi_ finger, and forces Makalii to tell

him where Kaeho is. Then he spits out the sea and this is why the sea is

salt. The dead shark becomes the milky way. The brothers return to Oahu,

and Kaulu kills Haumea, a female spirit, at Niuhelewai, by catching her

in a net got from Makalii. Next he kills Lonokaeho, also called

Piokeanuenue, king of Koolau, by singing an incantation which makes his

forehead fast to the ground on the hill of Olomana.[1] After Kaeha's

death, Kaulu marries Kekele, but they have no children.

[Footnote 1: See _Kamapuaa_, where the same feat is described.]

4. PALILA

Palila, son of Kaluapalena, chief over one-half of Kauai, and of Mahinui

the daughter of Hina, is born at Kamooloa, Koloa, Kauai, in the form of

a cord and cast out upon the rubbish heap whence he is rescued by Hina

and brought up in the temple of Alanapo among the spirits, where he is

fed upon nothing but bananas. The other chief of Kauai, Namakaokalani,

is at war with his father. Hina sends Palila to offer his services. With

his war club he fells forests as he travels and makes hollows in the

ground. When he arrives before his father, all fall on their faces until

Hina rolls over their bodies to make Palila laugh and thus remove the

taboo. As he stands on a rise of ground, Maunakalika, with his robe

Hakaula, and his mat Ikuwa, she circumcises Palila and returns with him

to Alanapo. When Palila leaves home to fight monsters, he travels by

throwing his club and hanging to one end. The first throw is to Uualolo

cliff on Kamaile, the next to Kaena Point, Oahu, thence to Kalena, to

Pohakea, Maunauna, Kanehoa, Keahumoa, and finally to Waikele. The king

of Oahu, Ahuapau, offers the rule of Oahu to anyone who can slay the

shark man, Kamaikaakui. After effecting this, Palila (who has inherited

the nature of a spirit from his mother), is carried to the temple and

made all human, in order to wed the king's daughter. He slays Olomana,

the greatest warrior on Oahu, goes fishing successfully with Kahului,

with war club for paddle and fishhook, then, with his club to aid him,

springs to Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and thence to Kaula, Hawaii. Hina's

sister Lupea becomes his attendant. She is a _hau_ tree, and where

Palila's malo is hung no _hau_ tree grows to this day, through the power

of Ku, Palila's god. The kings of Hilo and Hamakua districts, Kulukulua

and Wanua, are at war. Palila fights secretly, known only by a voice

which at each victim calls "slain by me, Palila, by the offspring of

Walewale, by the word of Lupea, by the _oo_ bird that sings in the

forest, by the mighty god Ku." Finally he makes himself known and kills

Moananuikalehua, whose war club, Koholalele, takes 700 men to carry;

Kumunuiaiake, whose spear of _mamane_ wood from Kawaihae can be thrown

farther than one _ahupuaa_; and Puupuukaamai, whose spear of hard

_koaie_ wood can kill 1,200 at a stroke. The jaw bones of these heroes

he hangs on the tree Kahakaauhae. Kulukulua is made ruler; finally

Palila becomes king of Hilo.

5. AIAI

Kuula and Hina live at Molopa, Nuuanu. They possess a pearl fish hook

called Kanoi, guarded by the bird Kamanuwai, who lives upon the _aku_

fish caught by the magic hook. When Kipapalaulu, king of Honolulu,

steals the hook, the bird sleeps from hunger, hence the name of the

locality. Kaumakapili, "perching with closed eyes." Hina bears an

abortive child which she throws into the water. It drifts to a rock

below the Hoolilimanu bridge and floats there. This child is Aiai. The

king's daughter discovers it, brings up the child, and when he becomes a

handsome youth, she marries him. One day she craves the _aku_ fish. Her

husband, Aiai, persuades her to beg the stolen hook of her father. Thus

he secures the hook and returns it to its bird guardian.[1]

[Footnote 1: Compare the fishhook Pahuhu in _Nihoalaki_; the _leho_

shells in _Iwa_, and the pearl fishhook of Kona in _Kaulanapokii_. In

Thrum's story from Moke Manu (p. 230) Aiai is the son of the fish god,

Kuula, and, like his father, acts as a culture hero who locates the

fishing grounds and teaches the art of making fish nets for various

kinds of fishes. The hero of this story is Aiai's son, Puniaiki.]

6. PUNIAIKI

The handsome son of Kuupia and of Halekou of Kaneohe, Oahu, who nurses

Uhumakaikai, the parent of all the fishes, is furnished with whatever

fish he wants. He marries Kaalaea, a handsome and well-behaved woman of

the district, who brings him no dowry, but to whom he and his father

make gifts according to custom. With his mother's permission he goes to

live in her home, but the aunt insults him because he does nothing but

sleep. The family offer to kill her, but he broods over his wrong,

leaves for Kauai, and, on a wager, bids his mother use her influence to

send the fish thither. They come just in time to save his life and to

win for him the island of Kauai. But his pet fish laments his

unfaithfulness to his home, he takes it up and kisses it and returns to

Oahu.

7. PIKOIAKAALALA

Raven is the father, Koukou the mother, Hat and Bat the sisters, and

Pikoiakaalala the brother of the rat family of Wailua, Kauai, who change

into human beings. The sisters marry men of note. Pikoiakaalala wins in

his first attempt to float the _Koieie_ board, then follows it down the

rapids and swims to Oahu. Here he beats Mainele, the champion rat

shooter, by summoning the rats in a chant and then shooting ten rats and

one bat at once. Then he defeats him in a riddling contest in which the

play turns upon the word rat. On Hawaii the king, Keawenuiaumi, wants

the birds shot because they deceive his canoe builders and prevent any

trees from being felled. Pikoiakaalala succeeds in shooting them by

watching their reflection in a basin of water.

8. KAWELO

When Kawelo is born to Maihuna and Malaiakalani in Hanamaulu, Kauai, the

fourth of five children, the maternal grandparents foresee that he is to

be a wonder, and they offer to bring him up at Wailua, where Aikanaka,

the king's son, and Kauahoa of Hanalei are his companions. Later the

parents take him to Oahu, where Kakuhewa is king, and live at Waikiki,

where Kawelo marries Kanewahineikiaoha, daughter of a famous warrior,

Kalonaikahailaau, from whom he learns the art of war. Fishing he learns

from Maakuakeke. On his parents' return to Kauai they are abused of

their property, and summon Kawelo to redress their wrongs. He sends his'

wife to fetch the stroke Wahieloa from his father-in-law, who heaps

abuse upon the son-in-law, not aware that Kawelo hears all his derisive

comments through his god Kalanikilo. A fight follows in which the

son-in-law knocks out the old man and proves his competence as a pupil.

The Oahu king furnishes a canoe in which Kawelo sets out for Kauai with

his wife, his brother, Kamalama, and other followers, of whom Kalaumeki

and Kaeleha are chief. On Kauai he and his brother defeat all the

champions of Aikanaka, with their followers, one after the other,

finally slaying his old playmate Kauahoa, this with the aid of his wife,

who tangles her _pikoi_ ball in the end of his opponent's war club.

In the division of land that follows this victory Kona falls to his

brother and Koolau and Puna to his two chief warriors. But Kaelehu

visits Aikanaka at Hanapepe, falls in love with his daughter, and

persuades himself that he could do better by taking up the cause of the

defeated chief. Knowing that Kawelo has never learned the art of dodging

stones, they bury him in a shower of rocks, beat him with a club, and

leave him, for dead. He revives when carried to the temple for

sacrifice, rises, and slays them all; not one escapes.

9. KUALII

Kualii's first battle happens before he is a man, when he and his father

dedicate the temple on Kawaluna, Oahu, as an act of rebellion. The

chiefs of Oahu come against him with three armies, but Kualii, with his

warriors, Maheleana and Malanaihaehae, and his war club, Manaiakalani,

slays the enemy chiefs and beats back 12,000 men at Kalena. Later he

conducts a successful campaign in Hawaii, establishes Paepae against the

rebel faction of Molokai, and pacifies Haloalena, who is rebelling

against the king of Maui. In this campaign he secures the bold and

mischievous Kauhi as his follower, who is in time his chief warrior. As

Kualii grows stronger, he goes in disguise to battle, kills the bravest

chief, secures his feather cloak, and runs home with it. A lad who sees

him pass each day runs after and cuts a finger from the dead enemy,

after the battle of Kalakoa, and reveals the true hero of the day.[1]

The chant to Kualii is composed by two brothers, Kapaahulani and

Kamakaaulani, who are in search of a new lord. On the day of battle at

Kaahumoa one joins each army; one brother leads Kualii's forces to an

appointed spot and the other attempts to pacify the chief with the

prearranged chant, in which he is successful; the brothers are raised to

honor and peace is declared. Kualii lives to old age, when he is

"carried to battle in a net of strings." His genealogical tree carries

his ancestry back to Kane, and Kualii himself has the knowledge and

attributes of a god.

[Footnote 1: Compare _Kalelealuaka_.]

10. OPELEMOEMOE

A man of Kalauao, Ewa, Oahu, has a habit of falling into a supernatural

sleep for a month at a time. In such a sleep he is taken to be

sacrificed at the temple of Polomauna, Kauai, but waking at the sound of

thunder, he goes to Waimea, where he marries, and cultivates land. When

the time comes for his sleep, he warns his wife, but she and her

brothers and servants decide to drop him into the sea. When the month is

up, it thunders, he wakens, finds himself tied in the bottom of the sea,

breaks loose and comes back to his wife. Before their son is born he

leaves her and returns to Oahu. The child is born, is abused by his

stepfather, and finding he has a different father, follows Opelemoemoe

to Oahu. The rest of his story is told under Kalelealuaka.

11. KALELEALUAKA

Kakuhihewa, king of Ewa, on Oahu, and Pueonui, king from Moanalua to

Makapuu, are at war with each other. Kalelealuaka, son of Opelemoemoe,

the sleeper, lives with his companion, Keinohoomanawanui, at Oahunui. He

is a dreamer; that is, a man who wants everything without working for

it. One night the two chant their wishes. His companion desires a good

meal and success in his daily avocations, but Kalelealuaka wishes for

the king's food served by the king himself, and the king's daughter for

his wife. Now Kakuhihewa has night after night seen the men's light and

wondered who it might be. This night he comes to the hut, overhears the

wish, and making himself known to the daring man, fulfills his wish to

the, letter. Thus Kalelealuaka becomes the king's son-in-law. When the

battle is on with the rival king, Kalelealuaka's companion goes off to

war, but Kalelealuaka remains at home. When all are gone, he runs off

like the wind, slays Pueo's best captain and brings home his feather

cloak, while his friend gets the praise for the deed. Finally he is

discovered, he brings out the feather cloaks and is made king of Oahu,

Kakuhihewa serving under him.

B. HERO TALES PRIMARILY OF HAWAII

1. WAHANUI

Wahanui, king of Hawaii, makes a vow to "trample the breasts of Kane and

Kanaloa."[1] He takes his prophet, Kilohi, and starts for Kahiki. Kane

and Kanaloa have left their younger brother, Kaneapua, on Lanai, because

he made their spring water filthy. He forces himself upon Wahanui, and

saves him from the dangers of the way--from the land of Kanehunamoku,

which takes the shape of Hina's dog; from the two demigod hills, Paliuli

and Palikea, sent against them by Kane and Kanaloa; and from a 10 days'

storm loosened from the calabash of Laamaomao, which they escape by

making their boat fast to the intestines of Kamapuaa's grandmother under

the sea. When Wahanui has fulfilled his quest and sets out to return,

Kaneapua gives him his double-bodied god, Pilikua, and warns him not to

show it until he gets to Hawaii. He displays it at Kauai, and the Kauai

people kill him in order to get the god. The Hawaii people hear of it,

invite the Kauai people to see them, and slaughter them in revenge.

[Footnote: 1 This means literally "to travel over land and sea." (See

Malo, p. 316.) The song runs:

"Wahilani, king of Oahu.

Who sailed away to Kahiki,

To the islands of Moananuiakea,

To trample the breasts of Kane and Kanaloa."]

2. KAMAPUAA

This demigod, half man, half hog, lives in Kaliuwaa valley, Oahu, in the

reign of Olopana.[1] His father is Kahikiula, his mother, Hina, his

brother, Kahikihonuakele. He robs Olopana's chicken roosts, is captured,

swung on a stick, and carried in triumph until his grandmother sings a

chant which gives him supernatural strength to slay his enemies. Four

times he is captured and four times escapes, killing all of Olopana's

men but Makalii. Then he flees up the valley Kaliuwaa and lets his

followers climb up over his back to the top of the cliff, except his

grandmother, who insists upon climbing up his front. He flees to

Wahiawa, loses his strength by eating food spelled with the letters

_lau_, but eventually becomes lord of Oahu. In Kahiki, his

father-in-law, Kowea, has a rival, Lonokaeho, who in his supernatural

form has eight foreheads as sharp as an ax. Kamapuaa chants to his gods,

and the weeds Puaakukui, Puaatihaloa, and Puaamaumau grow over the

foreheads. Thus snared, Lonokaeho is slain. Kamapuaa also defeats

Kuilioloa, who has the form of a dog.

The story next describes the struggle between Pele and the pig god.

Kamapuaa goes to Kilauea on Hawaii and stands on a point of land

overlooking the pit called Akanikolea. Below sit Pele and her sisters

stringing wreaths. Kamapuaa derides Pele's red eyes and she in revenge

tells him he is a hog, his nose pierced with a cord, his face turned to

the ground and a tail that wags behind. When he retaliates she is so

angry that she calls out to her brothers to start the fires. Kamapuaa's

love-making god, Lonoikiaweawealoha, decoys the brothers to the

lowlands. Then Pele bids her sisters and uncles to keep up the fire, but

Kamapuaa's sister, Keliiomakahanaloa, protects him with cloud and rain.

Kamapuaa takes his hog form, and hogs overrun the place; Pele is almost

dead. Then the love-making god restores her, she fills up the pit again

with fire; but Kamapuaa calls for the same plants as before, which are

his supernatural bodies, to choke out the flames. At length peace is

declared and Pele takes Puna, Kau, and Kona districts, while Kamapuaa

takes Hilo, Hamakua, and Kohala. (Hence the former districts are overrun

with lava flows; the latter escape.)

Next Kamapuaa gets Kahikikolo for a war club. Makalii, king of Kauai, is

fighting Kaneiki. After Kamapuaa has killed two warriors and driven away

two spear throwers, he reveals himself to Makalii, who prostrates

himself. Kamapuaa recounts the names of over fifty heroes whom he has

slain and boasts of his amours. He spares Makalii on condition that he

chant the name song in his honor, and spares his own father, brother,

and mother. Later he pays a visit to his parents at Kalalau, but has to

chant his name song to gain recognition. This angers him so much that he

can be pacified only when Hina, his mother, chants all the songs in

honor of his name. By and by he goes away to Kahiki with Kowea.[1]

[Footnote 1: This is not the Olopana of Hawaii.]

3. KAINA

The first-born of Hakalanileo and Hina is born in the form of a rope at

Hamakualoa, Maui, in the house Halauoloolo, and brought up by his

grandmother, Uli, at Piihonua, Hilo. He grows so long that the house has

to be lengthened from mountain to sea to hold him. When the bold

Kapepeekauila, who lives on the strong fortress of Haupu, Molokai,

carries away Hina on his floating hill, Hakalanileo seeks first his

younger son, Niheu, the trickster, then his terrible son Kana, to

beseech their aid in recovering her. From Uli, Kana secures the canoe

Kaumaielieli, which is buried at Paliuli, and the expedition sets forth,

bearing Kana stretched in the canoe like a long package to conceal his

presence, Niheu with his war club Wawaikalani, and the father

Hakalanileo, with their equipment of paddlers. The Molokai chief has

been warned by his priest Moi's dream of defeat, but, refusing to

believe him, sends Kolea and Ulili to act as scouts. As the canoe

approaches, he sends the scoutfish Keauleinakahi to stop it, but Niheu

kills the warrior with his club. When a rock is rolled down the cliff to

swamp it, Kana stops it with his hand and slips a small stone under to

hold it up. Niheu meanwhile climbs the cliff, enters the house Halehuki,

seizes Hina and makes off with her. But Hina has told her new lover that

Niheu's strength lies, in his hair, so Kolea and Ulili fly after and lay

hold of the intruder's hair. Niheu releases Hina and returns

unsuccessful. Kana next tries his skill. He stretches upward, but the

hill rises also until he is spun out into a mere cobweb and is famishing

with hunger. Niheu advises him to lean over to Hawaii that his

grandmother may feed him. After three days, this advice reaches his ear

and he bends over Haleakala mountain on Maui, where the groove remains

to this day, and puts his head in at the door of his grandmother's house

in Hawaii, where he is fed until he is fat again. Niheu, left behind in

the boat, sees his brother's feet growing fat, and finally cuts off one

to remind Kana of the business in hand. Now the hill Haupu is really a

turtle. Uli tells Kana that if he breaks the turtle's flippers it can no

longer grow higher. Thus Kana succeeds in destroying the hill Haupu and

winning Hina back to his father.[2]

[Footnote 1: This is only a fragment of the very popular story of the

pig god. For Pele, see Ellis, IV. For both Pele and Kamapuaa, Emerson,

_Unwritten Literature_, pp. 25, 85, 180, 228; and _Pele and Hiiaka_;

Thrum, pp. 36, 193; and Daggett, who places the beginning of the Pele

worship in the twelfth century.]

[Footnote 2: Rev. A.O. Forbes's version of this story is printed in

Thrum, p. 63. See also Daggett. They differ only in minor detail. Uli's

chant of the canoe is used by sorcerers to exorcise the spirits, and Uli

is the special god of the priests who use sorcery.]

4. KAPUNOHU

Kukuipahu and Niulii are chiefs of Kohala when Kapunohu, the great

warrior, is born in Kukuipahu. Kanikaa is his god, and Kanikawi his

spear. Insulted by Kukuipahu, he goes to the uplands to test his

strength, and sends his spear through 800 _wili-wili_ trees at once. Two

men he meets on the way are offered as much land as they can run over in

a certain time; thus the upland districts of Pioholowai and Kukuikiikii

are formed. Kapunohu makes a conquest of a number of women, before

joining Niulii against Kukuipahu. In the battle that follows at Kapaau

3,200 men are killed and trophies taken, and Kukuipahu falls. Kapunohu,

armed with Kanikawi, kills Paopele at Lamakee, whose huge war club 4,000

men carry. After this feat he goes to Oahu, where his sister has married

Olopana, who is at war with Kakuhihewa. Kapunohu pulls eight patches of

taro at one time for food, then joins his brother-in-law and slays

Kakuhihewa. Next he wins against Kemano, chief of Kauai, in a throwing

contest, spear against sling stone, and becomes ruler over Kauai. His

skill in riddles brings him wealth in a tour about Hawaii, but two young

men of Kau finally outdo him in a contest of wit.

5. KEPAKAILIULA

When this son of Ku and Hina is born in Keaau, Puna, in the form of an

egg, the maternal uncles, Kiinoho and Kiikele, who are chiefs of high

rank, steal him away and carry him to live in Paliuli, where in 10 days'

time he becomes a beautiful child; in 40 days he has eyes and skin, as

red as the feather cape in which h& is wrapped, and eats nothing but

bananas, a bunch at a meal. The foster parents travel about Hawaii to

find a bride of matchless beauty for their favorite, and finally choose

Makolea, the daughter of Keauhou and Kahaluu, who live in Kona. Thither

they take the boy, leaving Paliuli forever, and this place has never

since been seen by man. The girl is, however, betrothed to Kakaalaneo,

king of Maui, and when her parents discover her amour with Kepakailiula

they send her off to her husband, who is a famous spearsman.

Kepakailiula now moves to Kohala and marries the pretty daughter of its

king. Two successive nights he slips over to Maui, fools the drunken

king, and enjoys his bride. Then he persuades his father-in-law,

Kukuipahu, to send a friendly expedition to Maui, which he turns into a

war venture, and slays the chief Kakaalaneo and so many men that his

father-in-law is obliged to put a stop to the slaughter by running in

front of him with his wife in his arms. He then makes Kukuipahu king

over Maui and goes on to Oahu, where Kakuhihewa hastens to make peace.

One day when Makolea is out surf riding, messengers of the king of

Kauai, Kaikipaananea, steal her away and she becomes this king's wife.

Kepakailiula follows her to Kauai and defeats the king in boxing. One

more contest is prepared; the king has two riddles, the failure to

answer which will mean death. Only one man knows the answers, Kukaea,

the public crier, and he is an outcast who has lived on nothing but

filth air his life. Kepakailiula invites him in, feeds, and clothes him.

For this attention, the man reveals the riddles, Kepakailiula answers

them correctly, and bakes the king in his own oven. The riddles are:

1. "Plaited all around, plaited to the bottom, leaving an opening.

Answer: A house, thatched all around and leaving a door."

2. "The men that stand, the men that lie down, the men that are folded.

Answer: A house, the timbers that stand, the battens laid down, the

grass and cords folded."

6. KAIPALAOA.

The boy skilled in the art of disputation, or _hoopapa_, lives in

Waiakea, Hilo, Hawaii. In the days of Pueonuiokona, king of Kauai, his

father, Halepaki, has been killed in a riddling contest with

Kalanialiiloa, the taboo chief of Kauai, whose house is almost

surrounded by a fence of human bones from the victims he has defeated in

this art. Kaipalaoa's mother teaches him all she knows, then his aunt,

Kalenaihaleauau, wife of Kukuipahu, trains him until he is an expert. He

meets Kalanialiiloa, riddles against all his champions, and defeats

them. They are killed, cooked in the oven, and the flesh stripped from

their bones. Thus Kaipalaoa avenges his father's death.

7. MOIKEHA.

Olopana and his wife Luukia, during the flood at Waipio, are swept out

to sea, and sail, or swim, to Tahiti, where Moikeha is king. Olopana

becomes chief counsellor, and Luukia becomes Moikeha's mistress. Mua,

who also loves Luukia, sows discord by reporting to her that Moikeha is

boasting in public of her favors. She repulses Moikeha and he, out of

grief, sails away to Hawaii. The lashing used for water bottles and for

the binding of canoes is called the _pauoluukia_ ("skirt of Luukia")

because she thus bound herself against the chief's approaches.

Moikeha touches at various points on the islands. At Hilo, Hawaii, he

leaves his younger brothers Kumukahi and Haehae; at Kohala, his priests

Mookini and Kaluawilinae; at Maui, a follower, Honuaula; at Oahu his

sisters Makapuu and Makaaoa. With the rest--his foster son Kamahualele,

his paddlers Kapahi and Moanaikaiaiwe, Kipunuiaiakamau and his fellow,

and two spies, Kaukaukamunolea and his fellow--he reaches Wailua,

Kauai, at the beach Kamakaiwa. He has dark reddish hair and a commanding

figure, and the king of Kauai's two daughters fall in love with and

marry him. He becomes king of Kauai and by them has five sons, Umalehu,

Kaialea, Kila, Kekaihawewe, Laukapalala. How his bones are buried first

in the cliff of Haena and later removed to Tahiti is told in the story

of Kila.[1]

[Footnote 1: See Daggett's account, who places Moikeha's role in the

eleventh century.]

8. KILA

Moikeha, wishing to send a messenger to fetch his oldest son from

Tahiti, summons his five sons and tests them to know by a sign which boy

to send. The lot falls upon Kila, the youngest. On his journey Kila

encounters dangers and calls upon his supernatural relatives. The

monsters Keaumiki and Keauka draw him down to the coral beds, but

Kakakauhanui saves him. His rat aunt, Kanepohihi, befriends him, and

when he goes to his uncle Makalii,[1] who has all the food fastened up

in his net, she nibbles the net and the food falls out. At Tahiti he

first kills Mua, who caused his father's exile. Then his warriors are

matched with the Tahiti champions and he himself faces Makalii, whose

club is Naulukohelewalewa. Kila, with the club Kahikikolo stuns his

uncle "long enough to cook two ovens of food." The spirits of Moikeha's

slain followers appear and join their praises to those of the crowd

assembled, together with ants, birds, pebbles, shells, grass, smoke, and

thunder. Kila goes to his father's house, Moaulanuiakea, thatched with

birds' feathers, and built of _kauila_ wood. All is desolate. The man

whom he seeks, Laamaikahiki, is hidden in the temple of Kapaahu. On a

strict taboo night Kila conceals himself and, when the brother comes to

beat the drum, delivers his message. Kila succeeds in bringing his

brother to Hawaii, who later returns to Kahiki from Kahoolawe, hence the

name "The road to Tahiti" for the ocean west of that island. When

Laamaikahiki revisits Hawaii to get the bones of his father, he brings

the _hula_ drum and _kaeke_ flute. Meanwhile Kila has become king, after

his father's death. The jealous brothers entice him to Waipio, Hawaii,

where they abandon him to slavery. The priest of the temple adopts him.

He gains influence and introduces the tenant system of working a number

of days for the landlord, and is beloved for his industry. At the time

of famine in the days of Hua,[2] one of his brothers comes to Waipo to

get food. Kila has him thrown into prison, but each time he is taken out

to be killed, Kila imitates the call of a mud hen and the sacrifice is

postponed. Finally the mother and other brothers are summoned, Kila

makes himself known, and the mother demands the brothers' death. Kila

offers himself as the first to be killed, and reconciliation follows.

Later he goes with Laamaikahiki back to Tahiti to carry their father's

bones.

[Footnote 1: Kaulu meets the wizard Makalii in rat form and kills him by

carrying him up in the air and letting him drop. Makalii means "little

eyes" and refers to a certain mesh of fish net. One form of cat's cradle

has this name. It also names the six summer months, the Pleiades, and

the trees of plenty planted in Paliuli. "Plenty of fish" seems to be the

root idea of the symbol.]

[Footnote 3: Daggett tells the story of _Hua_, priest of Maui.]

9. UMI

The great chief of Hawaii, Liloa, has a son by Piena, named Hakau. On a

journey to dedicate the temple of Manini at Kohalalele, Liloa sees

Akahiakuleana bathing in the Hoea stream at Kaawikiwiki and falls in

love with her. Some authorities claim she was of low birth, others make

her a relative of Liloa. He leaves with her the customary tokens by

which to recognize his child. When their boy Umi is grown, having

quarreled with his supposed father, he takes the tokens and, by his

mother's direction, goes to seek Liloa in Waipio valley. Two boys,

Omaokamao and Piimaiwaa, whom he meets on the way, accompany him. Umi

enters the sacred inclosure of the chief and sits in his father's lap,

who, recognizing the trophies, pardons the sacrilege and sending for his

gods, performs certain ceremonies. At his death he wills his lands and

men to Hakau, but his gods and temples to Umi.

Hakau is of a cruel and jealous disposition. Umi is obliged to leave him

and go to farming with his two companions and a third, Koi, whom he

meets on the way. He marries two girls, but their parents complain that

he is lazy and gets no fish. Racing with Paiea at Laupahoehoe, he gets

crowded against the rocks. This is a breach of etiquette and he nurses

his revenge. Finally, by a rainbow sign and by the fact that a pig

offered in sacrifice walks toward Umi, his chiefly blood is proved to

the priest Kaoleioku. The priest considers how Umi may win the kingdom

away from the unpopular Hakau. Umi studies animal raising and farming.

He builds four large houses, holding 160 men each, and these are filled

in no time with men training in the arts of war. A couple of disaffected

old men, Nunu and Kakohe, are won over to Umi's cause, and they advise

Hakau to prepare for war with Umi. While all the king's men are gone to

the forests to get feathers for the war god, Umi and his followers

start, on the day of Olekulua, and on the day of Lono they surprise and

kill Hakau and his few attendants, who thought they were men from the

outdistricts come with their taxes. So Umi becomes king. Kaoleioku is

chief priest, and Nunu and Kakohe are high in authority. The land he

divides among his followers, giving Kau to Omaokamau, Hilo to Kaoleioku,

Hamakua to Piimaiwaa, Kahala to Koi, Kona to Ehu, and Puna to another

friend. To prove how long Umi will hold his kingdom, he is placed 8

fathoms away from a warrior who hurls his spear at the king's middle,

using the thrust known as Wahie. Umi wards it off, catches it by the

handle and holds it. This is a sign that he will hold his kingdom

successfully--"your son, your grandson, your issue, your offspring until

the very last of your blood."

Umi now makes a tour of the island for two years. He slays Paiea. He

sends Omaokamau to Piilani of Maui to arrange a marriage with Piikea.

After 20 days, Piikea sets sail for Hawaii with a fleet of 400 canoes,

and a rainbow "like a feather helmet" stands out at sea signaling her

approach. The rest of the story has to do with the adventures of Umi's

three warriors, Omaokamau who is right-handed, Koi who is left-handed,

and Piimaiwae, who is ambidextrous, during the campaign on Maui,

undertaken at Piikea's plea to gain for her brother, Kihapiilani, the

rule over Maui. The son and successor of Umi is Keawenuiaumi, father of

Lonoikamakahiki.

10. KIHAPILANI

Lonoapii, king of Maui, has two sisters, Piikea, the wife of Umi, and

Kihawahine, named for the lizard god, and a younger brother,

Kihapiilani, with whom he quarrels. Kihapiilani nurses his revenge as he

plants potatoes in Kula. Later he escapes to Umi in Hawaii, and his

sister Piikea persuades her husband to aid his cause with a fleet of war

canoes that make a bridge from Kohala to Kauwiki. Hoolae defends the

fort at Kauwiki. Umi's greatest warriors, Piimaiwae, Omaokamau, and Koi,

attack in vain by day. At night a giant appears and frightens away

intruders. One night Piimaiwaa discovers that the giant is only a wooden

image called Kawalakii, and knocks it over with his club. Lonoapii is

slain and Kihapiilani becomes king. He builds a paved road from

Kawaipapa to Kahalaoaka and a shell road on Molokai.

11. PAKAA AND KUAPAKAA[1]

Pakaa, the favorite of Keawenuiaumi, king of Hawaii, regulates the

distribution of land, has charge of the king's household, keeps his

personal effects, and is sailing master for his double canoe. The king

gives him land in the six districts of Hawaii. He owns the paddle,

Lapakahoe, and the wooden calabash with netted cover in which are the

bones of his mother, Laamaomao, whose voice the winds obey.

Two men, Hookeleiholo and Hookeleipuna, ruin him with the king. So,

taking the king's effects, his paddle and calabash, he sails away to

Molokai where he marries a high chiefess and has a son, Kuapakaa, named

after the king's cracked skin from drinking _awa_. He plants fields in

the uplands marked out like the districts of Hawaii, and trains his son

in all the lore of Hawaii.

The king dreams that Pakaa reveals to him his residence in Kaula. His

love for the man returns and he sets out with a great retinue to seek

him. Pakaa foresees the king's arrival and goes to meet him and bring

him to land. He conceals his own face under the pretense of fishing, and

leaves the son to question the expedition. First pass the six canoes of

the district chiefs of Hawaii, and Kuapakaa sings a derisive chant for

each, calling him by name. Then he inquires their destination and sings

a prophecy of storm. The king's sailing masters, priests, and prophets

deny the danger, but the boy again and again repeats the warning. He

names the winds of all the islands in turn, then calls the names of the

king's paddlers. Finally he uncovers the calabash, and the canoes are

swamped and the whole party is obliged to come ashore. Pakaa brings the

king the loin cloth and scented tapa he has had in keeping, prepares his

food in the old way, and makes him so comfortable that the king regrets

his old servant. The party is weather-bound four months. As they

proceed, they carry the boy Kuapakaa with them. He blows up a storm in

which the two sailing masters are drowned, and carries the rest of the

party safe back to Kawaihae, Kohala. Here the boy is forgotten, but by a

great racing feat, in which he wins against his contestants by riding in

near shore in the eddy caused by their flying canoes, thus coming to the

last stretch unwearied, he gets the lives of his father's last enemies.

Then he makes known to the king his parentage, and Pakaa is returned to

all his former honors.

[Footnote 1: This story Fornander calls "the most famous in Hawaiian

history."]

12. KALAEPUNI

The older brother of Kalaehina and son of Kalanipo and Kamelekapu, is

born and raised in Holualoa, Kona, in the reign of Keawenuiaumi. He is

mischievous and without fear. At 6 he can outdo all his playmates, at 20

he is fully developed, kills sharks with his hands and pulls up a _kou_

tree as if it were a blade of grass. The king hides himself, and

Kalaepuni rules Hawaii. The priest Mokupane plots his death. He has a

pit dug on Kahoolawe, presided over by two old people who are told to

look out for a very large man with long hair like bunches of _olona_

fiber. Once Kalaepuni goes out shark killing and drifts to this island.

The old people give him fish to eat, but send him to the pit to get

water; then throw down stones on his head until he dies, at the place

called Keanapou.

13. KALAEHINA

The younger brother of Kalaepuni can throw a canoe into the sea as if it

were a spear, and split wood with his head. He proves his worth by

getting six canoes for his brother out of a place where they were stuck,

in the uplands of Kapua, South Kona, Hawaii. He makes a conquest of the

island of Maui; its king, Kamalalawalu, flees and hides himself when

Kalaehina defies his taboo. There he rules until Kapakohana, the strong

usurper of Kauai, wrestles with him and pushes him over the cliff

Kaihalulu and kills him.[1]

14. LONOIKAMAKAHIKE

Lonoikamakahike was king of Hawaii after Keawenuiaumi, his father, 64

generations from Wakea. According to the story, he is born and brought

up at Napoopo, Hawaii, by the priests Loli and Hauna. He learns spear

throwing from Kanaloakuaana; at the test he dodges 3 times 40 spears at

one time. He discards sports, but becomes expert in the use of the spear

and the sling, in wrestling, and in the art of riddling disputation, the

_hoopapa_. He also promotes the worship of the gods. While yet a boy he

marries his cousin Kaikilani, a woman of high rank who has been

Kanaloakuaana's wife, and gives her rule over the island until he comes

of age. Then they rule together, and so wisely that everything prospers.

Kaikilani has a lover, Heakekoa, who follows them as they set out on a

tour of the islands. While detained on Molokai by the weather,

Lonoikamakahike and his wife are playing checkers when the lover sings a

chant from the cliff above Kalaupapa. Lonoikamakahike suspects treachery

and strikes his wife to the ground with the board. Fearful of the

revenge of her friends he travels on to Kailua on Oahu to Kekuhihewa's

court, which he visits incognito. Reproached because he has no name

song, he secures from a visiting chiefess of Kauai the chant called "The

Mirage of Mana." In the series of bets which follow, Lonoikamakahike

wins from Kakuhihewa all Oahu and is about to win his daughter for a

wife when Kaikilani arrives, and a reconciliation follows. The betting

continues, concluded by a riddling match, in all of which

Lonoikamakahike is successful.

But his wife brings word that the chiefs of Hawaii, enraged by his

insult to her person, have rebelled against him, only the district of

Kau remaining faithful. In a series of battles at Puuanahulu, called

Kaheawai; at Kaunooa; at Puupea; at Puukohola, called Kawaluna because

imdertaken at night and achieved by the strategy of lighting torches to

make the appearance of numbers; at Kahua, called Kaiopae; at Halelua,

called Kaiopihi from a warrior slain in the battle; finally at Puumaneo,

his success is complete, and Hawaii becomes his.

Lonoikamakahike sails to Maui with his younger brother and chief

counsellor, Pupuakea, to visit King Kamalalawalu, whose younger brother

is Makakuikalani: In the contest of wit, Lonoikamakahike is successful.

The king of Maui wishes to make war on Hawaii and sends his son to spy

out the land, who gains false intelligence. At the same time

Lonoikamakahike sends to the king two chiefs who pretend disaffection

and egg him on to ruin. In spite of Lanikaula's prophecy of disaster,

Kamalalawalu sails to Hawaii with a fleet that reaches from Hamoa, Hana,

to Puakea, Kohala; he and his brother are killed at Puuoaoaka, and their

bodies offered in sacrifice.[1]

Lonoikamakahike, desiring to view "the trunkless tree Kahihikolo," puts

his kingdom in charge of his wife and sails for Kauai. Such are the

hardships of the journey that his followers desert him, only one

stranger, Kapaihiahilani, accompanying him and serving him in his

wanderings. This man therefore on his return is made chief counsellor

and favorite. But he becomes the queen's lover, and after an absence on

Kauai, finds himself disgraced at court. Standing without the king's

door, he chants a song recalling their wanderings together; the king

relents, the informers are put to death, and he remains the first man in

the kingdom until his death. Nor are there any further wars on Hawaii

until the days of Keoua.

[Footnote 1: One of the most popular heroes of the Puna, Kau, and Kona

coast of Hawaii to-day is the _kupua_ or "magician," Kalaekini. His

power, _mana_, works through a rod of _kauila_ wood, and his object

seems to be to change the established order of things, some say for

good, others for the worse. The stories tell of his efforts to overturn

the rock called Pohaku o Lekia (rock of Lekia), of the bubbling spring

of Punaluu, whose flow he stops, and the blowhole called

Kapuhiokalaekini, which he chokes with cross-sticks of _kauila_ wood.

The double character of this magician, whom one native paints as a

benevolent god, another, not 10 miles distant, as a boaster and

mischief-maker, is an instructive example of the effect of local

coloring upon the interpretation of folklore. Daggett describes this

hero. He seems to be identical with the Kalaehina of Fornander.]

15. KEAWEIKEKAHIALII

This chief, born in Kailua, Kona, has a faithful servant, Mao, who

studies how his master may usurp the chief ship of Hawaii. One day while

Keaweikekahialii plays at checkers with King Keliiokaloa, Mao

approaches, and while speaking apparently about the moves of the game,

conveys to him the intelligence that now is the time to strike. Mao

kills the king by a blow on the neck, and they further slay all the 800

chiefs of Hawaii save Kalapanakuioiomoa, whose daughter Keaweikekahialii

marries, thus handing down the high chief blood of Hawaii to this day.

[Footnote 1: Mr. Stokes found on the rocks at Kahaluu, near the _heiau_

of Keeku, a petroglyph which the natives point to as the beheaded figure

of Kamalalawalu.]

16. KEKUHAUPIO

One of the most famous warriors and chiefs in the days of Kalaniopuu and

of Kamehameha, kings of Hawaii, was Kekuhaupio, who taught the latter

the art of war. He could face a whole army of men and ward off 400 to

4,000 spears at once. In the battle at Waikapu between Kalaniopuu of

Hawaii and Kahekili of Maui, the Hawaii men are put to flight. As they

flee over Kamoamoa, Kekuhaupio faces the Maui warriors alone. Weapons

lie about him in heaps, still he is not wounded. The Maui hero, Oulu,

encounters him with his sling; the first stone misses, the god Lono in

answer to prayer averts the next. Kekuhaupio then demands with the third

a hand-to-hand conflict, in which he kills Oulu.

C. LOVE STORIES

1. HALEMANO

The son of Wahiawa and Kukaniloko is born in Halemano, Waianae, and

brought up in Kaau by his grandmother, Kaukaalii. Dreaming one day of

Kamalalawalu, the beauty of Puna, he dies for love of her, but his

sister Laenihi, who has supernatural power, restores him to life and

wins the beauty for her brother. First she goes to visit her and fetches

back her wreath and skirt to Halemano. Then she shows him how to toll

the girl on board his red canoe by means of wooden idols, kites, and

other toys made to please her favorite brother.

The king of Oahu, Aikanaka, desires Halemano's death in order to enjoy

the beauty of Puna. They flee and live as castaways, first on Molokai,

then Maui, then Hawaii, at Waiakea, Hilo. Here the two are estranged.

The chief of Puna seduces her, then, after a reconciliation, the Kohala

chief, Kumoho, wins her affection. Halemano dies of grief, and his

spirit appears to his sister as she is surfing in the Makaiwi surf at

Wailua, Kauai. She restores him to life with a chant.

In order to win back his bride, Halemano makes himself an adept in the

art of singing and dancing (the _hula_). His fame travels about Kohala

and the young chiefess Kikekaala falls in love with him. Meanwhile the

seduced wife has overheard his wonderful singing and her love is

restored. When his new mistress gives a _kilu_ singing match, she is

present, and when Halemano, after singing eight chants commemorating

their life of love together, goes off with the new enchantress, she

tries in vain to win him back by chanting songs which in turn deride the

girl and recall herself to her lover. He soon wearies of the girl and

escapes from her to Kauai, where his old love follows him. But they do

not agree. Kamalalawalu leaves for Oahu, where she becomes wife to

Waiahole at Kualoa. Two Hawaii chiefs, Huaa and Kuhukulua, come with a

fleet of 8,000 canoes, make great slaughter at Waiahole, and win the

beauty of Puna for their own.

2. UWEUWELEKEHAU

Olopana, king of Kauai, has decreed that his daughter, Luukia, shall

marry none but Uweuwelekehau, the son of Ku and Hina in Hilo, and that

he shall be known when he comes by his chiefly equipment, red canoe, red

sails, etc. Thunder, lightning, and floods have heralded this child's

birth, and he is kept under the chiefly taboo. One day he goes to the

Kalopulepule River to sail a boat; floods wash him out to sea; and in

the form of a fish he swims to Kauai, is brought to Luukia and, changing

into a man, becomes her lover. When Olopana hears this, he banishes the

two to Mana, where only the gods dwell. These supply their needs,

however, and the country becomes so fertile that the two steal the

hearts of the people with kindness, and all go to live at Mana. Finally

Olopana recognizes his son-in-law and they become king and queen of

Kauai, plant the coconut grove at Kaunalewa, and build the temple of

Lolomauna.

3. LAUKIAMANUIKAHIKI

Makiioeoe, king of Kuaihelani, has an amour with Hina on Kauai and,

returning home, leaves with Hina his whale-tooth necklace and feather

cloak to recognize the child by, and bids that his daughter be sent to

him with the full equipment of a chief. Meanwhile he prepares a bathing

pool, plants a garden, and taboos both for his daughter's arrival.

Laukiamanuikahiki is abused by her supposed father, and, discovering the

truth, starts out under her mother's direction to find her real father.

With the help of her grandmother she reaches Kuaihelani. Here she bathes

in the taboo pool and plucks the taboo flowers. She is about to be slain

for this act when her aunt, in the form of an owl, proclaims her name,

and the chief recognizes his daughter. Her beauty shines like a light.

Kahikiula, her half brother, on a visit to his father, becomes her

lover. When he returns to his wife, Kahalaokolepuupuu in Kahikiku, she

follows in the shape of an old woman called Lupewale. Although her lover

recognizes her, she is treated like a servant. In revenge she calls upon

the gods to set fire to the dance house, and burns all inside. Kahikiula

now begs her to stay, but she leaves him and returns to Kuaihelani.

4. HOAMAKEIKEKULA

"Companion-in-suffering-on-the-plain" is a beautiful woman of Kohala,

Hawaii, born at Oioiapaiho, of parents of high rank, Hooleipalaoa

and Pili. As she is in the form of an _ala_ stone, she is cast out upon

the trash; but her aunt has a dream, rescues her through a rainbow which

guides her to the place, and wraps her in red _tapa_ cloth. In 20 days

she is a beautiful child. Until she is 20 she lives under a strict

taboo; then, as she strings _lehua_ blossoms in the woods, the _elepaio_

bird comes in the form of a handsome man and carries her away in a fog

to be the bride of Kalamaula, chief's son of Kawaihae. She asks for 30

days to consider it, and dreams each night of a handsome man, with whom

she falls in love. She runs away and, accompanied by a rainbow, wanders

in the uplands of Pahulumoa until Puuhue finds her and carries her home

to his lord, the king of Kohala, Puuonale, who turns out to be the man

of her dream. Her first child is the image Alelekinakina.

5. KAPUAOKAOHELOAI

When Ku and Hina are living at Waiakea, Hilo, they have two children, a

boy called Hookaakaaikapakaakaua and a lovely girl named

Kapuaokaoheloai. They are brought up apart and virgin, without being

permitted to see each other, until one day the sister discovers the

brother by the bright light that shines from his house, and outwits the

attendants. The two are discovered and banished. Attendants of the king

of Kuaihelani find the girl and, because she is so beautiful, carry her

back with them to be the king's wife. Her virginity is tested and she

slips on the platform, is wounded in the virgin's bathing pool, and

slips on the bank getting out. Her guilt thus proved, she is about to be

slain when a soothsayer reveals her high rank as the child of Hina,

older sister to the king, and the king forgives and marries her. His

daughter, Kapuaokaohelo, who is ministered to by birds, hearing

Kapuaokaoheloai tell of her brother on Hawaii, falls in love with him

and determines to go in search of him. When she reaches Punahoa harbor

at Kumukahi, Hawaii, where she has been directed, she finds no handsome

youth, for the boy has grown ill pining for his sister. In two days,

however, he regains his youth and good looks, and the two are married.

D. GHOST STORIES AND TALES OF MEN BROUGHT TO LIFE

1. OAHU STORIES

KAHALAOPUNA

During the days of Kakuhihewa, king of Oahu, there is born in Manoa,

Oahu, a beautiful girl named Kahalaomapuana. Kauakuahine is her father,

Kahioamano her mother. Her house stands at Kahoiwai. Kauhi, her husband,

hears her slandered, and believing her guilty, takes her to Pohakea on

the Kaala mountain, and, in spite of her chant of innocence, beats her

to death under a great _lehua_ tree, covers the body with leaves, and

returns. Her spirit flies to the top of the tree and chants the news of

her death. Thus she is found and restored to life, but she will have

nothing more to do with Kauhi.[1]

[Footnote 1: This story is much amplified by Mrs. Nakuina in Thrum, p.

118. Here mythical details are added to the girl's parentage, and the

ghost fabric related in full, in connection with her restoration to life

and revenge upon Kauhi. The Fornander version is, on the whole, very

bare. See also Daggett.]

KALANIMANUIA

The son of Ku, king of Lihue, through a secret amour with Kaunoa, is

brought up at Kukaniloko, where he incurs the anger of his supposed

father by giving food away recklessly. He therefore runs away to his

real father, carrying the king's spear and malo; but Ku, not recognizing

them, throws him into the sea at Kualoa point. The spirit comes night

after night to the temple, where the priests worship it until it becomes

strong enough to appear in human form. In this shape Ku recognizes his

son and snares the spirit in a net. At first it takes the shape of a

rat, then almost assumes human form. Kalanimanuia's sister, Ihiawaawa,

has three lovers, Hala, Kumuniaiake, and Aholenuimakiukai. Kalanimanuia

sings a derisive chant, and they determine upon a test of beauty. A cord

is arranged to fall of itself at the appearance of the most handsome

contestant. The night before the match, Kalanimanuia hears a knocking at

the door and there enter his soles, knees, thighs, hair, and eyes. Now

he is a handsome fellow. Wind, rain, thunder, and lightning attend his

advent, and the cord falls of itself.

PUMAIA

King Kualii of Oahu demands from the hog raiser, Pumaia, of Pukoula, one

hog after another in sacrifice. At last Pumaia has but one favorite hog

left. This he refuses to give up, since he has vowed it shall die a

natural death, and he kills all Kualii's men, sparing only the king and

his god. The king prays to his god, and Pumaia is caught, bound, and

sacrificed in the temple Kapua. Pumaia's spirit directs his wife to

collect the bones out of the bone pit in the temple and flee with her

daughter to a cave overlooking Nuuanu pali. Here the spirit brings them

food and riches robbed from Kualii's men. In order to stop these

deprivations, Kualii is advised by his priest to build three houses at

Waikiki, one for the wife, one for the daughter, and one for the bones

of Pumaia. (In one version, Pumaia is then brought back to life.)

NIHOALAKI

Nihoalaki is this man's spirit name. He is born at Keauhou, Kona,

Hawaii, and goes to Waianae, Oahu, where he marries and becomes chief,

under the name of Kaehaikiaholeha, because of his famous _aku_-catching

hook called Pahuhu (see Aiai). He goes on to Waimea, Kauai, and becomes

ruler of that island, dies, and his body is brought back to Waianae.

The parents place the body in a small house built of poles in the shape

of a pyramid and worship it until it is strong enough to become a man

again. Then he goes back to Waimea, under the new name of Nihoalaki.

Here his supernatural sister, in the shape of a small black bird, Noio,

has guarded the fishhook. When Nihoalaki is reproached for his

indolence, he takes the hook and his old canoe and, going out, secures

an enormous haul of _aku_ fish. As all eat, the "person with dropsy

living at Waiahulu," Kamapuaa, who is a friend of Nihoalaki's, comes to

have his share and the two go off together, diving under the sea to

Waianae. A Kauai chief, who follows them, is turned into the rock

Pohakuokauai outside Waianae. Nihoalaki goes into his burial house at

Waianae and disappears. Kamapuaa marries the sister.

2. MAUI STORIES

ELEIO

Eleio runs so swiftly that he can make three circuits of Maui in a day.

When King Kakaalaneo of Lahaina is almost ready for a meal, Eleio sets

out for Hana to fetch fish for the king, and always returns before the

king sits down to eat. Three times a spirit chases him for the fish, so

he takes a new route. Passing Kaupo, he sees a beautiful spirit, brings

her to life, and finds that she is a woman of rank from another island,

named Kanikaniaula. She gives him a feather cape, until then unknown on

Maui. The king, angry at his runner's delay, has prepared an oven to

cook him in at his return, but at sight of the feather cape he is

mollified, and marries the restored chiefess. Their child is Kaululaau.

(See under Trickster stories.)

PAMANO

In Kahikinui, Maui, in the village of Kaipolohua, in the days of King

Kaiuli, is born Pamano, child of Lono and Kenia. His uncle is Waipu, his

sisters are spirits named Nakinowailua and Hokiolele. Pamano studies the

art of the _hula_, and becomes a famous dancer, then comes to the

uplands of Mokulau in Kaupo, where the king adopts him, but places a

taboo between him and his daughter, Keaka. Keaka, however, entices

Pamano into her house. Now Pamano and his friend, Hoolau, have agreed

not to make love to Keaka without the other's consent. Koolau, not

knowing it is the girl's doing, reports his friend to the king, and he

and his wife decide that Pamano must die. They entice him in from surf

riding, get him drunk with _awa_ in spite of his spirit sisters'

warnings, and chop him to pieces. The sisters restore him to life. At a

_kilu_ game given by Keaka and Koolau. Pamano reveals himself in a chant

and orders his three enemies slain before he will return to Keaka.

3. HAWAII STORIES

KAULANAPOKII

Kaumalumalu and Lanihau of Holualoa, Kona, Hawaii, have five sons and

five daughters. The boys are Mumu, Wawa, Ahewahewa, Lulukaina and

Kalino; their sisters are Mailelaulii, Mailekaluhea, Mailepakaha,

Mailehaiwale, and Kaulanapokii, who is endowed with gifts of magic. The

girls go sight-seeing along the coast of Kohala, and Mailelaulii weds the

king of Kohala, Hikapoloa. He gets them to send for the supernatural

pearl fishhook with which their brothers catch _aku_ fish, but the hook

sent proves a sham, and the angry chief determines to induce the

brothers thither on a visit and then kill them in revenge. When the five

arrive with a boatload of _aku_, the sisters are shut up in the woman's

house composing a name song for the first-born. Each brother in turn

comes up to the king's house and thrusts his head in at the door, only

to have it chopped off and the body burnt in a special kind of wood

fire, _opiko_, _aaka_, _mamane_, _pua_ and _alani_. The youngest sister,

however, is aware of the event, and the sisters determine to slay

Hikapoloa. When he comes in to see his child, Kaulanapokii sings an

incantation to the rains and seas, the _ie_ and _maile_ vines, to block

the house. Thus the chief is killed. Then Kaulanapokii sings an

incantation to the various fires burning her brothers' flesh, to tell

her where their bones are concealed. With the bones she brings her

brothers to life, and they all return to Kona, abandoning "the proud

land of Kohala and its favorite wind, the Aeloa."

PUPUHULUENA

The spirits have potatoes, yam, and taro at Kalae Point, Kau, but the

Kohala people have none. Pupuhuluena goes fishing from Kohala off

Makaukiu, and the fishes collect under his canoe. As he sails he leaves

certain kinds of fish as he goes until he comes just below Kalae. Here

Ieiea and Poopulu, the fishermen of Makalii, have a dragnet. By oiling

the water with chewed _kukui_ nut, he calms it enough to see the fishes

entering their net, and this art pleases the fishermen. By giving them

the nut he wins their friendship, hence when he goes ashore, one prompts

him with the names of the food plants which are new to him. Then he

stands the spirits on their heads, so shaming them that they give him

the plants to take to Kohala.

HIKU AND KAWELU[1]

The son of Keaauolu and Lanihau, who live in Kaumalumalu, Kona, once

sends his arrow, called Puane, into the hut of Kawelu, a chiefess of

Kona. She falls violently in love with the stranger who follows to seek

it, and will not let him depart. He escapes, and she dies of grief for

him, her spirit descending to Milu. Hiku, hearing of her death,

determines to fetch her thence. He goes out into mid-ocean, lets down a

_koali_ vine, smears himself with rancid _kukui_ oil to cover the smell

of a live person, and lowers himself on another vine. Arrived in the

lower world, he tempts the spirits to swing on his vines. At last he

catches Kawelu, signals to his friends above, and brings her back with

him to the upper world. Arrived at the house where the body lies, he

crowds the spirit in from the feet up. After some days the spirit gets

clear in. Kawelu crows like a rooster and is taken up, warmed, and

restored.

[Footnote 1: See Thrum, p. 43.]

E. TRICKSTER STORIES

1. THEFTS

IWA

At Keaau, Puna, lives Keaau, who catches squid by means of two famous

_leho_ shells, Kalokuna, which the squid follow into the canoe. Umi, the

king, hears about them and demands them. Keaau, mourning their loss,

seeks some one clever enough to steal them back from Umi. He is directed

to a grove of _kukui_ trees between Mokapu Point and Bird Island, on

Oahu, where lives Kukui and his thieving son Iwa. This child, "while yet

in his mother's womb used to go out stealing." He was the greatest thief

of his day. Keaau engages his services and they start out. With one dip

of Iwa's paddle, Kapahi, they are at the next island. So they go until

they find Umi fishing off Kailua, Hawaii. Iwa swims 3 miles under water,

steals the shells, and fastens the hooks to the coral at the bottom of

the sea 400 fathoms below. Later, Iwa steals back the shells from Keaau

for Umi.

Iwa's next feat is the stealing of Umi's ax, Waipu, which is kept under

strict taboo in the temple of Pakaalana, in Waipio, on Hawaii. It hangs

on a rope whose ends are fastened to the necks of two old women. A crier

runs back and forth without the temple to proclaim the taboo. Iwa takes

the place of the crier, persuades the old women to let him touch the ax,

and escapes with it.

Umi arranges a contest to prove who is the champion thief. Iwa is pitted

against the six champions from each of the six districts of Hawaii. The

test is to see which can fill a house fullest in a single night. The six

thieves go to work, but Iwa sleeps until cockcrow, when he rises and

steals all the things out of the other thieves' house. He also steals

sleeping men, women, and children from the king's own house to fill his

own. The championship is his, and the other six thieves are killed.

MANINIHOLOKUAUA

This skillful thief lives at Kaunakahakai on Molokai, where he is noted

for strength and fleetness. In a cave at Kalamaula, in the uplands, his

lizard guardian keeps all the valuables that he steals from strangers

who land on his shore. This cave opens and shuts at his call.

Maniniholokuaua steals the canoe of the famous Oahu runner, Keliimalolo,

who can make three circuits of Oahu in a day, and this man secures the

help of two supernatural runners from Niihau, Kamaakauluohia (or

Kaneulohia), and Kamaakamikioi (or Kaneikamikioi), sons of Halulu, who

can make ten circuits of Kauai in a day. In spite of his grandmother's

warning, Maniniholokuaua steals from them also, and they pursue him to

his cave, where he is, caught between the jaws in his haste.

PUPUALENALENA

This marvelous dog named Pupualenalena fetches _awa_ from Hakau's food

patches in Waipio, Hawaii, to his master in Puako. Hakau has the dog

tracked, and is about to kill both dog and master when he bethinks

himself. He has been troubled by the blowing of a conch shell, Kuana, by

the spirits above Waipio, and he now promises life if the dog will bring

him the shell. This the dog effects in the night, though breaking a

piece in his flight, and the king, delighted, rewards the master with

land in Waipio.

2. CONTESTS WITH SPIRITS

The son of Kakaalaneo, king of Maui and Kanikaniaula, uproots all the

breadfruit trees of Lahaina to get the fruit that is out of reach, and

does so much mischief with the other children born on the same day with

him, who are brought to court for his companions, that they are sent

home, and he is abandoned on the island of Lanai to be eaten by the

spirits. His god shows him a secret cave to hide in. Each night the

spirits run about trying to find him, but every time he tricks them

until they get so overworked that all die except Pahulu and a few

others. Finally his parents, seeing his light still burning, send a

double canoe to fetch him home with honor. This is how Lanai was cleared

of spirits.[1]

[Footnote 1: Daggett tells this story.]

LEPE

A trickster named Lepe lives at Hilo, Hawaii, calls up the spirits by

means of an incantation, and then fools them in every possible way.

HANAAUMOE

Halalii is the king of the spirits on Oahu. The ghost of Hawaii is

Kanikaa; that of Maui, Kaahualii; of Lanai, Pahulu; of Molokai, Kahiole.

The great flatterer of the ghosts, Hanaaumoe, persuades the Kauai chief,

Kahaookamoku, and his men to land with the promise of lodging, food, and

wives. When they are well asleep, the ghost come and eat them up--"they

made but one smack and the men disappeared." But one man, Kaneopa, has

suspected mischief and hidden under the doorsill where the king of the

spirits sat, so no one found him. He returns and tells the Kauai king,

who makes wooden images, brings them with him to Oahu, puts them in

place of his men in the house; while they hide without, and while the

ghosts are trying to eat these fresh victims, burns down the house and

consumes all but the flatterer, who manages to escape.

PUNIA.

The artful son of Hina in Kohala goes to the cave of lobsters and by

lying speech tricks the shark who guard it under their king, Kaialeale.

He pretends to dive, throws in a stone, and dives in another place. Then

he accuses one shark after another as his accomplice, and its companions

kill it, until only the king is left. The king is tricked into

swallowing him whole instead of cutting him into bits. There he remains

until he is bald--"serves him right, the rascal!"--but finally he

persuades the shark to bring him to land, and the shark is caught and

Punia escapes. Next he kills a parcel of ghosts by pretending that this

is an old fishing ground of his and enticing them out to sea two by two,

when he puts them to death, all but one.

WAKAINA

A cunning ghost of Waiapuka, North Kohala, disguises himself as a dancer

and approaches a party of people. He shows off his skill, then calls for

feather cloak, helmet, bamboo flute, skirt, and various other valuable

things with which to display his art. When he has them secure, he flies

off with them, and the audience never see him or their property

again.[1]

[Footnote 1: Gill tells this same story from the Hervey group. Myths and

Songs, p. 88.]

3. STORIES OF MODERN CUNNING

KULEPE

A cunning man and great thinker lives on Oahu in the days of

Peleioholani. He travels to Kalaupapa, Molokai, is hungry, and, seeing

some people bent over their food, chants a song that deceives them into

believing him a soldier and man of the court. They become friendly at

once and invite him to eat.

KAWAUNUIAOLA

A woman of Kula, Maui, whose husband deserts her for another woman,

makes herself taboo, returns to her house, and offers prayers and

invents conversations as if she had a new husband. The news quickly

spreads, and Hoeu starts at once for home. In this cunning manner she

regains her husband.

MAIAUHAALENALENAUPENA

The upland peddlers bring sugar cane, bananas, gourds, etc., to sea to

peddle for fish. Maiauhaalenalenaupena pretends to be a fisherman. He

spreads out his net as if just driven in from sea by the rough weather.

The peddlers trust him with their goods until he has better luck; but he

really is no fisherman and never gives them anything.

WAAWAAIKINAAUPO AND WAAWAAIKINAANAO

One day these two brothers go out snaring birds. The older brother

suggests that they divide the spoils thus: He will take all those with

holes on each side of the beak. The unobservant younger brother

consents, thinking this number will be few, and the older wins the whole

catch.

KUAUAMOA

At Kawaihae, Kohala, lives the great trickster, Kuauamoa. He knows Davis

and Young after they are made prisoners by the natives, and thus learns

some English words. On the plains of Alawawai he meets some men going to

sell rope to the whites and they ask him to instruct them what to say.

He teaches them to swear at the whites. When the white men are about to

beat the peddlers, they drop the rope and run away.

INDEX TO REFERENCES

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Grammar_. By William DeWitt Alexander, LL.D. (Yale), Honolulu, 1908.

_Brief History of the Hawaiian People_ (school edition), Honolulu, 1908.

_Hawaiian Geographic Names_. Compiled by W.D. Alexander. Report of Coast

and Geodetic Survey for 1902. Appendix No. 7, Washington, 1903.

ANDREWS, L. _Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language_. By Lorrin Andrews,

Honolulu, 1865. _Haui ka Lani_, a prophetic song foretelling the deeds

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THE ORIGINAL HAWAIIAN TEXT

OLELO HOAKAKA

Ua hoopuka ka mea nana i pai keia buke me ka olioli nui, ka makamua o ka

hoao ana e hoolako i buke hoonanea na na kanaka Hawaii. Ua loaa mua mai

ia kakou na buke kula o na ano he nui wale, a he nui no hoi na buke i

hoolakoia mai na kakou, e hoike mai ana ia kakou i ka pono a me ka hewa;

aka, o ka buke mua nae keia i paiia na ka poe Hawaii nei, ma ke ano

hoikeike ma ke Kaao i na mea kahiko a keia lahui kanaka, me ka aua mai

hoi mai ka nalowale loa ana'ku o kekahi o na moolelo punihei a lakou. E

hoike ana iloko o na huaolelo maikai wale i na olelo a me na hana a

kekahi o ko Hawaii kaikamahine wahine maikai a punahele no hoi, a na ia

mea no hoi e kokua mai i ka noho mau ana o ke aloha o na poe o Hawaii

nei, no ko lakou mau kupuna a me ko lakou aina.

E lawe hoi ano, i keia wahi buke uuku, a e hoike ia ia ma ke ano o kona

loaa ana mai, e heluhelu, a e malama hoi ia ia, e hoike ana i kou iini i

ka naauao Hawaii, me kou makaukau mau no hoi e kokua aku ia mea, i ku

mau ai.

He mea nui no ka hapai ana i ka mea nana e hoomaamaa mai ia kakou ma ka

heluhelu ana, me ka hoonanea pu mai no hoi i na minute noho hana ole o

ko kakou noho ana; nolaila, i ka hoomaka ana a ka mea nana i pai i keia

buke, e hoomakaukau ia ia no ka hele ana'ku imua o keia lahui, ua

hilinai oia i ke kokua nui mai o na makamaka a pau o ka naauao iwaena o

keia mau pae moku; a na ia manao wale iho no i hooikaika mai ia ia ma ke

kupaa ana mamuli o kana mea i manaolana'i e hana aku, iloko o na pilikia

he nui wale e alai mai ana. Akahi no a haawiia i ka lahui Hawaii, ka

buke e pili ana i ka hoonanea'ku i ka noho ana, e like me ka na haole,

he mea ia nana e hanai mai i ko kakou mau manao i ka ike a me ka naauao.

Ua hiki ia kakou a pau ke hui mai ma ka malama ana a me ka hooholomua

aku hoi i keia wahi buke, he kumu ia e hapai hou ia mai ai i mau buke

hou na keia lahui, ma kana olelo iho--ka olelo Hawaii. A nolaila la, e

na makamaka a pau o ka naauao a me na keiki kupa no hoi o Hawaii nei,

mai ka la hiki a ka la kau, eia mai Kawahineokaliula, ke hele aku la

imua o oukou me ke aloha, a e pono hoi ke hookipa ia ia me ka aloha

makamae o ka puuwai Hawaii. ALOHA NO!

MOKUNA I

I ke kamailio ana i keia kaao, ua oleloia ma Laie, Koolau, kona wahi i

hanau ai, a he mau mahoe laua, o Kahauokapaka ka makuakane, o

Malaekahana ka makuahine. O Kahauokapaka nae, oia ke Alii nona na okana

elua, o Koolauloa a me Koolaupoko, a ia ia ka mana nui maluna o kela mau

okana.

I ka manawa i lawe ai o Kahauokapaka ia Malaekahana'i wahine mare nana

(hoao) mahope iho o ko laua hoao ana, hai mua o Kahauokapaka i kana

olelo paa imua o kana wahine, o laua wale no ma ke kaawale, oiai iloko o

ko laua mau minute oluolu, a eia ua olelo paa la:

"E kuu wahine, he nani ia ua mare ae nei kaua, a nolaila, ke hai nei au

i kuu olelo paa ia oe; i noho aku auanei kaua, a i loaa ka kaua keiki, a

he keikikane, alaila pomaikai kaua, ola na iwi iloko o ko kaua mau la

elemakule, a haule aku i ka make, nalo no hoi na wahi huna: na ia keiki

e nai na moku e pau ai, ke loaa hoi ia kaua ke keiki mua a he keikikane;

aka hoi, ina he kaikamahine ke hanau mua mai, alaila e make, a ina he

mau kaikamahine wale no ka kaua ke hanau mai e make no, aia no ke ola a

hanau mai a he keikikane, ola na hanau mui i na he mau kaikamahine."

I ka ewalu paha o na makahiki o ko laua noho ana he kane a he wahine,

hapai ae la o Malaekahana, a hanau mai la he kaikamahine, ua maikai na

helehelena i ka nana aku, a no ka maikai o na helehelena o ua

kaikamahine nei, manao iho la ka makuahine o ke kumu la hoi ia e lilo ai

ka olelo paa a Kahauokapaka i mea ole, ola la hoi ua kaikamahine nei,

aole ka! Ia manawa i hanau ai, aia nae o Kahauokapaka i ka lawai-a me na

kanaka.

A hoi mai o Kahauokapaka mai ka lawai-a mai, haiia aku la ua hanau o

Malaekahana he kaikamahine. A hiki ke alii i ka hale, ua wahiia ke

kaikamahine i ke kapa keiki, kena koke ae la o Kahauokapaka i ka Ilamuku

e pepehi.

Ma ia hope iho hapai hou o Malaekahana, a hanau hou mai la he

kaikamahine, o keia nae ke kaikamahine oi aku o ka maikai mamua o kela

kaikamahine mua, manao iho la e ola la hoi, aole ka! Ike ae la o

Kahauokapaka i ke kaikamahine e hiiia mai ana, ua hoaahuia i ke kapa

keiki, ia manawa, kena koke ae la ke alii i ka Ilamuku e pepehi.

Mahope mai, ua hapai wale no o Malaekahana, he mau kaikamahine wale no,

aole nae i ola iki kekahi oia mau hanau ana o Malaekahana, ua pau wale

no i ka pepehiia e like me ka olelo paa a ke alii.

A i ka hapai hou ana o Malaekahana i ke keiki, o ka lima ia, a kokoke i

na la hanau, hele aku la kela a imua o ke Kahuna, a olelo aku la, "E!

auhea oe? E nana mai oe i keia opu o'u e hapai nei, no ka mea, ua pauaho

ae nei hoi i ka pau o na keiki i ka make i ka pakela pepehi a ke kane,

aha ae nei a maua keiki, aha no i ka make; nolaila, e nana mai oe i keia

opu o'u e hapai nei, ina i ike oe he kaikamahine, e omilomilo ae au,

oiai aole i hookanaka ae ke keiki. Aka hoi, ina i ike mai hoi oe i keia

opu o'u e hapai nei a he keikikane, aole ana."

Alaila, olelo mai ke Kahuna ia Malaekahana, "O hoi, a kokoke i ko la

hanau, alaila, hele mai oe i o'u nei, i nana aku au i keia hapai ana."

A kokoke i na la hanau, i ka malama o Ikuwa, i na la kapu heiau,

hoomanao ae la o Malaekahana i ke kauoha a ke Kahuna. Ia ianei e

nahunahu ana, hele aku la keia imua o ke Kahuna, me ka olelo aku, "I

hele mai nei au ma ke kauoha a ke Kahuna, no ka mea, ke hoomaka mai nei

ka nahunahu hanau keiki ana; nolaila, ano oe e nana mai oe i kuu keiki e

hapai nei."

Ia Malaekahana me ke Kahuna e kamailio ana no keia mau mea, alaila, hai

aku la ke Kahuna i kana olelo ia Malaekahana, "E hailona aku au ia oe,

ma ka mea a'u e noi aku ai, e haawi mai oe."

Ia manawa, nonoi aku la ke Kahuna ia Malaekahana e haawi mai i kekahi

lima imua o ke alo o ke Kahuna, e like no me ka hailona mau o keia

lahui, ma ka lima no nae ana e makemake ai e haawi aku imua o ke Kahuna.

Ia manawa a ke Kahuna i noi aku ai i kekahi lima, haawi mai la o

Malaekahana i ka lima hema, me ka hoohuliia o ke alo o ka lima iluna.

Alaila, hai aku la ke Kahuna i ka hailona i ku i kana ike, "E hanau hou

ana no oe he kaikamahine, no ka mea, ua haawi mai nei oe i kou lima hema

ia'u, me ka huli nae o ke alo o ka lima iluna."

A no keia olelo a ke Kahuna, kaumaha loa iho la ka naau o Malaekahana,

no ka mea, ua kumakena mau kela i ka pepehi mau a kana kane i na keiki

mua; nolaila, noi aku la o Malekahana i ke Kahuna e noonoo mai i mea e

pono ai ka wahine, a e ola ai hoi ke keiki.

Alaila, hai aku la ke Kahuna i kana mau olelo ia Malaekahana, "E hoi oe

a ka hale, ina e hiki i ka wa e aneane hanau ai, alaila ea, e ono ae oe

i ka ohua, me ka olelo aku ia Kahauokapaka, nana ponoi no e lawai-a, o

ka i-a ponoi no e loaa ana ma kona lima oia kau i-a e ono ai; no ka mea,

he kanaka puni kaalauohua hoi ko kane, i lilo ai kela i ka lawai-a, ike

ole ia i kou hanau ana, a ina e hanau ae, alaila, na'u e malama ke

keiki, i hoi mai ia ua lilo ia'u ke keiki, a ina e niuau mai, hai aku oe

he heiki alualu, alaila pau wale."

A pau ka laua kamailio ana no keia mau mea, hoi aku la o Malaekahana a

hiki i ka hale, in manawa, nui loa mai la ka nahunahu ana a aneane e

hanau, alaila, hoomanao ae la o Malaekahana i na olelo a ke Kahuna i

a-oa-o mai ai ia ia.

A i ka mao ana'e o ka eha no ka aneane hanau, olelo aku la o Malaekahana

i kana kane, "E Kahauokapaka e! ke kau mai nei i ko'u mau maka ka

ohuapalemo; nolaila, e holo aku oe i ke kaalauohua, me he mea'la a loaa

mai ka ohuapalemo, alaila hemo kuu keiki, akahi wale no o'u hanau ino

ana, a me ka ono o'u i ka ohua; nolaila, e hele koke aku oe me na kanaka

i ka lawai-a."

Ia manawa, puka koke aku o Kahauokapaka a hele aku la. Ia lakou e hele

ana, hanau ae la ua keiki nei he kaikamahine, a lilo ae la ia Waka ka

hanai, a kapa iho la i ka inoa o Laieikawai. Ia lakou no hoi e lawelawe

ana i ke keiki mua, hanau hou mai la he kaikamahine no, a lilo ae la ia

Kapukaihaoa, a kapa iho la i ka inoa o ka muli o Laielohelohe.

A lilo na kaikamahine ma ka lima o Waka a me Kapukaihaoa me ke kaawale,

hoi mai la o Kahauokapaka mai ka lawai-a mai, ninau iho la i ka wahine,

"Pehea oe?"

I mai la ka wahine, "Ua hanau ae nei au he keiki alualu, ua kiola ia aku

nei i ka moana."

Ua akaka mua no nae ia Kahauokapaka ka hanau ia lakou i ka moana; no ka

mea, elua hekili o ke kui ana, manao ae la no hoi o Kahauokapaka ua

hanau ka wahine; mai ka hanau ana o Laieikawai me Laielohelohe, oia ka

hoomaka ana o ka hekili e kani iloko o Ikuwa, pela i olelo ia iloko o

keia moolelo.

Ia Waka me Kapukaihaoa ma ke kaa wale me na hanai a laua, olelo aku la o

Waka ia Kapukaihaoa, "Pehea la auanei e nalo ai na hanai a kaua ia

Kahauokapaka?"

I mai la ke Kahuna, "E pono oe ke huna loa i kau hanai iloko o ke kiowai

i Waiapuka, aia malaila kekahi ana i ike oleia e na mea a pau, a na'u no

hoi e imi ko'u wahi e malama ai i ka'u hanai."

Lawe aku la o Waka ia Laieikawai ma kahi a Kapukaihaoa i kuhikuhi ai, a

malaila oia i malama malui'ai o Laieikawai a hiki i kona manawa i

hoomahuahua iki ae ai.

Mahope iho o keia mau la, lawe ae la o Kapukaihaoa ia Laielohelohe i uka

o Wahiawa ma kahi i oleloia o Kukaniloko.

Iloko o ko Laieikawai mau la ma Waiapuka, ua hoomauia ka pio ana o ke

anuenue ma kela wahi, iloko o ka manawa ua a me ka malie, i ka po a me

ke ao; aka, aole nae i hoomaopopo na mea a pau i ke ano o keia anuenue;

aka, ua hoomauia keia mau hailona alii ma na wahi i malamai'ai ua mau

mahoe nei.

I kekahi manawa, ia Hulumaniani e kaahele ana ia Kauai apuni, ma kona

ano Makaula nui no Kauai, a ia ia i hiki ai iluna pono o Kalalea, ike

mai la oia i ka pio a keia anuenue i Oahu nei; noho iho la oia malaila

he iwakalua la, i kumu e ike maopopoi'ai o ke ano o kana mea e ike nei.

Ia manawa, ua, maopopo lea i ka Makaula he Alii Nui ka mea nona keia

anuenue e pio nei, a me na onohi elua i hoopuniia i na ao polohiwa

apuni.

Ia manawa, hooholo ae la ka Makaula i kona manao e holo i Oahu, i

maopopo ai ia ia kana mea e ike nei. Haalele keia ia wahi, hiki aku la

keia i Anahola, hoolimalima aku la keia i waa e holo ai i Oahu nei; aka,

aole i loaa ia ia he waa e holo ai i Oahu nei. Kaapuni hou ka Makaula ia

Kauai a puni, pii hou oia iluna o Kalalea, a ike hou no oia i kana mea i

ike mua ai, aia no e mau ana e like no me mamua, alaila, hoi hou keia a

hiki i Anahola.

I ua Makaula nei malaila, lohe keia o Poloula ka mea waa o Wailua, no ka

mea, he alii ia no ia wahi, ake aku la oia e halawai me Poloula, me ka

manao e noi aku i ke alii i waa e hiki ai i Oahu.

Ia Hulumaniani i halawai aku ai me Poloula, nonoi aku la oia i waa e

holo ai i Oahu nei; alaila, haawiia mai la ka waa me na kanaka; ia po

iho, i ka hiki ana o ka Hokuhookelewaa, haalele lakou ia Kauai, he

umikumamalima ko lakou nui, hiki mua mai la lakou ma Kamaile, i Waianae.

Mamua ae nae o ko ka Makaula holo ana mai, ua hoomakaukau mua oia

hookahi puaa hiwa, he moa lawa, a me ka i-a ula.

Ia la o lakou i hiki ai ma Waianae, kauoha ka Makaula i na kanaka e noho

malaila a hoi mai oia mai ka huakai kaapuni ana.

I ua Makaula nei i hele ai, hiki mua keia iluna pono o Maunalahilahi,

ike aku la keia i ke anuenue e pio ana ma Koolauloa, e like me kana ike

ana i kona mau la iluna o Kalalea.

A hiki keia i Waiapuka, kahi i malamaia ai o Laieikawai, ike iho la oia

aole he kuleana kupono o kela wahi e nohoi'ai e na'lii. I kela manawa

nae a ka Makaula i hiki ai ilaila, ua nalo mua aku o Waka ma kahi i

hunai'ai o Laieikawai.

I ka manawa nae a ka Makaula e kunana ana, alaila, ike aku la oia i ka

aleale ana o ka wai o ko Waka luu ana aku. Olelo iho la ka Makaula iloko

ona, "He mea kupanaha, aole hoi he makani o keia lua wai e kuleana ai la

hoi ka aleale ana o ka wai, me he mea he mea e auau ana, a ike ae nei

ia'u pee iho nei." A pau ko Waka manawa ma kahi o Laieikawai, hoi mai la

oia; aka, ike ae la keia maloko o ka wai i keia mea e noho ana maluna

iho, emi hope hou aku la o Waka, no ka mea, ua manao oia o Kahauokapaka,

keia mea ma kae o ka luawai.

Hoi hou aku la o Waka me kana moopuna, a hiki i ka molehulehu ana,

hoomakakiu hou mai la oia me ka manao ua hele aku kela mea ana i ike ai;

aka, aia no ua Makaulanei ma kana wahi i noho mua ai, nolaila, hoi hope

hou o Waka.

Ua noho ua Makaula nei ma ke kae o kela luawai, a moe oia malaila a ao

ia po. Ia kakahiaka ana ae, i ka manawa molehulehu, ala ae la oia, ike

aku la kela i ka pio a ke anuenue i uka o Kukaniloko, haalele keia ia

wahi, kaapuni keia ia Oahu nei, ma Koolaupoko kona hele mua ana, a ma

Kona nei, a mai anei aku hiki ma Ewa; a hiki keia i Honouliuli, ike aku

la ua Makaula nei i ka pio o ke anuenue i uka o Wahiawa, pii loa aku la

oia a hiki i Kamaoha, a malaila oia i moe ai a ao ia po, aole oia i ike

i kana mea i ukali mai ai.

MOKUNA II

A nele ka Makaula i ka ike i kana mea e ukali nei, haalele keia ia

Kamaoha, hiki keia iluna pono o Kaala, a malaila oia i ike ai e pio ana

ke anuenue i Molokai; nolaila, haalele ka Makaula ia wahi, kaapuni hou

ia Oahu nei; o ka lua ia o kana huakai kaapuni ana, i mea e hiki ai ia

ia ke ike maopopo i kana mea e ukali nei, no ka mea, ua ano e ka hana a

ke anuenue, no ka holoholoke ana i kela wahi keia wahi.

I ka la a ua Makaula nei i haalele ai ia Kaala, hiki mua aku oia iluna o

Kuamooakane, aia hoi e pio ana ke anuenue i Molokai, e ku ana ka punohu

i uhipaaia e na ao hekili, ekolu mau la oia nei ma Kuamooakane, ua

hoomauia ka uhi paapu a ka ua a me ka noe.

I ka eha o na la oia nei malaila, loaa ia ia he waa e holo ana i

Molokai; kau aku la oia maluna o ka waa, a holo aku la a like a like o

ka moana, loaa ka manao ino i na mea waa, no ka mea, ua uluhua laua i ua

Makaula nei no ka hiamoe, a me ka ala a mau ana o kahi puaa, a o-o-o mau

no hoi o kahi moa.

A no keia mea, kunou aku la ka mea mahope o ka waa i ke kanaka iluna o

kuaiako, e hoi hou ka waa i hope, a hoonoho hou i ka Makaula i Oahu nei,

a ua like ka manao o na mea waa ma ia mea e hoihoi hope ka waa, e moe

ana nae ka Makaula ia manawa.

Hoohuli ae la na mea waa i ka waa i hope a holo i Oahu nei; ia manawa a

ka waa e hoi hope nei, hoohuoi iho la ka Makaula i ka pa ana a ka makani

ma kona papalina, no ka mea, ua maopopo ia ia kahi a ka makani i pa ai i

ka holo ana mai Oahu aku nei manao iho la oia, ma kai mai ka makani e pa

nei.

Nolaila, kaakaa ae la na maka o ka Makaula, aia hoi e hoi hou ana ka waa

i Oahu nei; ia manawa, nalu iho la ka Makaula i ke kumu o keia hoi hou

ana o ka waa. Aka hoi, no ko ianei makemake e ike maopopo i ka hana a na

mea waa, pule aku la oia i kona Akua ia Kuikauweke, e hooili mai i ka

ino nui maluna o ka moana.

Ia ia e pule ana iloko ona iho, hiki koke mai la ka ino nui maluna o

lakou, a pono ole ka manao o na mea waa.

Ia manawa, hoala ae la na mea waa ia ianei, "E keia kanaka e moe nei! e

ala ae paha oe, kainoa paha he pono kau i kau mai ai maluna o ko maua

waa, aole ka! oia no ka moe a nei kanaka la o uka."

Alaila, ala ae la ua Makaula nei, e hooiho ana ka waa i Oahu nei.

Alaila, ninau aku la oia i na mea waa, "Heaha iho nei keia hana a olua

ia'u i hoi hope ai ka waa? A heaha kuu hewa?"

Alaila, olelo mai la na mea waa, "Ua uluhua maua no kou hiamoe, a me ka

alala mau o ko wahi puaa, a me ke kani mau a ko wahi moa, nolaila

kulikuli; mai ka holo ana mai nei no ka ke kulikuli a hiki i keia

manawa, ua pono no la hoi ia, i na la hoi e hoe ana oe, aole ka, he moe

wale iho no ka kau."

I aku la ka Makaula, "Ua hewa olua i kuu manao; ina o kuu noho wale ke

kumu o ka hoi hou ana o ka waa o kakou i Oahu, alaila, ke olelo nei au,

ua hewa ka mea iluna o kuaiako, no ka mea, he noho wale iho no kana,

aole ana hana."

Ia lakou e kamailio ana no keia mau mea, lele aku la ka Makaula mahope o

ka waa, a lilo iho la ia ia ka hookele, holo aku la lakou a kau ma

Haleolono i Molokai.

Ia lakou i hiki aku ai malaila, aia hoi, e pio ana ke anuenue i Koolau,

e like me kana ike ana i kona mau la maluna o Kuamooakane, haalele keia

i na mea waa, ake aku la oia e ike i kana mea i ukali mai ai.

Ia hele ana hiki mua keia i Waialala maluna pono ae o Kalaupapa; ia

ianei malaila, ike maopopo aku la oia e pio ana ke anuenue iluna o

Malelewaa, ma kahi nihinihi hiki ole ke heleia. Aia nae malaila kahi i

hunaia ai o Laieikawai, oia a me kona kupunawahine, e like me ke kauoha

mau a Kapukaihaoa ia Waka ma ka hihio.

No ka mea, i ka Makaula e holo mai ana ma ka moana, ua ike mua e aku o

Kapukaihaoa i ka Makaula, a me kana mau hana, nolaila oia i olelo mau ai

ia Waka ma ka hihio e ahai mua ia Laieikawai ma kahi hiki ole ke loaa.

I ka Makaula i haalele ai ia Waialala, hiki aku keia ma Waikolu ilalo

pono o Malelewaa, aia nae e pio ana ke anuenue i kahi hiki ole ia ia ke

hele aku; aka, ua noonoo ka Makaula i kekahi manawa, i wahi e hiki ai e

ike i kana mea e ukali nei, a waiho aku i kana kanaenae i hoomakaukau

mua ai, aole nae e hiki.

I kela la a ka Makaula i hiki ai ma Waikolu, ia po iho, hiki mua ke

kauoha a Kapukaihaoa ia Laieikawai ma ka moeuhane, a puoho ae la oia, he

moeuhane. Alaila, hoala aku la o Laieikawai i kona kupunawahine, a ala

ae la, ninau aku la ke kupunawahine i kana moopuna i ke kumu o ka hoala

ana.

Hai mai la ka moopuna, "Ua hiki mai o Kapukaihaoa i o'u nei ma ka

moeuhane, e olelo mai ana, e ahai loa oe ia'u i Hawaii a hoonoho ma

Paliuli, a malaila kaua e noho ai, pela mai nei oia ia'u, a puoho wale

ae la wau la, hoala aku la ia oe."

Ia Laieikawai nae e kamailio ana i ke kupunawahine, hiki iho la ka hihio

ma o Waka la, a ua like me ka ka moopuna e olelo ana, ia manawa, ala ae

la laua i ke wanaao a hele aku la e like me ke kuhikuhi a Kapukaihaoa ia

laua ma ka moeuhane.

Haalele laua ia wahi, hiki aku laua ma Keawanui, kahi i kapaia o

Kaleloa, a malaila laua i halawai ai me ke kanaka e hoomakaukau ana i

ka waa e holo ai i Lanai. La laua i halawai aku ai me ka mea waa, olelo

aku la o Waka, "E ae anei oe ia maua e kau pu aku me oe ma ko waa, a

holo aku i kau wahi i manao ai e holo?"

Olelo mai la ka mea waa, "Ke ae nei wau e kau pu olua me a'u ma ka waa,

aka hookahi no hewa, o ko'u kokoolua ole e hiki ai ka waa."

Ia manawa a ka mea waa i hoopuka ai i keia olelo "i kokoolua" hoewaa,

wehe ae la o Laieikawai i kona mau maka i uhiia i ka aahu kapa, mamuli o

ka makemake o ke kupunawahine e huna loa i kana moopuna me ka ike oleia

mai e na mea e ae a hiki i ko laua hiki ana i Paliuli, aka, aole pela ko

ka moopuna manao.

I ka manawa nae a Laieikawai i hoike ai i kona mau maka mai kona hunaia

ana e kona kupunawahine, luliluli ae la ke poo o ke kupunawahine, aole a

hoike kana moopuna ia ia iho, no ka mea, e lilo auanei ka nani o kana

moopuna i mea pakuwa wale.

I ka manawa nae a Laieikawai i wehe ae ai i kona mau maka, ike aku la ka

mea waa i ka oi kelakela o ko Laieikawai helehelena mamua o na

kaikamahine kaukaualii o Molokai a puni, a me Lanai. Aia hoi, ua

hookuiia mai ka mea waa e kona iini nui no kana mea e ike nei.

A no keia mea, noi aku la ka mea waa i ke kupunawahine, me ka olelo aku,

"E kuu loa ae oe i na maka o ko moopuna mai kona hoopulouia ana, no ka

mea, ke ike nei wau ua oi aku ka maikai o kau milimili, mamua o na

kaikamahine kaukaualii o Molokai nei a me Lanai."

I mai la ke kupunawahine. "Aole e hiki ia'u ke wehe ae ia ia, no ka mea,

o kona makemake no ka huna ia ia iho."

A no keia olelo a Waka i ka mea waa mamuli o kana noi, alaila, hoike pau

loa ae la o Laieikawai ia ia mai kona hunaia ana, no ka mea, ua lohe aku

la o Laieikawai i ka olelo a kona kupunawahine, o Laieikawai no ka

makemake e huna ia ia; aka, ua, makemake ole keia e huna.

A no ka ike maopopo loa ana aku o ka mea waa ia Laieikawai, alaila, he

nuhou ia i ka mea waa. Alaila, kupu ae la ka manao ano e iloko ona, e

hele e hookaulana ia Molokai apuni, no keia mea ana e iini nei.

Alaila, olelo aku la ua mea waa nei ia Laieikawai ma, "Auhea olua, e

noho olua i ka hale nei, na olua na mea a pau oloko, aole kekahi mea e

koe o ka hale nei ia olua, o olua maloko a mawaho o keia wahi."

A no ka hoopuka ana o ka mea waa i keia olelo, alaila, olelo aku la o

Laieikawai, "E ke kamaaina o maua, e hele loa ana anei oe? No ka mea, ke

ike lea nei maua i kou kauoha honua ana, me he mea la e hele loa ana

oe?"

I aku la ke kamaaina, "E ke kaikamahine, aole pela, aole au e haalele

ana ia oula; aka, i manao ae nei au e huli i kokoolua no'u e hoe aku ai

ia olua a pae i Lanai."

A no keia olelo a ka mea waa, i aku la o Waka i ke kamaaina o laua nei,

"Ina o ke kumu ia o kou hele ana i kauoha honua ai oe i na mea a pau o

kou hale ia maua; alaila, ke i aku nei wau, he hiki ia maua ke kokua ia

oe ma ka hoe ana."

A ike ka mea waa he mea kaumaha keia olelo a Waka imua ona.

Olelo aku la oia imua o na malahini, "Aole o'u manao e hoounauna aku ia

olua e kokua mai ia'u ma ka hoe pu ana i ka waa, no ka mea, he mea nui

olua na'u."

Aka, aole pela ka manao o ka mea waa e huli i kokoolua hoe waa pu me ia,

no ka mea, ua hooholo mua oia i kana olelo hooholo iloko ona, e hele e

kukala aku ia Laieikawai apuni o Molokai.

A pau ke kamailio ana a lakou i keia mau olelo, haalele iho la ka mea

waa ia laua nei, a hele aku la e like me ka olelo hooholo mua iloko ona.

Ia hele ana, ma Kaluaaha kona hiki mua ana, a moe aku oia i Halawa, a ma

keia hele ana a ia nei, ua kukala aku oia i ka maikai o Laieikawai e

like me kona manao paa.

A ma kekahi la ae, i ke kakahiaka nui, loaa ia ia ka waa e holo ana i

Kalaupapa, kau aku la oia maluna o ka waa, hiki mua oia i Pelekunu, a me

Wailau, a mahope hiki i Waikolu kahi a ka Makaula e noho ana.

Ia ia nae i hiki aku ai i Waikolu, ua hala mua aku ua Makaula nei i

Kalaupapa, aka, o ka hana mau a ua wahi kanaka nei, ke kukala hele no

Laieikawai.

A hiki keia i Kalaupapa, aia hoi, he aha mokomoko e akoakoa ana ku aku

la oia mawaho o ka aha, a kahea aku la me ka leo nui, "E ka hu, e na

makaainana, e ka lopakuakea, lopahoopiliwale, e na'lii, na Kahuna, na

kilo, na aialo, ua ike au i na mea a pau ma keia hele ana mai nei a'u,

ua ike i na mea nui, na mea liilii, na kane, na wahine, na kaukaualii

kane, na kaukaualii wahine, ka niaupio, ke ohi, aole wau i ike i kekahi

oi o lakou e like me ka'u mea i ike ai, a ke olelo nei au, oia ka oi

mamua o na kaikamahine kaukaualii o Molokai nei apuni, a me keia aha no

hoi."

Ia manawa nae a ia nei e kahea nei, aole i lohe pono mai ka aha, no ka

mea, ua uhiia kona leo e ka haukamumu leo o ka aha, a me ka nene no ka

hoouka kaua.

A no ko ianei manao i lohe ponoia mai kana olelo, oi pono loa aku la ia

iwaena o ke anaina, ku iho la oia imua o ka aha, a kuehu ae la oia i ka

lepa o kona aahu, a hai hou ae la i ka olelo ana i olelo mua ai.

Iloko o keia manawa, lohe pono loa aku la ke Alii nui o Molokai i keia

leo, alaila hooki ae la ke alii i ka aha, i loheia aku ai ka olelo a

keia kanaka malahini e kuhea nei; no ka mea, iloko o ko ke alii ike ana

aku i ua wahi kanaka nei, ua hoopihaia kona mau maka i ka olioli, me ke

ano pihoihoi.

Kaheaia aku la ua wahi kanaka nei mamuli o ke kauoha a ke alii, a hele

mai la imua o ke alii, a ninau aku la, "Heaha kou mea e nui nei kou leo

imua o ka aha, me ka maka olioli?"

Alaila, hai mai la kela i ke kumu o kona kahea ana, a me kona olioli

imua o ke alii. "Ma ke kakahiakanui o ka la i nehinei, e lawelawe ana

wau i ka waa no ka manao e holo i Lanai, hoea mai ana keia wahine me ke

kaikamahine, aole nae au i ike lea i ke ano o ua kaikamahine la. Aka,

iloko o ko maua wa kamailio, hoopuka mai la ke kaikamahine i kona mau

maka mai kona hunaia ana, aia hoi, ike aku la wau he kaikamahine maikai,

i oi aku mamua o na kaikamahine alii o Molokai nei."

A lohe ke alii i keia olelo, ninau aku la, "Ina ua like kona maikai me

kuu kaikamahine nei la, alaila, ua nani io."

A no keia ninau a ke alii, noi aku la ua wahi kanaka nei e hoikeia mai

ke kaikamahine alii imua ona, a laweia mai la o Kaulaailehua ke

kaikamahine a ke alii.

I aku la ua wahi kanaka nei, "E ke alii! oianei la, eha kikoo i koe o ko

iala maikai ia ianei, alaila, like aku me kela." I mai la ke alii, "E!

nani io aku la, ke hoole ae nei oe i ka makou maikai e ike nei, no ka

mea, o ko Molokai oi no keia."

Alaila, olelo aku la kahi kanaka i ke alii me ka wiwo ole, "No ko'u ike

i ka maikai, ko'u mea no ia i olelo kaena ai."

Ia manawa a kahi kanaka e kamailio ana me ke alii, e noho ana ka Makaula

ia manawa e hoolohe ana i ke ano o ke kamailio ana, aka, ua haupu honua

ae ka Makaula, me he mea la o kana mea e ukali nei.

A no keia mea, neenee loa aku la ka Makaula a kokoke, paa aku la ma ka

lima o kahi kanaka, a huki malu aku la ia ia.

Ia laua ma kahi kaawale, ninau pono aku la ka Makaula i ua wahi kanaka

nei, "Ua ike no anei oe i kela kaikamahine mamua au e kamailio nei i ke

alii?"

Hoole aku la ua wahi kanaka nei, me ka i aku, "Aole au i ike mamua,

akahi no wau a ike, a he mea malahini ia i ko'u mau maka."

A no keia mea, manao ae la ka Makaula, o kana mea i imi mai ai, me ka

ninau pono aku i kahi i noho ai, a hai ponoia mai la.

A pau ka laua kamailio ana, lawe ae la oia i na mea ana i hoomakaukau ai

i mohai no ka manawa e halawai aku ai, a hele aku la.

MOKUNA III

Ia hele ana o ka Makaula mahope iho o ko laua halawai ana me kahi

kanaka, hiki mua keia iluna o Kawela; nana aku la oia, e pio ana ke

anuenue i kahi a ua wahi kanaka nei i olelo ai ia ia; alaila, hoomaopopo

lea iho la ka Makaula o kana mea no e ukali nei.

A hiki keia i Kaamola ka aina e pili pu la me Keawanui, kahi hoi a

Laieikawai ma e kali nei i ka mea waa, ia manawa, ua poeleele loa iho

la, ua hiki ole ia ia ke ike aku i ka mea ana i ike ai iluna o Kawela,

aka, ua moe ka Makaula malaila ia po, me ka manao i kakahiaka e ike ai i

kana mea e imi nei.

I kela po a ka Makaula e moe la i Kaamola, aia hoi, ua hiki ka olelo

kauoha a Kapukaihaoa ia Laieikawai ma ka moeuhane, e like me ke kuhikuhi

ia laua iloko o ko laua mau la ma Malelewaa.

Ia wanaao ana ae, loaa ia laua ka waa e holo ai i Lanai, a kau laua

malaila a holo aku la, a ma Maunalei ko laua wahi i noho ai i kekahi mau

la.

Ia Laieikawai ma i haalele ai ia Kalaeloa ia kakahiaka, ala ae la ka

Makaula, e ku ana ka punohu i ka moana, a me ka ua koko, aia nae, ua uhi

paapuia ka moana i ka noe a me ke awa, mawaena o Molokai, a me Lanai.

Ekolu mau la o ka uhi paapu ana o keia noe i ka moana, a i ka eha o ko

ka Makaula mau la ma Kaamola, i ke kakahiaka nui, ike aku la oia e ku

ana ka onohi iluna pono o Maunalei; aka, ua nui loa ka minamina o ka

Makaula no ke halawai ole me kana mea e imi nei, aole nae oia i pauaho a

hooki i kona manaopaa.

Ua aneane e hala na la he umi ia ia ma Molokai, ike hou aku la oia e ku

ana ka punohu iluna o Haleakala; haalele keia ia Molokai, hiki mua oia

iluna o Haleakala ma kela lua pele, aole nae oia i ike i kana mea e imi

nei.

I ua Makaula nei nae i hiki ai malaila, ike aku la oia ia Hawaii, ua uhi

paapuia ka aina i ka ohu, a me ka noe. A haalele keia ia wahi, hiki keia

i Kauwiki, a malaila oia i kukulu ai i wahi heiau, kahi hoi e hoomana ai

i kona Aku, ka mea hiki ke kuhikuhi i kana mea e imi nei.

I ua Makaula nei e kaapuni ana ma na wahi a pau ana i kipa aku ai, ua

kauoha mua aku ka Makaula, i na e loaa kana mea e imi nei, alaila, e

huli aku ia ia ma kahi e loaa ai.

A pau ke kapu heiau a ua Makaula nei ma, Kauwiki, i na po o Kane, a me

Lono paha, alaila, ike maopopoia aku la ke kalae ana o ka aina a puni o

Hawaii, a ua waiho pono mai na kuahiwi.

Ua nui no na la o ka Makaula ma Kauwiki, aneane makahiki a oi ae paha,

aole nae oia i ike iki i ka hoailona mau ana e ukali nei.

I kekahi la, i ka malama o Kaaona, i na Ku, i ka manawa kakahiaka nui,

ike aweawea aku la oia he wahi onohi ma Koolau, o Hawaii; ia manawa,

puiwa koke ae la oia me ka lele o kona oili me ka maikai ole o kona

noonoo ana; aka, ua kali loihi no oia me ka hoomanawanui a maopopo lea

ka hana a kela wahi onohi; a pau ia malama okoa i ka hoomanawanuiia eia,

a i kekahi malama ae, i ka la o Kukahi, i ke ahiahi, mamua o ka napoo

ana o ka la, komo aku la oia iloko o kona wahi heiau, kahi i hoomakaukau

ai no kona Akua, a pule aku la oia.

Ia ia e pule ana, a i ka waenakonu o ka manawa, ku mai la imua o ua

Makaula nei ke kahoaka o Laieikawai, a me kona kupunawahine; a no keia

mea, hooniau aku la oia i ka pule ana, aole nae i haalele kela kahoaka

ia ia a hiki i ka maamaama ana.

Ia po iho, iloko o kona manawa hiamoe, halawai mai la kona Akua me ia ma

ka hihio, i mai la, "Ua ike au i kou luhi, a me kou hoomanawanui ana, me

ke ake e loaa ia oe ka moopuna a Waka, me kou manao hoi e loaa kou

pomaikai no kana moopuna mai. Iloko o kau pule ana, ua hiki ia'u ke

kuhikuhi, e loaa no o Laieikawai ia oe, mawaena o Puna, a me Hilo, iloko

o ka ululaau, e noho ana iloko o ka hale i uhiia i na hulu melemele o ka

Oo, nolaila, apopo e ku oe a hele."

Puoho ae la oia mai ka hiamoe, aia ka he hihio, a no keia mea, pono ole

iho la kona manao, aole e hiki ia ia ke moe ia po a ao.

Ia po a ao ae i ke kakahiaka nui, ia ia maluna o Kauwiki, ike aku la oia

i ke kilepalepa a ka pea o ka waa ilalo o Kaihalulu; holo wikiwiki aku

la oia a hiki i ke awa, ninau aku la i kahi a keia waa e holo ai, haiia

mai la, "E holo ana i Hawaii," a noi aku la oia e kau pu me lakou ma ka

waa, a aeia mai la oia pu me lakou.

Hoi hou aku la ka Makaula iluna o Kauwiki, e lawe mai i kana mau wahi

ukana, na mea ana i hoomakaukau ai i kanaenae.

Ia manawa, aia nei i hiki ai i ka waa, hai mua aku la oia i kona manao i

na mea waa, "E na mea waa, e hai mai oukou i ka'u hana ma keia holo ana

o kakou; ma ka oukou mea e olelo mai ai, malaila wau e hoolohe ai, no ka

mea, he kanaka wau i hana pono oleia e na mea waa i ko'u holo ana mai

Oahu mai, nolaila wau e hai mua aku nei ia oukou e na mea waa, malia o

like oukou me laua."

A no keia olelo a ka Makaula, olelo mai la na mea waa, aole e hanaia

kekahi, mea pono ole ma ia holo ana o lakou; a pau keia mau mea kau

lakou ma ka waa a holo aku la.

Ma ia holo ana hiki mua lakou i Mahukona, ma Kohala, moe malaila ia po,

a i ke kakahiaka ana ae, haalele ka Makaula i na mea waa, pii aku la oia

a hiki i Lamaloloa, a komo aku la i Pahauna ka hoiau, he heiau kahiko

kela mai ka po mai, a hiki i keia manawa.

Ua nui loa na la ona malaila o ka noho ana, aole nae oia i ike i kana

mea e imi ai; aka, ma kona ano Makaula, hoomau aku la oia i ka pule i ke

Akua, e like me kona mau la ma Kauwiki, a no ka pule hoomau a ua Makaula

nei, ua looa hou ia ia ke kuhikuhi ana e like me kela hoike ia ia ma

Kauwiki.

A no keia mea, haalele oia ia wahi, kaahele aku la oia ia Hawaii; ma

Hamakua kona hiki mua ana, oi hele aku oia mai ka manawa uuku o kahi

puaa a nui loa, a na ka puaa no e hele.

Ia ia i hiki ai i Hamakua, malalo o Waipio kona wahi i noho ai ma

Pakaalana, aole nae he nui kona mau la malaila.

Haalele ka Makaula ia wahi, hiki aku oia i Laupahoehoe, a malaila aku a

hiki i Kaiwilahilahi, a malaila oia i noho ai he mau makahiki.

(Maanei, e waiho kakou i ka moolelo no pa imi ana o ka Makaula. Pono e

kamailio no ka hoi ana o Kauakahialii, i Kauai, me Kailiokalauokekoa: i

ike ai kakou, aia o Laieikawai i Paliuli.)

Ma na Helu mua o keia Kaao, ua ike kakou na Kapukaihaoa i kauoha ia

Waka ma ka moeuhane e hoihoi ia Laieikawai i Paliuli, mamuli o ka ike a

ka Makaula.

Ua hookoia no nae e like me ke kauoha, ua noho o Laieikawai ma Paliuli,

a hiki i kona hookanakamakua ana.

Ia Kauakahialii, laua o Kailiokalauokekoa i hoi ai i Kauai, mahope iho o

ko laua halawai ana me ka Olali o Paliuli (Laieikawai), a hiki lakou i

Kauai, mauka o Pihanakalani, kui aku la ka lono ia Kauaiapuni; akoakoa

mai la na'lii, na kaukaualii, a me na makaainana a pau e ike i ka puka

malahini ana aku o Kailiokalauokekoa ma, e like me ka mea mau; o

Aiwohikupua nae kekahi oia poe Alii i akoakoa pu mai ma keia aha uwe o

na malihini.

A pau ka uwe ana a lakou, ninau aku la na'lii ia Kauakahialii "Pehea kau

hele ana aku nei mamuli o kou hoaa'ia ianei?" (Kailiokalauokekoa.)

Alaila, hai aku la o Kauakahialii i kona hele ana, penei: "I ko'u hele

ana mai anei aku mamuli o ke aloha o ka wahine, a puni Oahu, a me Maui,

aole i loaa ia'u kekahi wahine e like me Kailiokalauokekoa nei; a hiki

au i Hawaii, kaapuni wau ia mokupuni. Ma Kohala kuu hiki mua ana.

Kaahele au ma Kona, Kau, a hiki au i Keaau, a ma Puna, a malaila wau i

noho ai, a malaila wau i halawai ai me kekahi wahine maikai i oi aku

mamua o ianei (Kailiokalauokekoa). A o ka oi no hoi ia mamua o na wahine

maikai o keia mau mokupuni a pau."

Iloko o keia olelo ana a Kauakahialii, hoomaopopo loa mai la o

Aiwohikupua i ka helehelena maikai o ua wahine nei.

Alaila, hai aku la o Kauakahialii, "I ka po mua, mahope iho o ko laua

halawai ana me kuu wahi kahu nei, hai mai la oia i kona manawa e hiki

mai ai i kahi o ko makou wahi e noho ana, a hai mai la no hoi oia i na

hoailona o kona hiki ana mai; no ka mea, ua olelo aku kuu wahi kahu nei

i kane au na ua wahine nei, me ke koi aku no hoi e iho pu mai laua me ua

wahi kahu nei o'u, aka, ua hai mai kela i kana olelo, 'E hoi oe a ko

hanai, kuu kane hoi au e olelo mai nei, olelo aku oe ia ia, a keia po

wau hiki aku, ina e kani aku ka leo o ka Ao, aole wau iloko oia leo; a

kani aku ka leo o ka Alala, aole no wau iloko oia leo; i na e kani aku

ka leo o ka Elepaio, hoomakaukau wau no ka iho aku; a i kani aku ka leo

o ka Apapane, alaila, ua puka wau mawaho o kuu hale nei; hoolohe mai

auanei oe a i kani aku ka leo o ka Iiwipolena, alaila, aia wau mawaho o

ka hale o ko hanai; imi ae olua a loaa wau mawaho, oia kuu manawa e

launa ai me ko hanai.' Pela mai ka olelo ua wahi kahu nei o'u.

"I ka po hoi ana e kauoha nei, aole i hiki ae, o i kali aku makou a ao

ia po, aole i hiki ae; o na manu wale no kai kani mai, manao iho la wau

he wahahee na kuu wahi kahu; i Punahoa nae lakou nei (Kailiokalauokekoa

ma) kahi i moe ai me na aikane. No kuu manao he wahahee na kuu wahi

kahu, nolaila, kauoha ae ana wau i ka Ilamuku e hoopaa i ke kaula; aka,

ua hala e ua wahi kahu nei o'u i uka o Paliuli, e ninau aku i ua wahine

nei i ke kumu o kona hiki ole ana i kai ia po, me ka hai aku no hoi e

make ana ia.

"A pau kana olelo ana ia Laieikawai i keia mau mea, i mai la ka wahine i

ua wahi kahu nei o'u, 'E hoi oe, a ma keia po hiki aku au, e like me

ka'u kauoha ia oe i ka po mua, pela no wau e hiki aku ai.'

"Ia po iho, oia ka po e hiki mai ai ua wahine nei, ua puka mua ae lakou

nei (Kailiokalauokekoa ma) i ke ao, i ua po nei e kaao ana no o ianei ia

makou, i ke kihi o ke ahiahi, kani ana ka leo o ka Ao; i ka pili o ke

ahiahi, kani ana ka leo o ka Alala; i ke kau, kani ka leo o ka Elepaio;

i ka pili o ke ao, kani ana ka leo o ka Apapane; a i ka owehewhe ana o

ke alaula, kani ana ka leo o ka Iiwipolena; ia kani ana no hoi, malu ana

ke aka ma ka puka o ka hale, aia hoi, ua paa oloko i ka noe, a i ka mao

ana ae, e kau mai ana kela iluna o ka eheu o na manu, me kona nani nui."

A no keia olelo a Kauakahialii imua o na'lii, ua hookuiia mai ko

Aiwohikupua kino okoa e ka iini nui, me ka ninau aku, "Owai ka inoa oia

wahine?"

Haiia aku la oia o Laieikawai; a no ka iini nui o Aiwohikupua i keia mea

a Kauakahialii e olelo nei, manao iho la ia e kii i wahine mare nana,

aka, ua haohao o Aiwohikupua no keia wahine. Nolaila, hai aku oia i kana

olelo imua o Kauakahialii, "Ke haohao nei wau i keia wahine, no ka mea,

owau ka mea nana i kaapuni keia mau mokupuni, aole wau i ike i kekahi

wahine e kau mai iluna o ka eheu o na manu; me he mea la no kukulu o

Tahiti mai ia wahine, noloko o Moaulanuiakea."

No ka manao o Aiwohikupua no Moaulanuiakea, o Laieikawai, oia kona mea i

manao ai e kii i wahine nana. No ke mea, manua aku o kona lohe ana i

keia mau mea, ua olelo paa o Aiwohikupua, aole e lawe i kekahi wahine o

keia mau mokupuni i wahine mare nana; ua olelo oia, aia kana wahine

makemake noloko o Moaulanuiakea.

A pau ke kamailio ana a na'lii no keia mau mea, a me ka walea ana e like

me ka mea mau o ka puka malihini ana. A mahope koke iho oia mau la, lawe

ae la o Aiwohikupua i kahi o Kauakahialii, i kanaka lawelawe imua o kona

alo, me ka manao o Aiwohikupua o kela wahi kanaka ka mea e loaa ai ko ke

Alii makemake.

A no keia kumu, hoolilo loa ae la o Aiwohikupua i ua wahi kanaka nei i

poo kiekie maluna o na mea a pau, o ko ke Alii mau aina a pau, a me na

kanaka a pau loa, na'lii a me na makaainana, ma kona ano Kuhina Nui.

A lilo ae la ua wahi kanaka nei i mea nui, huahua mai la na punahele mua

a Aiwohikupua, aka, he mea ole lakou i ko ke Alii manao.

MOKUNA IV

Mahope iho o ka lilo ana o ua wahi kanaka nei i mea nui imua o ke Alii,

me he Kuhina Nui la; a oia ka hoa kuka mau o ke Alii ma na mea e lealea

ai ke Alii, me ka manao aku o ka poe e, e kuka ana ma na mea pili i ka

aina, a me na waiwai e like me ka mea mau i ka noho Alii ana. Eia ka o

Laieikawai no ka laua kuka mau, a he uuku ke kuka ma na mea e ae.

Mamua aku nae o ko Aiwohikupua lohe ana ia Kauakahialii no Laieikawai,

ua hoike e oia i kana olelo paa imua o kona mau kaukaualii, a me na

kaikuahine ona, a me kona poe aialo a pau, a eia kana olelo paa, "Auhea

oukou e ko'u mau kaukaualii, a me na kaikuahine o'u ko'u mau aialo a

pau; mai keia la aku a hiki i ko'u mau la hope, aole loa ana wau e lawe

i kekahi wahine o keia mau mokupuni i wahine mare na'u, mai Kauai nei a

hala loa i Hawaii, ina i oleloia mai he mau wahine maikai, aole no hoi

au e haawi i ko'u kino e komo aku ma ke ano kolohe, he oleloa no. No ka

mea, he kanaka hana pono oleia wau e na wahine, mai ko'u wa opiopio mai

a hiki i ko'u hookanakamakua ana. Aia no ka'u wahine ae ke kii mai, no

kekahi mau aina e mai, ina noloko mai o Moaulanuiakea, kahi o na wahine

oluolu a'u i lohe ai; alaila, o ka'u wahine makemake ia, i na i kiiia

mai wau ma na ano elua."

Iloko o ko Aiwohikupua lohe ana ia Kauakahialii, a me ko laua kuka mau

ana me kona Kuhina Nui no Laieikawai, alaila, manaopaa ae la ke Alii no

Tahiti mai ua wahine la.

I kekahi la, i ke awakea, hiamoe iho la ke Alii, loaa iho la o

Laieikawai ia Aiwohikupua ma ka moeuhane, ua like kana ike ana ia

Laieikawai ma ka moeuhane me ka Kauakahialii olelo ana ia ia. A puoho ae

la ke Alii he moeuhane kana.

Iloko oia ala ana ae, aia hoi, he mea minamina loa i ke Alii i kona ike

ana ia Laieikawai ma ka moeuhane, no ka mea, ua ala e mai ka hiamoe o ke

Alii; a no ia mea, makemake iho la ke Alii e loaa hou ia ia ka hiamoe

loihi ana ma ia awakea, i kumu e ike hou aku ai i kana mea i ike ai ma

ka moeuhane.

Hoao hou iho la ke Alii e hiamoe hou, loaa hou no o Laieikawai ma ka

hihio pokole loa, aole nae oia i ike maopopo loa aku, he wahi helehelena

wale no kana ike lihi ana, a hikilele ae a oia.

A no keia mea, ua ano e loa ko ke Alii manao, ia manawa ka hoopuka ana a

ke Alii i olelo paa imua o kona mau mea a pau, penei no ia:

"Auhea oukou, mai walaau oukou iloko o kuu wa hiamoe, mai hamumumu, a

ina e walaau, he alii aimoku, e pau kona aimoku ana; ina lie alii

aiahupuaa, e pau la; a ina he konohiki, a lopa paha ka mea nana i hahai

kuu olelo paa, alaila, o ka make ka uku."

Oia iho la ka olelo paa a ke Alii, no ka mea, tia makemake loa ke Alii e

loaa ia ia ka hiamoe loihi i kumu e launa hou ai laua ma ka moeuhane me

Laieikawai.

A pau ka ke Alii olelo ana no keia mau mea, hoomaka hou oia e hiamoe,

aole nae i loaa ia ia ka hiamoe a hiki i ka napoo ana o ka la.

Iloko o keia hana a ke Alii, aole nae oia i hai aku i keia mea ana e ike

nei ma ka moeuhane, ua huna loa ke Alii i kona hoa kuka mau, manao la

hoi oia, aia a loaa hou aku, alaila hai aku i kona hoa Kuhina Nui.

A no ka makemake loa o ke Alii e loaa mau ia ia ka moeuhane mau no

Laieikawai, kauoha ae la oia i kona Kuhina Nui e mama i awa.

A nolaila, hoolale koke ae la ke Kuhina i na mea mama awa o ke Alii e

mama i ka awa, a makaukau ko ke Alii makemake, a laweia mai la, inu iho

la ke Alii me kona Kuhina, a oki mai la ka ona a ka awa. Kau koke mai la

nae iluna o ke Alii ka halialia aloha o Laieikawai, me he mea ala ua

launa kino mamua. Alaila, hapai ae la ia i wahi olelo ma ke mele penei:

"Kau mai ana i o'u nei

Ka halialia nae lehua o Puna,

I lawea mai e ka lau makani,

E ka ahe makani puulena o ka lua,

Hiamoe ole loko i ka minamina,

I ka makemake--e."

I aku la ke Kuhina o ke Alii, mahope iho o ka pau, ana o ke mele ana,

"He mea kupanaha, aole hoi au wahine a kaua e noho nei, aka, iloko o kau

mele e heluhelu nei, me he wahine la kau."

I mai la ke Alii, "Ua oki na olelo a kaua, no ka mea, ke oki mai nei ka

ona o ka awa ia'u." Iloko oia manawa, haule aku la ke Alii i ka hiamoe

nui, o ke oki no ia, no ka mea, ua poina loa ka hiamoe o ke Alii, ua ike

ole ke Alii i kana mea e manao ai.

Hookahi po, hookahi ao o ka moe ana mama ka ona awa o ke Alii. Olelo

aku la ke Alii i kona hoa kuka, "Ma keia ona awa o kaua, aole i waiwai

iki."

I mai la kona hoa kuka, "Pehea la ka hoi ka waiwai o ka ona awa? Kainoa

o ka ona no kona waiwai, o ka mahuna alua."

I mai la ke Alii, "Aole hoi paha oia, o ka ike aku ka hoi paha la ia

Laieikawai, alaila waiwai ka ona ana o ka awa."

Mahope iho oia manawa, hoomau aku la ke Alii i ka inu awa a hala na la

he nui, ua like paha me hookahi makahiki, aole nae ke Alii i ike i ka

waiwai oia hana ana, nolaila, hoopau iho la ke Alii ia hana.