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Tales &~ Legends of Hawaii ' Volume II


The Bright Islands




Tales & Legends of Hawaii
Volume I. At the Gateways of the Day.
Volume II. The Bright Islands.




The Bright Islands
by Padraic Colum


with illustrations by Juliette May Fraser


New Haven
Publishedfor The Hawaiian Legend 8 Folklore
Commission by the Yale University Press
London ~ Humphrey Milford * Oxford University Press
1925




Copyright 1925 by Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America




TO
MARTHA WARREN BECKWITH
AND
HERBERT GREGORY
WHOSE WORK AND WHOSE COUNSEL
HAVE SO GREATLY HELPED ME
IN THE REMAKING OF
THE HAWAIIAN STORIES








Table of Contents.
List of Illustrations                          ix
Helps to Pronunciation                         xi
Preface                                       xiii
I. Kings of the Islands                         3
Moi-keha the Voyager and the Sons of
Moi-keha                              3
Umi the Conqueror                       27
Ka-welo: The Overthrower of the Giant
Champion                             45
Ka-meha-meha the Great                  67
II. In the Bright Islands                      81
The Story of Ta-whaki                   81
The Story of Rata the Grandson of Tawhaki                               103
How Hina Voyaged to the Island of the
King of the Fishes                  119
The Little People of Ao-tea-roa       127
III. The Princess of Pali-uli                 137
IV. Skies, Lands, and Waters                  179
Companion-in-Suffering-in-the-Glade   179
Le-pe the Bird-Maiden, and How Her
Brother Kauilani Sought for Her and
Found Her                           187
When the Little Blond Shark Went Visiting                                 197
Kaulu, the World's Strongest Boy      209
How Kana Brought Back the Sun and
Moon and Stars After They Had Been
Taken Away                          215
Notes                                         225
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List of Illustrations.
Facing page
"A rainbow formed in front of the canoe of the
Princess".....                     44
"He was able to take her up and carry her"..    92
"They came, and they peered over the roots at TeKanawa and his companions"...           128
"Ka-hala-o-mapuana climbed up the spider's web"    168
"He held the bright Sun up. The cock beside him
crowed".....                                 220








Helps to Pronrnciation.
There are three simple rules which practically control
Hawaiian pronunciation: (1) Pronounce each vowel. (2)
Never allow a consonant to close a syllable. (3) Give the
vowels the following values:
a = a in father
e - ey in they
i _ i in machine
o = o in note
u - oo in tool




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Preface.


The Bright Islands is the second volume of a collection of
Hawaiian, or mainly Hawaiian, legendary stories, the first
volume being At the Gateways of the Day. Those who are
interested in questions such as how and under what conditions the originals were formed and transmitted are referred to the introduction to the first volume.
I spent the early months of 1923 in the Hawaiian
Islands, having gone there under the following circumstances: The Hawaiian Legislature had formed a Commission on Myth and Folk-lore; the function of the Commission was to have a survey made of the stories that had
been collected and that belonged to the myth and folk-lore
of the Islands, and to have them made over into stories for
children, primarily for the children of the Hawaiian Islands. By an arrangement between the Commission and the
Yale University Press I was invited to make the survey and
to reshape the stories. At the Gateways of the Day and
The Bright Islands are the results of my work for the
Commission and the Yale University Press.
This second volume differs in many respects from the
collection published in the first volume. All the stories in
At the Gateways of the Day were mythological. Certain
of the stories in the present volume are historical; the
section called "Kings of the Islands" is made up of chronicles-of chronicles that have been passed on by oral historians. Another section is made up of material that is
only fragmentarily known in Hawaiian tradition and is
from South Pacific sources. In At the Gateways of the
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Day these sources were drawn on too; they were drawn
on for certain of the episodes in the Ma-ui cycle. The Ma-ui
stories, however, were all given an Hawaiian background.
But the stories about Ta-whaki and his grandson Rata,
which, with the story about Hina and the story about the
Little People, make up the second section of the present
volume, have the backgrounds of New Zealand and the
Islands of the South Pacific. Then there is a third section
which differs from any of the work in At the Gateways of
the Day, not only by the fact that "The Princess of Paliuli" is quite a long story, but that it is based on material
already worked up by an Hawaiian writer-by Haleole in
his romance Laieikawai. The fourth section of the book,
"Skies, Lands, and Waters," is made up of the same sort
of material as has gone into The Gateways of the Day.
I give at the end of the volume the sources I have drawn
on for the stories given in The Bright Islands.


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I.
Kings of the Islands.




I




Kings of the Islands.


I. Moi-keha the Voyager and the Sons of Moi-keha.
T the rise of the canoe-guiding star
Moi-keha went on board his double
^   1 canoe, with his brothers and his
two sisters, with all his attendants
and followers, and he sailed north.
He went through an empty sea,
taking rain-water in the folds of his sails, staying
sometimes at coral islands where there was rainwater on the ground, and then sailing on and on to
the north, and on and on, until at last the steersman
in his double canoe saw the Islands that we now call
Hawaii.
Hilo, on the Island of Hawaii, was the place they
first touched at; there his younger brothers stayed.
The canoe voyaged on again; they came to the Island of Oahu, and there his sisters asked to be left.
"We can see from this place the cloud-drifts of
Tahiti," they said, "and here we will make our staying-place." Again the canoe voyaged on; they came
to the Island of Kauai, and there Moi-keha landed.
So many suitors had the daughter of the King of
Kauai that it had been decided to have a contest
amongst them; he who won in the contest was to
take the daughter of the King, Ho'o-ipo, and the
others were to go away from the house where for a
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long time they were being entertained. This was the
contest that Ho'o-ipo's father had fixed on: He took
a whale-tooth necklace and he left it on an islet in
the sea; at a word from him the suitors for his
daughter were to race their canoes out to this islet; the one who came upon the necklace first and
brought it back to the girl would be the one who
would gain her for his wife.
All was ready for the contest when Moi-keha came
to the Island of Kauai; the canoes of the suitors
were in the bay, and the suitors were on the beach
ready to race off at a word from the King. The word
was given while Moi-keha was speaking to the girl
for the first time.
Said the King's daughter to him, "It is you who
should win me, O stranger Chief." She told him
then about the contest, and showed him the islet
towards which the canoes were already racing.
Moi-keha dashed down to the beach; he took the
canoe that was there, and he pushed it out into the
water.
Already the canoes of the others were a long
distance from him. But with powerful stroke after
powerful stroke Moi-keha gained on them. He
passed them. He came to the islet long before the
others; he found the necklace, and was on his way
back with it when the others were touching the islet.
So Moi-keha won a bride in the new land he had
come to.
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It is said that he had lived in the Islands before
this, and that he had left the Islands and gone to
places south. But we know that Moi-keha was Chief
in Tahiti before he came to Kauai. He lived and
ruled on that far Island until a day came when he
was made bitterly angry against one whom he loved.
Then he made a vow that he would never look upon
the ridge-pole of his house again. He bade his followers make ready his double canoe; he invited his
two sisters and his two younger brothers to come
with him; he took his steersmen and his sailingmasters, and he made ready to sail from Tahiti,
from the Island where he was Chief.
And then he reached Kauai and he won the
daughter of the King, Ho'o-ipo, for his wife. The
King of Kauai died, and Moi-keha became King in
his place. Still he was not able to forget Tahiti and
all that he had left behind him there. He had left a
son in Tahiti, a son whose name was La'a, and as the
years went by he became more and more set upon
seeing the face of his son again.
But he had vowed that he would never again look
upon Tahiti nor upon the ridge-pole of his house
there. He had sons born to him in Kauai-three sons
-and he thought that he might have one of them
make the voyage to Tahiti and bring his first-born
son La'a to visit him.
He called his three sons to him and he said to
them, "I am thinking of sending one of you to far
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Tahiti to bring to me the son whom I left behind
there, La'a, your elder brother."
On hearing what their father said the three
youths became excited and eager, and each wanted
to be the only one whom their father would send to
far Tahiti, trusting him with the great double canoe.
Their father did not know which one he would send:
he thought of a test that would help him to decide
which one of them he would let go upon the voyage.
He told each of the three boys to make for himself
a toy canoe. This each did. He told them to bring
their canoes to the river. And when they came to the
river he went in and stood in the middle of the flood
with his legs apart. He told each of his sons, beginning with the eldest, to sail his canoe across the
river. "The one whose canoe sails fairly between
my legs," he said, "whether he be the eldest or the
youngest, that one I will send to far Tahiti."
He stood with his legs apart and facing the wind.
The boys went to a point facing their father. The
eldest boy sailed his canoe first. He was named
Uma-lehu. He steered it towards the desired point,
but the toy canoe missed its mark, and went sailing
off in another direction. Then the secondboy, Ka-ialea, sailed his canoe across, and it too took a wrong
direction, and went sailing away from where his
father stood.
Then Kila, the youngest boy, took his toy canoe
and set it in the river, and steered it towards where
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his father stood. The canoe was so well steered that
it kept right on in its course. It sailed between Moikeha's legs. Then his father declared that Kila was
the youth whom he would send to Tahiti, giving him
charge of the great double canoe. The other brothers
were angry that Kila was taken as the one to make
the voyage to Tahiti, and from that time they hated
their younger brother.
The great double canoe was made ready for the
long voyage; the steersmen and the sailing-masters
who were to go with Kila were picked out; all was
made ready. Then Moi-keha spoke to Kila and said
to him, "Go by Oahu, from where one can see the
cloud-drifts of Tahiti, and visit your aunts who are
there." Kila said he would do this.
The steersmen and the sailing-masters and the
paddlers went into the canoe; a wizard went in also,
and an old man whom Moi-keha instructed to look
after Kila. This was Ka-ma-hua-lele, who had come
with him from Tahiti in the old days. There went
with Kila, then, eleven men.
At the dawn of day, while they looked upon the
canoe-guiding star, the great double canoe sailed
away from Kauai. They went by Oahu, and when
they were near that Island they called from the
canoe to a house that was near, "My greeting to you,
Maka-pu'u and Maka-aoa."
Then two women came out of the house; they
called to the man in the canoe, "Who is it? Who
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calls?" The answer came to them, "Kila of the uplands, Kila of the lowlands, Kila the offspring of
Moi-keha."
"Is Moi-keha still living?" they asked. And then,
"What is Moi-keha doing?"
Thereupon Kila, from the canoe, chanted in a
pleasing way:
"He is indulging in his ease in Kauai,
Where the sun rises and sets again,
Where the surf of Maka-iwa curves and bends,
Where the sun comes up over
The gauzy mists of Kewa;
He has the cool and calm shade of Kewa,
He has the stretched-out waters of Wai-lua,
He has the entrancing favors of my mother,
Ho'o-ipo.
He will live and die in Kauai."
"What journey are you on?" said his aunt to Kila
then.
"I go in search of the son whom Moi-keha left
behind in Tahiti; I go in search of my elder brother
La'a."
His aunts welcomed them, and gave food to them,
and after Kila and his attendants had made their
visit, they sailed on through the empty waters, on to
Tahiti. They stayed at the coral islets where only the
birds gathered, and they came at last to the high
cliffs of Tahiti.
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Those who had made trouble for Moi-keha were
still strong in Tahiti, so his son and his followers
went covertly on the land. From a woman they
heard that La'a, who was a priest, was living on the
mountains.
It was an old sorceress who told Kila what to do
so that he might come to where La'a was. "When
you hear a drum beat in the mountains," she said,
"you will know that it is Hawea, your father's drum.
He who beats it is La'a, the chief you are in search
of. Then you must make a sacrifice."
The next night the sound of a drum in the mountains was heard. A sacrifice was made by Kila.
Again the sound of the drum was heard. Towards
the mountains they went then, the aged sorceress
leading them.
From morning till evening, throughout the whole
day, they followed the sorceress. They came to a
place where there was a temple. They were told to
stay there quietly until they heard the drum again;
then they were to go into the temple precinct.
The drum sounded, and the sorceress told Kila
what to do. He went within the temple precinct. He
hid himself in a corner. The priests of the temple
entered. They made preparations for their offering.
They went away, and a man who was left alone beat
on a drum.
Kila went to him, coming out of the place where
he had hidden. "My greeting to you, La'a," he said.
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"Who are you?" said La'a, the priest with the
drum.
"I am Kila of the uplands, Kila of the lowlands,
Kila the son of Moi-keha."
"Is Moi-keha then living?"
"He is living indeed."
"What is Moi-keha doing?"
"He is taking his ease in Kauai where the sun
rises and sets, where the surf curves and bends,
where the ku-kui blossoms of Puna change, where
the waters of Wai-lua stretch out; he will live and
die in Kauai."
"What has brought you here?"
"I have been sent by my father to take you to
him; he wants to see all his children in one place
together before he dies."
Then said La'a, "I will go with you all the way
to Hawaii."
They stole down from the mountains and they
went aboard Moi-keha's great double canoe. They
sailed through the empty sea, and they stayed at
the coral islets where the birds rested, and they came
at last to the Islands of Hawaii and to the Island of
Kauai where Moi-keha lived at his ease. As they
came near, La'a beat upon his drum. Moi-keha
heard, and he knew what drum was being beaten.
He gave orders for everything to be made ready for
Kila, the son who had brought his first-born son to
him. He came down and met them upon the beach.
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He took his sons by their hands and brought them
into the temple precinct.
II. The Sons of Moi-keha.
SooN after Kila's return from Tahiti Moi-keha the
King died. La'a went back to Tahiti. Then Kila's
mother and his aunt ruled over Kauai.
His brothers never forgave Kila for being the one
whom his father had sent to Tahiti in his double
canoe. They were fearful now that he would be
made King over them. With their cousins they made
a plot to destroy him.
Moi-keha's bones were to be carried back to Tahiti and left within his house there. They were
hidden in a cavern in Kauai until one should be
ready to sail with them. Now Kila's brothers and
his cousins went to their mother and their aunt and
they told them that if Kila, who knew the way,
would take his father's bones to Tahiti, they would
all go with him. Their mother and their aunt were
not willing to have them all sail together, for they
doubted the friendship of the boys for Kila; but
when Kila heard the youths say that they were ready
to go with him to Tahiti, he gave orders that the
great canoe should be made ready.
They brought their father's bones on board the
canoe; the five youths, brothers and cousins, went
aboard, and with the rising of the canoe-guiding
star they sailed away.
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First they went by the Island of Hawaii. There
they landed, Kila's brothers and his cousins, and
they went upon the land. Kila was asleep when they
drew near to the place; they had him taken off the
canoe and left upon the beach.
Afterwards Kila's brothers and his cousins did a
terrible deed. They came upon one of the youths of
the place; they slew him; and they cut off his hands.
Then, taking the youth's hands, they went into the
canoe and pushed off from the Island.
Kila, on the beach, was awakened by the sound of
the canoe being pushed off. He sat up and he saw
the canoe going off from the Island. Believing that
his brothers and his cousins would come back for
him, he shouted to them. When he looked again he
saw that the canoe was beyond the breakers. He
called to them again: "How about me'?" he cried.
No answer was sent back to him, and he saw the
canoe go farther and farther away. The men paddled it, and the canoe went beyond a cliff and disappeared altogether.
Then Kila knew that he was deserted by his
brothers and his cousins, and he sat down upon the
sands of Wai-pio and he wept.
As for lTma-lehu and his brothers and his cousins,
they sailed back to Kauai. They came upon the land
with their hair cut off as a sign of mourning, and
they went wailing towards the houses where their
mother and their aunt lived. The women heard their
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wailing, and they knew that there had been some
terrible happening. They called out, "Which of our
sons has been injured?" And then Uma-lehu, the
eldest of Moi-keha's sons, said, "Kila has been eaten
by a shark. When we reached the steep cliffs where
we had to swim to get around them, our canoe was
overturned and Kila was attacked by a shark. All
that we could save of him was these hands."
When his mother heard this her grief for Kila
was so great that her own life nearly left her. And
her sister, Kila's aunt, was also in great grief. Afterwards the youths spoke of their father's bones; they
had brought them back, they told the women. They
left Moi-keha's bones in the cavern as before. All
believed the story that Uma-lehu told, and his
mother and his aunt and all the people of Kauai
mourned for Kila.
As for Kila, when he knew that his brothers and
cousins had forsaken him, he passed a night of great
misery upon the beach. Towards morning he fell
into a deep sleep. He was still sleeping when the
sun rose, and the people who were abroad, seeing a
strange young man sleeping upon the beach, came
to him and awoke him. Others came and told about
the youth of the Island whom they had found dead
and with his hands cut off. They seized upon Kila,
thinking that he had something to do with the killing
of this youth.
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But when Kila told them how he had come there,
and how his brothers and cousins had forsaken him,
the people took pity upon him, and one of the men
took Kila to his home. Kila did not let them know
that he was the son of Moi-keha, nor did he tell them
his name. He did the work they gave him to do; he
worked as a laborer for the men of the place, cooking their food and gathering firewood for them.
For a long time Kila worked as a menial. Now
there was a ruler on the Island whose name was
Kunaka; he used to notice Kila, and particularly he
noticed him when Kila was on the mountain gathering firewood. He saw that Kila, although he was engaged in lowly tasks, was not like a man of common
birth. He had Kila come to him as his adopted son,
and gave him the name Lena.
Afterwards Kunaka made him steward over the
lands that he owned; he had to oversee the farming
work all through Wai-pio. This Kila did for a long
time.
Then came a year in which no rain fell upon the
Islands. In every place, from Hawaii to Kauai,
there was famine. The crops were dried up; even on
the mountains no green thing remained. In Wai-pio,
however, there was water; crops grew there. The
people of all the other Islands came to get food
there. Then, lest all the food of Wai-pio should be
taken away from its people, Kila, as steward, forbade food being taken from the place.
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Moikeha the Voyager
III. Kila and His Brothers.
IN Kauai Kila's mother and his aunt, his brothers
and his cousins, suffered from the famine that had
come upon the Islands. Their mothers asked the
young men to go to Wai-pio and try to get food for
them. But the young men, knowing that it was in
Wai-pio that they had left Kila and that they had
slain the strange youth, would not go.
Then the two mothers called upon each of their
sons to go to Wai-pio. They refused to go, again and
again. But at last Kila's brother, the one who was
named Ka-ia-lea, agreed to go.
So he started off. When he came near Wai-pio
Kila was on the beach, taking stock of the food that
was there. He saw a canoe approaching, and he
recognized it as his father's great canoe.
The canoe was beached, and then Kila saw and
knew Ka-ia-lea, his brother. Now, at this time Kila
was not sure whether his abandonment by his
brothers was intentional or not. In order that he
might make sure he had the canoe seized; no one but
his own men was allowed to go aboard it.
Ka-ia-lea did not know what to do when he saw
that his canoe was seized. He had no way of getting
back to Kauai, and he knew how badly in need of
food his mother and his people were. He sat disconsolately upon the beach where Kila had sat
before. In the morning people came to him and took
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him before the steward. He thought he saw in the
steward a resemblance to Kila, his brother, but he
heard the people call him by the name of Lena, and
he was relieved.
The steward asked him what he had come for.
"I am from Kauai," Ka-ia-lea said. "There is no
food in Kauai, and I have come to Wai-pio to try
to get food for our people."
"Did you not come to this place some years ago?"
the steward asked him.
"I have not been on your Island before," Ka-ialea said. They questioned him again, and he said,
"This is the first time I have seen Wai-pio." They
asked him the names of his parents, and he gave
them false answers.
When Kila heard his brother answer falsely he
ordered his men to put him into confinement. "This
is the very man," he told them, "who killed the youth
who was left upon the beach some years ago. Keep
him in confinement in the temple precinct until the
King gives orders to have him put to death."
So Ka-ia-lea was put into confinement. But Kila
came to him and strove to get him to tell of his other
voyage to Wai-pio, of the youth who had been left
dead with his hands cut off, and of the brother who
had been abandoned on the beach. Ka-ia-lea would
make no answer, no matter what question the King's
steward would ask. He was very downcast when he
thought of all the disappointment that would come
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upon his mother and his aunt and, all the hungry
people he had left, when he failed to return.
But Kila, too, had thoughts for his mother and
for the people of Kauai. He had a canoe loaded with
food for them. But the men he sent with it never
got to Kauai; they stopped at Molokai, and they
spent and wasted all the food there.
Now Ka-ia-lea's mother and aunt and all their
people were worn out with famine; also they were
troubled on account of the youth's delay in returning. They made their other sons get a canoe and go
to Wai-pio. The young men went there, but as soon
as they landed they were seized and brought before
the King's steward.
No sooner were they gone from Kauai than their
mother and their aunt said to one another: "How
strange it is that ever since Moi-keha's death evil
has pursued us! First we lost Kila, and now it seems
that we are to lose Ka-ia-lea. Ah, why should we
stay here? It would be better for us to cross the sea
to where our sons have gone and meet our deaths
there! Why do we not go and die there, since we
have so little in our lives?"
It was Kila's mother who said this, and her sister
agreed to go across the sea with her. They had their
hair cut off in sign of mourning, and with their servants they went into a canoe and sailed to Hawaii,
landing at Wai-pio.
When they inquired for Ka-ia-lea they were told
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that he was confined within the temple precinct and
that he was to be sacrificed in the temple. Now Kila
saw his mother and his aunt come ashore, and he
gave orders for a house to be made ready for them;
on his orders they were taken to this house, but he
had his brother and his two cousins taken to another
place.
Upon seeing his mother and his aunt Kila tried
to hide the deep feelings that were his. He went
from where they were, after he had met them, and
went into the stream and swam. This was to conceal
his weeping. But neither his mother nor his aunt
saw in him the youngest of Moi-keha's sons.
He came back from the stream and he spoke to
the women. "Have you children?" he said to his
mother.
"I had three children," his mother said. "One is
now in confinement in the temple, and another, the
youngest, is dead. He was eaten by a shark while on
his way with his brothers to Tahiti, to his father's
native place, where they would leave the bones of
Moi-keha, my husband. Now we hear that Ka-ia-lea
is to die. We would die with him, or, if you would
give consent, we would die in his stead."
Kila said, "This son who is in confinement will
surely die; perhaps the others will die too." It was
then that his eldest brother and his two cousins were
brought before him.
Kila said to Urma-lehu, to his eldest brother,
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"Where is your youngest brother?" Uma-lehu made
no reply, but one of his cousins said, "He was eaten
by a shark." When that and no other reply was
given Kila ordered that these young men, too,
should be put in confinement in the temple precinct.
His mother and his aunt wept, and Kila went
from them; grief overcame him, grief that he was
no longer able to bear.
The next day his mother and his aunt were
brought to the temple precinct. Kila went there with
his attendants. Then his brothers and cousins were
brought before all who were there; they were taken
before the idols and left there as if they were going
to be sacrificed. Their mother and their aunt wept,
saying, "Our sons are to be sacrificed; let us two be
killed also; instead of four let there be six to die."
Then Kila, turning to his mother and his aunt and
all the people, said: "Hear me! I am Kila of the uplands, Kila of the lowlands, Kila the offspring of
Moi-keha. I had thought that all the evil you had in
your hearts against me was emptied out, but it is not
so —still you think evil of me. You brought me, you
my brothers and my cousins, here, and you left me
deserted here. I called after you, but you would not
come back nor turn your faces towards me. After
you left me I lived here as a menial, working for my
bare living. I obeyed the orders of my masters, I
labored in the fields, I brought wood down from the
mountain-side. But this was good and not an evil
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fortune; I found a father in Kunaka, and through
him I came to position and power. Now I am here
to receive you, my brothers and my cousins.
"Ah, that it might have been for me to receive you
with love! Ah, if the crime you committed had only
been against myself! But you kidnapped and you
killed a favorite youth of this Island. How can I
protect you? Your lives and your deaths are in the
hands of the parents whose son you murdered."
When Kila said this all the people cried out
against them; even their mother and their aunt
would not move to have the young men saved. The
parents of the boy they had killed demanded their
lives. But then Kila rose up and he told the people
that if his brothers and cousins were to be sacrificed
he would die with them.
The young men were liberated then. Kila's
mother, who had two sons given back to her, rejoiced. His mother and his aunt, his brothers and his
cousins stayed in Wai-pio until the food showed
itself above the ground in all the Islands. Then they
returned to Kauai.
His mother wanted Kila to go with them and take
charge of their father's kingdom, but he would not
leave his foster-father and the place where he had
been treated so kindly. In Wai-pio, in Hawaii, he
stayed until a time came when he made the great
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IV. Kila's Second Voyage to Tahiti.
A TIME came when Kila thought upon carrying out
his father's wish, of bringing the bones of Moi-keha
to rest beside his house in Tahiti. The bones of the
King had not been drowned in the sea; they were
still in the cavern where they had been hidden.
Kila went to Kauai, and he took the bones of his
father, and he took his father's great double canoe;
he took steersmen and paddlers and attendants with
him, and he started off on the voyage to far Tahiti.
Now when they came to the harbor in Tahiti they
found that there were signs set up forbidding anyone to land from a canoe there. They beached their
canoe, in spite of the signs. Then people came to
them and said, "If you have greater strength than
the King has, it will be well with you; but if you
have not, you will die this day for breaking the command of the King."
Then the King's watcher, Nini-u-ka-lani, came
down towards the strangers. He was the most
powerful warrior in Tahiti; as he came near he began to twirl his great club. Then said Kila to his
followers, "Which of you is willing to go and fight
that great warrior?" For a long time no one spoke,
and it seemed as if all Kila's followers were afraid
of the guardian of that place.
Then said the littlest of all those who had come
with Kila, said Uku-li'i, "I will go fight this tall
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Kila said: "You are so little that you will be able
to get very close to him. Go, then, Uku-li'i. Don't
look up at him or you will be killed. Keep your eyes
down all the time and watch the shadow that the one
over you makes on the ground. If he twirls his club
on the left, jump to the right; if he twirls it to the
right, do you jump to the left."
Uku-li'i knew that these were good instructions,
and he made up his mind to fight with the guardian
of the place as Kila would have him. So he came
over the side of the canoe carrying his club on his
shoulder.
All the people who were there thought that the
little stranger had no chance against their great
champion; Nini-u-ka-lani was twice the size of
Uku-li'i.
The beach was filled with people. Nini-u-ka-lani,
as soon as Uku-li'i appeared, began to twirl his
club, shouting out that he would cast this little fellow from before him as the wind casts away the
lightest rubbish. And as soon as he was within
striking distance of him he let his club strike down
at Uku-li'i. But Kila's little warrior had been watching the shadow that Nini-u-ka-lani made, and he
sprang to the right. Then the great club struck
down on the sand, causing it to fly in all directions
and making a deep hole in the beach. There was such
a cloud of sand stirred up that the bystanders could
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not see the combatants, and all of them thought that
little Uku-li'i was stretched out dead on the beach.
But when the cloud of sand settled down they
saw that both combatants were still standing up
to each other. Uku-li'i twirled his club, making
pretence to strike Nini-u-ka-lani on the left. He
dodged. Then Uku-li'i struck to the right, getting
the great champion in the middle and laying him out
on the sand. Then Uku-li'i returned to the canoe.
When the King heard of the defeat of his strongest warrior he arose and came down to the beach,
carrying in his hands his great war-club. The King
was a fine man to look at, and he was very powerful
and brave. When Kila saw him coming, he said to
his followers: "I am going to meet the King in combat; if I am slain in the encounter you have still a
way of escape; get into the canoe and sail back to
Kauai, bringing my father's bones back with you.
But if I live through this combat, all will be well
with us." Saying this, Kila jumped out of the canoe
and stepped upon the beach.
When the people saw him they all cried out in
admiration of his beauty; even the shells on the sand
murmured his name; all knew that he was a son of
a King of that country. When Kila came near him
the King raised his great war-club and brought it
down. The wind whistled by, the sand rose in clouds,
and a deep hole was made where the club struck the
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ground. Then the two combatants were hidden by a
cloud of sand.
When the sand settled down, the people saw the
King and the young man from the canoe still facing
each other. When Kila had seen the King swing his
club to the right, he had jumped towards the right
side of him, for something told him the club would
be swung down on the left. And so he had escaped
from a terrible death. Kila now twirled his club; if
he had struck with it, never again would the King of
Tahiti have felt the warming sun. But the swirl of
Kila's club was enough; it threw the King down
upon the ground.
Kila returned to the canoe, and the King lay upon
the ground for a time long enough to have cooked
an oven of food. At last he raised himself up. He
took up his club and he went up into the mountains;
never again did that King return to the lowlands;
he lived and died above.
La'a, his elder brother, came down from the
mountains to meet Kila. They took their father's
bones and they laid them in the place that was
sacred to Moi-keha, on the mountain Kapa-ahu.
When Kila left his canoe and went upon the land
his father had ruled over, the people knew him for a
son of Moi-keha, and they welcomed him and wept
over him. Kila went on until he saw that which his
father had sworn never to look upon after the wrong
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he had suffered there-the ridge-pole of the house
Moa-ula-nui-akea.
When Kila came to his father's house he looked
all over it, and he saw that it was indeed grand,
lofty, and majestic. But there were no attendants
near that house; the doors were fastened, the guards
were in an enchanted sleep; the place was all grown
over with weeds.
Kila unfastened the gate. As he did so two of the
guards awakened; they wept over him. Kila went
up the pathway and came to the main door of the
house. As he did so two more of the guards came
out of their enchanted sleep and received him. They
opened the door. As he did so two more guards
awakened; he went into the different parts of the
house, and in every part that he went into he found
a guard who wakened up; each knelt before him
with tears in his eyes.
Thus Kila came into the house that was called
Moa-ula-nui-akea. He lighted the ku-kui light in
the main room of the house-he lighted it in the
vessel that had belonged to Moi-keha.
And that night Luu-kia, the enchantress, the
woman on whose account Moi-keha had left his own
country of Tahiti, came near the house that was
called Moa-ula-nui-akea. And seeing the redness of
the light within, tears came into her eyes and her
heart began to beat for memory of Moi-keha. The
enchantress crept within. Now she was no longer an
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enchantress, but the fairest woman of Tahiti. She
came to where Kila was sleeping. She wept over
him. Then she went her way. But afterwards they
came together, Kila and Luu-kia, and they gathered
up memories and they wove together strands of
thought, and they braided lehua wreaths in their
grove of love. They lived in their love for each other.
And this is the end of the story about Moi-keha
and his sons. The others grew great in Kauai, but
never did La'a or Kila return from Tahiti.


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I. Umi's Adoption by King Liloa.
MI was the son of Liloa, the King.
But Umi was born far from the
King's house, and his mother was
tL'j   not of rank equal to the King's.
And so Umi was reared up just as
a country boy.
After he was born his mother married a countryman. But she brought up her son carefully, and he
grew to be a sturdy boy. He played all the games
that were known at the time, and wherever he went
a crowd of boys went with him. When they would
come in from playing Umi would give his comrades
all the food there was in the house.
This used to make his foster-father angry, and
often he would chastise Umi. One day after he had
chastised him-Umi was nearly grown up thenhis mother went to Umi and said to him: "The man
who has chastised you is not your father. Your real
father is so high and so great that there is danger
in your going near him. But I see now that you must
go to him. Go to him, Umi, my son; go to Liloa, the
King. He is closely guarded, and it is dangerous
for a strange boy to approach him. Go, you, to him
in Wai-pio. And if he should let you sit upon his
knee, show him these things that I give you now."
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And then his mother put into Umi's hands a loincloth, a necklace of the whale's tooth, and a warclub. She told him these were given her by his father,
the King. Umi girded the loin-cloth about him, put
the whale-tooth necklace around his neck, and took
the war-club in his hands. He was ready to start off
then, and his mother told him what he should do to
approach the King.
He was to go to the King's house in Wai-pio.
"When you get to the bottom of the Wai-pio valley,
you will come to a river," said his mother. "This
river you must swim across. You will see the King's
house before you. But you must not enter by the
gate. Climb over the fence at the side, and go into
the house by the side door. When you are in the
house you will see a man seated with guards around
him holding feather standards. He is King Liloa,
your father. Go to him, and sit on his lap, and if he
should ask you your name, tell him that it is Umi."
Umi left his mother's house, and his mother wept
to see him go. As he went on two of his boy comrades followed him and would not leave him: one
was Oma-o-kamau and the other was Pi'i-mai-wa'a.
They entered the valley of Wai-pio; they came to
the river in the valley; they swam across it; they
climbed the opposite bank, and then they looked and
they saw the King's house before them.
Said Umi to the two boys: "You two stay here
while I go to the King. And if I should get killed,
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you must go back over the road we have come; if I
should live, we will all live together."
Then Umi climbed the fence that was around the
King's house; he went into the house by a side door
at which there were no guards; he saw a man seated
with guards around him holding feather standards.
The guards saw the strange boy; they chased him,
and they would have slain him for having dared to
enter the sacred house of the King. Umi ran to
where the King was seated, and he sat down in the
King's lap. The King did not let him stay there; he
opened out his knees, and the boy fell down on the
ground.
Then the guards would have taken Umi and
would have killed him, if the King had not seen
what was on his neck and what was around him. As
he lay on the floor Liloa saw on his neck the whaletooth necklace and saw around his waist the loincloth. "Who are you?" he asked. And the boy on
the floor said, "I am Umi."
Then Liloa took the boy up on his knees and he
kissed him. "Where is your mother?" the King said.
"My mother is still at home," Umi answered.
"Where is my war-club?" the King said. "It is with
my comrades, the boys who are outside your house."
Then the two boys, Oma-o-kamau and Pi'i-maiwa'a, were sent for and brought into the King's
house.
Liloa told his courtiers about his meeting with
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Umi's mother; Umi was recognized as the King's
son, and the sacred drum was beaten to let all know
that the ceremony of adoption was to take place.
The King had another son, a youth who was heir
to the kingdom and who had been brought up near
the King. Hakau was his name. He heard the sound
of the sacred drum and he came into the King's
presence. Then his father said to him: "This is Umi,
your half-brother. You shall be above him and he
shall be under you. Do not be troubled about his
coming, for he shall take nothing away from you."
Hakau turned to Umi in a kindly way; nevertheless,
he was not pleased. He did not like Umi's coming,
and, without Liloa's knowing it, Hakau treated his
young half-brother very badly.
Liloa was now an old man and near to his death.
He made over all his power and all his lands to his
son Hakau, and he left the temples and the images
of his gods to Umi. Soon afterwards the King died.
Then Hakau took possession of everything.
He made his half-brother, Umi, a dependent in
the King's house; he treated him so faithlessly that
at last Umi felt that he could stay near the King no
longer. Then Umi called to his comrades Oma-okamau and Pi'i-mnai-wa'a; the three swam across the
river, and they went back the way they had come.
They did not go into Umi's mother's house;
they kept on wandering, and they came at last to
a certain part of the Island of Hawaii where they
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thought they might settle down and make a living.
Umi's comrades married, and worked on the lands
owned by their wives' parents, and fished in the sea.
But they would not let Umi labor on account of his
princely rank. For a while, then, Umi lived a life
of idleness.
II. How King Hakau Was Overthrown.
THERE was a man named Ka-ole-i-oku, a wise man
who knew the ways of Kings and Chiefs. He looked
upon Umi when Umi was living in poverty, and he
saw that he had the form and the bearing of a prince.
One day he went into the little house where he was
living, and he saw Umi sitting there in his poverty.
"You are Umi the Prince," said Ka-ole-i-oku to the
youth. "I am indeed Liloa's son," said Umi. "Let us
go to my house," said Ka-ole-i-oku.
So Umi went with Ka-ole-i-oku. He lived in his
house, and as soon as he had come there, Ka-ole-ioku began to make preparations for the winning of
the kingdom for Umi. He got many men to come to
where he lived; he trained these men in the throwing
of the spear and in all the arts of warfare; he had
four houses built, each house holding four times
forty men-one hundred and sixty men in each
house. He had food raised to provision all these men.
And then Umi's comrades, Oma-o-kamau and Pi'imai-wa'a, came and joined the forces that Ka-ole-ioku was getting together. They trained with the
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men that he had gathered; it was then that Umi's
comrades learnt the arts of warfare that afterwards
made them such great leaders.
Meanwhile Hakau was King in the Island of
Hawaii. He was hated by all the people because of
his jealousy and treachery; it was said of him that
whenever a young man was praised for his manly
form or a woman for her beauty, he would cause the
death of such a man or woman. Once he heard it said
of a boy, "Such a child has a beautiful body; there
is not a blemish upon it." Straightway the King had
this child sent for, and as soon as he was brought
before him he caused him to be cut in two by his
executioners. The child's father then uttered a
prophecy: "He has cut our son in two, and the kingdom will be cut from him."
Now there were two old men living near the court,
old men who had been favorites and councillors of
King Liloa. Hakau gave them no support after his
father died. These two old men (Nunu was the
name of one and Nunu was the name of the other)
were soon brought down to living miserably in a
miserable shelter.
They had little to eat; one day after they had been
ill, they sent to the King to crave some refreshing
food. Hakau said to their messenger when he came
before him, "Go back and tell those old men that I
have nothing to give them."
When the messenger returned with the King's
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words Nunu and Nunu were sore at heart; they
remembered how Liloa had treated them, giving
them charge of the image of his god, and asking
their advice about all his undertakings. They were
very angry with Hakau, and a time came when one
said to the other, "Let us go and see how fares the
boy that we saw Liloa take upon his knees; let us go
and see how fares Prince Umi."
They were able to find out that Umi stayed with
the wise Ka-ole-i-oku. Soon the two old men started
off from Wai-pio; they climbed the heights in the
morning, and then went on the way.
That night they reached Ke-mau; they rested
there. A man there saw them and heard them say
that they were going to visit Ka-ole-i-oku. This man
went on, and meeting Ka-ole-i-oku in Hilo told him
that Nunu and Nunu were coming to visit him.
"And from what I heard them say," the man said,
"I know that the King has not been treating his
father's servants well of late."
This was good news for Ka-ole-i-oku, who was
all the time thinking of how to bring about the
downfall of Hakau and the rise to the kingship of
his ward, Prince Umi. He laid plans to have the
visit of the old men made an advantage for Umi.
He made preparations for a fine entertainment
for the old men. He had a pig killed and made ready
for cooking; he had chickens killed and fish made
ready. He ordered a party of men to get firewood
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ready. The logs they brought were split up and then
tied together so that they looked like whole logs.
Then Ka-ole-i-oku spoke to Umi and said: "Tomorrow will bring you your great chance. If you
want to take it, you must follow out the instructions
that I am going to give you."
Then Ka-ole-i-oku told Prince Umi what he was
to do. Umi promised to follow the instructions given
him. Ka-ole-i-oku with his people went to work in
the fields, leaving Umi in the house alone.
Early in the morning the two old men, Nunu and
Nunu, arrived at the house, spent and weary from
their journey. As they came near the place where
Ka-ole-i-oku lived they saw that there was no stir
about it, and they were disheartened, thinking that
the place was deserted. "There will be no rest nor
refreshment for us here," one of the old men said
to the other.
Then Prince Umi appeared, looking hale and
strong. The old men had seen him at Liloa's court,
but now they did not recognize him, for he had
grown into manhood. "Come within," he said to the
two fainting and hungry old men; "come within.
Ka-ole-i-oku is in the fields with his people, but I
will attend you."
He brought them into one of the houses, and left
them resting upon the mats. Then he took up what
seemed to the old men to be a log, and he broke it
into pieces with ease. In a minute he had the oven
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ready. Instantly he had pig and fish and chickens
in the oven; soon there was a smell of cooking. "Oh,'
said the old men, "if the ward of Ka-ole-i-oku,
Prince Umi, were anything like this goodly youth,
what a blessing it would be for us! What a King he
would make in Hawaii!"
Then Umi prepared a drink for the old men; this,
too, was quickly made ready. He took the meat out
of the oven. It was nicely done, as the old men knew
when it was taken out of the oven. "How quick he
is," they said, "and how good is the food he has put
before us! It is a long time since we were so well
treated by anyone."
The old men went to sleep after they had eaten,
and Umi waited until Ka-ole-i-oku came up from
the fields. He sent a message to Umi saying that he
would come at the head of the men and that Umi
was to place himself at the end of the procession.
Soon afterwards the old men, Nunu and Nunu,
wakened up. "How well we have slept," one said
to the other, "and how well we have been treated
by Ka-ole-i-oku's young man! Very differently we
have been treated in this house from the way we
have been treated by Hakau. Ah, when Liloa was
alive our life was worth while! Now we are in our
old age, and we have a need for comfort! May it
be that we shall get it yet!"
The sun was now slanting down; it was the afternoon; the old men looked outside, and they saw a
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procession of men coming up from the fields. They
saw Ka-ole-i-oku at the head of it. The procession
was long, and they were not able to see who was at
the end of it. Ka-ole-i-oku came within; he saw the
old men and he greeted them. Nunu and Nunu
wept, for they had not seen Ka-ole-i-oku since the
time they were hale and strong.
Along came the procession: the men who came
first were very tall; then came shorter men; then
came the boys of the party. After each division
passed the old men would say: "Which is Prince
Umi? Is he that good-looking youth who is coming
behind?" And then they would say, "Are we not to
see your ward until dark?" At last Umi was shown
to the old men. They cried out, "But he is the
steward who received us and worked for us." Then
they bowed their heads, abashed that they had let
their Prince wait upon them and serve them.
After a while the old men said, "We have no way
of making it up to him for what he has done for us;
we are poor; we have no possessions and no authority." And then they said, "We will help to give
over to Umi the great Island of Hawaii."
Said Ka-ole-i-oku: "How can that be done? It
is true that Umi, the son of Liloa, should rule
Hawaii. But Hakau has men at his command, and
in a battle Hakau would win the victory over Umi.
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kau's command?" But the old men said, "It is
settled: Hakau is already defeated."
And then they said: "A day is coming that is
specially marked as a day for the gods. In the things
relating to the gods we two have still authority. We
will send the main body of Hakau's men up to the
mountain to make a sacrifice. Then if Prince Umi
comes with all the men you have here, he can win
the Kingship from Hakau."
Afterwards Nunu and Nunu went their way.
Before they departed they said: "We shall be five
days upon the road, and on the sixth day we shall
be back in Wai-pio. Follow with your men. On the
day of Kane you must be on the cliff overlooking
Wai-pio. On the day of Lono, the day that comes
after, descend from the cliff and come to where
Hakau will be. On that day the kingdom must be
taken from him."
They went then, and Ka-ole-i-oku and Umi made
all preparations for their entry into Wai-pio. In
three days they set out; on the day of Kane they
took their position upon the cliff above Wai-pio.
Now Nunu and Nunu came before the King,
and they declared that the day had come when his
men should go forth to decorate the image of the
god. Hakau sent the main body of his men into the
mountains to do as the old men said.
It was then that the men whom Ka-ole-i-oku had
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lVhen the first of the procession reached the valley,
the last men were still out of sight on the top of the
cliffs. The King saw the shadows of the people on
the side of the cliffs, and he said: "I thought that
this was a day set apart for the god, when there
would be no men out in the valley. What is this procession that I see?" The old men, Nunu and Nunu,
said to him, "They must be some of your own men
bringing you provisions." The procession came on.
Hakau saw Oma-o-kamau, who used to be in his
father's house with Umi. "I have seen that man
who is at the head of the procession," he said. "He
must be one of your farmers; you must have seen
him when you made the rounds of your lands,"
Nunu and Nunu said to him.
The procession came nearer and nearer; the men
surrounded Hakau and all who were with him.
Then the King saw and knew Umi; he had come
out of the ranks and he stood before him. The King
called upon the men who were near him; he called
upon them to slay Umi. The men came forth; there
was a battle; Umi won, and Hakau was stain. A
second battle took place when Hakau's main force
came back from the mountains, and in this battle,
too, Umi's forces were victorious. Then Umi took
possession of his father's house; he made Nunu and
Nunu his stewards; he make Ka-ole-i-oku his chief
councillor, and he made Oma-o-kamau and Pi'imai-wa'a his chief generals.
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III. The Final Defeat of Hakau's General.
NOT all the districts of Hawaii submitted easily to
Umi. The King of Kau held out against him. This
King was I-mai-ka-lani, a great warrior and one
famous for his strength and skill in warfare.
I-mai-ka-lani was old at the time; he was blind,
too, but these things did not prevent his resisting
Umi. Umi went into the mountains and made raids
upon Kau and upon Kona. But he did not conquer them; I-mai-ka-lani's skill and daring were too
much for him.
I-mai-ka-lani had a left thrust and a right thrust
that were terrible. If he threw his long spear to the
right or the left there was a roaring as if of thunder,
and flashes as if of lightning, and a rumbling sound
as if of an earthquake; if he twirled his spear at the
back the dust rose in whirlwinds. He could not see,
but his hearing was most wonderful. He had two
wild duck watchers; they reported to him the appearance of anyone either from the front or the
rear or the sides, and the cries of the birds showed
him which way the enemy came.
Pi'i-mai-wa'a tried in every way to learn what it
was that guided I-mai-ka-lani's spear and made the
cast of it so deadly. And at last Umi's general was
able to come near enough to him to find out.
He won a victory that brought him and his army
near to the place where I-mai-ka-lani was. His army
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came quickly across a mountain. But a fisherman
(Nau was his name) noticed that the water of a
certain stream ran with dirt in it into the sea. "An
army has crossed the mountain," he said. Those
who were with him contradicted him, saying that a
cloudburst had caused the muddy flow. But the
fisherman knew better. "An army has crossed the
mountain," he said. He did not wait to dry his net;
he took his long spear with him and took some food
and went up the mountain. He stayed under the
place where Pi'i-mai-wa'a's army was encamped.
There the trail was narrow, and the soldiers had
to come along in single file. As they came to the
narrowest part each man had to lower himself, feeling for a landing with his feet. The fisherman, who
was seated on a flat stone below, eating his taro and
his little fish, had only to thrust at the man with his
long spear to send him to his death over the cliff.
Many men of the army were killed by this one
man. Pi'i-mai-wa'a went to the top of the cliff; looking down, he saw one man, spear in hand, crouching close to the bank. Pi'i-mai-wa'a did not slip
down like the men who had gone before; he leaped
down and was upon Nau before Nau saw him coming; he wrenched the spear out of the man's hands
and drove him from the place.
Afterwards he came close to the old warrior
I-mai-ka-lani. He saw him coming up to the fight.
He saw wild ducks hovering around his head. And
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as a man came near to where I-mai-ka-lani stood he
heard the sounds that the wild ducks made. "Where
does he hold his club?" "In front." "Is he near?"
"Yes." Pi'i-mai-wa'a saw the blind man throw his
club and cleave the warrior who was coming towards
him. Again he heard the sound that the birds made.
"Where is his club?" "It is in his right hand; it is a
left thrust that will reach him."
And so Pi'i-mai-wa'a took the measure of I-maika-lani's strength, and he knew how the old warrior
found out where to strike with his club and where
to cast with his spear. He watched until a chance
came, and he killed the bird scouts. The old warrior
I-mai-ka-lani stood there calling to his birds, but
they did not come to him. There was nothing to
warn him. Then, by the stroke of a spear that I-maika-lani could not guard against, the old warrior was
slain.
After that Kau became the possession of Umi;
Kona and Kohala were ceded to him, and he won
Hilo in battle. Thus he obtained the Kingship over
the whole Island of Hawaii. Umi took care of the
aged and the infirm: he was kind to his people, and
in his time there were no murders and no robberies
on the Island that he ruled over.
IV. Umi and the Beauty of Maui.
AFTER he had won the Kingship of the Island of
Hawaii Umi heard of the beauty of the young
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daughter of the King of Maui, and he longed to win
her for his wife. He sent Oma-o-kamau to Maui to
ask for her. And when Oma-o-kamau came near the
Island with his fleet, the King and his people were
all stirred up, for they thought that the war-like
King of Hawaii was about to make war upon them.
But when Oma-o-kamau drew near to the beach
he shouted out to the people who were there, "It is
a journey of sight-seeing that I am upon." Then
they took him and they brought him before the King
and Queen.
Before he spoke of his business, the young Princess, the Beauty of Maui, came to him. "Oma-okamau," she said, "you have come from Hawaii, and
you will return. When you come before the great
King give him a love-message from me. Tell him
that I cherish him in my heart, and that I think of
him day and night, and even in my dreams." He
told the Princess that he had come to ask her from
her father as a wife for Umi. Thereupon Pi-i-kea,
the Beauty of Maui, rejoiced.
The King and Queen were pleased, too. They
gave their consent to Pi-i-kea's becoming Umi's
wife. Oma-o-kamau returned to the Island of
Hawaii, and for twenty days after his return
preparations were being made for the reception of
the Beauty of Maui.
She set sail from her father's Island. She was
accompanied by a fleet of canoes that filled the
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channel —no less than four hundred canoes. The
red insignia of the canoe that carried the Beauty of
Maui could be seen in Wai-pio. As she was about
to touch the beach the heavens were covered by
thick rain-clouds; a rainbow formed in front of the
canoe of the Princess and remained there, arching
proudly. King Umi greeted Pi-i-kea. They were
united, and they lived in love for each other ever
afterwards.
But his marriage with the Beauty of Maui led
to Umi's battle with the gods. Pi-i-kea had promised
her supernatural grandmothers that she would give
them the first child born to her, to be brought up in
Oahu. But Umi kept back his first child, and all
his other children. Then the supernatural powers
fell upon his people and destroyed them. Rather
than have his people slain the King went to fight
the gods; the fight was upon the sandy plains of
Ka-maka-honu. Human beings fight with clubs and
spears, but the gods fight without hands, and when
Umi fought his battle his long spear and his great
war-club were of no use to him.
He went back from that battle, and he found that
another child had been born to him and Pi-i-kea.
He let this child be taken away. This child was a
girl, and she was taken away to Oahu by Ha-pu'u
and Ka-lai-hau-ola. Umi lived for a long time after
this. When he came to die, every man, woman, and
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his death, put a stone upon a pile for him. Six
pyramids of stones, each pyramid representing a
district in Hawaii, and the stones numbering all
the people he ruled over, were raised for him. And
these six pyramids are a lasting monument to Umi
the Conqueror, the Great King.


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Ka-welo: The Overthrower of the
Giant Champion.
I. How Ka-welo Was Reared on Oahu.
HEN Ka-welo was born his grand-:)j    gfather and grandmother took him
in their arms, and they felt his
limbs and they examined his features. They had done this to each
of the brothers born before him.
But of Ka-welo they said what they had not said
before: "This child will be a warrior; this child will
be a powerful man, and one day he will rule the
island of his forefathers as King."
When he had grown a little his grandparents
brought him to their home so that they might give
him instruction there. Ka-welo was born in Kauai,
and his parents lived there, but his grandparents
took him to bring him up on Oahu. There were two
other boys of Kauai being brought up on Oahu at
the same time: one was Ka-ua-hoa, and the other
was Prince Ai-kanaka, and each of them was of an
age with Ka-welo.
Ka-welo, as he was growing up, ate so much that
his grandparents did not know what to do about it.
Often he would eat a whole ovenful of food at a
meal. To keep his mind off eating they turned it
to sports-to canoe-paddling and kite-flying. They
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made a kite for him and a canoe; he would paddle
his canoe in the river and fly his kite across the
country; often Ka-ua-hoa and Prince Ai-kanaka
joined him in these sports.
Then Ka-welo learnt fishing: he had a fishingmaster named Makua-ke-ke, and this fishing-master
would take him to the fishing-grounds near and
show him how to use the lines and the net. Ka-welo,
when he would come near his fishing-master's house,
would chant:
"Makua-ke-ke, Makua-ke-ke,
Fishing-companion of Ka-welo,
Wake up, wake up, the sun is shining!
Bring along our hooks, bring along our fishing-kit,
Bring along our net:
Mlakua of the rattling paddles,
Makua of the rattling covers,
Makua of the rattling bailing-cups,
Wake up, wake up, I say:
It is daylight."
Then the fishing-master's wife would say to her
husband: "Wake up, Makua-ke-ke, wake up; I
have never heard your grandparents or even your
parents chant your name so pleasingly as Ka-welo
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kit to the canoe, and he and Ka-welo would go out to
the fishing-grounds.
"0 Ka-welo, cherisher of your parents,
O offspring of the cliffs of Puna,
O my lord, my princely fisherman of Kauai!"so Makua-ke-ke would chant as they went across
the water.
One day when they were out together Makuake-ke said to Ka-welo, "Here is the place that we
are wont to fish in." "No place for us now," said
Ka-welo. With one stroke of his paddle he brought
the canoe outside of Mamala; with the second stroke
he brought it to Pu'u-loa; with the third stroke he
brought it to Wai-anae. They caught many fish
there, fishing from the shallows to the deep water.
Then the fishing-master would have them return,
for he feared to go into the water beyond; there
Uhu-ma-kai-kai the Wonder Fish was, and Makuake-ke feared Uhu-ma-kai-kai.
But Ka-welo would not return. And when they
were in the deep water Uhu-ma-kai-kai passed by.
Ka-welo saw the Wonder Fish. He reached for
his net and made ready to catch it. He threw the
net around Uhu-ma-kai-kai. Then immediately
they were in the middle of the ocean, drawn on by
the Wonder Fish.
When they looked back they saw that the houses
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and the line of surf at Wai-anae had disappeared.
Then Makua-ke-ke chanted:
"0 Ka-welo, cherisher of your parents, hearken,
Hearken and halt.
0 offspring of the cliffs of Puna,
0 my lord, my princely fisherman of Kauai!"
Then the fishing-master said, "Cut away from the
Wonder Fish, and let us return." But Ka-welo
would not cut away from the Wonder Fish.
Uhu-ma-kai-kai drew them on and on. When the
fishing-master looked behind again he saw that the
land of Oahu had disappeared; then he began to
fear for his life.
The Wonder Fish did not cease to draw them on:
all day and all night they were drawn swiftly
through the sea. They came near to the land of
Kauai, to Ka-welo's own land. Then, when they
were in the shadow of Kauai, Ka-welo made up and
chanted a charm:
"Wake up and know what has happened:
You are caught, Uhu-ma-kai-kai, you are caught,
You are killed by the double-stranded fish-line,
The fish-line of my grandmother:
By her it was braided.
You are caught, Uhu-ma-kai-kai, you are caught!"
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The Wonder Fish ceased to pull; it was dead; the
life had gone out of it with the charm that Kawelo had uttered.
Then Ka-welo and Makua-ke-ke, with the great
fish that was now dead, returned to Oahu. They
landed and went home. After Ka-welo had bathed
in the stream he went to his grandparents' house,
and he ordered the chief steward to bring him his
evening meal. The chief steward brought him forty
calabashes of poi and forty packages of baked
pork. Ka-welo then began his meal. But what had
been given him did not satisfy him. Another forty
calabashes of poi and another forty packages of
baked pork were brought him. He ate them, and
was satisfied, and went to sleep.
After this Ka-welo was with the youths from
Kauai, Prince Ai-kanaka and Ka-ua-hoa; they
played together. Ai-kanaka was something like an
elder brother and a lord over the other two boys;
everything he wished them to do for him they did;
they strung wreaths for him and they never denied
him anything.
Ka-ua-hoa had grown beyond the other youths,
and he had now the build of a giant. Ka-welo's
brothers came to Oahu about this time, his two
elder brothers and his younger brother; they lived
with him in their grandparents' house.
One day Ka-welo heard a shouting on the beach,
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and he asked his grandparents what the shouting
was for. They told him that there was a wrestling
match near the beach; his elder brothers were there,
they said, and one of them might be wrestling with
a strong man who had come to Oahu.
Ka-welo, when he heard this, wanted to go to the
wrestling match. His grandparents would not let
him go; they told him he was too young to go near
where strong men were wrestling.
The next day, when he heard the shouting, Kawelo slipped away and came to where the wrestling
was. When his elder brothers saw him there they
said to him: "Go back home. Do not get into a
wrestling bout here. If we whose bones are strong
and set cannot wrestle with this champion, what
chances have you, a youngster?" Ka-welo would not
go home for all they said to him; he went and stood
before the strong man.
The strong man took the first hold, and, using all
his strength, he tried to throw Ka-welo. The youngster was almost thrown. He managed to hold himself up, however. Then he took hold of the strong
man; they wrestled, then they both went down, with
Ka-welo on top. The people were delighted at the
overthrow of the strong man, and they all shouted
for Ka-welo.
But his elder brothers were not delighted. They
were ashamed that their younger brother had done
what they were not able to do, and they were all
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upset with jealousy. They went into the house weeping. "Why do you weep?" said their grandparents
to them. Then the brothers told a lie. "Our brother
Ka-welo threw stones at us," they said, "when we
saw him on the beach. We will go back to Kauai."
Then the brothers left Oahu and went back to
Kauai. Ka-welo lived on with his grandparents and
with the youths Ka-ua-hoa and Ai-kanaka.
One day Ka-ua-hoa took his kite and went flying
it. Ka-welo saw him and wanted to go kite-flying,
too. He got the kite that his grandparents had made
for him, and, going to where Ka-ua-hoa was, he
flew it.
With Prince Ai-kanaka watching them, Ka-welo
and Ka-ua-hoa flew their kites. Ka-welo's kite became entangled with Ka-ua-hoa's. The two boys
struggled to save their kites, and all the time Kawelo was saying to himself, "This giant will.be able
to make my kite break away from me."
But still he held on. He wondered if Ka-ua-hoa
would attack him and make him let go his kite. "He
is so much stronger than I am," he said to himself,
"that he would easily overpower me."
But Ka-ua-hoa did not make his kite break away
from him; neither did he attack him. And at last
Ka-ua-hoa's kite broke away, and the wind carried
it over to Koloa, to the west. Ka-welo went on flying
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hoa, although he is so strong and so close to Prince
Ai-kanaka, did not attack me," Ka-welo said to
himself. "I think that Ka-ua-hoa is afraid of me."
After that Ai-kanaka and Ka-ua-hoa went back
to Kauai; Ai-kanaka became King, and Ka-ua-hoa
became his chief general. Ka-welo stayed on Oahu
and made himself expert in many things. He learnt
dancing, but did not make himself proficient in it.
Then he studied the art of warfare. While he was
still a young man he married the daughter of a skillful warrior; Kane-wahine was her name.
II. How Ka-welo Went Back to Kauai and Became King in the Island of His Fathers.
ONE day Ka-welo, as the sun was nearing the horizon, called upon his wife to bring the mats and
pillows out of the house. When she brought them
out he lay down on the mats with the pillows under
his head, and he watched the pointed clouds in the
sky. As he watched them he chanted:
"The cold, the cold of a coming danger,
has entered within me:
The end; for Kauai is ended by fire!
The end, for Hau-pu is ended by fire!
The end, for Ka-lani-pu'u is ended by fire!
The end, for Ka-la-lea is ended by fire!
The end, for Kahiki is ended by fire!
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Love has brought to me the fond remembrance
Of Mai-huna, parent of Ka-welo:
It may be that my parents are dead."
Kane-wahine replied, in mockery of his chant,
"How quickly you have been to Kauai and found
out that your parents are in trouble!" Ka-welo
replied in a chant:
"If, instead of mine, your parents were dead,
You would weep for love of them,
And your tears would flow:
But, alas, it is my parents who are under the
shadowThe parents of Ka-welo!"
Even as he was looking at the clouds and making his
chants, the brothers of Ka-welo were coming to him
with tidings from Kauai.
They came to Ka-welo, but before they told him
their tidings they cast spears at him to see how
skillful he was in guarding himself. Ka-welo easily
guarded himself from their spears; the spears they
cast were as bath-water to him.
After they had been shown how skillful he was,
the brothers went to his house with Ka-welo, and
after they had eaten they told him their tidings.
"We have come to bring you to Kauai," they said.
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ents have been driven into the hungry places, and
there is food for them no more. Ai-kanaka has
driven us away and has taken our lands from us. As
your strength has been praised all over Kauai we
have come to you from our parents to beg you to
make war on Ai-kanaka."
When Ka-welo had heard what his brothers had
to say he was silent for a while; he knew what
strength and skill he had, but he knew, too, that a
war against Ai-kanaka on Kauai would be a great
undertaking.
The next day Ka-welo spoke to his wife and said,
"Go to your father and ask him for the bow and the
arrows that he uses to shoot rats; ask him for the
axe that he uses to hew out canoes; and ask him, too,
for the stroke of the war-club that I have not learnt
the stroke that is called Wahie-loa." Kane-wahine
said that she would travel all night to her father's
house and come to it in the morning.
As soon as she started off, Ka-welo called to his
younger brother Ka-malama and told him to follow
Kane-wahine and listen to what his father-in-law
had to say about him. Ka-malama followed her,
keeping out of sight. He was near when she came to
where her father was.
When Kane-wahine came to her father, he said
to her: "What is the object of my daughter's quest?
What brings her through the dark night with the
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ghosts?" Kane-wahine said, "I have come for bow
and arrows and an axe, and for knowledge of a
stroke of the war-club that he has not learnt." Hearing her say this her father, the old warrior, chanted:
"One stroke of the war-club will never do for your
husband.
Your husband is a plover, his legs are slim;
Your husband is a sandpiper, he runs here and
there on the beach:
When struck by a big wave he would fall over
easily;
Your husband is like the stalk of a banana, he can
barely stand up;
Your husband is like a hala tree, with its long hanging roots.
One stroke of the war-club is fit only for your
father,
Who is large from top to bottom.
The south wind may blow, but he will not fall over.
The mo-ae wind may blow, but he will stand his
ground;
When the aali'i tree does fall it must be uprooted!"
Then her father asked again, "What has brought
my daughter through the dark night with the
ghosts?" Kane-wahine made answer, "I have come
for the bow and the arrows for shooting rats." Then
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"What a mistake my daughter has made
In marrying a man who shoots rats!
He shoots rats and then gets the food belonging to
others,
And gives it to his wife to eat.
What a mistake my daughter has made
In marrying a man who shoots rats!"
And once again he said to her, "What has brought
my daughter through the dark with the ghosts of
midnight?" Kane-wahine made answer again, "I
have come for the axe used for the hewing of canoes,
that my husband may take it with him to Kauai."
Then her father chanted:
"What a mistake my daughter has made
In marrying a husband who hews out canoes!
He hews out the canoe and leaves it in the forest,
And returns and takes the food of another:
What a mistake my daughter has made
In marrying a man who hews out canoes!"
When he heard what Ka-welo's father-in-law said,
Ka-malama went back and told it all to his brother.
Soon afterwards Kane-wahine and her father
came along. As soon as they came to one side of the
stream, Ka-welo, who was at the other side, repeated the chants that had been said against him.
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stroke. And he made his own son stand up before
Ka-welo that he might let him see the stroke of the
war-club that he wanted to learn-the stroke from
the sides. Ka-welo got in this stroke, knocking his
opponent down and making his feet tremble. Kawelo then chanted:
"The conquering cock has made but one kick.
They are scattered, they are scattered."
His father-in-law then said to him, "There is nothing more for you to learn."
Ka-welo, with his wife and his brothers, went into
the canoe, and they sailed for Kauai. Their canoe
came to land, and Ai-kanaka the King said to one
of his men, "Go and inspect the canoe that is coming
in."
The King's attendant went down to the canoe.
He climbed aboard and asked, "What is this canoe
for?" Ka-malama said, "It is a war-canoe." The
King's attendant said, "When you make war, who
is your champion?" Ka-malama replied, "I am the
champion here." Then the attendant said, "Where
is Ka-welo?" Ka-malama said, "He is in Oahu."
And then the attendant, looking at a long bundle
thatwas on the platform of the double canoe, said,
"What is that large bundle?" "It contains our different things," answered Ka-malama.
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The King's attendant then said: "You are here
to make war. How is the fight to begin?" Kamalama said: "Let us first be allowed to come
ashore. Then get your men to lift up our canoe and
carry it ashore. After that we will go and take a
bath, then come back and partake of our food; after
that we will gird on our loin-cloths more tightly, and
the fight will begin."
The King's attendant said: "All right. It will not
put us out of breath, whatever you do, since Kawelo, whose strength has been rumored to us, has
stayed behind in Oahu." And then he said to Kamalama, "You had better go back to Oahu; these
are not the canoes with which to fight Kauai."
He gave orders to his men to carry the canoe to
the dry sand. They carried it upon their shoulders,
and Ka-welo's brothers walked beside. As they were
carrying it Ka-welo-he had been wrapped up as
a bundle and left on the platform-stood up in the
canoe. The people following saw him and cried out:
"Oh, you will all be killed, you will all be killed!
There is Ka-welo standing up in the canoe you are
carrying!" The men carrying the canoe looked up
and around and saw him. They let the canoe fall,
crushing many of their own people. Ka-welo, with
his great war-club in his hands, sprang to the
ground; then he and his brothers gathered their
people together and prepared to make war upon
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Then Ka-welo gathered up his forces to fight Aikanaka. He gave command of one of his divisions
to Ka-malama, his younger brother. All day the
battle went on, but it ended by Ka-malama's being
routed and forced back to where Ka-welo stayed.
The warrior who had routed Ka-malama came up
to fight Ka-welo. Wala-he'e-i-kio was his name.
Seeing him come up with his spear in his hand, Kawelo chanted:
"Why not take my sister for your wife?
Take my sister, and make peace.
There is a wife for you, warrior!"
But Ai-kanaka's soldier, thinking that his chant
showed that Ka-welo was afraid of him, said: "It is
not for you to present the warrior with a wife. We
will strive against you until you and all who are with
you are destroyed." Then Ka-welo chanted:
"Then let us see what you will do:
Break off the point of your spear and throw it,
Throw it at Ka-welo."
The warrior said, "The point of my spear will find
you; it cannot miss you, for you stand before me as
big as a house." Then Wala-he'e-i-kio threw his
spear. Ka-welo bent his body and held up the end
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of his loin-cloth; the spear ripped the end of the loincloth and fell to the ground.
Then Ai-kanaka's soldier was made so ashamed
that he turned and ran back. Ka-welo flung his spear
at him, and that warrior never returned to Aikanaka.
Then came Ka-haka. He said to his comrades as
he came along: "Where did Ka-welo learn to fight?
I know all his strokes; he is no more skilled than
others, although he has had his father-in-law to
train him. I have fought with his father-in-law, and
neither of us could win over the other. How then
can Ka-welo defeat me?" So he came before Kawelo and they fought. He got in a blow, but then
Ka-welo raised his war-club with a swirl from the
ground, and he scraped off his opponent's ear and
small finger. Ka-haka went staggering back to Aikanaka. "You have lost an ear," said the King to
him. "Oh, that was an outside branch that was easily
taken off," said the warrior. "And you have lost a
little finger," said the King. "Oh, that, too, was an
outside branch. But the trunk remains," said the
warrior.
Still Ai-kanaka was not afraid of what Ka-welo
might do to him. His army was defeated in the new
attack that Ka-malama made upon it, and two of
his champions had been overthrown by Ka-welo.
But he had Ka-ua-hoa still-Ka-ua-hoa, his giant
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He ordered Ka-ua-hoa to go forth and kill Kawelo. The giant went down the hill towards where
Ka-welo was, carrying on his shoulder his great
club: it was made of a whole koa tree, and it was so
great that the birds rested on it as Ka-ua-hoa carried
it upon his shoulder.
Now when Ka-welo saw Ka-ua-hoa coming
towards him he was almost overcome with fear.
His very bones became cold as he saw that mighty
figure approach with the mighty weapon. This was
Ka-ua-hoa, with whom he had grown up on Oahu."I remember the days when we were young.
In vain is the battle at the hands of children:
The great battle will follow,
As the deep sea follows the shallow water"so Ka-welo chanted to himself.
And as Ka-ua-hoa came near Ka-welo chanted
to him:
"Postpone the battle, my brother. Leave me.
This is not the day for us to show our prowess,
Friend of my boyhood days with whom I wove
wreaths of lehua.
Awake, 0 Hana-lei, the land of chill and rain,
The land where the clouds hover!
Awake, 0 Ka-ua-hoa, the handsome one of Hanalei!"
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But Ka-ua-hoa, the giant of Hana-lei, said: "Today we will give battle. To-day one of us will fall."
Then Ka-welo's mind went back to his child's
struggle with Ka-ua-hoa, and he remembered how
he had overcome him in kite-flying, and he remembered how the giant youth was afraid to attack him
after he had made his kite break away from him. As
he had overcome him then, he would overcome him
now, Ka-welo thought. Then his courage came back
to him, and he made up his mind that he would have
the mastery, and that he would fight until the giant
champion was slain. Then he chanted to his warclub:
"Arise thou! Be firm,
Until Ka-ua-hoa thou hast killed!
When Hana-lei we shall possess,
And the mats of Niihau we shall wear,
And the birds of Kaula we shall eat."
They fought. Ka-ua-hoa got a stroke in with his
great club, and Ka-welo fell to the ground. Those
who were with the giant champion said to him,
"Strike Ka-welo another blow and kill him; I see
life still in his eyes." But Ka-ua-hoa said, "If I give
him a second blow he will go down to Milu, the Lord
of the Dead, and say to him that he was struck twice
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ua-hoa took up his great club and went back up the
hill.
When Ai-kanaka saw his giant champion coming
back scathless, he ordered his stewards to prepare
food for him. They did, and Ka-ua-hoa ate until he
was satisfied. Ai-kanaka then heard that there was
life in Ka-welo's eyes, and he ordered his champion
to go back and give him the death-stroke with his
club.
Ka-welo was standing up when the giant champion came near him again, darkening the sun with
the bulk of himself and the great club that he
carried. And now Ka-ua-hoa noted the dead men
strewn around, and he remembered his kite-flying
with Ka-welo, and rage against the companion of
his youth grew up in his heart. He would kill him
now with one stroke of his club.
They fought, and Ka-welo used the stroke from
above and the stroke from below, and Ka-ua-hoa
parried each of these strokes. But Ka-welo was able
to parry each stroke that the giant made. Then Kawelo tried the stroke that his father-in-law had
taught him-the stroke from the side. This stroke
Ka-ua-hoa was not able to parry, and with it Kawelo laid him low.
And as the sun went down Ka-welo stood over
the body of the man who had been his youth's companion. They had flown kites together, and Ka-welo
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had made Ka-ua-hoa's kite break away. He stood
above him and he chanted mournfully:
"Hana-lei, the cold land, the wet land,
The land where the end is.
For Ka-ua-hoa, the stalwart youth of Hana-lei,
lies here."
Then Ka-welo said to his brothers and to his men:
"We are going to climb the hill, my wife and I.
When you see a fire burning on the hill you will
know that Kauai is ours."
He went climbing up the hill on the top of which
Ai-kanaka was encamped, and his wife Kanewahine went with him. As they went on, Ka-welo
chanted:
"Lo, Ai-kanaka, chief of this height,
Ai-kanaka, of the height of Nou-nou,
Come and let us make friends;
We two will take possession of Kauai,
And sleep on the mats of Niihau."
When Ai-kanaka heard the chant, he said, "This is
Ka-welo." His people denied this, saying, "Ka-welo
is no more with the living." Ai-kanaka knew that
it was Ka-welo, however; he fled from the hill Nounou.
And when Ka-welo came to the top of the hill and
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found none of Ai-kanaka's people there, he lighted
a fire on the hill. Then his brothers knew that Kauai
had been won. They went and found their parents
and brought then to Nou-nou, and Ka-welo restored them to their possessions-Ka-welo who was
called The One-who-cherishes-his-parents.
Ai-kanaka fled; he went to the uplands of Hanapepe, where he tilled the ground and lived as a
farmer. Ka-welo and his wife took up their residence at Hana-ma-ulu; there came a time when Aikanaka tried to make himself King again, and when
Ka-welo was in danger of his life, but again he defeated his enemies, and lived undisputed ruler of
Kauai, the island of his forefathers.


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A-LANI-O-PU'U, King of the
L    1i Island of Hawaii, was the father
of Kiwa-lao and the uncle of Kameha-meha. Before his death he
called his son and his nephew before him, and he said to them: "My
children, listen to me: The heir to the Island of
Hawaii shall be my son Kiwa-lao; he shall inherit all
my honors, and all my powers, and all my lands. As
for you, Ka-meha-meha, I shall leave you the charge
of my war-making idol Ka-ili, and the care of the
temples of Hawaii. If, during your lifetime, Kiwalao should molest you, you may take possession of
the kingdom. And if you, on your part, should molest him, you shall be deprived of the care of the
war-making idol." These were the last words of
Ka-lani-o-pu'u, the King of the Island of Hawaii,
in whose time the foreigners first came to the
islands.
Ka-meha-meha was then in his full manhood; he
was of fine appearance; he had a large body which
looked to be solidly built, and he was very broad in
the shoulders. He was full formed and without any
defects. Before this, as a young warrior, he had
saved Ka-lani-o-pu'u and his army when the King
of Hawaii was defeated on the Island of Maui. The
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King had taken to his canoe then. The remains of
his army were guarding him, and the champions of
Maui, one after another, tried to come to him. Kameha-meha stood up, the tallest warrior in the Hawaiian ranks, and with his great war-club he drove
back the champions who tried to come up to the
King. The army of Hawaii with Ka-lani-o-pu'u
were able to get into their canoes and make their
retreat from Maui because of the great strength
and skill of Ka-meha-meha.
After Ka-lani-o-pu'u had declared his will, Kameha-meha took the idol Ka-ili with him and went
to his own lands in Kohala. He built temples and
took care of them. He planted trees which are still
growing, the noni and other trees; he farmed and
built canoes; he was willing that Kiwa-lao, his
cousin, should have the government of the Island of
Hawaii.
Now that the King was dead, Kiwa-lao, with his
uncle and his half-brother and their supporters,
decided to bring the body to Kona for interment
there. The chiefs of Kona were made frightened and
watchful when they heard this; Kiwa-lao was coming with his fierce half-brother and his grasping
uncle; they thought that the interment was only an
excuse, and that they were bringing the King's
body there so that they might seize upon the lands of
Kona and divide them amongst themselves.
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lying in state in his double canoe, was caught in a
storm on the ocean, and they were not able to make
North Kona; they landed at Ho-nau-nau in South
Kona. While they were there the chief Ke'e-aumoku saw them, and he knew by their looks that war
was brewing.
He went to Ka-meha-meha and asked him to help
the Kona chiefs in case war came. Ka-meha-meha
agreed to do what was asked of him. Later he met
Kiwa-lao, his cousin. "Listen! we two may lose our
lives," Kiwa-lao said to him. "Here is our uncle
pushing us into war. It is we who will suffer for it.
Alas for us two!" So Kiwa-lao said. But afterwards
he had the lands of Kona divided in a way that went
towards making war.
And Ke-oua, his half-brother, went and cut down
the coco-nut trees as a sign for war. He killed a
man, too, and this man was offered up as a sacrifice
by Kiwa-lao; the man belonged to Ka-meha-meha.
And so war was offered from Kiwa-lao's side.
In the first battle that was fought Ke'e-au-moku,
the chief who had come to Ka-meha-meha, was
tripped up with a long spear, and he fell on the
ground. A soldier, holding a spear to him, said, "I
have speared a yellow-backed crab." Kiwa-lao
called out to this soldier, "Save his ivory necklace,"
meaning by that not to have Ke'e-au-moku's necklace smeared with his blood. Then Ke'e-au-moku
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rior, using his sling, cast a stone which struck Kiwalao, and he fell to the ground. Then Ke'e-au-moku
crawled over to him and, using his shark-toothed
sword, killed him. Thus Kiwa-lao died.
After that Ka-meha-meha became ruler of one
part of Hawaii. And Ke-oua, the half-brother of
Kiwa-lao, and Ke-awe-mau-hili, the uncle of Kiwalao, came to rule over two other parts. Thus there
were three Kings on the Island of Hawaii in those
days.
There came a war in which Ka-meha-meha was
defeated by Ke-oua and Ke-awe-mau-hili, a war
that was called "the bitter war." After his defeat
Ka-meha-meha came in a canoe to a beach in the
early hours of the morning. There were two fishermen upon the beach, and the only follower that Kameha-meha had with him was his steersman.
The fishermen fled before Ka-meha-meha. He
pursued them with the thought of killing them. As
he was about to grasp the hindermost of the two
men, his foot caught in a fissure of the lava, and he
fell down. The man turned on him; he had in his
hand a heavy paddle, and he struck the Chief on
the head with it; the paddle splintered, so hard was
the blow he gave. The other man came back. Kameha-meha thought that now he was going to lose
his life, for this man had a fish-spear in his hand.
"We will put this through him and kill him while
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he lies senseless here," said the second man. But the
first man, the one who had struck Ka-meha-meha
with the paddle, said, "Ua kapu ke ola na Ka-ne,"
"Life is sacred to Ka-ne." Ka-meha-meha knew
that this man's reverence for life saved his life, for
the fishermen, not knowing him for their Chief, and
being angry because of his attack upon them, might
have killed him upon the beach.
The fishermen fled away, and the steersman from
the canoe came up to where Ka-meha-meha was
held. He broke the edges of the lava away, and the
chief was able to draw his foot out of the crevice.
Then, with his friend, the faithful steersman, he
returned to where his army was. Ka-meha-meha
never forgot his struggle on the beach with the
fishermen, nor the faithfulness of the steersman
who had carried him back.
The next war that Ka-meha-meha fought was
not in Hawaii, but on the Island of Maui. At this
time he had taken two foreigners from a ship; he
treated them with kindness, giving them rank and
lands, and they helped him in his wars. Now, with
a great fleet of canoes, he crossed over to Maui. The
guns that the foreigners worked for him defeated
the Maui troops. This was the battle of the Valley
of lao. The slaughter was so great that the river
was dammed with the dead, and the water went
backwards and upwards. And after the battle the
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whole Island of Maui became a possession of Kameha-meha's, and ever since it has been attached to
the Kingship of Hawaii. Afterwards he went on to
Molokai and conquered that Island too.
But while he was at war in Maui and Molokai,
Ka-meha-meha's -own lands were invaded by Keoua. Ke-oua killed men, women, and children; he
wasted the crops in the fields.
When he heard of these acts his love for his people
of the Island of Hawaii rose up within Ka-mehameha. He had intended to go on and conquer the
Island of Oahu. But instead he returned to Hawaii
to drive Ke-oua back.
In a deep valley called Ke-kua-lele there was a
fight between Ka-meha-meha and forty of the
strongest of Ke-oua's warriors. The only follower
that he had with him then was his steward, who used
to carry food to him in the battle.
Hema, the steward, leaped forward and fought
with and beat off Ka-meha-meha's foes-fought
them and beat them off, although he had not been
trained in arms. And when he had beaten them off
and saved his chief, Ka-meha-meha said to him:
"To-day you become a chief as I am,*and to-day you
give up carrying and shouldering baggage and provisions, and you shall be a noble in my presence and
in the presence of the chiefs and the people also. He
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who disobeys your command shall die." Thereafter
Hema was a very famous man.
Now while Ke-oua was fighting Ka-meha-meha
the volcano erupted and there were earthquakes.
One division of Ke-oua's forces was destroyed.
They wereleft on the ground after the cinders had
fallen on them, like logs piled up for the heating of
the oven. Then Ka-meha-meha defeated the rest of
Ke-oua's forces. And when Ke-oua was killed, Kameha-meha became master, for the first time, of the
whole Island of Hawaii.
After this the King of Kauai and the King of
Oahu, with all the chiefs who were not subdued on
the Island of Maui, made war upon Hawaii. This
was a war of all the other islands upon one island.
The Kings of Kauai and Oahu had foreigners to
help them, and they had great guns. Before they
sailed from Maui to attack Hawaii, Kaeo, the
leader, cried out: "O you chiefs, warriors, and kindred! Be strong and valiant, and we shall drink the
water of Wai-pio, and eat the taro of Kunaka!"
The fleet of Kauai and Oahu formed in battle
array in the deep waters 9ff the Wai-pio coast. Then
Ka-meha-meha, with the foreigners who were helping him, attacked them. For the first time in a battle
at sea, the people on the cliffs heard the roaring
and saw the red flashings of the guns, and they
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mouthed Gun." The Kings of Kauai and Oahu and
the chiefs of Maui were beaten, and they fled with
their scattered fleet of canoes back to Maui.
After the Battle of the Red-mouthed Gun the
King of Oahu died, and Ka-meha-meha set out to
conquer that Island from his son Ka-lani-ku-pule.
The men of Oahu fought well. They had a warrior
whose name was Pi-hana; he had such skill and
bravery that the spear and the lance and the javelin
in the hands of his enemies were as bath-water to
him. When the King of Oahu would have made
peace and would have ceded the Island to Ka-mehameha, this warrior said, "Give me three days more
to bathe in the medicine of Hawaii, the weapons
that are flung at me." Then he stood alone before
Ka-meha-meha's soldiers. They cast their spears
and lances and javelins at him; they slung stones
from their slings at him. But Pi-hana was able to
dodge them all. The men of Hawaii, looking at him,
found no one amongst them equal to Pi-hana in skill
and daring. At the end of three days he went back
to the King and agreed to stop fighting. Thereafter
the battle was fought along the precipice, the pali
of Nu'u-anu. Those who opposed Ka-meha-meha
were defeated and driven down the precipice. It
was while he was at war with the men of Oahu that
he gave the order that has the words in it that are
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pokii! a inu i ka wai awaawa," "Let us go on, my
younger brothers, until we drink the bitter waters!"
He called the soldiers his younger brothers, and
they were made proud by that.
After this the King of Kauai allowed his Island
to come under Ka-meha-meha's rule. Then, after
one more battle, his seventh, the entire group of
Islands came under his rule. He was the first of all
the chiefs of Hawaii to hold all the islands in one
Kingship.
Once, after his rule was fixed, and after all the
islands had come under him, Ka-meha-meha the
Great went to Hilo to cut down the koa trees that
were there for his war-canoes. When he was there
he thought of his defeat in the time of the "bitter
war" and of the men who had struggled with him
on the beach after he had been defeated. He thought
that he would seek out the fishermen. Taking some
of his chiefs with him, he went to the village where
these fishermen lived, and he commanded that all
the people should be brought together.
And when they were all brought together, there
was no man of them but feared for his life when he
thought on what had been done to the King in that
place. The men who had struggled with the King
were there. They stood with their heads bowed. The
King went to them and said, "You were the men
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who were upon the beach on that morning?" The
men bowed their heads lower; they made no denial.
Then said the King, "You are the men who broke
the paddle on my head?" Again the men said
nothing, but their hearts sank within them. And the
chiefs who were with Ka-meha-meha cried out,
"Stone them to death, these common men who
struck the sacred person of a King." And the others
cried out, "Down on their faces!"
The men fell down on their faces. Then the great
conqueror and King raised them up. He said to his
chiefs: "I pursued and attacked these men who were
upon the beach, earning their living then. That was
not right on my part. These men had a right to resist me. Now I will make a law. It shall be that if
anyone plunders or kills the defenceless or the innocent he shall be punished. And this law will be in
memory of my friend who helped me then, my
steersman. It will be called Ke-kana-wai Mamalahoe, 'The Law of the Friend and the Broken
Paddle.' And the meaning of the law shall be that
the old man and the old woman and the young child
will be able to lie down and sleep on the highway,
and none shall injure them."
So spoke the King, and the law that he made then
remains in Hawaii-nei. Ka-meha-meha was great
not only for the victories he won in war but for the
peace that he brought to the Islands. He was wise
and upright, kind and charitable. He took care of
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his people as though they were his children. The
extent of Ka-meha-meha's reign was thirty-seven
years.


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The Story of Ta-whaki.


"In the bright islands whence your fathers came."-R. L. S.
_HAVE been in all the Islands of
the Great Engulfing Ocean-in
Tahiti and Samoa, in Tonga and
Ao-maama;* from Ao-tea-roat I
have come, from Ao-tea-roa, my
_^ ^     j ~own land, and now I am in your
Hawaii. Your speech is like my speech, and my
speech and your speech is like the speech of all the
Islands-the speech of Tahiti and Samoa, of Tonga
and of Ao-maama and of Ao-tea-roa, my own land.
In a little while I knew all your words; in a little
while I made my words like your words as coco-nuts
are like coco-nuts-I who have come in the ship of
the white men, casting my harpoon against the
whale.
I have heard you tell your stories about Ma-ui.
We, too, tell of Ma-ui. And in Ao-tea-roa, after we
have spoken of Ma-ui, we speak of Ta-whaki. You,
too, speak of Ta-whaki, but you name him Ka-ha'i:
I have heard you speak of Ka-ha'i, telling a story
about him that we tell of Ta-whaki. Now, following
the custom of Ao-tea-roa, I will tell of Ta-whaki,
your Ka-ha'i, since you have told of Ma-ui.
* Ao-maama, the Marquesas.
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How Ta-whaki and His Brother Avenged the
Death of Their Father and Destroyed the
People Called Pona-turi.
HE whose deeds we count with Ma-ui's was the son
of Hema and Hua-uri, and he had a younger
brother whose name was Karihi.* One day the people of the village in which the brothers lived insulted
Ta-whaki. Then he and his brother left the place.
And after they had gone from their home Ta-whaki
said, "We will go now, my brother, and avenge the
death of Hema, our father."
There was a race of people called the Pona-turi;
they had killed.Hema and had carried Hua-uri
away. "They carried off our father's bones, too,"
Ta-whaki told his brother, "but when we have
avenged his death upon them we will take his bones
back to our own country and bury them there."
Ta-whaki and Karihi went on, going towards the
place that the Pona-turi had come from. They went
on and on, and at last, in a place near the sea, they
came upon a great house. Outside the house an old
woman sat watching. Ta-whaki spoke to her, and
asked her what house it was.
"The house is named Manawa-Ta-ne," said the
old woman. Then she told Ta-whaki and Karihi that
they should go away from the place, for there was
* In Hawaiian tradition his father and mother are Hema and
Ulu-mahe-hoa and his brother is Aliki.
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danger for them there. "The Pona-turi come to this
house," she said, "and they are the most terrible
of all beings." Ta-whaki told her that he and his
brother had come there to be avenged upon the
Pona-turi, who had killed their father and carried
their mother away. The old woman knew them then;
she was their mother. She told them that the bones
of their father were within the house, hanging from
the roof. The whole tribe of the Pona-turi were then
in their own country, a land that was under the
ocean. But at night they all came up upon the land
and slept in the great house Manawa-Ta-ne.
Ta-whaki and Karihi wept over their mother. She
wept over them. She counselled them again to go
away. "My children," she said, "the Pona-turi,
when they come up from the land that is under the
sea, will destroy you, and they will hang your bones
with your father's bones from the roof of their
house Manawa-Ta-ne." But Ta-whaki would not
go away. "When will they come up upon the land?"
he asked his mother. "They will come up," she said,
"when the sun sinks beneath the Ocean."
His mother told the brothers the reason why the
Pona-turi had kept her alive. "They have kept me,"
she said, "so that I might watch for the rising of the
dawn, and warn them of its coming; they make me
sit here, ever at watch before the door of the house,
and for that they name me 'Ta-tau,' 'The Door.'
All through the night they call to me: 'Ho, Ta-tau,
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there! Is it near dawn yet?' And I call out in answer
until the dawn comes, 'No, no, masters; it is deep
night still; sleep on, sleep on.'"
Ta-whaki said to her: "Can we not hide near and
wait for their coming? Mayhap, as they come, we
can kill the Pona-turi." "You cannot hide yourselves near," their mother told them, "for their
searcher goes before them and searches all around."
"Perhaps we can hide in the thick thatch of the
roof," Ta-whaki said. Their mother would not have
them do this; she cried over them again and she
begged them to go away. But Ta-whaki and his
brother climbed up on the roof; they made holes in
the thick thatch, and they covered themselves with
the thatch. Their mother called up to them, saying,
"When it comes near dawn come down to me, my
sons, and I will tell you of something that we may
do."
She sat before the house and she made spells to
keep her sons from being discovered by the goblinpeople who came to the house. The sun sank, and the
whole tribe of the Pona-turi came up from under
the Ocean. They sent one in front of them to search
for hidden enemies. The searcher found no one.
Then, as he came near the house, he lifted up his
head and sniffed, thinking he had got the smell of
flesh and blood. Perhaps he would have found Tawhaki and Karihi if the others had not come upon
him, and crowded in on him, pushing into the house.
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They all went within, and there was darkness all
around.
In the middle of the night their mother called to
Ta-whaki and Karihi, and they came to where she
was sitting. She told them what they would have to
do: they were to cover up all the chinks and openings of the great house, so that not a gleam of light
could get in; if the Pona-turi were kept in their
house until the sun was high in the heavens and the
sun was strong all around they would be killed; the
strong rays of the sun would kill them all.
Ta-whaki and Karihi went all around the house,
stopping up every opening and every chink in it.
They had made the first round when the voice of
one of the Pona-turi called out: "Ho, Ta-tau! Is it
near dawn yet?" Their mother answered: "It is not
near dawn, my master. Sleep soundly, sleep on."
And when they had made the second round of the
house, and when every chink and opening was
stopped up, the same voice called out: "Ho, Ta-tau!
Is it near dawn yet?" "Not yet," their watcher answered, "sleep soundly, my masters; sleep on!"
As the sun came up the voice within the house
called out again: "Ho, Ta-tau, there! Is it near
dawn?" And the watcher, sitting in that first light,
answered: "Not yet, my masters! Sleep soundly,
sleep on."
The sun went up and was high in the heavens.
The voice within the house cried out: "Ho, Ta-tau,
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there! Is the dawn near?" She answered: "Yes, my
masters! It is near dawn." Then she said to her sons:
"Be quick! Pull out all that you stopped the chinks
and openings with." Ta-whaki and Karihi hurried
around the house, one going each way, and they
pulled out the things they had put in the chinks and
the openings. The bright, full rays of the sun went
streaming into the house. There were screams from
the Pona-turi. Then Ta-whaki and Karihi went
within, and they saw that the whole of the Pona-turi
had perished.
They had withered in the bright rays of the sun;
all of the goblin-people who had come up out of the
sea were dead. Then Ta-whaki and Karihi took
down the bones of their father from where they
hung from the ridge-pole of the house; they took
them down and they brought them to their father's
land, and they buried them there. And they took
their mother back with them, their mother, Huauri, whose story I shall tell to you now.
The Story of Ta-whaki's Father and Mother.
LONG before Ta-whaki was born there lived on a
certain Island a woman named Hina-not the Hina
who is in the stories you have heard-and a man
named Mano-i-here. And on the same Island there
lived a woman whose name was Rona.
Rona was so fierce that she ate men; one man only
survived on her side of the Island, Mano-i-here. She
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did not know he was there for he remained hidden
in a cavern. Before the cavern there was a door of
rock that could be opened only by him.
The goblin-woman Rona cherished the girl Hina
who lived there; she gave her food that she cooked
-fish and roots. When it was dark Rona would go
fishing by the light of a torch she carried. And when
Rona would be at the seashore Hina would go
towards where Mano-i-here was hidden. As she
approached the rocks she would chant:
"Mano-i-here is the man,
Hina is the woman:
Man, come without! Come forth!
Come!
Open, thou base of the rock!"
And when she would chant this Mano-i-here behind
the rock would say, "Where is Rona?" "On the long
reef, on the short reef, in search of fish, 0 my darling!" Then Mano-i-here, in the cavern would say,
"Base of the rock, open," and the rock before the
cavern would open, and the man would come out.
He and Hina would be together then, and she
would give him food that she had brought for him.
Then he would go back into his cave, and when she
would chant, "0 rock, be thou closed," the rock
would close and Mano-i-here would be hidden from
Rona, the goblin-woman.
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Then Hina would be in the house when Rona
came back from her fishing. She would lay down her
catch of fish. Then she and Hina would fix the oven
and cook fish and roots in it. And when the cooking
was done, Rona would call on Hina to come over
and take her share of the food. This the girl Hina
would do. But the goblin-woman used to notice how
short was the time that Hina would take to eat her
food. At last Rona took to watching Hina. She saw
that the girl kept some of the food that was given
to her. She knew then that she was giving it to
another. Then she watched Hina more and more
closely still.
One night Rona, the goblin-woman, pretended
to go down to the seashore to fish by the light of her
torch. She stayed near the house, and when Hina
came out carrying a bundle of food she followed
her.
The girl went towards the rocks. As she approached them, she chanted:
"Mano-i-here is the man,
Hina is the woman:
Man, come without! Come forth!
Come!
Open, thou base of the rock!"
Rona, the goblin-woman heard the chant, and she
heard the voice behind the rock say, "Where is
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Rona?" The answer came from the girl Hina, "On
the long reef, on the short reef, in search of fish, 0
my darling." The voice within said, "Base of the
rock, open," and then the man came forth.
Rona, the goblin-woman, was filled with glee to
know that there was a man whom she could catch
as she had caught men before. She went to the seashore with her torch. She fished, and she came back
with her catch. Hina was in the house when she returned, and she called upon her to help to fix the
oven. She told her to take her share of what was
cooked: this Hina did, and Rona, watching her, saw
that she hid a part of what was given to her.
Before the next evening came the goblin-woman
went to the rocks. As she approached, she chanted:
"Mano-i-here is the man,
Hina is the woman:
Man, come without! Come forth!
Come!
Open, thou base of the rock!"
When she had chanted this, the voice behind the rock
said, "Where is Rona?" And Rona, imitating the
voice of Hina, said, "On the long reef, on the short
reef, in search of fish, O my darling." Then behind
the rock the man's words were said, "Base of the
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lin-woman threw her net, and the man was taken by
her. She dragged him down to the seashore. There
she killed him.
When Hina came she saw the rock open, and
she saw the track by which Mano-i-here had been
dragged to the seashore. Seeing this she ran away.
But the goblin-woman saw her running, and she yan
after her. The goblin-woman gained on Hina. To
the other side of the Island the girl ran, and to that
side, too, the goblin-woman pursued her. Then Hina
came near the house of a man who was called Noa;
she begged him to save her from the rage of Rona.
Noa protected the girl and drove the goblinwoman away from his side of the Island. Afterwards he took HIina to another Island. He was an
old man. But although he was an old man, he and
Hina married. Their child was Hema.
One day, when he was grown up, Hina said to her
son Hema, "I would have you take a wife." But her
son said to her, "How can I take a wife when there
are no women upon the Island for me to take a wife
from?"
She said to him: "Go down the valley to the rivermouth. There, if you watch, you will see a woman
come in from the sea. She is the woman I would
have you marry; she is Hua-uri, the Woman of the
Sea. She will come in carried on the back of a shark.
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nut tree and she will make it bend over so that she
can slip down from it to the back of the shark. She
will then return to her own Island.
"I would have you go to the place where she
comes, and watch, and keep silent. When she is
coming down from the tree catch Hua-uri, the
Woman of the Sea, and bring her here to be your
wife. She will struggle hard with you, and you will
not be able to overcome her unless you can say the
incantation that I will give you now."
Hema, the next day, went down to the river's
mouth. He saw Hua-uri, the beautiful Woman of
the Sea, come in upon the back of a shark. She
bathed in the fresh water of the river. She climbed
the coco-nut tree; she made it bend over so that
she could slip down and on to the back of the shark.
But Hema was hidden under the tree: he caught
Hua-uri, and he strove to subdue her.
He grasped her with his hands. She was strong
and she was slippery, for she had something of the
fish's slipperiness in her skin. He struggled and
struggled with her, and she would have got away
from his grasp if he had not been able to say the incantation that his mother, Hina, taught him.
He said the incantation. And as he said it he became-stronger in his grasp, and the Woman of the
Sea became weaker in her struggle. He was able to
take her up and carry her to where his mother was.
He laid the Woman of the Sea down before Hina;
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she was naked but for her long and beautiful hair
that fell all over her body. He laid her down, and
the woman wailed: "It is the glittering sea, the
blooming sea! Hua-uri is queen of the boundless
sea." Hina took her up, and in a while she became
reconciled with the man who had caught her.
She took Hema for her husband, and Hema and
Hua-uri became the father and mother of Ta-whaki
and his brother Karihi.
How Ta-whaki Won and Lost the Maiden of the
Sky.
THE fame that Ta-whaki had gained by destroying
the race of the Pona-turi spread through the whole
world of men; it reached the sky even; it came to
the ears of Hapai and it made the maiden long to
look upon him.
Hapai came down to our world; she went to Tawhaki's place and she saw him where he lay sleeping. When she looked upon him she saw that he was
the strongest and the best-favored of mortal warriors. She made herself like one of the maidens of
our world, and she let him see her when he was
awake.
To him she seemed to be the most lovely of the
world's maidens; he took her, and she went with him
to his house; there they lived as.husband and wife.
But every morning, before dawn, she would steal
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away from him and from his house, and she would
go once more into the Sky-country. And Ta-whaki,
when he would awake, would feel all over her sleeping-place, but she would not be found there.
But her love for him became so great that she
gave up going into the Sky-country; she left her
friends, and she stayed with Ta-whaki all through
the day. Then he came to know that he had one of
the Sky-women for his wife. Soon she told him
that a child would be born to them; if the child was
a boy she would wash and tend him, but if the child
was a girl he would have to wash and tend her.
Their child was born, and it was a girl; the mother
named her Ara-huta. She gave the child to Tawhaki to wash and tend.
He took the child to the spring to wash her; he
took the child to the spring to wash her again. And
he said inher mother's hearing, "How unclean this
child becomes."
Then Hapai, the Daughter of the Sky, was made
bitterly angry to hear a mortal man speak so of the
child who had been born to her, of the child who had
in her the majesty of the Sky-people. She snatched
little Ara-huta out of Ta-whaki's arms, and she
sprang towards the sky with her. Upon' the ridgepole of the house she stayed, holding the child in
her arms. "You cannot bring me back to you," she
said, "I go now to the Sky-country with my child."
0 then Ta-whaki was bitterly sorry for what he
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had said! He loved little Ara-huta now, and more
than before he loved Hapai. He called out, begging
her to come back to him and to his house. She did
not speak, and he knew that she would not return
to him. Then he begged that she would not go from
him without telling him how he might come to her
sometime.
She spoke to him, saying from the ridge-pole of
the house the last words that she said to him in the
world here: "If you would come to me, you must
come by a dangerous way. If you would come, be
careful that you do not take hold of the creeper that
hangs from on high but takes no root below; take
hold with your hands of the creeper that grows
down and that has struck its fibres into the earth."
When she said this, Hapai, holding her child in her
arms, went from this world and into the Skycountry.
How Ta-whaki lWent into the Country of the Sky
and Came to His Wife and Child.
I WILL tell you now how Ta-whaki went into the
Country of the Sky and how he came to where his
wife and child were. He called upon Karihi, his
younger brother, and with him he started off to find
the place where the tendrils which hang down from
the sky are to be found.
They came to that place. There was an old, blind
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woman there guarding the ends of the tendrils.
Beside her was a great line with a hook on it. This
old woman was Maka-kere-po, who was once called
Hina.
When they came to where she was, Maka-kere-po
was counting the taro-roots that she had under her
hands. There were ten of them there. One, two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, she counted.
But then Ta-whaki slipped one of the taro-roots
away from her. She searched for the root with her
hands but could not find it. Then the old woman
thought that she had made a mistake in her counting, and she began again. One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, she counted. Ta-whaki slipped
another root away. Maka-kere-po became very
angry; she knew that there must be someone near
who was stealing her taro-roots, and she went to
catch him with her hook.
She took up the line and she swung it around her.
The hook would have caught one of her grandsons
if Ta-whaki had not taken up a log and held it
before him. The hook caught the log; the old woman
drew it to her, rejoicing over what she would do to
the one who had stolen her taro-roots.
But when she found a log caught by her hook
she became frightened. The one who was near was
clever enough to baffle her and perhaps kill her. She
cried out, "Who is it who has come to where Makakere-po guards the tendrils that come down from
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the sky?" "Your child, Maka-kere-po," Ta-whaki
said. She was astonished that one knew her name.
"My child through whom??" she cried out. "Your
child through Hema." "Is Hema then living?" "He
was killed by the Pona-turi, but I have avenged his
death upon them." "Who then are you?" "Your
grandson Ta-whaki; with me is Kahiri, my brother."
His grandmother called them, and they went to
her and she wept over them. Ta-whaki put his hand
to her eyes; her blindness cleared at his touch and
she was able to see as before. Then she told them how
they might come to the country of the People of the
Sky.
"Here is a road for you," she said, "but it is a
dangerous road, the road by these tendrils. Do not
begin to climb now; it is late in the day. In the
morning, when you have rested, begin your climb."
Ta-whaki and his brother ate their food then, and
they lay down and slept. In the morning they were
called by their grandmother; they ate food so that
they might be strengthened for the journey, and
then they made ready to climb.
Maka-kere-po said to them: "Lay fast hold of
the tendrils with your hands and climb up and on.
When you get midway between the sky and the
earth, be careful that you do not look down; you
might become giddy and fall down on the earth.
And do not take hold of any tendril that swings
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loose; take hold of one which, hanging down from
the sky, has taken root in the earth."
Before his grandmother had finished speaking
Karihi made a spring at the tendrils. He caught a
loose tendril and he held it. He swung out to the
horizon. A blast of wind came and blew him across
to the other horizon. Up then towards the heavens
the wind blew him; then he was swung down close
to the earth again. As he came near the earth Tawhaki called out to him, "Brother, loose your hold;
now is the time to loose your hold." Karihi loosed
his hands from the tendril and he stood upon the
earth once more.
They wept on account of the fear they both had
had; when they ceased from weeping Ta-whaki,
thinking that his brother might come to some ill on
the journey, said to him, "It is my desire that you
return to our home and look after our people."
Thereupon Karihi went back to their village.
Ta-whaki began his great climb. His grandmother called up to him, "Hold fast; let your hands
grip hard!" Ta-whaki went on climbing towards the
sky, and making incantations to preserve him from
the dangers of the terrible road. At last he reached
the place from which the tendrils grew; he pulled
himself up into the Country of the People of the
Sky.
Ta-whaki stood by a spring there. He changed
his appearance, and instead of being noble and
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kingly-looking he became like an old and ignoble
man. With this changed appearance he struck into
the forest and went on. He came to a glade where a
party of men were engaged in the work of hollowing tree-trunks into canoes. The men were no others
than Hapai's brothers.
When they saw one whom they thought was an
old servant going by, they said to one another,
"Here is an old fellow whom we can make help us."
Ta-whaki went near. He went to where the servants
were and he sat down with them.
Evening came on, and then Hapai's brothers
called out to him, "Ho, old fellow, take up these
heavy axes and carry them home for us, and we will
give you some food." Ta-whaki took up the axes;
he said to the masters, "You, my lords, go before;
I am old now and the axes are heavy, and I cannot
keep up with you."
The party started off, Ta-whaki, in the form of
an old man, following, the axes in his hands. But
when the rest of the party were out of sight, he
turned back. Taking an axe he worked along the
canoe they had left; with a few strokes he finished
one side of it; then he worked along the other side,
from bow to stern, and lo! the two sides of the canoe
were beautifully finished.
He walked quietly along the road, carrying the
axes. As he drew near the village he came upon two
women gathering firewood. And they, when they
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saw him coming, said, "Here is an old fellow, someone's servant; let us make him carry the firewood
for us." So they put the firewood on Ta-whaki's
back, and that kingly warrior, now in the guise of
an old man, went on, carrying the axes in his hands,
and with the firewood upon his back.
When they entered the village the women took
him to a house, and behold! it was the house that
Hapai and her brothers lived in. "We found an old
man on the way," they told Hapai, "and we have
made him our servant." "Bring the old man into
the house," Hapai said, "we can use a servant here."
So Ta-whaki came into his wife's house. He saw
Hapai sitting at the fire at the upper end of the
house, the little Ara-huta with her. He went
straight to where she was, carrying his load of firewood.
And there was Hapai sitting beside her fire, and
there was her husband in the guise of an old man
sitting at the other side of the fire, and there was
the child Ara-huta near them both. But Hapai did
not know Ta-whaki, although he stayed the whole
night in the house.
At daybreak his brothers-in-law called to him,
"Hello, old fellow; bring the axes along; do you
hear?" And so Ta-whaki, in the guise of an old man,
took up the heavy axes, and started off with the
others.
They went to the glade in the forest to work on
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the canoe. But when they got into the glade they
saw that the canoe had been finished and they were
astonished at the sight. "The canoe is not as we left
it," they said, "who could have worked on it?" They'
wondered what had happened; then they went to
work on the second canoe.
They worked until evening; the masters called
out to Ta-whaki: "Hello, old fellow! Come here;
take up the axes and carry them back to the village
for us." And as before Ta-whaki took up the axes;
as before he delayed, going slowly behind them. And
when the party was out of sight he went back, and
took an axe in his hand, and shaped the canoe that
they had been working at. First he shaped one side
of it, from bow to stern, and then he shaped the
other side of it. He took the axes and went to the
house where Hapai and her brothers lived. There
they gave him food, and for a while he sat beside the
same fire as his wife.
At daybreak they started off; they went to the
glade in the forest to work on the canoe, Ta-whaki
carrying the axes. And when they came into the
glade the brothers-in-law saw that the second canoe
had been worked upon and was finished. They
shouted out in astonishment, "Why, this canoe is
not as we left it; who can have been working on it?"
Having wondered at this happening for some time
they began to work on a third canoe; they worked
away until evening. Then one of the brothers said
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to another, "We will not go back to the village; we
will stay here and find out who it is who has been
working upon our canoes."
They started off as if they were going back to the
village. But when they had gone a little way they
turned off the path on one side and hid themselves;
where they were they could see the canoes. And they
saw the old man whom they thought was a servant
lay down the axes that he held; they saw him take up
a special axe and get to work, shaping first one side
and then the other side of the canoe. When the
brothers saw this being done they ran off to the
village and told what they had seen.
Then Ta-whaki came along, seemingly an old
man carrying the axes belonging to the workingparty. He came into the house, and he went and sat
by the fire. But now Hapai came before him and
said to him, "Tell me who you are." Ta-whaki made
no reply. Again she said, "Tell me who you are."
He made no reply, but he went over to where Arahuta was, and he took his child up in his arms.
He made the incantations that removed the
change he had made in his appearance; he stood up
in that house, a tall and splendid chief. And Hapai,
his wife, knew him then, and she rejoiced that he
had come, braving the dangers of the way. He had
come that his child might have the ceremonies that
would bring her good fortune. In the morning,
when they all arose, they broke an opening through
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the end of the house, and they carried little Arahuta through it, so that her high rank might be
known to all. When the incantations for Ara-huta
had been made, lightning flashed out of the armpits of Ta-whaki. Thereafter he stayed in the
Country of the Sky with his wife and his little
daughter. A story that comes after this concerns
Rata, Ta-whaki's grandson.*
* In Hawaiian tradition Rata appears as Laka; his father
is Wahie-roa.


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The Story of Rata the Grandson of
Ta-whaki.
How Rata Got His Canoe.
BOUT    Rata there are stories
^ ti^   told in all the Islands. He was the
AJL   son of Wa-hie-roa, who was the
__    I Rson of Ta-whaki and his mortal
wife Hina-piri-piri. Wa-hie-roa
married Kura, and their child was
Rata.
While he was still a child his parents went down
to the seashore to gather sea-moss to put upon him.
For a rash had come upon his body, and the seamoss that they went to gather was a cure for it. A
great storm came and the whole land was flooded.
They were swept out to sea, and the terrible Children of Puna devoured Wa-hie-roa and Kura.
These were the Children of Puna-Eke, the Octopus, Pa-ua, the Clam, Mano-a, the Great Shark,
and Aku, the Sword-fish: they devoured the parents
of Rata, and then went back into the deep.
Rata was brought up in the house of Kui, his
grandmother; he did not know his parents and no
one told him what had happened to them. One day
he went out with other boys to sail toy-canoes; they
went to a pool, and each of the boys put on the water
a little canoe made from the leaf of the coco-nut
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palm. As the canoes were sailing, Rata chanted a
spell that he had heard from his wise grandmother:
"On the crest of the wave she rides:
Thousands and thousands the magic spells
I know, to make her go on."
The wave took up Rata's canoe then; on the crest
of the wave it rode on, and it won past the others.
The rest of the boys were angry that Rata's canoe
had beaten theirs. They made a chant to taunt him,
singing out:
"So goes the canoe,
Vengeance seeking
For the mother,
For the father."
Rata knew that the boys wanted to taunt him
about his mother and father; he went to his grandmother and asked her where his mother and father
were. His grandmother would not tell him; she
said, "I am your father and I am your mother."
Rata said no more to her, and the next day he went
with the boys to sail his palm-leaf canoe.
lWhen he put his little canoe in the water he
chanted the spell again that he had heard from his
wise grandmother:
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"On the crest of the wave she rides:
Thousands and thousands the magic spells
I know, to make her go on."
The wave took up Rata's canoe then; on the crest of
the wave it rode on, and it won past the others.
The boys were very angry that Rata's canoe had
beaten theirs the second time, and they took up the
taunting chant again:
"So goes the canoe,
Vengeance seeking
For the mother,
For the father."
Rata ran back to his grandmother, and he said to
her that she would have to tell where his mother and
father were.
Then his grandmother told him that his father
and mother had been devoured by the terrible Children of Puna. He was for going to take vengeance
on the Children of Puna, but she said that he could
not go until he had grown up; when he was a man
he could go over the ocean and avenge the deaths of
his mother and father.
But Rata did not wait until he was grown into
manhood. When he was still a youth he told his
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dren of Puna for the deaths of his mother and
father. He asked his grandmother to help him get
a canoe to sail in. She brought out the axe she hadthe axe to fell the tree for the canoe. Rata saw that
the edge of the axe was broken. His grandmother
told him to take it to the seashore and leave it buried
in the sand.
This Rata did. And the next day he took the axe
out of the sand, and he found it edged and whole.
Then he told his grandmother he was going into the
forest to cut down a tree and hew out a canoe for
himself.
He went into the forest and found a tree that was
of the timber that he wanted. With his axe he cut
it down. It was evening when he laid the trunk of
the tree on the ground; then he went back to sleep
at his grandmother's.
And in the morning he came along with the tools
for hollowing out the trunk he had cut down. But
not a sign of the trunk could he see in the place
where he had cut the tree down, and there was not
a twig or a chip around. Instead, he saw the tree
he had marked standing high and green.
He chose another tree and he worked all day,
cutting it down with his axe. But he did not go away
from the place when evening came on. He hid near
the felled tree to see what would happen.
And in the evening there came a crowd of the
Forest Gods. They came up to the tree that had
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been felled. They stayed around it. Rata heard them
as they chanted:
"It is Rata,
Rata felling the forest of Ta-ne;
Fly this way, splinters of Ta-ne;
Fly this way, chips of Ta-ne;
Yes, stick together; hold tremblingly;
Fly this way, ribs of Ta-ne;
Yes, sticking together; yes, holding.
Stand straight up, 0 stand up green and green;
Lift up, stand up growing green."
So chanted the Gods of the Forest, and the littlest
of the Gods of the Forest chanted to the leaves of
the tree:
"Join together, come together,
My beloved, my cherished ones:
Rejoin your parents, 0 leaves!"
The trunk stood up, the chips and splinters joined
on the trunk, and, then, last the leaves went on the
branches, and the tree stood up straight and green
as it was before Rata had used his axe upon it.
Rata dashed out from where he had hidden himself; then the Gods of the Forest all ran away. Rata
stayed there all night, and in the morning he worked
on another tree with his axe, and he felled it before
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He did not go; he hid in the branches of the tree
he had cut down. In the evening the great gods
Ta-ne and Tanaroa appeared to him through the
branches. They asked him why he wanted to cut
down the trees belonging to Ta-ne. He told them
that he was the grandson of Ta-whaki, and that he
wanted a canoe to go across the ocean in, and take
vengeance upon those who had killed his mother and
his father.
Then the great gods Ta-ne and Tanaroa said to
him that they would no longer permit the Gods of
the Forest to set up the tree again that he had cut
down for his canoe. And they told him that they
would have him helped in the making of the canoe.
They told him, too, who it was that had devoured his
father and his mother-the terrible Children of
Puna-and they told him of the way he must take
across the ocean to come to them.
That evening Rata went back to his grandmother's house, having stripped the tree-trunk of
its branches and having left it ready for his working
on it to hollow it out on the next day. When he left
the forest the birds at the command of Ta-ne and
Tanaroa all came together-sea-birds and landbirds, great birds and small birds. They began to
work at the trunk of the tree that Rata had left
there. They pecked at the trunk with their beaks
until it was all hollowed out. Then they joined the
parts together. With their long beaks the sea-birds
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bored the holes. The cords were put through and
well secured by the great claws of the stronger landbirds. All night the birds worked at his canoe while
Rata slept in his grandmother's house.
When the dawn came the birds prepared to carry
the canoe to Rata's dwelling. Each bird, sea-bird
and land-bird, small bird and large bird, took its
place on either side of the canoe, completely surrounding it. Then they all lifted their wings-one
wing to bear up the canoe and the other wing to fly
with. And as they brought the canoe through the air
the birds sang:
"A pathway for the canoe! A pathway for the
canoe!
A pathway of sweet-scented flowers for the canoe!
A pathway to the sea!"
Reaching the beach that was beside Kui's house, the
birds carefully laid the canoe down; then they flew
around, singing their songs.
Rata was awakened by the song of the birds. He
arose and got his tools together and prepared to go
back into the forest to hollow out the tree he had
cut down. He saw the canoe outside; it was beautifully finished. He knew that the great gods, Ta-ne
and Tanaroa, had had it finished for him and sent to
him; he took it and he named the canoe Tarai-po,
"Built-in-a-night." It was in this canoe that Rata
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sailed across the ocean to take vengeance on the
Children of Puna who had devoured his father and
his mother.
How Rata Sailed across the Sea in Ils Canoe and
How Vengeance Was Taken upon the Children of Puna and upon Puna Himself.
WHEN she saw the canoe that was so beautifully
shaped, Kui, his grandmother, said to him: "It is
well for you, my grandson; the gods have made your
canoe for you, and you will become a famous man,
and your descendants will be many. But your first
deeds must be the deeds of vengeance you wreak on
the Children of Puna; do not spare them."
He tried his canoe upon the lagoon to see if it
sailed well. It sailed better than any canoe that had
ever before been seen there. But Rata had at this
time no men to sail with him in the canoe.
Then a man came to him and called out, "0 Rata,
where are you going?" "I am going to sail over the
ocean and avenge the deaths of my father and my
mother." The man said, "I will go with you." "Who
are you?" "I am Canoe-paddler." "Come on board,
Canoe-paddler," said Rata.
Another man came, and he said, "0 Rata, where
are you going?" "I am going to sail over the ocean
to avenge the deaths of my mother and my father."
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worker." "Come on board, Rope-worker," said
Rata.
And then another man came, and another. "Who
are you?" "I am Sail-maker." "Come on board,
Sail-maker." "I am Canoe-bailer." "Come on board,
Canoe-bailer."
Another came, and another, and another. "Who
are you?" "I am Sailing-master." "I am Paddlemaker." "I am Canoe-steerer." When they were all
on board Rata had his crew of seven men. They set
up the sail, they took up the paddles, and they were
ready to sail across the ocean to take vengeance on
the Children of Puna.
Just as they were ready to start off another man
came, and asked to be taken aboard the canoe. "Who
are you?" said Rata. "I am Nanoa." "What do you
do, Nanoa?" "I flj kites." "You fly kites, and what
then?" "I fly kites and I exalt the heavens in my
song." "I will not take you on board."
The canoe started off. Then out in the middle of
the sea the people of the canoe came upon a great
calabash floating. "Our calabash of good luck," said
the men, "we will take it into the canoe." They took
it into the canoe and a voice spoke out of it, "0
Rata." "This is Nanoa, the flyer of kites," said Rata,
"into the sea with him." So they threw the calabash
into the sea again.
They sailed on. Out in the middle of the ocean
they saw a great calabash floating. "Our calabash
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of good luck," said the men. They took it into the
canoe. They opened it, and there was Nanoa. This
time Rata let Nanoa stay in the canoe.
As they went over the boundless ocean, Nanoa
cried out, "There is death before us!" They looked
and they saw a monster before them on the sea.
"Declare now who is your wizard," Nanoa said.
"We have no wizard; you, Nanoa, are our wizard,"
Rata said. "You have made me your wizard; now
I will strive for you against the terrible Children
of Puna and against Puna himself," said Nanoa.
Before them was the first of the Children of Puna
-Eke, the Octopus. Its eyes were on a level with
the surface of the sea; one of its tentacles gripped
the bed of the ocean; another of its tentacles was
raised up to the sky; when it descended it would
break the canoe and crush all the men in it.
Nanoa went into his calabash, and he made it
float over to where the Octopus was. It put its tentacles around the calabash; it took the calabash into
its mouth. But Nanoa had his knife in his hand; he
attacked its heart. Eke the Octopus thrashed the
sea with its tentacles, and it poured out its blackness upon the waters. But in a while it sank down
from the surface of the sea. The people in the canoe
thought Nanoa was lost to them, but then they saw
the calabash floating on the water. They took it
into the canoe, and Nanoa came out of it uninjured.
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"But for you, 0 Nanoa, we should all have been
destroyed," Rata said to him.
They went on in the boundless ocean, and then
Nanoa cried out again, "There is death before us!"
They looked, and they saw a great clam, with its
shell open ready to draw them in. This was Pa-ua
the Clam, the second of the Children of Puna.
Nanoa went into his calabash again; he made it float
over to where the Clam was. The Clam took the
calabash into its shell, and sank with it down to the
bottom of the ocean. Rata thought their helper was
lost to them. But in a while the calabash came to the
surface of the sea again; they took it into the canoe,
and when they opened it, Nanoa was there uninjured; he had killed the Clam at the bottom of the
ocean, and had forced his way out of its shell.
Again they went on through the boundless ocean.
"There is death before us!" Nanoa cried out. And
now they saw Mano-a the Great Shark bearing
down upon them. Nanoa got into his calabash; it
floated and the Shark came to it. Mano-a tried to
take the calabash between its double row of teeth,
but the calabash spun round and round and he could
not bite at it.
Nanoa slipped out of his calabash. He plunged
into the shark's mouth, past the double rows of
teeth. He had his knife in his hands, and he struck
at the Shark's heart with it. He came out of the
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Shark's mouth again, and Mano-a, the third of the
Children of Puna, floated upon the water, dead.
Nanoa came into the canoe. "But for you, 0
Nanoa, we should all have been destroyed," Rata
said to him. The canoe went on over the boundless
ocean, towards the Island where Puna lived.
Again Nanoa cried out, "There is death ahead of
us!" They saw, bearing down upon them, the last
of the Children of Puna, Aku the Sword-fish. He
came charging at them. Nanoa turned the canoe
until it lay with its side before Aku. He charged it,
and the sword which was the whole length of Aku's
lower jaw was embedded in the canoe. His mouth
was left open. He lifted the canoe up with his lower
jaw and tried to shake it off. But now Nanoa dived
under the water and stabbed up at Aku with his
knife. The monster shook the canoe this way and
that way, sweeping it through the sea and lifting it
up in the air. The men cut through the lower jaw
with their axes, and Aku was left floating on the sea.
Thus the last of the Children of Puna was destroyed. "But for you, O Nanoa, we should have
been destroyed," said Rata to his wizard.
They sailed for the Island where Puna lived. "Do
not go upon the Island until the cold south wind
blows," Nanoa told Rata. "Puna is weak when the
cold comes." So they did not go upon the Island
until they felt the cold of the south wind.
And when they went on the Island Nanoa went
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before them to the place where Puna was. He was
weak at the time, and Nanoa was able to bind his
hands to the trees and his feet to the rocks. So Puna
was bound when Rata came to him.
And when he saw the youth Puna said: "Begone!
I am old, but to-morrow I will show you that I am
able to overcome you." "I am Rata," said the youth,
"and I have come to take vengeance on you for the
deaths of my father and my mother." Then Puna
started up; he broke the trees that held his hands;
he split the rocks that held his feet. The sun rose,
and Puna was overthrown; Rata left him there
dead,
And having avenged on the Children of Puna and
on Puna himself the deaths of his father and mother,
Rata, after visiting many Islands, sailed back to his
home. "Here am I," he cried, "the warrior who went
into the deep sea, the splashing sea, and who returned safely after having taken vengeance on those
who killed my mother and my father." And Kui,
his grandmother, said to him, "O thrice powerful
thou art; great is thy strength and great are thy
deeds; I behold thee now, not as a man, but as an
immortal."
How Rata Came to His Death.
WOULD you hear how Rata, our great ancestor,
came to his death-Rata who made so many voyages
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and planted his people upon so many Islands that
people had not gone on before-Rata who travelled
throughout all the Great Engulfing Ocean in the
canoe that the gods had given him-would you hear
how Rata came to his death at last?
In the Island of Manuka there lived a great chief
whose name was Vaea, Vaea, whose wife was Apakura, the woman who is told of in many stories that
I have heard. Vaea heard that Rata was coming to
his Island. He went down to the harbor to watch for
Rata's canoe.
It came in. Night fell and the men drew the canoe
up on the beach and went to sleep in it-Rata and
all his men. Then Vaea, that great chief, went down
to where the canoe was drawn up. He lifted it; he
carried it over the mountains in the dark night, the
canoe with the sleeping men in it, and he left it in
the tops of the trees.
Before the dawn came the canoe-bailer awakened.
He took up his bailing-vessel and began to empty
out the water that was in the canoe. He heard the
water fall. But it did not splash as if it fell upon
water; as he flung the water out of the canoe it
sounded like rain.
Then the bailer looked over the edge of the canoe.
He saw the tree-tops. He saw that the canoe was in
the tops of trees. He called out and he awakened
Rata and the men.
All around them was the forest, and they, in their
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canoe, were on the tops of the forest trees. Into what
strange land had they come? The sun mounted in
the sky, and the men who had crossed the boundless
ocean looked all around them, and they saw nothing
but the forests of a strange country. One by one they
began to climb down the trees.
And as they came down, Vaea the chief of the
Island, killed them one by one. Last of all Rata
came down. He had the ropes of the canoe; he pulled
them, and he made the canoe fall through the
branches and come down upon the ground.
Then Rata and Vaea strove together, and Rata
was the one who was slain. Later Apa-kura, the
wife of Vaea, came searching in the forest for her
husband. She found him beside Rata's canoe that
was now turned into stone. And Vaea was half
turned to stone. As she cried out to him he said,
"Come, my companion. I, Vaea, the slayer of Rata,
go down into the shades." He fell down, a stony man
beside the stone canoe. The place where all this
happened is called to this day "Te Vao rakau o
Rata," "The Forest of Rata's Canoe."
And there are stories that tell more about Apakura; in these stories she did not go down to the
shades with Vaea, her husband. A youth came in
from the sea who was Tu-whaka-raro, the son of
Rata. He took Apa-kura for his wife, and their son
was Whaka-tau, who for a long time lived under
the sea, and flew kites, and knew magic. This was
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the Whaka-tau who, when Hina came for him, went
to make war for Tini-rau, that king having sent his
wife to bring him a warrior who would be able to
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How Hina Voyaged to the Island of the
King of the Fishes.
N the land of Nuku-tere there lived
a maiden whose name was Hina;
her father was Vai-to-rina and
EJl J   her mother was Nae-twa, and she
had a brother whose name was
Ru-pe. Hina's parents possessed
the greatest treasure in all the land: this treasure
was made up of ornaments and apparel-bracelets
and necklaces, a beautiful breast-ornament, and a
helmet that was made of the brightest and most
brilliant feathers.
Every day, before they left the house to go fishing, Hina's parents would leave the treasure in her
charge; she would have to take the ornaments and
apparel outside so that the sun and the air might
be upon them. And while they were outside Hina
would have to keep careful watch over them; she
would have to take them within the house if dark
clouds came over the sky. For there was a thief
named Nana who wanted to steal the ornaments and
apparel that Hina's parents possessed-the necklaces and the bracelets, the beautiful breast-ornament and the brilliant feather-helmet-Nana the
Thief wanted to steal them, but he could only steal
at night or when the sun was hidden.
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One day, when the treasures were left in Hina's
care, the sun shone brightly, and there was not a
cloud to be seen. She took them outside, and she
spread the bracelets and the necklaces, the breastornament and the feather-helmet upon a piece of
tapa, and she stood near to watch them. Then, although it was clear and bright in the day, the thief
Nana came along hoping for a chance to steal the
treasure. He saw the beautiful things that Hina had
laid out, and a desire to possess them came over
him. He hid in the bushes to watch Hina and to
watch the things she guarded.
He made incantations; his incantations were so
powerful that the clouds gathered around the sun
and darkness came on before Hina could take up
the treasure and bring it into the house. She went
and stood in the midst of the beautiful things; as
she did so she saw a man before her; she did not know
that this man was Nana the Thief, whom her parents
had warned her against.
He spoke to her, saying that she who had such a
treasure to guard must be high above anyone else
in the land of Nuku-tere. He praised the bracelets
and the necklaces, and the breast-ornament and the
beautiful feather-helmet. "Ah, if you, Princess,
could see me with such things on," he said, "how
much you would admire me!" Hina thought that
this man was handsome, and she thought that it
would be wonderful to see him with the helmet of
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brilliant feathers on his head, with the necklaces and
bracelets upon him. But she felt that the ornaments
and the apparel were in danger while they were outside the house in this darkness. Nana the Thief knew
what she was thinking of, and he said, "Only let me
stand inside your house with the ornaments and the
helmet upon me; only let me stand there for a little
while, for I would be admired by you, Princess."
She gathered up the ornaments and the apparel
and she brought them into the house. And she let
Nana come in, too. Ile begged again to put on the
ornaments and the apparel so that she might see
how fine he was, and admire him. She closed the door
of her house, and she stood guarding it. Nana put
the bracelets on his arms; Hina never knew how
fine the bracelets were until she saw them upon him.
He put the necklaces around his neck; they looked
wonderful there. He hung the breast-ornament
upon him. Then he put the great helmet of red and
black feathers upon his head; she was glad then that
she had let him put on all the things out of her
parents' treasure; he looked finer than anyone she
had ever seen.
And then Nana began to dance; he danced all
around the house; Hina thought that he danced so
that she might admire him, and she was fascinated
by all his movements. But Nana the Thief was dancing here and there so that he might search the walls
of the house for some hole or crevice by which he
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might get out with all the ornaments upon him. He
danced up and down while Hina watched him.
Now the parents of Hina had seen the darkness
come on; they were only a little way from their
house then; a fear came over them lest Nana should
come around in this darkness. So they hurried back.
But Nana at this time was within the house.
He danced around, searching for a hole or a
crevice while Hina watched him, fascinated by him.
At last he espied a little hole at the end of the house.
It was a very little hole, just a few inches wide. By
an incantation he made the hole wide and wider
still. He dashed through it and went out of the house
with all the ornaments and apparel on him.
Hina fell weeping before the door. It was then
that her parents came in. They lifted her up and
they asked her why she wept. "I weep," said Hina,
"because all is gone all the treasure that you left
me to guard." "Are the bracelets andthe necklaces
gone?" her mother cried. "They are gone," Hina
said. "And where is my feather-helmet?" her father
cried. "It is gone," Hina said.
Then her mother fetched in branches of the coconut tree and with them she beat Hina. Her father
beat her until her brother Ru-pe came in, and took
the branch from his father's hand and saved her.
And when she was free of all this beating Hina
stood up, and into her mind as if someone had
spoken it to her came the words, "Go, Hina, go
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to Motu-tapu, to the Island of the King of the
Fishes."
She ran out of the house and she went down to the
beach. She cried out to the first of the fishes that
came near:
"Come, bear me away on thy back:
Come, bear me away, away,
To Tini-rau, King of the Fishes,
With him to live and to die."
The little fish came over and touched her feet. But
when she went upon its back the fish turned over
and left Hina in the shallow water. And she was so
angry at the wetting she was given that she struck
the little fish, the avini, making the marks upon it
that are there to this day.
Then she saw a larger fish, the paoo, and she
called to it, saying:
"Come, bear me away on thy back:
Come, bear me away, away,
To Tini-rau, King of the Fishes,
With him to live and to die."
The paoo came over and touched her feet. Hina
mounted upon its back to make the voyage to Motutapu, the Sacred Island. But the paoo let her fall
into the shallow water. Then Hina struck it in her
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anger, making the blue marks that are upon the
paoo to this day.*
Outside the reef she saw a great shark. She called
to it, saying:
"Come, bear me away on thy back:
Come, bear me away, away,
To Tini-rau, King of the Fishes,
With him to live and to die."
The shark came to her, and Hina, carrying two
coco-nuts in her hands, mounted on its back. The
shark took her through the ocean. When she got
thirsty she called upon it, and the shark raised a fin
on its back, and with that fin Hina pierced the eye
of one of her coco-nuts, and drank the milk of it.
As they went through the Ocean, Hina became
hungry; she asked the shark to help her to break the
hard shell of her second coco-nut. She struck the
coco-nut on its forehead. But the shark, hurt by the
blow, dived down, leaving Hina in the water. And
from that day to this there is a bump on the shark's
forehead; in the Islands they call it "Hina's bump."
But he let her on his back again and they went on.
Hina saw eight sharks coming towards them to
devour her. She cried out to her own shark, "How
may we pass these devouring sharks?" Her own
* The paoo and the ulua fish are associated with the parents
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shark said to her, "Say to them all, 'Get away, get
away, or you will be torn to pieces by -Te-kea, the
King of all the Sharks.' " Then Hina knew that the
shark that carried her was Te-kea the Great.
The eight sharks came near. Hina cried out, "Get
away, get away, or you will be torn to pieces by
Te-kea, the King of all the Sharks." When she
said these words the eight sharks dashed off. Ten
more sharks approached them as they came near the
Island. But when Hina cried out, "Get away, get
away, or you will be torn to pieces by Te-kea, the
King of all the Sharks," they, too, dashed off.
And so Hina was brought to Motu-tapu, the
Sacred Island. Everywhere around the Island there
were ponds filled with fish. But no sign of an owner
was to be seen. As Hina went on she came to where
a drum was left. She beat softly on the drum to see
if one would come to her. The King of the Fishes
was away from his Island; but he heard the sound
Hina made by beating on his drum, and he hurried
back.
Seeing him come Hina hid herself. But Tini-rau
found her, and he brought her to his house. There
she became his cherished wife. He told her that it
was he who had, by magic, filled her with the thought
of going to him, and who had sent the King of all
the Sharks to bring her to his Island.
One day, when she was walking on Motu-tapu,
the Sacred Island, she saw a little bird come flying
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towards her. It lighted in the bushes. The bird spoke
to her; it had been sent by her brother Ru-pe to find
her. Then Ru-pe himself came. He took Hina, with
her children Koro and Ature, back to visit her parents. The King of the Fishes gave a wonderful
canoe to take them there and to bring them back.
Hina's parents made a feast for her; they forgot the
treasure that she had let be stolen from them, and
she forgot the beating they had given her. In a while
she returned to Motu-tapu, the Sacred Island, and
she lived on with her husband Tini-rau, the King
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The Little People of Ao-tea-roa.
OU tell me that it was not the birds,
Li ag that it was not the gods that made
the canoe for your Laka, that it
was the Menehune, the Little
People who work only in the
night-time. We have stories in Aotea-roa about the Little People; I will tell you two
of them.
Te-Kanawa was the name of one of our chiefs
who met with the Little People. He had gone hunting birds. The night came down, and he and his
attendants went to sleep under a tree-a great tree
that had immense upraised roots. They lighted a
fire before them, and they went to sleep between the
roots of the tree.
In the dark night they heard loud voices-the
voices of a company of people coming towards
them. Te-Kanawa was astonished to hear the voices
and to hear people coming that way, for they were
in a forest that was on the top of a mountain-a
forest that no people went into in the day, and now
it was night-time.
The voices grew louder and louder and the people
came near. And then, by the light of the fire, TeKanawa saw the people-men and women as high
as our middles, but broad and strongly made.
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They saw the lighted fire, and they came near to
it. They saw the men lying between the upraised
roots of the tree. They came, and they peered over
the roots at Te-Kanawa and his companions. Whenever the fire blazed up the Little People ran off and
hid themselves behind logs and stumps of trees. And
when the fire sank down again they came and looked
over the upraised roots at the men lying there. As
they came near they chanted:
"Where have you been, where have you been?
Climbing over the mountain Tirani,
To look on the handsome Chief."
Again and again they came back and peered over
the roots at Te-Kanawa and his companions.
The Chief's men were filled with fear; there they
were being looked over and over from between the
roots by the Little People. Te-Kanawa did not
know what to do to make them go away from where
his men were lying. He thought that if he handed
out to them all the ornaments he had they would
be pleased and go away.
He had a beautiful little figure that was carved
out of green stone. He took it off his finger. He had
a necklace that was made of whale-tooth ivory. He
took it from around his neck. And he thought that
he would not touch the hands of the Little People
while giving them the ornaments, so he put the little
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green figure and the necklace of whale-tooth ivory
on a stick that he placed in the ground. By the light
of the fire, then, he fastened the ornaments on an
upright stick.
And the Little People, when they saw the ornaments hanging there, took up their song again:
"Where have you been, where have you been?
Climbing over the mountain Tirani,
To look at the handsome Chief."
They came to where the ornaments were, to where
the ivory necklace and the little figure of green
stone were hanging from the upright stick in the
firelight. They drew away the shadows of the two
ornaments; they took away their shadows only; they
played with the shadows of the necklace and the
little figure as if they were the real ornaments.
Then the Little People went away. They went
through the trees and down the mountain-side, and
as they went they kept chanting:
"Where have you been, where have you been?
Climbing over the mountain Tirani,
To visit the handsome Chief."
They left the green stone figure and the whale-tooth
ivory necklace hanging from the stick, for they
were perfectly satisfied with the shadows that they
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had taken. In the morning Te-Kanawa and his men
went down the mountain-side without waiting to
hunt any more birds.
There was a time when a man named Kahu-kura
went on a journey towards a certain place that he
had always longed to see. His way was along a
beach. He came to a place where people had been
fishing: what had been cleaned from the fish was all
lying around.
Kahu-kura said to himself, "There must be plenty
of fish amongst the people of this place, for these
are signs that they have had a great catch." But as
he said that he knew that it could not have been the
people of the district who had been fishing there:
whoever had been fishing had not come in the morning nor in the clear daylight, but at night. And
Kahu-kura saw by the trails around that they were
little people who had been there.
"Oh," he said to himself, "the people who have
been fishing here are the Little People that come
out only at night. Perhaps if I came and watched
them when they come again to this place I might
learn something that I could make use of."
So, at night, Kahu-kura came back to the place.
The Little People were all gathered there. As
Kahu-kura came he heard them call out: "The net.
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the net! Bring the net this way!" The words puzzled
Kahu-kura, for he did not know what a net was;
up to that time there were no nets used anywhere
in the Islands of the Great Ocean. He watched to
see what sort of a thing a net might be. He saw a
thing that he could look through being brought out;
he saw them take it into the water. And then he
heard them all cry out, "Drop the net in the sea at
Rania-o-whia, and haul it in at Mamaku."
So they dropped the net, singing at their work,
for the Little People seemed to be in great heart
as they worked. Kahu-kura managed to mix with
them, and when the net was being hauled in, he, too,
pulled at the ropes. As the net came close some of
the Little People shouted out, "Go into the sea, some
of you, in front of the rocks, lest the net should be
entangled in that rugged rock there." Some of them
went out into the water, but the main body-and
Kahu-kura stayed with these-kept hauling at the
net.
At the peep of dawn the net was being landed,
full of fish, and the Little People ran here and there,
picking the fish up off the sand and hauling the net'
up on the beach. They did not do with their catch
what we do-divide it into separate loads for each
fisherman-no, they ran here and there, each picking up what fish he liked best. As they picked them
up they strung the fish on a cord, chanting out:
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"Make haste, make haste;
Run here, run there;
We must finish all, all,
Before the sun's up."
Now Kahu-kura had a string to put his fish on. He
put a knot at the end of it and he strung the fish on
through their gills. But when he lifted the string
the fish slipped past and fell down on the sand. The
Little People all ran to help him; they gathered up
the fish and they put the knot on the string for him.
When they did that for him Kahu-kura thought
of a plan to delay the Little People and keep them
from going, so that he might have a chance of finding out something about this strange thing, the net,
by which they were able to catch more fish than could
be caught with lines. He let his fish slip over the knot
again. Again the Little People ran to help him to
gather them up and to tie the knot on the string for
him. He let the fish slip off again, and again they
helped him.
As they were helping him for the third time the
sun came up; in the light of the day the Little
People saw that Kahu-kura was not one of them.
They fell into great confusion. Then, as the sun rose
higher they ran off, carrying as much of the fish as
they had gathered up, and leaving the net on the
beach still half full of fish.
Kahu-kura took up the net and examined it. The
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net the Little People used was made of rushes
plaited together. It was then that Kahu-kura
learned the stitch for net-making. And he was the
first in the Islands to learn how to make a net. From
the pattern that he had he taught the people to make
nets. And from that day to this the people of the
Islands of the Great Engulfing Ocean have nets
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The Princess of Pali-uli.


I. The House Thatched with Golden Feathers.
HE story says that beyond the
forest that was between Puna and
Hilo Laie and her grandmother
Waka found Pali-uli, the place
appointed by the gods for them to....______   dwell in-Pali-uli, the place that
the gods have since hidden from men. And there
they found a house ready for them-the house that
was thatched all over with the yellow feathers of the
o-o bird. In that house and in that place Laie grew
from childhood to girlhood. Her grandmother, who
knew some magic already, grew to know more and
more magic. A great Mo'o guarded the house they
dwelt in, and a rainbow made an arch above their
dwelling all the days of the year.
Before they came to that place they had been
living on another island. Laie, who was a child
then, wakened up and said, "I have had a dream,
and in my dream I was told that you were to take
me away and bring me to another island where there
is a place called Pali-uli that is appointed for us to
dwell in." When Waka heard Laie say this she
made ready to leave the place they were then living
in. They rose at dawn, and they went to the beach;
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across the water. The grandmother said, "Will you
let us get into the canoe with you and go to the
Island that you are going to?" The man said, "How
can I take you with me when I have no mate to help
me to paddle so many people?"
Her grandmother had put a covering across little
Laie's face so that her beauty might not be seen and
talked about. Laie now took away the covering.
And when the man saw her beauty he sprang to his
feet, for he wanted to spread the news through the
Island that a great beauty was on Molokai. He said
to Laie and to her grandmother: "Do not go yet.
Behold my house! Everything within it and without
it is yours. Stay in the house until I return." And
then he said, "I have to search for a mate to paddle
with me."
Said Laie's grandmother, "If that is the reason
for your going, do not think of it. We will help you
to paddle."
The man said, "You are of such high rank that I
could not permit you to paddle." He rose and he
went from them. But it was not to search for a mate
that he went: he went to let all upon the island know
that he had seen a maiden who was more beautiful
than any they had ever seen.
He came to where there was a crowd of people.
He shouted out to them. He held up the border of
his garment as he went amongst the throng. All who
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looked upon him declared that his face was full of
joy and gladness.
The Chief who was there said to him, "What is
the news that you proclaim with such a glad face?"
The man said: "In the early morning, while I was
fixing my canoe, a woman came to me with a young
maiden beside her. I could not see the maiden's face
for a while. But while we were talking she let the
covering come away from her face. And behold! I
saw a girl of such beauty that none of the daughters
of the Chiefs of Hawaii can come near to her."
When the Chief of the Island of Molokai heard
this, he said to the man, "If this girl is as beautiful
as my daughter, she is beautiful indeed." The man
begged the Chief to let him look upon his daughter.
Then when the girl was shown him he said, "Your
daughter must have four points more of beauty
before she can be compared with the maiden I have
looked upon."
The Chief said, "She must be beautiful indeed
if she is so much more beautiful than this girl." The
man said, "She is beautiful indeed, and of my judgment of beauty I can speak with surety."
He went away and went on through the Island.
And to everyone he met, and in every gathering he
went into, he spoke of the beauty of young Laie. He
was long away from his house and his canoe. And
while he was going through the island Laie and her
grandmother found another canoe, and in this
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canoe they crossed the water and came to the Island
of Hawaii. And beyond the forest that was between
Puna and Hilo they found Pali-uli, the place appointed by the gods for them to dwell in.
A Prince whose name was Ai-wohi heard the
canoeman speak of the beauty of young Laie. He
was of Kauai, and he brought the canoeman with
him to that Island. He kept him there, and he even
made him his Councillor. They often consulted together, the Prince and his Councillor; the people
thought they were talking about the affairs of the
island, but really they talked of nothing except the
maiden Laie.
And as soon as the rough season was over and the
good season had begun they crossed the sea to search
the other islands for Laie the Beautiful. The Prince
ordered the sailing-masters to make ready his great
double canoe, and he put the best paddlers aboard it.
Then he ordered the steersmen and the soothsayers
to observe the look of the clouds and the look of the
ocean at the going-down of the sun, so that they
might know if the signs were favorable for a good
journey.
The signs were favorable. Then in the dawn, at
the rising of the Canoe-guiding star, the Prince
went aboard with his Councillor and his sixteen
paddlers and his two steersmen. They set sail in the
double canoe, and after visiting other islands they
came at last to the Island of Hawaii.
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Now on the Island of Hawaii there was a sage
who had come there from Ai-wohi's country; this
sage had been following the signs in the sky that
showed where one beloved by the gods had a dwelling. The sage knew Ai-wohi's canoe; as it came near
he went down to the shore and he began praying for
the Prince. Ai-wohi knew him, and he saluted him.
And when the sage knew that his Prince was searching for Laie the Beautiful he pointed to the rainbow, and he said:
"See where the rainbow arches! Laie the Beautiful is there, the one whom you are seeking. It is her
sign in the sky that I have been following."
Said Ai-wohi: "Let us wait here until the raininess clears off and see if the rainbow stays."
They anchored the canoe, and they stayed there
waiting for the raininess to go. After three days the
raininess went. The whole country lay bare as Aiwohi awoke one morning, but still he saw the rainbow arching where he had seen it before. Long the
Prince waited until the sun came. Still the rainbow
stayed. He roused up the sage, arfd he said to him,
"You are right, and I know now that this rainbow
is a sign that the gods have put there." The sage
said, "The maiden you seek is in Pali-uli, and the
rainbow arches above where she dwells."
The Prince took men with him, and took his Councillor, and they brought with them the splendid
feather cloak that was his. They went on their way
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to Pali-uli. They went through forests and through
thickets of tangled brush, and they went up the side
of a high mountain. A cock crew. A man said, "We
are nearly out now." A second cock crew. Another
man said: "We are out now. There is the Princess's
grandmother calling her chickens together." The
Prince said, "Give me the feather cloak, so that I
may have one splendid thing in my hands when I
meet the Princess of Pali-uli."
They gave him the cloak that was made from the
golden feathers of the o-o bird-the most beautiful
cloak that anyone had ever worn. Then they went
on until they came before the house where the Princess lived with her grandmother.
But when he saw the house, the Prince who had
come so far became doubtful about his ever being
able to win the Princess of Pali-uli. For, behold!
Her house was thatched all over with the golden
feathers of the o-o bird. Then said the Prince to his
followers: "I had thought that the woman I came
for was beautiful indeed, but yet a woman after all.
But look at what is before us! The house that she
lives in is beyond all other houses that the eyes of
men have ever seen, and she who lives within it must
be beyond all other women. Let us return without
making ourselves known." Then the Prince and his
followers went back through the tangled forest.
As his Councillor went back with him he knew
that there was something in the Prince that was not
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worthy, and he was grieved that it was to Ai-wohi
that he had spoken of Laie the Beautiful. They went
into the canoe and they went back over the sea. But
Ai-wohi did not tell his Councillor why he was returning, nor what he intended to do when he got
back into has own land.
II. The Five Mai-le Sisters.
Now Ai-wohi had five sisters all younger than himself; they were named after the Mai-le vine that
grows in the forests of Hawaii. The first was named
Mai-le-hai-wale. The second was named Mai-le-kaluhea. The third was named Mai-le-lau-li'i. The
fourth was named Mai-le-pa-kaha. The fifth and
youngest was named Ka-hala-o-mapuana. It was
in the power of each of the sisters to give herself the
fragrance of the vine.
The Prince spoke to his sisters: "When I went
from my own land I did not tell you my reason for
going; I did not even tell you the place I was going
to; now I tell it to you in secret, my sisters, and I
tell it to you alone."
Then each of the Mai-le sisters said, "Tell us, O
brother."
"I went to fetch Laie the Beautiful to be my
wife," he said. "When I went to the place where she
abides I did not get sight of her face; I did not see
Laie, but my eyes beheld her house, and it was
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thatched all over with the golden feathers of the o-o
bird. Seeing this magnificence, I thought it would
be impossible to win her for my wife. And then I
thought of you, my sisters. Our father and our
mother and our brother dwell in the Shining
Heavens and they have the power of the gods. We
have not such power, but I, your brother, have less
of it than you have. I came back that I might bring
you with me to Pali-uli to help me to win the Princess whom the gods favor. At dawn let us go into
the canoe and make the journey."
When his sisters heard him say this they were
pleased that he had asked them to help him. They
made ready to go with him to Pali-uli.
And the next day, at dawn, the Prince picked out
fresh paddlers, and when all was ready for sailing
he took his sisters, with the very littlest sister of all,
Ka-hala-o-mapuana, and they set off for the Island
on which was Pali-uli.
They came to the Island, and the Prince told the
steersmen and the paddlers to wait for his return.
Then he said to his sisters, "There is Pali-uli, and
now let us try if you can win Laie the Beautiful for
your brother."
III. The Five Who Were Left Behind.
THE first of the sisters who went up to the house
that was thatched all over with the feathers of the
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o-o bird was Mai-le-hai-wale, the eldest of the five.
She went up to the door of the Princess's house. It
was night then, and all within the house were sleeping.
Fragrance came to Laie in her sleep. She started
up. "0 Waka, 0 my grandmother!" she cried out.
"Why do you waken me in the middle of the
night?" her grandmother said.
"A  fragrance has come in from the night, a
strange fragrance, a cool fragrance, a fragrance
that goes to my heart. I will open the door to what is
there."
"The fragrance is from a girl named Mai-le-haiwale," said her grandmother. "She has come here to
get you for a wife for her brother Ai-wohi."
"I will not marry him; I will live in Pali-uli
alone," said the Princess.
Mai-le-hai-wale heard what was said; she went
back to her brother. He said, "If the first-born has
failed, the others, no doubt, will be worthless." Then
the second sister, Mai-le-ka-luhea came to him. She
begged her brother to let her try to win the Princess
for him.
She, the second one, went to the house. She stood
at the door. The Princess wakened, feeling that
fragrance. "0 Waka, 0 my grandmother!" she
cried out.
"Why do you break my sleep again in the middle
of the night?"
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"Here is a fragrance, a fragrance stranger than
the fragrance before, a fragrance that goes to my
heart."
"It is Mai-le-ka-luhea. She has come to try to win
you for her brother."
"I will not open the door to her; I will not wed
her brother; I will live alone in Pali-uli," the Princess said.
Then Mai-le-ka-luhea went back to her brother.
"I have failed to come to the Princess," she said.
"Two of us have failed, but three remain to you."
"And I," said the third sister, "will go to the
house and try to win the Princess for you, my
brother."
So to the house that was thatched all over with the
feathers of the o-o bird Mai-le-lau-li'i went. She
stood outside the door, and the fragrance went
within the house. Again the Princess awakened. "O
Waka, O my grandmother!" she said.
"Why do you awaken me?" said her grandmother.
"Here is a fragrance, a fragrance from a strange
forest; here is a fragrance that lies around my
heart."
"It is only Mai-le-lau-li'i come to try to win you
for her brother," Waka said.
"I will not wed him, but will live here alone in
Pali-uli."
Then Mai-le-lau-li'i went back to her brother. She
was sorrowful because she had not been able to win
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to the Princess. Ai-wohi was angry with his sisters
now; he spoke to them harshly, And then, without
waiting for her brother's permission, the fourth
sister, Mai-le-pa-kaha, went and stood at the door
of Laie's house.
"What is this?" said the Princess when she wakened up. "This is a strange fragrance, a pleasant
fragrance, a fragrance that I should like to keep
around my heart."
"It is Mai-le-pa-kaha come to try to win you for
her brother," said her grandmother.
"I will not wed him; she may go away," said the
Princess.
When Mai-le-pa-kaha went back to him, her
brother said: "Ye have been useless to me; ye have
brought refusals on me that have shamed me. Stay
in the jungle here, for I will not bring you back
with me."
Then the four sisters began to lament. But the
littlest of the sisters, young Ka-hala-o-mapuana
said. "Had we known that you were bringing us to
leave us in this place we never should have come with
you. And now you are going away from us without
giving me, the youngest sister, the chance of winning Laie the Beautiful for you. I might have won
to her, my brother."
"Four refusals are enough without having a fifth
one," said the unworthy Prince. "But as for you,
my youngest sister, you shall come back with me."
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"I will not go," said the littlest of the sisters. "I
will not go with you unless we all go back to our
own land together."
Then said Ai-wohi to his youngest sister: "Stay
then with your sisters. All of you have been useless
to me, and now you may all go wherever you wish.
But I will not bring you back with me."
Ai-wohi departed, going down the side of the
mountain to the place where his canoe was, and leaving his sisters there in the forest. He left them although Ka-hala-o-mapuana, the littlest of his sisters, lifted up her voice and sang to him:
"Our brother and our lord,
Highest and closest!
Where are you, oh, where?
You and we, here and thereYou, the wayfarer,
We, the followers
Along the cliffs, swimming around the steeps.
No longer are we beloved.
Do you no longer love us,
The comrades who followed you over the Ocean,
Over the great waves, the little waves,
Over the long waves, the short waves,
Over the long-backed waves of the Ocean;
Comrades who followed you inland,
Far through the jungle?
Oh, turn, turn back!
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Oh, turn back and have pity!
Listen to my pleading,
Me, the littlest of your sisters!
Why will you leave us forsaken
In this desolation?
You were the one who came firstYou opened the way for us,
And we followed after you.
We are your little sisters.
Then forsake your anger,
The wrath, the loveless heart,
Give a kiss to your little ones!
Fare you well!"
But Ai-wohi would not turn back for her singing.
He went down the mountain. lie came to where his
canoe was, and he sailed back across the water.
IV. How the Littlest of the Five Sisters Won to
the Princess.
THE five Mai-le sisters, abandoned by their brother,
lived in the forest around Pali-uli, eating berries
and living in hollow trees; at night they used to light
fires and sit around them, singing to each other. All
day one or another of them watched for sight of the
Princess, but none of them ever saw her come out
of her house.
One day her elder sisters said to Ka-hala-o-mapuana, the littlest of the sisters: "All of us have
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tried to come to the Princess, to see her and to speak
to her, except you, our youngest sister. It is for you
now to think of some way of coming to her, so that
we may have her protection-we who are now forsaken in this wilderness."
WVhen this was said to her the littlest sister took
the wide leaf of the ti plant, and she made a trumpet
out of the leaf, and that night as she sat by the fire
with her sisters she blew upon the trumpet, making
merry sounds. She played, and the Princess in her
house that was covered with the feathers of the o-o
bird heard the music. She called to her hunchbacked
attendant, and she bade her go and find out who was
playing this new and strange music.
The hunchbacked attendant went out. When she
came back she said to the Princess: "I went to where
fires were lighted, and I saw girls around the firesfive girls, each as beautiful as any girl I ever saw.
I watched them without being seen myself. One,
the littlest girl, made the music, playing on an instrument of leaf with her mouth." The Princess
said, "Go and bring the littlest girl to me, that she
may amuse me by playing on that instrument."
So the hunchbacked attendant went again to
where the fires were lighted, and she showed herself to the girls. "I have come to take the littlest girl
to visit the Princess," she said, "for this the Princess has commanded."
Then Ka-hala-o-mapuana stood up and she went
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with the attendant; she took with her the ti-leaf
trumpet, and she said good-bye to her sisters, leaving them by the fires.
And so the littlest sister came before the house
that was thatched all over with the feathers of the
o-o bird, the house that had not been opened to her
sisters or to her brother. The door was opened for
her, and she went within. And there she saw Laie
the Beautiful. She was resting upon the wings of
birds. Two scarlet i'iwi birds were perched upon
the shoulders of the Princess; they shook the dew
from the red lehua-blossoms upon her head. That
sight was so marvellous to her that little Ka-hala-omapuana fell to the ground with a heart all shaken.
Then the Princess's attendant raised her up. But
the girl said, "Permit me to return to my sisters, for
the nature of your mistress is so marvellous that I
am made to tremble with fear before her." The attendant said: "Have no fear. Go to the Princess as
she has commanded you."
The Princess had heard their low voices; now she
called to the attendant to bring Ka-hala-o-mapuana to her. Then the girl came within the house
and stood before Laie the Beautiful.
Said Laie, looking at what the girl held in her
hand, "Is this the instrument that I heard sounded?"
"Yes, Princess," said the girl, "and the instrument is mine."
Then said Laie, "Play upon it, so that I may hear
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the merry sounds again." Ka-hala-o-mapuana put
the ti-leaf trumpet toher mouth and played upon it,
and Laie was delighted with the music that she
made. The Princess had never heard an instrument
of that kind sounded before, and she had Ka-hala-omapuana play again and again for her. She tried to
play on it herself, but she was not able to make any
sound come from the leaf. Then she said, "Let us
two be friends; you shall live here in my house and
make music for me."
Then said the littlest of the Mai-le sisters: "I am
happy that you should ask me to play to you. But I
have sisters, and they have already been forsaken,
and I cannot forsake them."
Laie asked her how she had come to that place
with her sisters, and Ka-hala-o-mapuana told her
of how they had been brought there by their brother,
and told her all that had happened. She told her,
too, the names of her four sisters, and Laie knew
that they were the girls who had come to the door of
her house, and whose fragrance had come to her.
Their brother was now gone from the place, and
she thought she might let the girls stay for the sake
of the merry music that the littlest of them made.
She would have a house built for them, she said, and
she would give the five girls her protection. Then, in
great joy, the littlest of the Mai-le sisters went back
to where her sisters were seated around the fires.
She told them that the Princess had commanded
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them all to appear before her. They, too, rejoiced.
They left the hollow trees where they had been living the lives of the forsaken, and went to the Princess's house.
When the attendant opened the door and when
the four girls saw Laie the Beautiful resting on the
wings of birds with the scarlet birds shaking the dew
from the lehua-blossoms upon her head, their hearts
trembled because of the marvel of that sight, and
they fell upon the ground. Ka-hala-o-mapuana
went towards the Princess. Then Laie spoke to them
kindly, and when they came and stood near her, she
said:
"I have heard that you are all sisters, and so I
would have you live together in one house; and
whatever one says, that the other shall do." To this
the five girls agreed, and the youngest sister said:
"Princess, we are happy that you have received
us, and all five of us will become a guard for your
house." The Princess agreed to let this be, and she
made the Mai-le sisters guards over the whole of
Pali-uli. No one might come to the Princess unless
he or she was brought to her by the Mai-le sisters.
Thus the five sisters dwelt in Pali-uli, and all the
time they were there it seemed to them that every
day was happier for them than the day that had
passed. Not for an hour did they ever weary of life.
Food was brought to them, but they never looked on
the person who had made it ready. Birds fetched
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what they ate to them, and cleared away all that
was left over. Pali-uli became for the sisters a
land beloved; they watched over the Princess and
guarded the house that was thatched all over with
the feathers of the o-o bird-the house that the rainbow arched above, and that had the strange Mo'o to
guard it. And now their only fear was that their
brother would come back and try once more to gain
the Princess, Laie the Beautiful.
V. Ai-wohi Returns to Pali-uli.
As for Ai-wohi, the unworthy Prince, he went sailing over the water to his own country. But he did
not reach his own country on that voyage; he was.drawn to another Island by a woman whom he saw
seated upon a cliff.
It was one of his steersmen who saw the woman
first. The man called out and spoke about her
beauty, and when Ai-wohi looked he saw that the
woman was beautiful indeed. He asked who she was,
and the steersmen told him that she was the Woman
of the Mountain, and that her name was Poli-ahu,
Cloak of Cold.
So Ai-wohi had the canoe go to where she was.
When they came near she rose up in her beautiful
cloak and spoke to them. "0 Poli-ahu, Princess of
the cliff and mistress of the coast," said Ai-wohi,
"we are well met indeed."
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"I am not the mistress of the coast," said the fair
woman to him. "I am come from the summit of the
mountain. Look! it is clothed in a white garment
like the one I wear."
They talked together, and Ai-wohi thought that
if he could win this fair woman to be his bride he
might be able to forget about Laie the Beautiful.
He asked her to be his betrothed, and she consented.
He knelt before her and he gave her the beautiful
feather cape that he had brought for the Princess of
Pali-uli. She threw over himthe cloak that she wore,
her cloak of dazzling whiteness. She promised, too,
that she would come to the house that he would be in.
To that house she came. All wondered to see that
strange white woman there. But all who had met
for sport and dancing shivered when the Woman of
the Mountain came amongst them, for the cold came
with her. Ai-wohi led her back, and up to her mountain summit, and there he nearly died of the cold. He
came back to where his companions were, and his
heart was the more filled with longing for Laie, the
Princess who lived in the house that was thatched
all over with the feathers of the o-o bird, the house
that the rainbow arched above.
Then one came to him who spoke of the beauty of
the Princess, and who told him of the five young
girls who guarded Pali-uli. When Ai-wohi heard of
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thing in Pali-uli is now in their charge. They will not
prevent my going into the Princess's house." Then
he went into his canoe, and with his companions he
went back to Pali-uli for the third time.
He went for a monstrous dog that he ownedKa-la-hu-moku, the devouring dog from Tahiti. No
man or company of men could face this dog. Aiwohi thought that even if his sisters did not let him
go into the Princess's house his monstrous dog
would overcome them and leave Pali-uli without
guards, so that he could force Laie the Beautiful
to come with him. When he thought of all this he did
not know of the great creature that guarded Paliuli-the great Mo'o that was named Kiha-nui-lulumoku.
He left his monstrous dog in a cave near where
he landed, and once again he climbed up to Pali-uli.
He thought he would come to the Princess without
his sisters holding him back. He went on until he
came to the first of the Princess's guardians.
This was Mai-le-hai-wale. She knew him, and she
wept when she saw him, remembering how loving
she had been to him in their parents' house, and remembering how he had forsaken her and her sisters
in this strange place. She said: "You have no right
to come up here; I am the outpost of the Princess's
guards, and it is my business to drive all back who
come up here; turn back then, turn back without
delay."
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But Ai-wohi did not turn back. He spoke to Maile-hai-wale, and he won past her, and he went on.
And then he came to the second of the Princess's
guards, to Mai-le-ka-luhea, who was now before
him.
Said Mai-le-ka-luhea, knowing her brother:
"How is this! You abandoned us, and now you come
here again. But now we are the Princess's guards,
and we cannot let you go past."
Said Ai-wohi, "I am here only to look at the Princess's house." Then he made Mai-le-ka-luhea remember the love that she had had for him, and he
won past the place she guarded, and he went on.
And then he came to the third guard, to Mai-lelau-li'i. Her, too, Ai-wohi persuaded, and she let
him pass. And then he came to the fourth guardian,
to Mai-le-pa-kaha, and her he made weep by speaking to her about their life together in their parents'
house. He went past her, and he came in sight of the
house that was thatched all over with the feathers of
the o-o bird.
And there he came upon the littlest of his sisters,
upon Ka-hala-o-mapuana, who was on guard before
the house. When she saw her brother she became
very angry, and she cried out: "Hasten back! You
have no business here. If you do not go back, I will
call on the birds of Pali-uli, and they will pick the
flesh off your bones." He spoke to her then, calling
her the youngest and dearest of his sisters. But still
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she cried out: "Return at once, delay not your going.
We now protect the Princess who protected us when
you abandoned us." Ai-wohi knew that he could not
move this guard nor win past her. He swore vengeance against her, but she called to the birds of
Pali-uli, and they flew towards him and made a
cloud about his head. Then Ai-wohi went back once
more from Pali-uli.
VI. How Ai-wohi Cheated the Princess
HE brought out of the cave the monstrous dog from
Tahiti-the dog Ka-la-hu-moku —and he bade him
go and destroy his five sisters and destroy all the
guardians of Pali-uli, and carry off Laie the Beautiful and bring her to him in the cave. The monstrous
dog bounded off to do as his master bade him. And
Ai-wohi sent too his two bird-messengers, Snipe and
Turnstone, to bring back word to him about how
the dog fared.
Now the youngest of the five Mai-le sisters began
to fear for what her brother might do, and she went
to the great Mo'o that guarded Pali-uli-to the
great Mo'o that was terrible when awake, but that
slept nearly all the time. She wakened up the Mo'o,
and she said to him: "0 Kiha-nui-lulu-moku, 0 our
guardian! Sleep no more, but guard us and guard
Pali-uli. Guard us from this lawless man, this mischief-maker, this rogue from the sea who is my
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brother! Guard us, 0 great Mo'o." Then the Mo'o
wakened up in every bit of his dragon-length, and
prepared to guard Pali-uli.
It was just then that Ai-wohi's bird-messengers
came in advance of the great dog from Tahiti. They
heard a humming in the thickets. They did not know
what this humming was, but it was the tongue of
the great Mo'o going here and going there. They
did not see the great Mo'o. But as they flew on they
knew that there was something above them. It was
the upper jaw of the great Mo'o, for his mouth was
now open and one part of it touched the ground and
one part of it was high above where they flew. The
birds were nearly caught between the great Mo'o's
jaws. They flew out in time to save themselves. Then
they flew high in the air, and they saw below them
the great guardian of Pali-uli. They knew that it
was only by the quickness of their flight that they
had escaped.
Then they saw Ka-la-hu-moku, the monstrous
dog from Tahiti, racing towards Pali-uli. As the
dog came near, the Mo'o sniffed, and with that sniff
he nearly drew the birds down through the air. The
great dog came along, and he was faced by the great
Mo'o. The dog showed his rows of teeth. But with
one snap of his jaws the Mo'o took off an ear and
took off the tail of the dog. The howl that came from
Ka-la-hu-moku was heard down in the cave where
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Ai-wohi stayed. Then the dog turned and went from
Pali-uli.
And when Ai-wohi saw his monstrous dog all disfigured he hardened his heart and he swore he would
not go from Pali-uli until he had his revenge for this
defeat. He bade his bird-messengers stay around
Pali-uli and tell him of all that was happening there.
And in a day Ai-wohi's bird-messengers heard
Waka, Laie's grandmother, speak to her. What
the bird-messengers heard her say, that they
brought straight to Ai-wohi.
Waka said to her granddaughter: "The time has
come when you are to be given to the husband that
I have chosen for you. To-morrow he will come. The
birds will carry you on their wings down to the
beach. I will cause a mist to come down, a mist that
will hide you from all the people there. And you
will take your surf-board and ride on the crested
waves. When the mist clears you will see one near
you. He is the man who will be your husband. Go on
your board with him back to the shore. You will give
him a kiss there, and because you have never given a
kiss to any other man he, the Prince whom I have
sent for, will take you as his wife. But if you had
given a kiss to another man, he would never take
you. Make ready, then, to meet him to-morrow."
His bird-messengers told all this to Ai-wohi. And
when Ai-wohi heard the plan of Laie's grandmother
he rejoiced, for he thought that a way was shown
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him to have revenge on those who dwelt in Pali-uli
and to win Laie the Beautiful for himself.
That night while he slept he had a dream. He
dreamt that he slept in a hollow tree, and that he
saw a little bird building her nest just outside the
tree. When the nest was built the bird that owned it
flew away. By and by another bird came. This bird
took the nest and stayed in it. And Ai-wohi was sure
that his dream meant that Laie the Beautiful would
be won, not by him for whom her grandmother had
prepared her, but by himself, Ai-wohi. And with
this thought in his mind he went down to the sea and
took out his surf-board and went out on the waves.
Then Waka covered land and sea with a mist.
And through that mist, hidden from all who were
there, Laie the Beautiful came, borne on the wings
of the birds of Pali-uli. She alighted on the beach;
she took her surf-board and swam out with it. She
was on the crested waves, stretched on her surfboard, when the mist cleared away.
And when she looked around her there were two
men there. This filled her with surprise, for she
looked to see only one man. Then, as she rested on
her surf-board, Ai-wohi came near her. He caught
her by her feet, and put an arm around her, and then
her surf-board was lost in the waves. She looked
around and she saw the other man-he was the
Prince for whom her grandmother had prepared
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her-standing on his surf-board and being carried
by the crested wave towards the shore.
And now Laie and Ai-wohi were swimming together in the open sea. She looked around and she
said, "The land has vanished." He said: "All this
is as your grandmother planned. Come upon my
surf-board." Laie went upon his surf-board. A
crested wave arose. They did not take it. Another
crested wave arose. They did not take it. A third
crested wave arose. They took this wave, and they
were carried to the shore. Then they stood together,
and Ai-wohi said: "How well all that your grandmother planned has come about! Here am I who
am to be your husband standing beside you, and all
the people on the shore are watching to see you give
me your kiss." Then Laie the Beautiful kissed Aiwohi, and all the people shouted. They thought that
nothing now would bar the marriage between the
Princess of Pali-uli and the most worthy of all the
Islands' Princes.
VII. How Ka-hala-o-mnapuana Journeyed to the
Shining Heavens.
BUT Waka looked before her, and she saw the
Prince whom she had chosen for her granddaughter's husband coming up from the sea. She looked
again, and she saw Laie giving a second kiss to Aiwohi. She was angry indeed; she went swiftly to
Laie and she said to her:
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"This is the man you have chosen. Take him now
for your husband and leave Pali-uli with him. Never
again will you be permitted to live in the house that
is thatched all over with the feathers of the o-o bird.
Never again will you have the power to rest upon
the wings of birds. I will go now to your sister Lohelohe, and all that I once gave to you I will give to
her."
And when Waka said that to her, Laie looked on
the man who was beside her, and she knew him for,Ai-wohi, who had abandoned his sisters and who had
tried to deceive her-who had deceived her into giving him her kisses. She ran from him and went to
Waka. But Waka flung her away from her. Then
Laie ran away from Waka and from Ai-wohi; as
she went along the beach she saw that the Prince
whom her grandmother had chosen for her was
going away in his canoe.
The birds would carry her no more upon their
wings. Through the brush and thejungle she made
her way up to Pali-uli. But when she reached the
place where the rainbow arched over the house that
was thatched all over with the feathers of the o-o
bird, the rainbow was not there, and the house with
the o-o feathers was no longer there.
Then Laie the Beautiful sank down on the
ground and wept because she was now outcast and
forsaken. But as she wept the five Mai-le sisters
came before her. And the youngest of the sisters,
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Ka-hala-o-mapuana, raised her up and spoke to he
The littlest of the maidens said:
"We became your guardians while Waka sti
protected you, and now that you are in trouble v
will share your trouble. We will not forsake yoi
and do you not forsake us until death shall part i
all." When Laie the Beautiful heard the words tl
sisters said, her tears fell down because of the lot
she had for her comrades. And from that time, a
though her beautiful house was no more, althoug
the birds did not carry her on their wings, and a
though the rainbow did not arch over where sl
was, the Princess had good and faithful attendant
And the great Mo'o stayed to guard Laie tl
Beautiful. It carried the Princess and the fin
Mai-le sisters to the lowlands of Olaa. There the
lived, and there the five sisters built a house for tl
Princess and got roots and fruits for food for a
of them. They heard no more of Ai-wohi, the
brother, nor of Waka, Laie's grandmother.
One day the sisters came to the Princess, and tl
youngest of them said: "Know that we have anoth
brother-a brother of such high rank that the pla
he lives in is called the Shining Heavens. He is
beautiful youth, and he is named 'Eyeball of t]
Sun.' The way to where he is is difficult, but X
have decided to go to him and to bring him to yo
that you may have him for a husband and so
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first the Princess would not let any of the sisters go
on a journey that was so far as to the Shining
Heavens. But at last she was persuaded to let the
littlest of the sisters, Ka-hala-o-mapuana, go.
The great Mo'o carried the little maiden on his
dragon-back, and they went across the ocean, and
in four months they came to the country that was
near to the Shining Heavens.
When they came to that country the Watcher of
the Land was away. When he came back he found
the great Mo'o there. It was asleep; its head filled
all the great house, and its tail was still in the sea.
A terrible sight it was for the Watcher of the Land!
Then Kiha-nui-lulu-moku lifted up its tail; the sea
swelled, the waves rose over the cliffs, the spume of
the sea rose high, and the white sand was flung upon
the shore. Then the Watcher was greatly frightened. He drew back, and as he did so Ka-hala-omapuana appeared.
"Whose child are you?" said the Watcher.
Ka-hala-o-mapuana told him, showing him that
she was related to all the great ones of the land.
Then said the Watcher, "I am your uncle, and I will
show you the road you must take to reach your
brother who dwells in the Shining Heavens and is
named 'Eyeball of the Sun.'"
He called up to the sky, and the Great Spider of
the Sky let down a spider web that made a network
in the air. Then the Watcher of the Land instructed
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Ka-hala-o-mapuana what she was to do. "Climb up
this network, he said, "and when you come to the
top you will find an old man with gray hair there.
He is your father. But if he should look upon you,
he will not hear what you have to say, for he will
take you for another, and you will die. But if you
can come to him before he sees you, you will be able
to win your way to the Shining Heavens where your
brother is.
"Wait until the Gray Man is asleep. Should he
turn his face down, he is not asleep. When you see
him with his face turned upwards he is asleep indeed.
Go to him; sit down upon his breast, and hold his
beard tight in your hands. Call out to him, saying
this:
"Old Gray Man, Old Gray Man,
Here am I, your child, your child:
Grant to me sight, the long sight, the deep sight;
Release for me the one in the heavens,
My brother and lord.
Awake!
Old Gray Man, awake!"
So you must call to him; and if he questions you,
tell him of the errand you have come on.
"On the way up to where the Gray Man is, if the
rain covers you and if the cold comes on you, do not
cower. Keep up and on. And then, if a fragrance
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comes to you, it is from your mother; when you
smell that fragrance all is well and you are near to
the end of your journey. If the sun's rays pierce
you and the heat strikes you, do not fear. Try to
bear it. Then you will enter the land that is called
the Shadow of the Moon, and you will be safe from
the heat."
After the Watcher had told all this to her, Kahala-o-mapuana climbed up the spider's web; she
went on and on, and when the evening came she
was all covered with the fine rain. Still she went on.
And then a fragrance came to her, and she knew
that it was from where her mother was. From dawn
until when the sun was high she travelled on; the
heat of the sun bore down on her. She did not shrink,
but kept up and on.
But she longed to reach the place that was called
the Shadow of the Moon, where the heat would not
be upon her. She went on, and she came into the
Shadow of the Moon.
It was night there, and she saw a high house
standing before her. She saw a Gray Man there
whom she knew to be her father. He was still awake,
and she did not approach him.
She watched and watched without moving from
the place she was in. Then the Gray Man's face
turned upwards. She knew that he was asleep; she
ran quickly to where he was, and sat down on his
breast and seized his beard in her hands. She called
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out to him the words that had been taught to her
by the Watcher below.
The Gray Man awoke. His beard, in which was
his strength, was held fast by Ka-hala-o-mapuana;
she kept twisting it here and there until his breath
was all gone. Then he said to her:
"Whose child are you?"
"Your own," she said to him.
"Mine by whom?"
"Yours by Lau-kiele-ula."
"Which of our children are you?"
"I am Ka-hala-o-mapuana, the littlest and the
youngest of your children."
Said her father: "Let go my beard. You are
indeed my child."
She let go his beard, and her father rose up and
set her in his lap. Then he said, "On what errand
have you come?"
"I have come on a journey to seek one in the
Shining Heavens."
"To seek which one in the Shining Heavens?"
"To seek my brother who is called 'Eyeball of the
Sun.' "
"Him found, what to do with him?"
"To bring him to my own land to be the husband
of Laie the Beautiful, the Princess of broad
Hawaii."
Said her father: "It is not mine to give consent
to what you ask. Your mother is the only one who
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can give consent. Go to her in her sacred house, and
ask her to let your brother and your lord become the
husband of the Princess of broad Hawaii."
She went, and she came to the sacred house where
her mother was. And when her mother asked her
why she had come so far, Ka-hala-o-mapuana said:
"I have come to get my youthful brother for a husband for our friend, the Princess of broad Hawaii,
Laie the Beautiful. She protected us when we were
lovelessly deserted by our elder brother. What he
did has shamed us. And we have no other way of repaying the Princess for the protection she has given
us than to get for her a worthier husband than the
one that her grandmother had chosen for her. Permit me then, my mother, to bring our princely
brother down to where she is."
Her mother said: "If anyone but you, Ka-hala-omapuana, had come for him, I should never have
consented to let him go from the Shining Heavens
and wed with one of the world's women. Since you
have come, I will not hold him back. Indeed, your
youthful brother has often said that the one he loves
best and thinks most of is you yourself, Ka-hala-omapuana.
Her mother then called upon Halulu, the
great bird, saying:
"0 Halulu, at the edge of the light,
0 bird that covers the sun,
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O bird that holds back the clouds above,
Here is one from the Heavens, a child of ours;
Come, take her, take her up to Awakea, the bright
Noontide."
Then Halulu, that tremendous bird, drooped
down its wings while its body remained aloft, and
Ka-hala-o-mapuana and her mother climbed up the
wings of the bird and sat upon its body. Then the
tremendous bird flew off and up, off towards the
Shining Heavens, and up to where Awakea, the
bright Noontide, is-Awakea, who is at the door of
the Sun.
When they went so far they found that the door
of the Sun was blocked by great thunder-clouds.
Then Lau-kiele-ula ordered Awakea to open the
way to the door for them. Awakea put forth his
hands, and the great clouds melted away.
Lau-kiele-ula and Ka-hala-o-mapuana went
within, and they found the Prince of the Shining
Heavens sleeping in his chamber. His mother
caught a ray of the sun and held it, and then the
Prince awakened and turned towards them.
"Oh," cried his mother, "here is your sister, your
littlest sister; she has come to visit you."
The Prince of the Shining Heavens ordered the
guards of the shades to come forward. And when
they came, and when shadows were brought across
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the place where he lay, he called to his sister, and
she came and stood before him.
Then the Prince of the Shining Heavens rejoiced
that the littlest of his sisters had come to him, for
long had been the days of their separation. Ka-halao-mapuana told him about Laie the Beautiful, and
told him that she had come to bring him from his
high place so that he might, take the Princess of
broad Hawaii for his wife.
And when she had told him of the Princess, her
friend, he turned to his mother, and he said: "Laukiele-ula, it is yours to give or to withhold consent.
Do you consent to my going to win the one she
speaks of for my wife?"
"I have consented already," his mother told him.
"But if anyone else had come to win consent, I
would not consent."
Then said the Prince of the Shining Heavens:
"Return, Ka-hala-o-mapuana, return to your sisters and to the Princess, your friend. My wife she
will be. Listen, and I will tell you the signs of my
coming to her.
"When the rains fall and flood your lands I shall
still be here in the Shining Heavens; when the billows swell and the surf throws white sands upon the
shore, I shall still be here; when the thunder peals
without rain coming, I shall still be here.
"But when the thunder peals again and then
ceases, I shall have left my house in the Shining
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Heavens; when the thunder rolls and the rains pour
down and the ocean swells and the land is flooded,
when the lightning flashes and a mist overhangs the
land, when the rainbow arches and a colored cloud
rests on the ocean, I shall be behind the mountain.
"Then my meeting with your Princess will come
about; it will be in the dusk of the evening on which
the full moon rises. Take this to give to Laie, that
I may know her then-this rainbow garment."
Ka-hala-o-mapuana took the rainbow garment,
and she rejoiced, knowing that she had won her
brother for a husband for her friend. Out of his
house they went, she and Lau-kiele-ula, and they
took their seats again on the body of Halulu, and
they were brought down by the tremendous bird,
down to her mother's house. From there she descended by the thread that was let down for her by
the Great Spider of the Sky. She came to the place
where the Mo'o was, with its tail far out in the
ocean. She went on the back of the Mo'o, and they
went across the ocean, and after many moons she
came again to the place where her sisters and the
Princess stayed in broad Hawaii.
VIII. How the Prince of the Shining Heavens
Came to and Went from Laie.
ALL the signs that the Prince of the Shining
Heavens spoke of came to pass-thunder pealed in
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the sky in the dry weather and in the wet weather;
rain and lightning came; the billows swelled on the
ocean; the freshets flowed on the land; land and sea
were covered by a mist, and a colored cloud rested
on the ocean.
Then came the time of the full moon. In the early
morning when the sun rose above the mountains, the
Prince of the Shining Heavens was to be seen, encircled by a red mist. The Prince of the Shining
Heavens looked down, and he saw the one who was
clothed in the rainbow garment, and he knew her
for Laie the Beautiful, the Princess of broad Hawaii, whom he was to wed. In the dusk of the evening he came down. All his sisters bowed before him;
he went to Laie and took her hands.
Then he took Laie and brought her up to the land
in the Shadow of the Moon. For ten days they
stayed there. Then his sisters saw a rainbow being
let down from the moon to the earth. Down the
ladder of the rainbow came Laie and her husband.
After that the Prince of the Shining Heavens
made his sisters rulers over the Islands, and once
again Laie and her husband went within the clouds
and they dwelt in his house in the Shining Heavens.
A long time they lived there, and for a long time
Laie was happy with her husband. He went often
down to the earth. Once when he was away for a
whole year from his house in the Shining Heavens,
Laie went to the father of the Prince, and she said
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to him, "Give me power to see what is happening
where the Prince, my husband, is."
He said to her: "Go to my wife's house. If you
find that she is sleeping, go within. You will see a
gourd that is plaited with straw and feathers. That
is her gourd. Do not be afraid of the great birds
that are on either side of it. When you come to it,
take the cover off the gourd, put your head into it,
and call out its name, saying, 'Lau-ka-palili, Trembling Leaf, give me vision.' You will get vision then,
and you will see all that you would see. But you
must speak in a low voice, for you must not awaken
Lau-kiele-ula, who guards the Gourd of Vision. She
guards it by night, but in the daytime she sleeps."
In the morning Laie went to Lau-kiele-ula's
dwelling; she watched until she knew that Laukiele-ula slept. She went to where the Gourd of
Vision stood, and she was not made afraid by the
great birds that stood on either side of it. She lifted
the cover off the gourd; she put her head within it
and she called out, "Lau-ka-palili, Trembling Leaf,
give me vision."
Then vision came to her; she saw all that was happening at a distance; she saw the Prince of the
Shining Heavens with her sister, and she knew that
Lohe-lohe, and not she, was his beloved one.
Great grief came to Laie. She was alone now in
the Shining Heavens, and for a whole year she told
no one what she had seen. Then she told the father
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and mother of the Prince. They let down the rainbow and they came to where he was. They took all
his powers away from him, and never afterwards
was he able to go up into the Shining Heavens. He
wandered about the Islands then, his place and his
glory lost to him. Nor did Laie ever go back to the
Shining Heavens. She found her sister Lohe-lohe,
and they lived together, with the Mai-le sisters to
wait upon them and guard them. And ever afterwards Laie the Beautiful was known to the people
as the Woman of the Twilight.


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HEN she was born she was left
with the taro-buds and the crushed
sugar-canes, for no one would rear
her as a child. Then her grandmother had a dream; in her dream
a beautiful girl stood before her.
"What do you want with me, beautiful one?" the
grandmother said; "I have never looked upon you
before." "I am the youngest daughter of your
youngest daughter, and I want you to come for
me." "And where shall I find you?" "You will find
me amongst the taro-buds and the crushed sugarcanes where the trash has been thrown out."
So the grandmother arose and hastened to the
place where her youngest daughter lived. When
she came near the place she saw a rainbow. Then
her eyes became dim, and when she saw the rainbow again it was over the place where the trash had
been thrown. She saw a child lying there with the
crushed sugar-canes around it; she took the child
up, wrapped it in a fold of her skirt, and took it to
her home.
In twenty days it had become a beautiful girlchild-a girl whom her grandmother reared carefully until she was twenty years old. At that age
she was like the beautiful girl who had appeared in
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her grandmother's dream; her figure was erect and
faultless; her skin was firm and smooth like the
covering of the young banana-shoot, and her eyes
were dark and soft like wela-weka. I do not know
what name was given her then; I only know the
name that was given her afterwards; perhaps because she gathered the lehua-blossoms and twined
them into wreaths, she was called Lei-lehua.
Where she lived no one ever saw her except
her grandmother and her attendant-no one else,
neither man nor woman. And she saw no one else,
neither woman nor man. And she never went from
her grandmother's except to go into the woods to
make her wreaths of lehua-blossoms.
One day when she was in the woods with her
attendant, the bird Elepaio appeared and called out
to her from amongst the leaves. The notes that Elepaio made became words in her mind:
"Wend to WTai-a-hao, wend;
The fish is fine and the fruit."
Lei-lehua said to her attendant, "Is it a bird that
is calling like that?" Her attendant said, "It may
be a branch scratching against a branch, or it may
be the wind going amongst the leaves." "Hark,"
said Lei-lehua. And again the notes of Elepaio
made words in her mind:
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"Wend to Wai-a-hao, wend;
The fish is fine and the fruit."
"There," said Lei-lehua, "I told you it was a bird."
Then the bird sang to them, and the notes that
the bird made became words in Lei-lehua's breast.
"This is the glade Haili,
Where birds the lehua-buds sip.
What of the dells of Hilo
Where awa upon the tree grows,
And birds cry gathering the awa?"
When Elepaio cried this out, her attendant said to
Lei-lehua, "Let us return home, for the time for
stringing our wreaths of lehua has ended."
But as she said this, the notes of Elepaio sounded
again, and in Lei-lehua's breast the notes became
words:
"Ye mists,
Ye mists that creep in the uplands,
Ye mists that creep towards the sea,
Come, gather!" 
And as the bird cried out this the mists came down
and the mists gathered, and Lei-lehua and her attendant were lost to each other in the glade.
Still she heard the calling of the bird Elepaio.
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She followed the notes as they sounded, going away
from where the trees grew. Then the mists lifted;
the sun was setting, darkness was coming on, and
there was a house before her.
She went within the house. There was a handsome youth there, and he greeted her. She greeted
him, speaking in a low voice. Outside the bird Elepaio cried, telling the youth how he had found the
girl in the glade of the lehua trees.
The youth was Ka-lama-ula, the son of a prince.
He went to Lei-lehua and took her hands, and told
her that he would have her stay with him as his wife.
The maiden said to him: "0 my lord, let me be! I
am friendless, but let me remain for thirty days, and
then, perhaps, response to you will rise within me."
When she said this, more and more admiration grew
in Ka-lama-ula for the beautiful girl that the bird
Elepaio had brought him.
She stayed with the mother and with the sister of
Ka-lama-ula. In the night after the third day she
was there, she had a dream. In her dream a man
came close to her; he was not like Ka-lama-ula, the
only man she had ever seen; this man had a high
feather-helmet upon his head; on his shoulders there
was a cape of bright feathers, and he held in his
hands a war-club. The man said to her: "Your
grandmother promised that you were to be mine.
I have waited many days, and the spirit within me
has fainted because the promise given me has not
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been fulfilled." "What must I do?" Lei-lehua said
to him in her dream. "You must prepare yourself to
go on a strange journey." Lei-lehua replied, "I did
not come here with the consent of my people, and
the steps that led me here were not foreseen; therefore, I will take your words as a mantle to keep
upon my shoulders at all times."
When she woke up and knew that she had been
dreaming, she tried to fathom what she had dreamt,
but she could not fathom it. Her mind was possessed
by a sense of a forest-that was all that remained
to her of her dream.
The next night the dream came to her again. The
man whom she now knew to be in the guise of a
warrior came to her. Again he told her of the promise that her grandmother had made him, and again
he spoke to her about preparing herself for a
strange journey. And in the morning she had a
dream that she could not fathom, and a sense of the
forest possessed her.
She fell in love with the one who had come to her
twice in dream. But she could not come to him, so
she folded her arms and wept. When the youth Kalama-ula saw her weeping he said, "Quiet yourself;
not until many days have passed will you have to
tell me whether you have a love that responds to
mine or not." Lei-lehua made no answer to him. On
the third night she dreamt again of the man in the
guise of a warrior; then, before dawn, she rose up
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and she left the house. She was ready now fo]
strange journey that the warrior in her dream
told her of.
When she had gone a little way the mour
clouds began to thicken; drops of rain began to
one by one; the wind began to rise: then the r
crept over the ground, and a rainbow appeared
stayed before her. Again she was closed arc
with the mists, and all things were hidden from
view.
She went on. The mists lifted, and she went
the empty hills and across the empty plains, an(
came into the uplands of Pu-hula-moa, a plac
together without people. There she lived. She s
her days in the glades gathering lehua-blossoms
stringing them into wreaths. She tasted no f
When she slept the man in the guise of a wal
appeared to her in her dream.
Because of the suffering and the loneliness
were hers in that place her name became "Hoa-m
i-ke-kula," "Companion-in-suffering-in-the-gla
After leading the life of a wanderer for many
she took shelter in a tree; she wrapped the vine
the tree around her, and she made up her mind
she would stay there until death came to her.
There was a man who was a King's steward,
he went to where the trees grew to get timbei
the building of a house. As he went he saw s(
thing bright in an olapa tree. He went to it
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looked up, and behold! there was a beautiful woman
in the tree, and she was wrapped around with the
ie-ie vines. The man said, "Come down, that I may
speak to you; come down, wanderer." She came
down from the tree. But when she stood before him
he did not treat her as he would have treated a
wanderer. He saw Hoa-make-i-ke-kula standing
before him, and he fell at her feet, and he said: "I
am indeed blest in beholding your eyes and your
face and in knowing your goodness and your
beauty. I beg, my Princess, that you will let me tend
yolu.
Seeing that the man was true and good, Hoamake-i-ke-kula let him tend her. He brought her
food, and she ate, staying near the olapa tree. The
man went back to his lord running and with his eyes
shining. "I have seen your beautiful one in the
flesh," he cried; "I have seen Hoa-make-i-ke-kula."
He cried out this because he knew of the dream that
his lord had had.
Then, without speaking, his lord-King Pu'u-onale he was-want hurrying with him to where the
maiden was. She saw him, and she knew that the
man of her dream was before her. Tears filled her
eyes and she wept.
The King said to her, "Why do you weep, my
Queen?" And she said, "I have seen one like you in
my dream, time after time, and I am paying the
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debt of my love with my tears." And she cried, "0
my sadness, and 0 my tears!"
Pu'u-o-nale said, "What was he like, the one you
saw in your dream?" "He was like you, and his
voice sounded like yours. But he was different, too;
he had on his shoulder a feather-cape, he had on his
head a helmet of bright feathers, and he had in his
hands a war-club." When she said this, Pu'u-o-nale
took her by the hand and brought her to his house;
he put the helmet of feathers on his head, and the
feather-cape upon his shoulders, and he took his
war-club in his hand; he stood before her in this
guise of a warrior, and Hoa-make-i-ke-kula knew
him for the man she had seen in her dreams.
And he knew her who had appeared to him in
dreams, and he took her and made her his wife. At
their marriage the thunder sounded, the lightning
flashed, and eight rainbows arched themselves in
the heavens. These were signs from the gods that
two whom they would have come together had come
together at last. They lived together in Kohala,
Pu'u-o-nale and Hoa-make-i-ke-kula —in Kohala,
that proud land with its lonesome and loving
meadows —in Kohala that is loved by its people.
And in Kohala I got this story, and I have told it
as it was told me there.


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Le-pe the Bird-Maiden, and How Her
Brother Kauilani Sought for Her
and Found Her.
I.
HIS is the story of Le-pe who
changed from a bird into a maiden,
r I      and Kauilani, her brother who had
the magic girdle and the magic
spear: the story begins with Le-pe.
She was born in the form of an
egg, and her father would have thrown the egg into
the sea as an offering to the sea-monster, but her
mother would have saved it. And while they were
speaking about what they should do with the egg,
Palama, the grandmother, came in a canoe from the
other island. She said she would keep the egg and
see what came of it. So she took it and went with it
in her canoe back to the Island of Oahu. There she
and her husband built a house of the finest grasses,
and they made this house forbidden to everyone;
within it they left fine tapa for a bed; they put festoons of vines about the walls, and they left the egg
there wrapped in soft tapa.
One day Palama went to this house and raised
the mat at the door and looked within. And there
she saw a bird that had come out of the egg. Every
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kind of feather she had ever seen on any bird
upon this bird. She and her husband fed it
cooked sweet potato, and they named it L
After the bird fed it went to sleep, covering its
in its wing.
There was a Sorceress of the Sky who was c
Ke-ao-lewa, Moving Cloud; she came to them i
form of a woman, and she told Palama and toll
husband that she was going to make a bathing
for Lepe. The pool was made by the seashore. V
the bird had eaten the food that was preparei
it, it would go to the edge of the pool, ruff
feathers, drink of the water, and then go in
swim and dive and splash about. After that it v
fly into the branches of a tree, shake the wate
its feathers, and dry itself. And then it wou]
within the house and cover itself with the soft
and go to sleep.
One day it went into the pool and took the s
upon its feathers. But when it shook itse
changed; the bird became a girl. The girl stoc
the bathing-pool looking at herself in the v'
And then she went within her house and stre
herself on the tapa with her face to the groun(
cried out to Palama.
Palama and her husband-Hono-uli-uli wt
name-were within their house. They heard a
voice say: "O where are you? Will you not coi
me?" They said to each other, "What voice car
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be?" They listened again and they heard the voice
that was like a child's: "O where are you? Will you
not come to me?" Then Palama said, "The voice is
from the house that we made for Le-pe and for no
other." She went and lifted the mat and looked
within the house.
And there, lying on the tapa, she saw a girl; she
fell down on the ground in a faint of surprise. Her
husband ran and lifted her up. "When I went to
the door of the house and looked in I saw a girl
lying on the tapa. Can it be that Le-pe has become
a girl?"
They were glad then that they had kept the egg
and had cherished the bird. Palama brought the
girl a colored skirt and put it on her. From the Sorceress of the Sky Le-pe received a wreath of green
feathers that she always wore. And now Le-pe the
Bird-maiden had two bodies: in one of them she was
a bird, and in the other she was a girl so beautiful
that a radiance came from her, filling the house and
shining through the mist in splendid rainbow colors.
II.
LE-PE was the daughter of Ke-ahua, a chief in the
Island of Kauai, and of Ka-u-hao, who was the
daughter of Palama and Hono-uli-uli. Before she
was born her father was attacked by the monster
Akua-pehu-ale; the monster destroyed his people
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and drove him away from his lands and his possessions. Another child was born to Ke-ahua and Kau-hao; this was a boy, and they took him to Wai-ui,
the Wondrous Water, and they bathed him in it.
After that the child grew quickly; he had the
strength and the size of a man while he had only the
years of a boy. Kauilani, his parents named him.
One day his father looked on the boy and he said
to him: "How fast you have grown, my son! How
soon you have become a man! Maybe you will be
strong enough soon to help me against my enemy."
And then his father told young Kauilani about the
monster who had destroyed his people and driven
him from his lands and his possessions. Kauilani
said that he would go and destroy this monster.
So he took his men and he went to the place
where his father's people, before they were destroyed, had their houses. He ordered his men to
go to the top of a hill and burn brush and dry wood
upon it. This they did. And the monster in the sea
saw the fires, and he said: "These are fires made by
men. What men have escaped my destruction? I
will go see, and whatever men I find will be food
for me."
So he came to the beach. He saw the youth Kauilani standing there. Ie said, "You escaped me before, but now you shall be my food." He opened his
mouth wide; one jaw rose up like a precipice and
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the other rested on the ground, while his tongue
went out to draw in the youth to devour him.
'Kauilani said to him: "It is right that you should
die; you are old and your eyelids hang over, and
your skin is shrunken. I am young and able. Tomorrow I will do battle with you." He went from
Akua-pehu-ale then.
He went from the monster, and he went to his
father. And his father gave him a girdle that added
strength to his strength, and he gave him a spear
that was from his ancestors. "Koa-wi koa-wa is its
name," his father told him; "there is magic in it and
it will tell you what to do." It was a polished and
sharpened spear.
He went to where the monster was, and he made
his father the watchman of the battle. "If smoke
rises to the sky and then sweeps seaward and comes
to you," he said, "you may know that I have perished in the battle. But if the smoke goes along the
precipice you may know that our enemy has been
slain."
Then Kauilani went down to the seashore, carrying in his hand the magic spear and with the magic
girdle around him. The monster came upon him
with a sound that was like the noise of great surf
upon the beach. The sand and the soil were tossed
up in great clouds. Kauilani twirled his sharp-edged
spear, chanting as he did so: "0 Koa-wi koa-wa,
strike! Strike for the lives of us two!" The power of
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his magic girdle strengthened his arms, and his
spear was ready to do what he would have it do.
His spear struck at its open mouth, forcing the
monster from the seashore, from the place that was
known to it. Farther and farther from the seashore
Kauilani and his spear forced it. The monster got
entangled in the thickets; Kauilani kept at it, and
his spear leaped again and again upon it, dealing
sharp thrusts. At last Akua-pehu-ale fell under the
sharp thrusts that Kauilani gave with the spear
Koa-wi koa-wa.
Then he made a fire, burning the body of the
monster. The smoke rose up and went along the
precipice. And Ke-ahua, seeing it, knew that his
enemy was killed, and he prepared a feast for his
victorious son.
III.
His parents gave him a feather-cape to wear with
his magic girdle, and then Iauilani went in search
of his sister. He took his spear in his hand, and he
went down to the sea. He laid his spear upon the
water; he stood upon it, and the spear, carrying
him, went leaping from wave to wave like a great
fish. Like a flying fish it swept across the sea, going
from Kauai to Oahu.
It left him upon the beach. He flung it from him,
and the spear went flying on until it came to where
two women were. It fell at their feet.
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The women saw the spear with the wonderfully
polished shaft and head; they took it up, and they
found a hiding place for it. They covered the spear
up, and they went on with their work.
Soon Kauilani came along. He greeted them,
and he said to them, "How long ago is it since you
saw my travelling-companion?" But the woman said
that no traveller had gone by. He asked them then
if they had seen a spear travelling by itself, and they
told him that they had not seen such a thing.
But Kauilani was doubtful because of the way the
women looked at each other. He said to them, "Have
you concealed my companion, my spear?" Again
they said that they had seen no spear. Kauilani
then called out, "Koa-wi koa-wa, Koa-wi koa-wa,"
and a thin, sharp voice said, "I am here, I am here."
It leaped from the place where it had been hidden,
and Kauilani took it up.
Once more he went on, casting the spear before
him, but now he threatened it, saying that he would
break it if it went away or became lost. The spear
spoke in its thin, sharp voice, and it said: "You
must not injure me. If you do, your travels will
come to nothing. But lay me down upon the beach,
and I will take you to the place where you will find
your sister."
So he laid the spear down on the beach and he sat
upon it, and the spear carried him on. It lay upon
the ground again, and it said: "You will see a tree,
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a great wili-wili tree standing near the sea and leaning out over the water. Go climb that tree and look
along the beach until you see a rainbow over the
water. Under that rainbow there is a girl catching
fish and gathering sea-moss; she is doing this for her
grandparents. That girl is your sister Le-pe."
He went along the beach; he came to the wiliwili tree, and he climbed to its top branches. He
looked along the beach; he saw, not a rainbow, but
red mist covering the water. He called down to his
spear.
The spear answered, "Everything is changing on
the face of the sea; look again." He looked again;
the rain and the mist went away, and he saw a great
bird with many red feathers upon its body and its
wings. It flew up from the sea; so great it was that
it cast a shadow over the beach. "What is that great
bird that is flying over the ocean?" Kauilani called
down to his spear. "It is your ancestress, the Sorceress of the Sky," the spear said; "she has come to
visit your sister." Then Kauilani looked again, and
he saw a rainbow; there was a girl beneath the rainbow, and she was gathering sea-moss.
IV.
LE-PE'S beauty, when she was in her girl's body, was
so full of shining power that colors rested in the air
around her. The rainbow stayed over the house
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when she was within it, and bent over the pool
when she bathed in it, and stayed over her when she
went upon the beach.
One day she said to her grandparents, "I want
another kind of food; I am going down to the sea
for fish and sea-moss." She went to the beach; she
saw the surf of Malama coming in, and as she
watched it coming in, she chanted, "My love, the
white surf, the white surf that I ride on."
She rested on the crest of the wave. She saw a
fish in the water, and she took it in her hands. "One
fish, the first for the gods," she said. She went to
the beach, and she put the fish in the basket she had
left there. Again she went out, and she saw two
fish coming to meet her. She took them and she
said, "Two fish for my grandparents." She put
them in her basket. She went out again, and she
saw and caught another fish. "For me," she said,
"this fish is mine."
She gathered sea-moss from the reef; then she
went back and left the fish and the sea-moss in her
grandparents' house and went into the house that
was forbidden to all except herself. There she
stayed, and there she changed herself into her birdbody.
Now Kauilani came to the house where her grandparents and his grandparents lived. He told them
who he was, and they rejoiced over him. He told
them then that he had come to visit his sister. His
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grandmother said: "You must not go into the house
that is forbidden to all except herself until she has
fallen asleep. When she is asleep you must catch her
and hold her until she accepts you as her brother.
And while you hold her I will make incantations for
your good luck."
Le-pe, changed into her bird-body, slept. Her
brother went within and took her and held her fast.
She dashed out of the house; she rose in the air.
Swiftly she flew, but Kauilani still held to her. Then
the incantation that her grandmother was making
came up to her, and she flew more slowly.
Then, as her grandmother's chant that told of
her brother's victories rose up to her, she circled
round and flew down. "Who are you?" she said,
"and where have you come from?" "I come from
Kauai, the land of our fathers; I am Kauilani, your
younger brother."
Love for her brother came to her then. She
changed from her bird-form and stood before him,
his sister. They lived with their grandparents after
that-Kauilani, with his magic spear and his magic
girdle, and Le-pe, who remained a girl, never afterwards becoming a bird. Kauilani married the
daughter of a King, and Le-pe reared up their children. All this happened on Oahu, where Honolulu
is now.


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When the Little Blond Shark Went
Visiting.
APU-KAPU was the father and
S   Ho-lei was the mother of the Little
Blond Shark-Ka-ehu-iki, he was
called. He asked his parents' permission to go visiting; his mother
was fearful on account of the
dangers he might encounter, but his father reassured her, saying that no dangers would befall
their child while he went visiting his relatives and
making a tour through the wide ocean.
Kapu-kapu gave him permission to go, and he
gave his child, too, advice that would last him until
he came to where Ka-moho-ali'i was-Ka-mohoali'i, the King of All the Sharks. And the Little
Blond Shark asked his father to tell him the names
of the King-sharks in the waters around, so that he
might call on them and pay his respects to them.
Kapu-kapu then chanted their names:
"Ka-panila, the King-shark of Hilo,
And Kaneilehia, the King-shark of Kau;
Mano-kini, the King-shark of Kohala,
Ka-pu-lena, the King-shark of Hamakua,
And Kua, the King-shark of Kona."
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And when he had heard these names Ka-ehu-iki, the
Little Blond Shark, started off.
The first one he called on was the King-shark of
Hilo. "Is the stranger on a journey for pleasure?"
said Ka-panila to him when he appeared at his cave
at Hilo. "For pleasure, and to obtain instruction
and some knowledge of the world," said the Little
Blond Shark.
This reply pleased Ka-panila, and he bade the
youthful stranger enter his cave. Ka-ehu-iki came
within, and the two talked and ate together. "I am
now setting forth," said the Little Blond Shark;
"but would you, my lord and my chief, consent to
add dignity to my tour by being my companion on
the way?"
The King-shark of Hilo consented, and in the
morning the two started off together. They came to
Kau. At first the King-shark of Kau treated them
distantly, but in a while he was made friendly by
the manners and the address of the Little Blond
Shark. And when they started off in the morning
Kaneilehia of Kau had consented to accompany
them.
They went on to Kona, to Kohala, and to Hamakua. The Little Blond Shark introduced the Kings
to each other, and he prevailed upon each of them
to join in the tour he was making.
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one and everything and admired by all who saw
them. Mano-kini of Kohala was the one who had
been hardest to win over. But he agreed to go with
them when he heard that it was their youthful
leader's intention to proceed to Tahiti. "Muli-wailena, the Yellow River of Tahiti!" he said; "I will
go until I bathe in it." But he warned the rest that
they would have to be careful in going through the
channel near Hana, for the rough King Kau-huhu's
general kept guard there.
"Perhaps he is warlike only when one approaches him in a warlike way," said the Little
Blond Shark.
"Whether we approach him in a warlike or in a
peaceable way he will try to bar our passage," said
Mano-kini.
"Very well," said the Little Blond Shark; "but
I on my part will not forget that I am the offspring
of Kapu-kapu, the guard of Panau, who never
turned his back on a battle offered him. I will not
forget that," said the Little Blond Shark.
At these words the Kings who were with him
looked at each other and nudged each other. "The
high blood will show, the high blood will show," they
said.
When they entered the channel at Hana they
were met by a line of ocean battlers, the rough
guards of the rough King Kau-huhu. The guards
challenged Ka-ehu-iki and his party. The Little
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Blond Shark told them that they were on a journey
of pleasure, and that they were going to no nearer
place than Tahiti.
"You're not going through King Kau-huhu's
channel, anyway," said one of these rough ones.
"Why should we not?" asked the Little Blond
Shark with dignity.
"If you attempt to cross this way, it will be wardo you hear that?" said the head guardsman.
"It is singular to hear you speak in such a way,"
said the Little Blond Shark. "You could not be
more truculent if we had come here to make war."
"War it will be," said King Kau-huhu's head
guardsman, "if any of you attempt to come in on
these borders."
Then the Little Blond Shark called his companions, each by his name, his title, and his kingship,
and spoke to them. "There is but one way," he said,
"and that is the way that is marked out by our
own strength and bravery. You remain outside the
channel," he said to his friends, "and if I should fail
in this, the way is open for your return to your
native waters."
Having said this, the Little Blond Shark went
forward and challenged King Kau-huhu's head
guardsman. The great shark mocked at him, saying
that a battle with such an undersized crab would
only be a pastime for him. The Little Blond Shark
went towards him. The guardsman made ready.
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As he did so Ka-ehu-iki shot forward and seized him
by the fins; he held the fins fast.. The great shark
went this way and that way, and up and down, but
Ka-ehu-iki went this way and that way with him,
and up and down, without ever letting go his hold.
He bit and bit at the great shark, and at last he bit
through him. Then all the watching sharks saw the
channel's great guardsman float away dead.
They were all amazed at the strength and bravery
shown by the Little Blond Shark. They went to
him and praised him and told him they would have
him for their leader. Then they went to the cave
where that rough shark, King Kau-huhu, lived.
Instead of welcoming his visitors King Kauhuhu looked at them angrily. And the words he said
were so cold and distant that Ka-ehu-iki was moved
to say to him:
"Well indeed does your angry name befit you,
King Kau-huhu; in no other royal cave that we have
come to have we had such an unfriendly reception."
Kau-huhu was made more and more angry by the
address of the Little Blond Shark, and he immediately challenged the youngster to battle. Ka-ehuiki called his companions, each by his name, his title,
and his kingship, and he said to them: "Stay near
and watch the battle. If I am overcome the way is
open for your return to your native waters, and if
I am victor we will celebrate my day together."
Kau-huhu was impatient for the battle; without
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waiting for the Little Blond Shark to take up a
position, he rushed out at him, coming into the open
with his jaws extended as if to take in everything
in the ocean. Ka-ehu-iki slipped out of his way; then
he caught at his fins and held them until Kau-huhu
was wearied out. And then the Little Blond Shark
bit through the surly King and left him to float off
dead.
He called to his companions; they came forward
and congratulated him on his victory; then they
went through the channel, making their way to the
cave of Ka-moho-ali'i, the King of All the Sharks.
When they came before his cave they sent a
respectful message to him within, informing the
King of All the Sharks that they were on a peaceful tour of sight-seeing, and begging permission to
wait upon him.
The guard came back, and Ka-ehu-iki and his
friends were brought within a splendid cave where
they were entertained and given a magnificent
banquet. Then they were taken before the King of
All the Sharks.
Ka-moho-ali'i appeared before them, a most impressive figure; he was all overgrown with barnacles, and sea-mosses were streaming down from
him. All the visiting sharks admired their great and
venerable King.
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ship. He explained the object of his journey. And
then he prayed that Ka-moho-ali'i might adopt him
as his grandchild. The King of All the Sharks was
pleased with the appearance of the Little Blond
Shark and with all he said, and he freely agreed to
adopt him as his grandchild. He had Ka-ehu-iki
anointed as a King is anointed.
"Ka-moho-ali'i sets the seal of his approval on
you with this anointing," said the attendant, "and
he grants you power second to none in all this broad
ocean, from north to south, from east to west, and
wherever your travels may take you, and none may
triumph over you from one horizon to the other,
even to the borders of Tahiti. And those who might
challenge you will know by these presents that
quietness will be their safety and contentions will
be their death."
They rested until next day in Ka-moho-ali'i's
cave; at parting the King of All the Sharks gave the
youthful leader his blessing. Ka-ehu-iki replied, "O
King of the Sharks of this wide Ocean, we leave our
humble and hearty thanks with you for the good
will you have shown us, and we shall carry as far
as the sacred cross road of Nu'u-mea-lani and back
the memory of your royal kindness to us."
Then they went to call upon Ka-ahu-pahau, the
Queen-shark of the waters. By a circuitous route
they were taken to her cave and they were presented
to the Queen and all her court. Almost immediately
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they were asked to join a bathing-party that the
Queen was taking to Wai-mano; they went, and
they greatly enjoyed the waters there.
Afterwards they went back to the royal cave,
where they were entertained by various gameskilu and puili. And there Ka-panila, the King-shark
of Hilo, for the Queen's entertainment, chanted
the legends of Hawaii that were known from the
most ancient times.
At the end of ten days, when they were making
ready to start on their journey, the Queen presented
the youthful leader with her own ivory wreath; with
this in his possession he would be recognized and
accepted by the guardian-sharks of all the royal
domains. She begged him to take a competent pilot
with their party, one who knew the way to Tahiti
and the way back. Ka-ehu-iki agreed to do this;
Kua of Kona, who was originally from Tahiti, who
knew its waters, and who had relatives still there,
was the one chosen for pilot.
Under the guidance of Kua they came into the
waters of Tahiti. They bathed in Muli-wai-lena, the
Yellow River of Tahiti; they met and they conversed with their giant relatives. And, everywhere
they went, the ivory wreath presented to Ka-ehuiki by the Queen-shark won friendship for them.
They bathed in Muli-wai-lena, the Yellow River
of Tahiti, for the last time, and then they started
for their home waters. When they were near the
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islands they were met by a very degraded shark
who thought that Ka-ehu-iki and all his company
were of the same kind as himself. He proposed to
the Little Blond Shark that they should go and
attack human beings when they were surf-riding.
"Indeed," said Ka-ehu-iki, "and may we know
who it is who makes this fine proposal?"
"I am Pehu," said this offensive shark.
"From where do you come, Pehu?" asked Kaehu-iki.
"From Hono-ko-hau," the fellow said. "Let us
go and catch crabs," said he then, meaning by that
that he would have them go and catch human beings.
The Little Blond Shark pretended to fall in with
the fellow's proposals. He said to him: "We know
how to come on these human beings. Follow us to
the place where they are surf-riding." Pehu then
followed them, and they all went on.
But Ka-ehu-iki said to Ka-panila, the Kingshark of Hilo, who was beside him: "This degraded
fellow would bring trouble upon Ka-ahu-pahau,
the Queen-shark of these waters who was so hospitable to us, for if any man-eating took place here
she would be blamed for it. We will have to do something to bring his career to an end." He went back
to Pehu and said to him: "Follow us to the place
that the surf-riders start from. You go shoreward
while we remain seaward. We will watch for you,
and when we give you the signal you can seize on
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one of the human beings." Pehu agreed to this, and
then Ka-ehu-iki said to Ka-panila: "Let us lead this
Pehu to his death. Let us crowd in on him when he
comes near the shallow place and force him in on it."
All Ka-ehu-iki's companions agreed to do it.
That day the surf was breaking strong, and there
were many human beings at the outer surf-line. The
sharks all went in a quiet manner until they were
close to where the human beings took the bursting
wave. Pehu said, "Let us make a seizure now."
"No," said Ka-ehu-iki, "wait until they take the
surf. Then let us all rush in together. We will be
in the swell of the surf, and when I cry out to you,
that will be the time to make the seizure." Pehu
went on then, but he waited for the signal from
Ka-ehu-iki.
Presently the surf rose, and two human beings
rode on it shoreward. The sharks swam with them.
And when they were near the shallows the Little
Blond Shark gave the word to his companions. They
crowded in on Pehu. He heard the signal that he
waited for. He leaped forward and sunk his head,in a coral crevice, and his tail stood up in the air.
Then Ka-ehu-iki and his companions went back into
the deep water.
When the human beings who were surf-riding
caught a glimpse of the sharks they were greatly
terrified, and they fled ashore. Later on they came
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back; they took the carcass of Pehu and they burned
the degraded shark to ashes.
The Little Blond Shark and his companions went
then to their home waters. Ka-panila of Hilo went
with Ka-ehu-iki to Panau, where his parents were.
You may be sure that Kapu-kapu was delighted to
see his son so well-grown, so polished, too, by his
travels, and so well commended by the Kings who
had consented to join in his tour. He made a feast
to welcome him home. For his mother and father it
was a proud occasion when Ka-ehu-iki conveyed to
them the royal greetings that had been given him for
them, and the kind remembrances of so many distinguished sharks. Ka-panila told Kapu-kapu and
Ho-lei of the great receptions that had been given
them, and of Ka-ehu-iki's victories in battle. It was
a tale that went on for many days.


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AULU    went in search of the
brother who was taken away beT K  _ fore he was born; he went in search
Li     | of his kind brother Ka-eha. And
first he went down to the seashore.
____  _   ~There he saw a great line of surf
striking on the beach. "Surf, are you strong?" said
Kaulu. "We are!" said the surf. "What strength
have you?" said Kaulu. "We'll tell you," said the
surf. Then eight waves struck Kaulu, but they did
not knock him over.
Said Kaulu, "Say, Hakau-kahi, my right hand,
and Lima-pai-hala, my left hand, are you as strong
as this surf?" "I am!" said his right hand, and "I
am!" said his left hand. Kaulu then reached down
and took up the surf. IHe broke it into little pieces
with his right hand and with his left hand, and that
is the reason the surf is small to this day.
Then he came upon the large waves, and he said
to them, "Waves, you have no strength; you are
only good for making the ocean white." The waves
said to him, "We are strong and we are also brave."
Then they broke upon Kaulu. He took them in his
hands and he broke them into the lengths that you
see in the waves to this day.
His brother Ka-eha had been carried up into the
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land that is in the sky, the land that is called Lewanu'u or Lewa-lani. As Kaulu went travelling on to
find this place he came to where Lono-ka-eho was
standing up. Lono-ka-eho had eight foreheads, and
the topmost of his foreheads was touching the sky.
"Who is the one with the sharp foreheads?" Kaulu
said. "Lono-ka-eho, Lono-ka-eho," said his attendants, "here is one asking your name!" Lono-ka-eho
shouted down to Kaulu, "Are you so strong that
you want.to provoke me to come down to you?" "I
have a little strength, but not much," said Kaulu.
Lono-ka-eho's foreheads struck down from the
heavens. Then said Kaulu's hands to him, "What
are we to do?" "You, Hakau-kahi, my right hand,
and you, Lima-pai-hala, my left hand, hold him
down."
So when Lono-ka-eho struck down with all his
foreheads, Hakau-kahi and Lima-pai-hala, Kaulu's
two hands, held them down to the ground until the
grasses and the ohia trees grew over them. And
there Lono-ka-eho stays to this day, on the hill of
Olo-mana.
Then Kaulu went on. again. IHe wanted to get
into the blue sky where his brother Ka-eha was. He
went on and he came to where the wizard Moko-li'i
sat by the wayside.
Now Moko-li'i sat by the wayside to devour every
man and woman who came that way. "Where are
you going?" said Moko-li'i to Kaulu when he came
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along. "I am going up into the blue sky," said
Kaulu; "will you take me up, Moko-li'i?" "I will
take you up, and you will become my food for this
day." "And you can have me if you are strong,"
said Kaulu.
The wizard took him in his teeth and carried him
up into the blue sky. Then Kaulu commanded his
two hands to take hold of Moko-li'i and throw him
down on the ground. This his two hands did. Mokoli'i fell down on the ground, where he broke every
bone in his body. And where he fell he lies to this
day.
And now that he was in the blue sky, Kaulu went
through Lewa-nu'u or Lewa-lani looking for his
brother. The dwellers in this country knew that
Kaulu, the world's strongest boy, had come to look
for his brother, and they thought that' if Kaulu and
Ka-eha came together they would rule the whole
of the land. So they tempted Ka-eha to go to ride
the surf with them. But before they went down to
the surf the dwellers in Lewa-nu'u or Lewa-lani
told the King of the Sharks, Ka-la-ke'e-nui, to be
there and to devour Ka-eha.
And so when Ka-eha went out on the surf he
came into the presence of Ka-la-ke'e-nui. The shark
swallowed him up whole. It was just then that
Kaulu came into Lewa-nu'u or Lewa-lani; none of
the dwellers would tell him where his brother was.
So he went to Maka-li'i, the King of that country.
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Maka-li'i was sleeping with his face turned up; a
very old man he was, the oldest and the most cunning in the land. Maka-li'i's brother was guarding
his sleep, and he took up a great rock to fling at
Kaulu. Kaulu put up his forefinger and held the
rock back. "Oh, look," he said, "here's the rock of
the strong man being held back! When is it to fall
down?" Maka-li'i's brother then ran off and left
Kaulu there.
Kaulu pinched Maka-li'i, and the ancient one
wakened up. "Tell me," said Kaulu, "where my
elder brother is." "Your elder brother," said Makali'i, "is inside the King of the Sharks." "And how
shall I come to the King of the Sharks?" "He is in
the great mound of coral-the mound that has an
opening at the top. People think that this is a mound
of coral, but it is really a shark."
So Kaulu went to where Ka-la-ke'e-nui was.
"Have you seen my brother?" he said. "Yes," said
Ka-la-ke'e-nui; "he is inside me." "Are you
strong?" said Kaulu. "Yes, I am pretty strong,"
said the shark. "What is your strength?" said Kaulu. "If I open my mouth, my upper jaw can reach
the heavens while my lower jaw is scraping the
bottom of the sea. You can tell my strength by
that." Then Kaulu asked his two hands, "Say, Hakau-kahi and Lima-pai-hala, is he strong?" Kaulu's
two hands said, "No, no, he is not really strong."
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ke'e-nui opened his mouth, and Kaulu stepped
within and held the shark's jaws open. He shouted
to his brother to come out. Then Ka-eha came out
of the shark, and this was the first time that Kaulu
had seen his brother. They killed the shark then, and
they flung its body up into the sky, and there it is
to this day. Then Kaulu and his brother Ka-eha
went home. Look! there is Ka-la-ke'e-nui's body:
some call it The Fish, and some call it The Milky
Way.


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How Kana Brought Back the Sun and
Moon and Stars After They Had
Been Taken Away.!  NCE the Sun and the Moon and
the Stars were taken away; they
were taken away by Ka-hoa-alii,
X__ '   and the people of the world would
still be in cold and darkness if
Kana and his brother Niheu had
not gone to find them and bring them back.
You have been told about Kana, the youth who
could stretch himself upwards until his body was as
thin as the thread of a spider's web, and you have
been told about Niheu, his brother, who carried a
war-club so great that by resting one end of it in
his canoe and putting the other end against a cliff
he could walk from his canoe to the land, and you
have been told about Uli, Kana's and Niheu's wise
grandmother.
This story begins with Niheu. Once when he was
crossing the Island of Hawaii he heard about Kahoa-alii's man and how he kept the people fishing
and cooking for him; the people were pitying themselves and complaining when Niheu came amongst
them.
Then Niheu saw Ka-hoa-alii's man, and he flung
his club at him; the stroke of the great club knocked
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Ka-hoa-alii's man over. And after he had flung his
club Niheu went on to his grandmother's house. He
told her what he had done. She was made afraid, and
she told him that trouble would come because of his
mischief. "Go," she said, "and find your brother
Kana, and bring him here to us, for we shall need
his help."
But before he went Uli made him help her fix a
long rope that she had. She took the rope and she
tied it to the post of her house, and she brought the
end of it down to the seashore, and she tied it to a
great stone there. The people wondered, and Niheu
wondered at what Uli did. Then Niheu went off to
find his brother Kana.
Meanwhile Ka-hoa-alii had heard what Uli's
grandson had done to his man. "I will punish Niheu
for this, and I will punish all the people of Hawaii,"
he said. "Now I will take away the Sun and the
Moon and the Stars from their sky. I will leave the
people in cold and darkness; only where I am will
there be warmth and light."
Niheu found his brother, and he started with him
for their grandmother's house. While they were on
their way the darkness came, for the sun was taken
out of the sky suddenly. But as they went on they
struck against the rope that Uli had stretched from
the post of her house to the stone on the seashore.
Holding the rope, they came to the house. Kana
did not go within, for no house was high enough to
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hold him. The two of them saw their grandmother
seated by a blazing fire with lights all around her.
"So you have come," said their grandmother to
them. "You are the only two in all the world that
can bring the Sun and the Moon and the Stars back
into our sky. Ka-hoa-alii has taken them away, and
you must go to where Ka-hoa-alii is. Before I tell
you what to do, do you, Kana, stretch yourself upwards, and see if there is any light in the sky."
Kana stretched himself upwards until his head
was near the sky. He looked around, and he saw a
little light in it. He brought himself down again,
and he told his grandmother what he had seen.
Then said Uli: "You, Kana, and you, Niheu,
will have to go to the country that Ka-hoa-alii rules
over. Go straight towards the place that the sun
used to rise in. The fine rain will fall on you and the
cold will get into your bones, but go on and on until
you come to where an old woman sits at the bottom
of a cliff. She is my sister; Luahine-kai-kapu she is
named, and she is blind. Tell her that you are Uli's
grandchildren, and she will direct you to the country
that Ka-hoa-alii rules over."
So Kana and Niheu started off from their grandmother's house. They went in a straight line towards
the place that the Sun used to rise in. As they went
on the fine rain fell on them and the cold went into
their bones. Kana took up Niheu and carried him
on. But still the fine rain fell on them and still the
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cold crept into their bones. Then when they came
to the place that is called Kaha-kae-kaea, Niheu
lay down to die.
Kana left him wrapped in leaves under a loulu
palm and went on. He came to where an old woman
sat at the bottom of a cliff; she was blind, and he
knew that she was Luahine-kai-kapu, his grandmother's sister.
"Whose child are you?" said Luahine-kai-kapu
to Kana. "Your sister's, Uli's grandchild," said
Kana. "What have you come for?" said she. "I have
come to get the Sun and Moon and Stars that Kahoa-alii has taken from our sky; I am the only one
who can bring them back. Show me the way to Kahoa-alii's country."
"I have no eyes," said Luahine-kai-kapu; "I
cannot see to show you the way." "Lie down under
this coco-nut tree," said Kana. Luahine-kai-kapu
lay down. Kana picked off the young shoots of the
coco-nut and called out to her, "Luahine-kai-kapu,
turn your face towards the sky." She turned her
face up as directed; Kana then threw the two young
shoots at her eyes.
Then he struck her in the eyes, and she jumped
up and cried out with a loud voice, "Oh, I am
killed!" Kana then said to her, "Be quiet and rub
your eyes." The old woman began rubbing her eyes.
After'she had done this she cried out that she was
able to see as before.
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"Before I send you into the country of Ka-hoaalii, I shall have to do something to make your hands
different," said Luahine-kai-kapu. She took kukui-nut and charcoal and she pounded them together and she made a paste. She rubbed the paste
she had made on the great hands of Kana. "Now,"
said she, "you have hands like the hands of Ka-hoaalii." Then she told him what to do when he came to
the place where Ka-hoa-alii lived.
She set a fire before him to guide him, and she
set a wind at his back to help him on. And helped on
by the wind and guided by the fire, Kana came at
last to the borders of Ka-hoa-alii's country. Then
the fire died down, and he had no guide to go before
him. But still the wind helped him on.
He came to the place where Ka-hoa-alii was. He
hid and watched him. Ka-hoa-alii would lift up a
great stone that covered a hole in the sky, and take
food up in his hands, and feast with his attendants.
And when they had feasted they would go into the
house and play games. Thus Ka-hoa-alii and his
atteridants passed the day; they feasted and they
played games, and they played games and they
feasted.
Kana did what Luahine-kai-kapu told him to do.
He watched all they did. When they had gone into
the house he went to the great stone. He lifted it
up. He propped it up with his feet. Then he put his
two hands down into the hole.
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Those below put things into his hands. They were
things to eat. Kana flung them away, and put his
hands down again. Those below put water into his
hands. He emptied the water out. Kana put his
hands down again. Those below put birds into his
hands; he took them up and let them fly around;
they were the birds that cry when darkness is going.
Now as they flew around they cried, "Kia-wea, Kiawea."
He put his hands down again. Now his hands
were filled with stars. He took them up and flung
them into the sky. There they stayed-the stars
that we still see. He lowered his hands again. The
Moon was put into his hands. He put the Moon into
the blue sky with the stars, and it stayed there,
giving light.
Kana put his hands down again. This time a
single bird was put into his hands. He took it up
and put it beside him. It was the crowing cock. He
put his hands down once more; the warm Sun was
put into his hands. He held the bright Sun up. He
put it into the sky. The cock beside him crowed.
The cock crew, and Ka-hoa-alii, hearing it crow,
came out of his house. He saw Kana standing there,
and he saw the Sun shining in the sky. He went
towards Kana to kill him, but he saw how tall and
how strong Kana was, and he was afraid to touch
him. And Kana, seeing that Ka-hoa-alii was afraid
of him, demanded from him the Water of Life, the
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"He held the bright Sun up.
The (cock beside him crowed."




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Water of Kane, so that he might restore his brother
with it. Ka-hoa-alii gave him the water of Kane.
Kana then went to Kaha-kae-kaea. His brother
Niheu was there, wrapped in leaves under the loulu
palm. He gave him the Water of Life, and life
came back again to Niheu. Afterwards Ka-hoa-alii
came to where they were. He gave them a canoe
made out of white chicken feathers, and in that
canoe Kana and Niheu returned to Hawaii. They
went to their grandmother's house, and they saw
the Sun in the heavens, and the Moon following the
Sun, and the Stars with the Moon. And never again
were these bright lights taken out of our sky.


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"Fakamolemole a houeiki mo ngaohi haa,
H-e oku mamao mo faingataa ae faanga;
Koe tolutalu nae tuu holo he ngahi' halanga
Kuo fuu puli pea alu mo hono toutangata.
Ka ne ongo ene vao fihi mo tevavaa,
Kiae fai- pe ha vavaku mo sia faala
Kia Touiafutuna, koe uluaki maka
Nae fai' mei ai hotau kamataanga.
Kehe koe talatupua ia mo fananga,
Oku utuutu mei ai sii kau faa."


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"Pardon me, noble chiefs and lineages,
For the searching place is now far and difficult;
The old plantations once scattered on the roads
Have now quite disappeared and gone with them
their generation,
But although they now lie in very thick bush,
Search will be made at any rate
For Touiafutuna, the first rock
Where our origin began.
Though these are only traditions and fables,
'Tis here the inquirers get their facts."
Written in Tongan by the Chief Tafolo,
translated by William Finau.


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Notes.


KINGS OF THE ISLANDS
THIS section is made up of chronicles, but chronicles that have
taken on a legendary tinge through being passed on by oral
historians. Naturally, in reshaping the histories of Moi-keha,
Umi, Ka-welo, and Ka-meha-meha, I have made more of the
legendary than of the literal happenings.
MOI-KEHA THE VOYAGER, AND THE SONS OF MOIKEHA
MOI-KEIHA'S period is the twelfth or thirteenth century. His
legend is given in the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop
Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, Vol.
IV, Part I, with titles Ka Moolelo o Moikeha (The History of
Moi-keha) and He Kaao no Kila (The Legend of Kila).
Moi-keha was an historical personage. Originally he had his
home on the Island of Hawaii; he went away and established
himself on the Tahitian group; he afterwards returned to the
Hawaiian Islands, and became King of Kauai. With his story,
which is the saga of a Pacific viking, other elements have been
mixed-an Hawaiian version of the story of Joseph and his
brethren which centers in his son, Kila, and a mythical element
due to a confusion between "Kahiki," the island of Tahiti, and
"Kahiki," the land of the demi-gods. This element is in the
separate legend of Kila, which recounts his second visit to
"Kahiki." In retelling the story of Moi-keha and his sons I
have tried to harmonize the mythical part with the saga feeling
which properly belongs to the story of Moi-keha the Voyager.
The saga has a center of passionate interest which cannot be
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exploited in a story intended for children: Moi-keha leaves
Tahiti on account of his passion for Luu-kia, the wife of Olopana, the Helen of the Hawaiians. Luu-kia had denied herself
to Moi-keha in a way that became celebrated in Hawaiian tradition. She is represented as being still captivating when Kila
visits his father's house. Moi-keha married the two daughters
of the King of Kauai, and the boys who are spoken of as Kila's
cousins are really his half-brothers. Characteristically Polynesian is the attitude of the two women towards Kila-"our
son." The romantic account of the winning of Ho'o-ipo-kamalanai-to give her her full name-was given by King Kalakaua and is quoted by Mr. Westervelt in his Hawaiian Historical Legends.
UMI THE CONQUEROR
UMI's period was about 1500 A.D. His legend is given in the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian
Ethnology and Natural History, Vol. IV, Part II, with the
title Ka Moolelo no Umi: Kekahi Alii Kaulana o ko Hawaii Nei
Paeaina (The Story of Umi: one of the most noted of Hawaiian
Kings).
KA-WELO, THE OVERTHROWER OF THE GIANT
CHAMPION
KA-WELo's period has not been definitely established. His
legend is given in the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop
Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, Vol.
V, Part I; also in Vol. V, Part III, with the title He Moolelo
no Kawelo (Legend of Ka-welo).
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KA-MEHA-MEHA THE GREAT
KA-MEHA-MEHA reigned between 1795 and 1819. His legend is
given in the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and
Folk-lore, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of
Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, Vol. V, Part II,
with the title Moolelo Pokole no Kamehameha I. This traditional account is very scanty as compared with traditional accounts given of the earlier Kings: Ka-meha-meha's legend had
not time to grow before the native tradition was shattered by
contact with the culture brought in by American missionaries.
I have woven through the native account some of the stories
about Ka-meha-meha given by Mr. Westervelt in his Hawaiian
Historical Legends and by Miss Laura S. Green.
IN THE BRIGHT ISLANDS
CERTAIN stories that exist only fragmentarily in Hawaiian
tradition have full development in stories told by other Polynesian peoples. There is one famous cycle of such stories-the
cycle dealing with Ta-whaki and his grandson Rata-that,
like the Ma-ui stories given in the first volume, should, because
of its racial significance, be put into a book of Hawaiian stories
with all the completeness possible. I have treated this cycle
as I treated the Ma-ui cycle, drawing from all sources, and often
combining various versions in a single story. Mr. A. Leverd of
Tahiti is the collector who has shown the most interest in the
Ta-whaki cycle. As a preface to the remarkable story that he
published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 20, he
writes, "We hope some time to work out these traditions of Tawhaki in complete form, and shall then be able to show that the
legend was known to the ancient Sanskrit-speaking Aryans of
India, as well as to the Scandinavians, North Germans, Greeks,
and ancient Irish."


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HOW TA-WHAKI AND HIS BROTHER AVENGED
THE DEATH OF THEIR FATHER AND DESTROYED THE PEOPLE CALLED PONA-TURI
THIS is a retelling of the New Zealand story given by Sir
George Grey in his Polynesian Mythology.
THE STORY OF TA-WHAKI'S FATHER AND MOTHER
THIS story is from Mr. A. Leverd's collection; it was published
in the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 20. As regards
the parentage of Ta-whaki, it is interesting to know from this
story that, like Achilles, he was born of a woman of the sea;
Hema's capture of Hua-uri is extraordinarily like Peleus's
capture of Thetis. The two women, Rona and Hina, are evidently mythological figures-both Rona and Hina are names
for the moon. Mr. Leverd's story is Paumotan.
HOW TA-WHAKI WON AND LOST THE MAIDEN OF
THE SKY
TI-IS is a retelling of the New Zealand story given by Sir
George Grey in his Polynesian Mythology.
HOW TA-WHAKI WENT INTO THE COUNTRY OF
THE SKY AND CAME TO HIS WIFE AND CHILD
A NEW ZEALAND story also; retold from Sir George Grey's
Polynesian Mythology.
HOW RATA GOT HIS CANOE
RATA appears as the ancestor of many of the Polynesian clans.
The editor of the Journal of the Polynesian Society is of the
opinion that he is to be regarded as an historical character and
that he belongs to the time of the migrations that led to the
colonization of the outlying islands; his contests with seamonsters are to be regarded as mythical renderings of his
struggles with storms, earthquakes, and human enemies. The
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story of the making of his canoe with supernatural help is the
most widespread of the Rata stories; in Hawaiian tradition,
where he appears as Laka, it is the Menehune who built his
canoe for him (see "The Menehune" in At the Gateways of the
Day). The story of the building of the canoe given here is from
the Rarotongan version given by Mr. Stephen Savage in the
Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 19. I have combined
with it the version given by Gill in his Myths and Songs of the
South Pacific. The tale of the birds helping is from Gill.
HOW    RATA   SAILED    ACROSS THE      SEA   IN  HIS
CANOE
THE stories about Rata collected by Mr. Savage have much
more of the grandeur of primitive myth than have any of the
other stories about this hero. One actually feels in them the
terror of the ocean and the mystery of islands come to for the
first time. Who is Puna, whom Rata in this story goes forth to
take vengeance on? His children are the Octopus, the Clam,
the Sword-fish, and the Great Shark; he himself is weak when
"the cold south wind blows," and he is tied by his hands and
feet to the trees and rocks. In a Tongan story a youth comes
to an island that the Wind has possession of; he meets the
daughter of the Wind, and she ties her father, so that he is not
able to harm the youth. Is Puna, who can be tied up, the Wind?
Or rather, is he Great Storm?
HOW RATA CAME TO HIS DEATH
THIs, too, is founded on a Rarotongan story that Mr. Savage
collected; it is published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 19. Apa-kura, the wife of the chief who destroyed
Rata, is a well-known character in Samoan tradition. The New
Zealand story-tellers did not know that Rata's canoe had been
turned into stone; in a story given by Sir George Grey, when
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Whaka-tau would go to make war for Hina and Tini-rau, he
speaks of sailing in the canoe "of Rata, our ancestor."
HOW HINA VOYAGED TO THE ISLAND OF THE
KING OF THE FISHES
THIS is a retelling of a story given in Gill's Myths and Songs
of the South Pacific. The Hina of this story is sought for by her
brother Ru-pe, who in other stories appears as Ma-ui's elder
brother. And in a story given by Sir George Grey, Rata's
grandson goes to her aid. Her story, then, seems to be a link
between the Ta-whaki and the Ma-ui cycles. But the linking up
is probably accidental, and due to the frequent occurrence of
the name Hina in Polynesian tradition. The Hina of this story
is probably the same as the Hina who comes out of the sea in
the Hawaiian story, and the quest of whom by her brothers
leads to the inundation of the land, and that other Hina whom
her brother had charge of and who is called "Hina-ai-kamalama," "Hina-eater-of-the-Moon." She belongs to the water,
but she is also probably connected with the Moon.
THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF AO-TEA-ROA
THESE two stories are a retelling of stories given in Sir Ge&. ge
Grey's Polynesian Mythology. These Little People of New
Zealand correspond to the Menehune of Hawaiian tradition;
the stories about them have been brought into The Bright
Islands as a reminiscence of the Hawaiian account of the
building of Laka's canoe.
THE PRINCESS OF PALI-ULI
PUBLISHED by the Smithsonian Institution, 1911-1912, with the
title The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai, with introduction
and translation by Martha Warren Beckwith.
"The story was handed down orally from ancient times in
the form of a kaao, a narrative rehearsed in prose interspersed
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with song," says Miss Beckwith. It was reshaped by Haleole,
an Hawaiian writer, and published, first as a serial in a newspaper and afterwards in book form, in the sixties. "Haleole
wrote his tale painstakingly, at times dramatically, but for the
most part concerned for its historic interest," says Miss Beckwith. "We gather from his own statement and from the breaks
in the story that his material may have been collected from
different sources." Miss Beckwith's interpretation of the story
is as follows:
"An ancestress rears Rainbow in the forests of Puna. Birds
bear her upon their wings and serve her with abundance of food
prepared without labor, and of their golden feathers her royal
house is built; sweet-scented vines and blossoms surround her;
mists shroud her when she goes abroad. Earthquake [the Mo'o
or great lizard] guards her dwelling, saves Rainbow from
Lightning [the devouring dog from Tahiti], who seeks to
destroy her, and bears a messenger to fetch Sun-at-high-noon
as bridegroom for the beautiful Rainbow. He is of such a divine
character that he dwells in the highest heavens.... Noonday,
like a bird, bears visitors to his gate, and guards of the shade,
Moving-cloud and Great-bright-moon-close it to shut out his
brightness. The three regions below him are guarded by maternal uncles and by his father.... The Sun god comes to earth
and bears Rainbow away with him to the heavens, but later he
loves her sister Twilight, follows her to earth, and is doomed
to sink into Night."
In Haleole's romance there is a good deal of actual circumstance; he tried hard to make an historical romance out of the
doings of mythical beings living in a mythical world; I have
reshaped the story to bring out the fairy-tale elements that are
in it. "The Princess of Pali-uli" is very much condensed from
Laieikawai; the original is at least three times as long as the
version given in this book.
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celebrated as the residence of the brother of Kana, a warrior;
in comparison with the fabulous accounts of whom, the descriptions in the Arabian Night Entertainments are tame.... The
tale which recounts his adventures, states, that the Hawaiians,
on one occasion, offended a King of Tahiti; who, in revenge,
deprived them of the sun; that after the land had remained
some time in darkness, Kana walked through the sea to Tahiti,
where Ka-hoa-arii, who according to their traditions made the
sun, then resided. He obtained the sun, returned, and fixed it
in the heavens, where it has remained ever since." Mr. Ellis
goes on to say: "The numerous tales of fiction preserved by
oral tradition among the people, and from the recital of which
they derive so much pleasure, prove that they are not deficient
in imagination; and lead us to hope that their mental powers
will be hereafter employed on subjects more consistent with
truth, and productive of more pure and permanent gratification." There is another story about Kana and Niheu given in
At the Gateways of the Day. The story given in this volume
is a retelling of "Kana, a Legend of Hawaii," given in William
Hyde Rice's Hawaiian Legends. I have expanded it so as to
give the conventional adventures of the hero or heroine in the
ascent to the world of the demi-gods-the adventures that
Aukele goes through when he is on the quest of the Water of
Life, the adventures that Ta-whaki goes through in his quest
for his wife, and the adventures that the youngest of the Maile
sisters goes through when she would come to the house of her
brother, Eyeball-of-the-sun. Undoubtedly these adventures belonged originally to the story of Kana's quest, but Mr. Rice
does not give them.


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