{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_69724/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_69724","id":"gutenberg_69724","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69724","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Folklore -- Hawaii","Legends -- Hawaii"],"text":"At the\n                          Gateways of the Day\n\n\n                            by Padraic Colum\n               with illustrations by Juliette May Fraser\n\n\n                               New Haven\n              Published for The Hawaiian Legend & Folklore\n                Commission by the Yale University Press\n\n          London \u00b7 Humphrey Milford \u00b7 Oxford University Press\n                                  1924\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                         I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME\n                           TO THE MEMBERS OF\n              THE HAWAIIAN LEGEND AND FOLKLORE COMMISSION\n\n                              JOHN R. GALT\n                              EDNA J. HILL\n                            MARY S. LAWRENCE\n                         EMMA AHUENA D. TAYLOR\n\n                  AND TO FIVE KAMA AINA WHO HELPED ME\n\n                           JOSEPH S. EMERSON\n                           WILLIAM HYDE RICE\n                           JULIE JUDD SWANZY\n                            THOMAS G. THRUM\n                        WILLIAM DRAKE WESTERVELT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTABLE OF CONTENTS.\n\n\n    Introduction                                            xiii\n    The Boy Pu-nia and the King of the Sharks                  1\n    The Seven Great Deeds of Ma-ui                             7\n    How Ma-ui won a place for himself in the House             7\n    How Ma-ui lifted up the Sky                               10\n    How Ma-ui fished up the Great Island                      15\n    How Ma-ui snared the Sun and made Him go more slowly\n      across the Heavens                                      20\n    How Ma-ui won fire for Men                                27\n    How Ma-ui overcame Kuna Loa the Long Eel                  32\n    The Search that Ma-ui\u2019s Brother made for his Sister\n      Hina-of-the-Sea                                         38\n    How Ma-ui strove to win Immortality for Men               41\n    Au-ke-le the Seeker                                       45\n    Pi-ko-i: The Boy Who Was Good at Shooting Arrows          69\n    Paka: The Boy Who Was Reared in the Land that the Gods\n      Have Since Hidden                                       81\n    The Story of Ha-le-ma-no and the Princess Kama            93\n    The Arrow and the Swing                                  107\n    The Daughter of the King of Ku-ai-he-lani                117\n    The Fish-Hook of Pearl                                   131\n    The Story of Kana, the Youth Who Could Stretch\n      Himself Upwards                                        137\n    The Me-ne-hu-ne                                          149\n    The Story of Mo-e Mo-e: Also a Story about Po-o and\n      about Kau-hu-hu the Shark-God, and about Mo-e Mo-e\u2019s\n      Son, the Man Who Was Bold in His Wish                  165\n    The Woman from Lalo-hana, the Country under the Sea      193\n    Hina, the Woman in the Moon                              199\n    Notes                                                    203\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\n\n\n                                                            Facing page\n\n    \u201cThen Pu-nia dived ... into the cave, took two lobsters in\n      his hands, and came up on the place that he had spoken from\u201d    2\n    \u201cFour birds ... came and lit on the yards, and asked of those\n      below what they had come for\u201d                                  52\n    \u201cThe owl of Ka-ne came and sat on the stones and stared at him\u201d 150\n    \u201cKoni-konia and Hina ... climbed to the tops of the trees that\n      were on the tops of the mountains\u201d                             198\n    \u201cIt made an arching path for her from the rocks up to the\n      heavens. With the net in her hands she went along that path\u201d   200\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHELPS TO PRONUNCIATION.\n\n\nThere are three simple rules which practically control Hawaiian\npronunciation: (1) Pronounce each vowel. (2) Never allow a consonant to\nclose a syllable. (3) Give the vowels the following values:\n\n\n                          a = a  in father\n                          e = ey in they\n                          i = i  in machine\n                          o = o  in note\n                          u = oo in tool\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINTRODUCTION.\n\n\nIf you draw a line from the tip of New Zealand to the top of the\nHawaiian Islands, you will be able to indicate the true Polynesian\narea. On the islands towards the Malay Peninsula there is a mixed\npeople who show the Papuan strain that is in them. They are the\nMelanesians. On the American side of the line there is a singularly\nhomogeneous people who are of a type like to our own. They are the\nPolynesians. We have been able to pay ourselves the compliment of\nadmiring them ever since the chronicler of Menda\u00f1a\u2019s voyages looked\nupon the men and women of the Marquesas and found that \u201cthey had\nbeautiful faces and the most promising animation of countenance; and\nwere in all things so becoming that the pilot-mayor Quiros affirmed\nnothing in his life caused him so much regret as leaving such fine\ncreatures to be lost in that country.\u201d [1]\n\nAnd yet the Polynesians, so like us physically, have in their romances\nnone of the familiar veins that one can discover in, let us say, the\nfolk-tales of the darker peoples in the lands around India. I take up\nStudies in Religion, Folk-lore, and Custom in North Borneo and the\nMalay Peninsula, [2] and I strike at once into:\n\n\n    Now the Raja had given it out that whoever could remove the\n    dragon\u2019s head should marry his daughter, who was shut up in an\n    inner room and enclosed by a seven-fold fence of ivory; but nobody\n    could do it, for the dragon\u2019s head was as big as a mountain.\n\n\nThis is from a folk-tale told amongst the aboriginal tribes of the\nMalay Peninsula. And when I read the opening of another tale I am in an\nimaginative land so familiar that I know every turn and track in it.\u2014\n\n\n    \u201cOh,\u201d said Serunggal, \u201cit is no use my stopping here. I had better\n    go and marry a Raja\u2019s daughter.\u201d\n\n\nThe tale goes on, and we have the Raja setting the adventurous youth\nthree tasks, just as the King or the Enchanter sets the youth three\ntasks in a story that has been told in every village in Ireland and\nSerbia, in Spain and Sweden, in Russia and Italy; in a story that was\ngiven literary form in classic Greece in Jason and Medea, and in\nmedi\u00e6val Wales in Kulhwch and Olwen. And this tale of Serunggal and the\nRaja\u2019s daughter belongs to one of the dark tribes of Borneo.\n\nThere are animal helpers in this particular tale, just as there are\nanimal helpers in the ancient Greek folk-tale of Cupid and Psyche.\nIndeed, the stories belonging to Borneo and the Malay Peninsula are\nwell filled with animals\u2014turtles and deer, elephants and ant-eaters;\nthey might be the material out of which Rudyard Kipling made his\nunforgettable Jungle Book and his Just-So Stories.\n\nIn Polynesia we find no romance that is based on formul\u00e6 familiar to\nus. Only occasionally does a helping creature appear. There are\npractically no animal stories, for the sufficient reason that the\nPolynesian did not have opportunities for forming a wide animal\nacquaintanceship. He brought the pig and the dog to the Islands with\nhim; and the shark and the turtle, the owl and the plover, were the\nonly creatures that aroused an interest in him. Even the way of\ncounting things is changed when we get into Polynesian romance: instead\nof three, seven, and nine, we have four, eight, and sixteen for the\ncabalistic numbers.\n\nAnd yet, as all human desire is the same, and as human mentality\ncompels a certain sequence of incident, and there seem to be patterns\nin incident that all human beings find it delightful to work out, the\nPolynesian stories have the elements and the combination of elements\nthat make fine narrative. Often the Polynesian story-teller rediscovers\na formula that we have used to make a memorable tale. Thus, in the\npresent collection, the daughter of the King of Ku-ai-he-lani will\nrecall Cinderella, and the story of Au-ke-le will recall the story of\nthe Irish hero Oisin and all the other stories of men who travelled far\nand returned to their own land; it will remind us of Odysseus and Rip\nVan Winkle.\n\nIn the folk-romance and in the mythological stories of Europe there are\nplaces that may not be entered, and there are women whom a man must not\napproach. There is Blue Beard\u2019s Chamber; there is Dana\u00eb, and there is\nthe Eithlinn of Celtic mythology. Polynesian romance has places that\nmay not be entered, and women who must not be approached by men. And it\nhas these instances in almost every story. Indeed, without the guarded\nmaiden and the forbidden place a Polynesian story-teller would find it\ndifficult to carry on. And one knows that when he was dealing with one\nor the other he was dealing with the life around him: the place was\ntapu, [3] the maiden was tapu. And the place or the maiden was tapu\nsimply because a king or a chief with the privilege of declaring tapu\nhad so declared it. When we read the story of Ka-we-lu in The Arrow and\nthe Swing, or of Kama in The Story of Ha-le-ma-no and the Princess\nKama, we can easily see how, as the simplicity of tapu was forgotten,\nthe maiden would be given a fantastic security like that of Dana\u00eb in\nher brazen tower, or like that of Eithlinn in her inaccessible island,\nand we can see how motives would be invented for keeping her apart:\nDana\u00eb\u2019s son and Eithlinn\u2019s son are destined to slay their grandfathers.\nEvery race has had tapu. But the Polynesians held to it and made it\ntheir single discipline. In these Polynesian stories we are at the very\nbeginning of a romance that for Europeans has grown to be fraught with\nmagic and mystery.\n\n\n\nI spent the months of January, February, March, and April of 1923 in\nthe Hawaiian Islands. I went there under the following circumstances:\nThe Hawaiian Legislature had formed a Commission on Myth and Folk-lore;\nthe function of the Commission was to have a survey made of the stories\nthat had been collected and that belonged to myth and folk-lore of the\nIslands, and to have them made over into stories for children\u2014primarily\nfor the children of the Hawaiian Islands. By an arrangement made\nbetween the Commission and the Yale University Press, I was invited to\nmake the survey and to reshape the stories.\n\nI learned something of the language; I sought out those who still had\nthe tradition of Hawaiian romance and who could recite it in the\ntraditional way; I made a study of all the material that had been\ncollected; I placed myself in the hands of the very distinguished group\nof Polynesian scholars that is in Honolulu. Quite early in my\nresearches I came to the conclusion that my work should be based on the\nFornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, published\nby the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural\nHistory, in Honolulu, and I made it my main task to understand the\nbackground of the stories given in that collection, and to hear as many\nof them as possible from the lips of the surviving custodians of the\nPolynesian tradition in Hawaii.\n\nI found in the Hawaiian Islands conditions that are lamentably like the\nconditions in certain European countries where separate and interesting\ncultures are being pushed aside by this or that culture that is\npolitically and commercially important. In Hawaii there is a great\nbreach in the native tradition: I have been in houses where a\ngrandmother or grandfather knew traditional Hawaiian poems (mele) and\ncould chant them in the traditional way, while a son or daughter would\nbe able to translate them, but not able to chant them, and a grandchild\nwould be able neither to chant the poems nor translate them. Once, I\nremember, in such a house, I went to see what a little girl, the\ngranddaughter of a lady who had chanted mele to me for about an hour,\nwas studying. This child had not allowed herself to be interrupted\neither by the chanting of her grandmother or by the translating that\nher father did for me; she was bent on mastering a lesson in a book\nthat she kept before her\u2014an American school geography. \u201cStockholm is\nthe capital of Sweden, Vienna is the capital of Austria,\u201d was one of\nthe items that had kept her absorbed.\n\nI discovered that of the stories which I knew from the Fornander\nCollection, few lived in the memory of the generations at present in\nthe Islands. On the Island of Maui I met a distinguished Hawaiian lady\nwho had been at the court of King Kalakaua, and who, in her youth, had\nbeen a trained story-teller. She tried to give me some of the stories\nthat belonged to her repertoire. But no sooner had she begun than she\ndeclared that she was no longer familiar with the language in which the\nstories were told\u2014they were in the idiom of the Alii or the Chiefs, an\nidiom that she had not used since her days at court.\n\nI heard many stories told, some by men, some by women. One of the best\nstory-tellers that I came across was a young man whom I met on the\nIsland of Molokai. His father was Chinese, and he had learnt the\nstories from his grandmother. He told me several stories; one of them\nwas the story of the rescue of Hina by her son Kana, a story given in\nFornander, and evidently belonging to the folk.\n\nWhat impressed me most in these recitals was the gesture of the\nstory-teller. Every feature, every finger of the man or woman becomes\nalive, becomes dramatic, as the recital is entered on. The gesture of\nthe Hawaiian makes the telling of a story a dramatic entertainment.\nScholars have written of the long and monotonous stories told in the\nold days in Hawaii. The stories were long, but the gesture of the\nstory-teller must have saved them from an unrelieved monotony. I was\nmade to recall again and again Melville\u2019s description of an\nentertainment given him by a genial Marquesan youth; it is a\ndescription that gives the spirit in which the unspoiled Polynesian\ndramatizes his moods and his reactions. Says Melville: \u201cUpon my\nsignifying my desire that he should pluck me the young fruit of some\nparticular tree, the handsome savage, throwing himself into a sudden\nattitude of surprise, feigns astonishment at the apparent absurdity of\nthe request. Maintaining this position for a moment, the strange\nemotions depicted on his countenance soften down into one of humorous\nresignation to my will, and then looking wistfully up to the tufted top\nof the tree, he stands on tip-toe, straining his neck and elevating his\narm, as though endeavoring to reach the fruit from the ground where he\nstands. As if defeated in this childish attempt, he now sinks to the\nearth despondingly, beating his breast in well-acted despair; and then,\nstarting to his feet all at once, and throwing back his head, raises\nboth hands, like a school boy about to catch a falling ball. And\ncontinuing this for a moment or two, as if in expectation that the\nfruit was going to be tossed down to him by some good spirit on the\ntree-top, he turns wildly round in another fit of despair, and scampers\noff to a distance of thirty or forty yards. Here he remains a while,\neyeing the tree, the very picture of misery; but the next moment,\nreceiving, as it were, a flash of inspiration, he rushes again towards\nit, and clasping both arms about the trunk, with one elevated a little\nabove the other, he presses the soles of his feet close together\nagainst the tree, extending his legs from it until they are nearly\nhorizontal, and his body becomes doubled into an arch; then, hand over\nhand and foot after foot he rises from the earth with steady rapidity,\nand almost before you are aware of it, has gained the cradled and\nembowered nest of nuts, and with boisterous glee flings the fruit to\nthe ground.\u201d Imagine this spontaneous gesture applied to the telling of\na story, every incident of which gives rise to gesture. But the gesture\nin the story-recital was not merely spontaneous; it was trained, as was\nthe gesture in the hula or Polynesian ballet. Dr. Nathaniel Emerson has\na chapter on gesture in his Unwritten Literature of Hawaii, and he\ngives this instance amongst others: \u201cTo indicate death, the death of a\nperson, the finger-tips, placed in apposition, are drawn away from each\nother with a sweeping gesture and at the same time lowered till the\npalms face the ground. In this case also we find diversity. One old\nman, well acquainted with hula matters, being asked to signify in\npantomimic fashion \u2018The king is sick,\u2019 went through the following\nmotions: He first pointed upward, to indicate the heaven-born one, the\nking; then he brought his hands to his body and threw his face into a\npainful grimace. To indicate the death of the king he threw his hands\nupward towards the sky, as if to signify a removal by flight.\u201d\n\nThis unconstrained, dramatic gesture is being lost. There is no longer\na school for gesture in the hula. And the Hawaiian is checking his\nmovements towards gesture. It used to be said: \u201cTie an Hawaiian\u2019s hands\nand he can\u2019t talk.\u201d The older men and women still have that wonderful\ncommand of their features and their hands\u2014a command that made them the\ngreatest ballet-performers that the world, I believe, has ever had\u2014but\nthe younger generation feel that to use gesture is to be rustic, to be\n\u201cKanaka.\u201d.\n\nThere is still, amongst the Hawaiians who live in the old Polynesian\nway, in villages along the beaches, with the taro patches near, a great\ntreasury of poetry and native lore. But the newspaper and the victrola\nare taking up the time and the interest that used to be devoted to\npoetry, traditional games, riddles, and the like. I have been in\ncottages where the people still sit or lie on their mats on the floor,\nignoring tables, chairs, and beds, and where they eat with their\nfingers, lifting the poi out of the common bowl. In such houses I have\nfound a real scholarship, a delight in poetry, and the possession of\nsuch a quantity of it as would put to shame a cultivated American,\nEnglishman, or Frenchman. But even in such houses I was aware that the\ntradition was passing. Sitting on the floor in one such house, around a\npetroleum lamp also on the floor, I have spelled out news items in an\nHawaiian newspaper that told of the French in the Ruhr and preparations\nfor elections in Ireland.\n\nThe world surges in on the Hawaiian Islands. And the Hawaiian can no\nlonger give himself solely to the tradition that bound him to the\nvalleys and the mountains, and that knit him to Wakea and Papa, who\nbegat and brought forth the islands and the men and women upon them.\nThat separate tradition, which for thousands of years he lived by, is\nbeing broken up, as the surge breaks up the lava on his coast. The\nHawaiian who, at the time when the Americans were making their\ndeclaration of independence, was still working with tools of stone,\nknowing nothing of metals, of pottery, of the loom, and knowing of no\nanimal larger than a dog or a pig, has now to take some account of the\ncontinents.\n\n\n\nWith one exception the titles in this collection cover stories that are\nHawaiian in the sense that they were given their shape upon the\nHawaiian Islands. That exception is The Seven Great Deeds of Ma-ui.\nAlthough the scene of the demi-god\u2019s adventures is Hawaiian, I have\nused incidents related of him in other Polynesian islands\u2014in New\nZealand, Samoa, and the lesser islands. I have treated Ma-ui, not as an\nHawaiian, but as the Pan-Polynesian hero that he is. With this\nexception the stories are all out of the Hawaiian tradition, or rather\nout of the Polynesian tradition as it has been shaped in Hawaii.\n\nAnd the stories are mainly taken from that treasure house of Hawaiian\nlore, the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore,\nwhich form Volumes IV\u2013VI of the Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop\nMuseum of Honolulu, published 1916\u20131919. I have gone outside the\nFornander Collection in several instances. The Seven Great Deeds of\nMa-ui comes out of Mr. Westervelt\u2019s valuable book, Ma-ui the Demi-God;\nthe stories of the Me-ne-hu-ne come out of Mr. Thrum\u2019s Stories of the\nMenehunes and Mr. Rice\u2019s Hawaiian Legends; and I have drawn the story\nabout Hina, the Woman of Lalo-hana, from David Malo\u2019s Hawaiian\nAntiquities, and the story about the Shark-god from an old publication\nof the Islands, The Maile Quarterly. But it is the Fornander Collection\nthat has given a cast to this book, and I must now give a brief account\nof it.\n\nAbraham Fornander, the author of The Polynesian Race, lived on the\nIslands for over forty years. He edited a journal called The\nPolynesian, and he was Superintendent of Public Instruction on the\nIslands in 1865\u20131866. He had married an Hawaiian lady, and he was a\nstrong partisan of the native race.\n\nThe theory which he expounds in The Polynesian Race is that the\nPolynesian people carried with them into the islands of the Pacific a\nculture and a set of ideas that connect them with the East Indians\u2014with\nthe pre-Sanscrit culture and with an Arabian culture that touched both\nthe Hebrews and the East Indians. There is no reason to take this\ntheory into account now. The important thing is that Abraham Fornander,\nin order to substantiate it, made an appeal to the traditions that were\nthen current amongst the natives of Hawaii.\n\nAt that time, over forty years ago, there was considerable native\nscholarship. Haleole, who made an attempt to found a native literature\nwith his romance Laieikawai, was writing and publishing. The Mission\nSchool in Lahainaluna on the Island of Maui had become a sort of\nHawaiian university. Abraham Fornander had the good sense to appeal to\nnative scholars, and he was able to get the best of them to interest\nthemselves in his project of collecting all the native lore that could\nthrow a light on the migrations of the Polynesian people. The Hawaiian\nmonarchy was then in undisputed existence; native institutions were\nstill vigorous; everywhere there were men and women whose memories were\nstocked with the historical traditions and the romances of Hawaii.\n\nWith the help of a corps of native scholars a great deal of the\nsurviving tradition of Hawaii was collected by Fornander. Some of it\nwas published in the Hawaiian newspapers of the time, but no extensive\npublication was given to it. The manuscripts were kept together; then,\non the death of Abraham Fornander in 1887, the collection was acquired\nby Charles R. Bishop, the husband of Bernice Pauahi, an Hawaiian\nroyalty whose estate went to the foundation of the Bernice Pauahi\nBishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History in Honolulu.\n\nForty years after it had been got together, the publication of the\nmaterial was begun by the Bishop Museum. That was in 1916. The volumes\nhave appeared under the editorship of that veteran Hawaiian scholar,\nMr. Thomas Thrum, with the Hawaiian text on one page and the English\ntranslation by Mr. John Wise on the other. It is Mr. Wise\u2019s\ntranslations that have furnished me with the bulk of the material for\nthis book.\n\nAlthough the stories are described in the Museum publications as\nfolk-lore, I doubted from the time of my first reading of them that\nthey were folk-lore in the strict sense of the word; that is, I doubted\ntheir coming out of an unlearned and popular tradition. The greater\nnumber of them seemed to me to be deliberate compositions intended for\na rather select audience. And then I found that a great master of\nHawaiian tradition, Mr. William Hyde Rice, favored this opinion. In the\nIntroduction to his Hawaiian Legends [4] it is said:\n\n\n    Mr. Rice\u2019s theory as to the origin of these legends is based on the\n    fact that in the old days, before the discovery of the Islands by\n    Captain Cook, there were bards and story-tellers, either itinerant\n    or attached to the courts of the chiefs, similar to the minstrels\n    and tale-tellers of medi\u00e6val Europe. These men formed a distinct\n    class, and lived only at the courts of the high chiefs.\n    Accordingly, their stories were heard by none except those people\n    attached to the service of the chiefs. This accounts for the loss\n    of many legends, in later years, as they were not commonly known.\n    These bards or story-tellers sometimes used historical incidents or\n    natural phenomena for the foundation of their stories, which were\n    handed down from generation to generation. Other legends were\n    simply fabrications of the imagination, in which the greatest\n    \u201cteller of tales\u201d was awarded the highest place in the chief\u2019s\n    favor. All these elements, fiction combined with fact, and shrouded\n    in the mist of antiquity, came, by repetition, to be more or less\n    believed as true. This class of men were skillful in the art of the\n    \u201capo\u201d\u2014that is, \u201ccatching,\u201d literally, or memorizing instantly at\n    the first hearing. One man would recite or chant for two or three\n    hours at a stretch, and when he had finished, his auditor would\n    start at the beginning of the chant and go through the whole mele\n    or story without missing or changing a word. These trained men\n    received through their ears as we receive through our eyes, and in\n    that way the ancient Hawaiians had a spoken literature much as we\n    have a written one.\n\n\nAnd as to the substance of this spoken literature, Miss Martha Warren\nBeckwith, who has made by her edition of Haleole\u2019s romance of\nLaieikawai a valuable contribution to the knowledge of Polynesian\npoetry and romance, states that the traditional Hawaiian romance\nbelongs to no isolated group but to the whole Polynesian area. \u201cWe\nfind,\u201d she says, \u201cthe same story told in New Zealand and Hawaii,\nscarcely changed, even in name.\u201d Miss Beckwith thinks that the bulk of\nHawaiian romance consists of stories about the demi-gods\u2014beings\ndescended from the gods, or adopted or endowed by them. These legendary\ntales reflect actual Polynesian conditions\u2014\u201cGods and men are, in fact,\nto the Polynesian mind, one family under different forms, the gods\nhaving superior control over certain phenomena, a control which they\ncan impart to their offspring on earth.... The supernatural blends with\nthe natural in exactly the same way as to the Polynesian mind gods\nrelate themselves to men, facts about one being regarded as, even\nthough removed to the heavens, quite as objective as those which belong\nto the other, and being employed to explain social customs and physical\nappearances in actual experience.\u201d\n\nThe bulk of the stories in the present volume are founded, then, on\nPolynesian literature rather than on Polynesian folk-lore. They are\nbased on the compositions of men who were trained in the handling of\ncharacter and incident. There are stories in the volume that obviously\nbelong to folk-lore, however. The stories of the Me-ne-hu-ne, which are\nnot given in the Fornander Collection, but are taken from the work of\nMr. Thrum and Mr. Rice, are folk-lore, I believe. The stories of Ma-ui\nthe demi-god are folk-lore, too. The story of Hina coming from the land\nunder the sea, and the other story of her going to the moon and\nbecoming the woman in the moon, undoubtedly belong to Polynesian\nfolk-lore.\n\nI do not believe that the Polynesian language, with its sounds that\nseem to belong to the forest and the sea, is going or that it has to\ngo. Indeed, there may be a Polynesian revival similar to the national\nrevivals which we have seen in European countries; the Polynesian, with\ntragic exceptions in the case of the people of the Marquesas, is coming\nback. He has turned the corner; our diseases no longer threaten his\nvery existence. And yet, although his language and parts of his culture\nwill probably remain for many generations, his children, if they are in\nthe American territory of Hawaii, and if they are to read the romances\nof old Hawaii, will have to read them in English. For them, and for the\nneo-Hawaiian children\u2014the children of American, British, Portuguese,\nJapanese, and Chinese parents, mixed or unmixed with Hawaiian\nblood\u2014these stories have been reshaped. I have had to condense, expand,\nheighten, subdue, rearrange\u2014in a word, I have had to retell the\nstories, using the old romances as material for wonder-stories. The old\nstories were not for children; they gave an image of life to kings and\nsoldiers, to courtiers and to ruling women. As in all stories not\noriginally intended for children, much has had to be suppressed in\nretelling them for a youthful audience.\n\nAnd retelling them has meant that I have had to find a new form for the\nstories. The form that I choose to give them is that of the European\nfolk-tale.\n\nIn Hawaiian romance there is a feeling that is rare in any body of\npopular European romance\u2014a feeling for the beauty of nature, for\nflowers and trees, the aspect of the clouds, the look of the sea, the\nsight of mountains, for the beauty of the rainbow and the waterfall.\nAnd part of the delight in retelling these stories is in recalling the\nbeauties of places that are beautifully named. To be true in any\nmeasure to the originals these stories of my retelling should have in\nthem the rainbow and the waterfall, the volcano, the forest, the surf\nas it foams over the reef of coral. In the hula or Hawaiian ballet, and\nin the poetry that is related to the hula, there is, as Dr. Nathaniel\nEmerson has observed, always an idyllic feeling. This idyllic feeling\npervades Hawaiian romance also. The scene of many of the stories, when\nnot laid in lands that are frankly mythical, is laid in an Hawaiian\nArcadia. And how memorable these lands are!\u2014Ku-ai-he-lani, the Country\nthat Supports the Heavens, and Pali-uli, the easeful land that the gods\nhave since hidden. Who would not roam through these lands with those\nwho first told of them and who first heard of them\u2014the gracious and\nvivid children of Wakea and Papa?\n\n\n    PADRAIC COLUM.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOY PU-NIA AND THE KING OF THE SHARKS.\n\n\nOn one side of the Island there lived a great shark: Kai-ale-ale he was\nnamed; he was the King of the Sharks of that place, and he had ten\nsharks under him. He lived near a cave that was filled with lobsters.\nBut no one dared to dive down, and go into that cave, and take lobsters\nout of it, on account of Kai-ale-ale and the ten sharks he had under\nhim; they stayed around the cave night and day, and if a diver ventured\nnear they would bite him and devour him.\n\nThere was a boy named Pu-nia, whose father had been killed by the\nsharks. Now after his father had been killed, there was no one to catch\nfish for Pu-nia and his mother; they had sweet potatoes to eat, but\nthey never had any fish to eat with them. Often Pu-nia heard his mother\nsay that she wished she had a fish or lobster to eat with the sweet\npotatoes. He made up his mind that they should have lobsters.\n\nHe came above the cave where the lobsters were. Looking down he saw the\nsharks\u2014Kai-ale-ale and his ten sharks; they were all asleep. While he\nwas watching them, they wakened up. Pu-nia pretended that he did not\nknow that the sharks had wakened. He spoke loudly so that they would\nhear him, and he said: \u201cHere am I, Pu-nia, and I am going into the cave\nto get lobsters for myself and my mother. That great shark,\nKai-ale-ale, is asleep now, and I can dive to the point over there, and\nthen go into the cave; I will take two lobsters in my hands, and my\nmother and I will have something to eat with our sweet potatoes.\u201d So\nPu-nia said, speaking loudly and pretending that he thought the sharks\nwere still asleep.\n\nSaid Kai-ale-ale, speaking softly to the other sharks: \u201cLet us rush to\nthe place where Pu-nia dives, and let us devour him as we devoured his\nfather.\u201d But Pu-nia was a very cunning boy and not at all the sort that\ncould be caught by the stupid sharks. He had a stone upon his hand\nwhile he was speaking, and he flung it towards the point that he said\nhe was going to dive to. Just as soon as the stone struck the water the\nsharks made a rush to the place, leaving the cave of the lobsters\nunguarded. Then Pu-nia dived. He went into the cave, took two lobsters\nin his hands, and came up on the place that he had spoken from before.\n\nHe shouted down to the sharks: \u201cHere is Pu-nia, and he has come back\nsafely. He has two lobsters, and he and his mother have something to\nlive on. It was the first shark, the second shark, the third shark, the\nfourth shark, the fifth shark, the sixth shark, the seventh shark, the\neighth shark, the ninth shark, the tenth shark\u2014it was the tenth shark,\nthe one with the thin tail, that showed Pu-nia what to do.\u201d\n\nWhen the King of the Sharks, Kai-ale-ale, heard this from Pu-nia, he\nordered all the sharks to come together and stay in a row. He counted\nthem, and there were ten of them, and the tenth one had a thin tail.\n\u201cSo it was you, Thin Tail,\u201d he said, \u201cthat told the boy Pu-nia what to\ndo. You shall die.\u201d Then, according to the orders of Kai-ale-ale, the\nthin-tailed shark was killed. Pu-nia called out to them, \u201cYou have\nkilled one of your own kind.\u201d With the two lobsters in his hands, he\nwent back to his mother\u2019s.\n\nPu-nia and his mother now had something to eat with their sweet\npotatoes. And when the lobsters were all eaten, Pu-nia went back to the\nplace above the cave. He called out, the same as he had done the first\ntime: \u201cI can dive to the place over there and then slip into the cave,\nfor the sharks are all asleep; I can get two lobsters for myself and my\nmother, so that we\u2019ll have something to eat with our sweet potatoes.\u201d\nThen he threw down a stone and made ready to dive to another point.\n\nWhen the stone struck the water the sharks rushed over, leaving the\ncave unguarded. Then Pu-nia dived down and went into the cave. He took\ntwo lobsters in his hands and got back to the top of the water, and\nwhen he got to the place that he had spoken from before, he shouted\ndown to the sharks: \u201cIt was the first shark, the second shark, the\nthird shark, the fourth shark, the fifth shark, the sixth shark, the\nseventh shark, the eighth shark, the ninth shark\u2014it was the ninth\nshark, the one with the big stomach, that told Pu-nia what to do.\u201d\n\nThen the King of the Sharks, Kai-ale-ale, ordered the sharks to get\ninto a line. He counted them, and he found that the ninth shark had a\nbig stomach. \u201cSo it was you that told Pu-nia what to do,\u201d he said; and\nhe ordered the big-stomached shark to be killed. After that Pu-nia went\nhome with his two lobsters, and he and his mother had something to eat\nwith their sweet potatoes.\n\nPu-nia continued to do this. He would deceive the sharks by throwing a\nstone to the place that he said he was going to dive to; when he got\nthe sharks away from the cave, he would dive down, slip in, and take\ntwo lobsters in his hands. And always, when he got to the top of the\nwater, he would name a shark. \u201cThe first shark, the second shark, the\nthird shark\u2014the shark with the little eye, the shark with the grey spot\non him\u2014told Pu-nia what to do,\u201d he would say; and each time he would\nget one of the sharks killed. He kept on doing this until only one of\nthe sharks was left; this one was Kai-ale-ale, the King of the Sharks.\n\nAfter that, Pu-nia went into the forest; he hewed out two hard pieces\nof wood, each about a yard long; then he took sticks for lighting a\nfire\u2014the au-li-ma to rub with, and the au-na-ki to rub on; he got\ncharcoal to burn as a fire, and he got food. He put all into a bag, and\nhe carried the bag down to the beach. He came above the cave that\nKai-ale-ale was watching, and he said, speaking in a loud voice: \u201cIf I\ndive now, and if Kai-ale-ale bites me, my blood will come to the top of\nthe water, and my mother will see the blood and will bring me back to\nlife again. But if I dive down and Kai-ale-ale takes me into his mouth\nwhole, I shall die and never come back to life again.\u201d Kai-ale-ale was\nlistening, of course. He said to himself: \u201cNo, I will not bite you, you\ncunning boy; I will take you into my mouth and swallow you whole, and\nthen you will never come back to life again. I shall open my mouth wide\nenough to take you in. Yes, indeed, this time I will get you.\u201d\n\nPu-nia dived, holding his bag. Kai-ale-ale opened his mouth wide and\ngot Pu-nia into it. But as soon as the boy got within, he opened his\nbag and took out the two pieces of wood which he had hewn out in the\nforest. He put them between the jaws of the shark so that Kai-ale-ale\nwas not able to close his jaws. With his mouth held open, Kai-ale-ale\nwent dashing through the water.\n\nPu-nia was now inside the big shark; he took the fire-sticks out of his\nbag and rubbed them together, making a fire. He kindled the charcoal\nthat he had brought, and he cooked his food at the fire that he had\nmade. With the fire in his insides, the shark could not keep still; he\nwent dashing here and there through the ocean.\n\nAt last the shark came near the Island of Hawaii again. \u201cIf he brings\nme near the breakers, I am saved,\u201d said Pu-nia, speaking aloud; \u201cbut if\nhe takes me to the sand near where the grass grows, I shall die; I\ncannot be saved.\u201d Kai-ale-ale, when he heard Pu-nia say this, said to\nhimself: \u201cI will not take him near the breakers; I will take him where\nthe dry sand is, near the grass.\u201d Saying this, he dashed in from the\nocean and up to where the shrubs grew on the shore. No shark had ever\ngone there before; and when Kai-ale-ale got there, he could not get\nback again.\n\nThen Pu-nia came out of the shark. He shouted out, \u201cKai-ale-ale,\nKai-ale-ale, the King of the Sharks, has come to visit us.\u201d And the\npeople, hearing about their enemy Kai-ale-ale, came down to the shore\nwith their spears and their knives and killed him. And that was the end\nof the ugly and wicked King of the Sharks.\n\nEvery day after that, Pu-nia was able to go down into the cave and get\nlobsters for himself and his mother. And all the people rejoiced when\nthey knew that the eleven sharks that guarded the cave had been got rid\nof by the boy Pu-nia.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE SEVEN GREAT DEEDS OF MA-UI.\n\n\nThere is no hero who is more famous than Ma-ui. In all the Islands of\nthe Great Ocean, from Kahiki-mo-e to Hawaii nei, his name and his deeds\nare spoken of. His deeds were many, but seven of them were very great,\nand it is about those seven great deeds that I shall tell you.\n\n\n\n\nHOW MA-UI WON A PLACE FOR HIMSELF IN THE HOUSE.\n\nWhen Ma-ui, the last of her five sons, was born, his mother thought she\nwould have no food for him. So she took him down to the shore of the\nsea, she cut off her hair and tied it around him, and she gave him to\nthe waves. But Ma-ui was not drowned in the sea: first of all the\njelly-fish came; it folded him in its softness, and it kept him warm\nwhile he floated on. And then the God of the Sea found the child and\ntook charge of him: he brought him to his house and warmed and\ncherished him, and little Ma-ui grew up in the land where lived the God\nof the Sea.\n\nBut while he was still a boy he went back to his mother\u2019s country. He\nsaw his mother and his four brothers, and he followed them into a\nhouse; it was a house that all the people of the country were going\ninto. He sat there with his brothers. And when his mother called her\nchildren to take them home, she found this strange child with them. She\ndid not know him, and she would not take him with the rest of the\nchildren. But Ma-ui followed them. And when his four brothers came out\nof their own house they found him there, and he played with them. At\nfirst they played hide-and-seek, but then they made themselves spears\nfrom canes and began throwing the spears at the house.\n\nThe slight spears did not go through the thatch of grass that was at\nthe outside of the house. And then Ma-ui made a charm over the cane\nthat was his spear\u2014a charm that toughened it and made it heavy. He\nflung it again, and a great hole was made in the grass-thatch of the\nhouse. His mother came out to chastise the boy and drive him away. But\nwhen she stood at the door and saw him standing there so angry, and saw\nhow he was able to break down the house with the throws of his spear,\nshe knew in him the great power that his father had, and she called to\nhim to come into the house. He would not come in until she had laid her\nhands upon him. When she did this his brothers were jealous that their\nmother made so much of this strange boy, and they did not want to have\nhim with them. It was then that the elder brother spoke and said,\n\u201cNever mind; let him be with us and be our dear brother.\u201d And then they\nall asked him to come into the house.\n\nThe door-posts, Short Post and Tall Post, that had been put there to\nguard the house, would not let him come in. Then Ma-ui lifted up his\nspear, and he threw it at Tall Post and overthrew him. He threw his\nspear again and overthrew Short Post. And after that he went into his\nmother\u2019s house and was with his brothers. The overthrowing of the two\nposts that guarded the house was the first of the great deeds of Ma-ui.\n\nIn those days, say the people who know the stories of the old times,\nthe birds were not seen by the men and women of the Islands. They flew\naround the houses, and the flutter of their wings was heard, and the\nstirring of the branches and the leaves as they were lit upon. Then\nthere would be music. But the people who had never seen the birds\nthought that this was music made by gods who wanted to remain unseen by\nthe people. Ma-ui could see the birds; he rejoiced in their brilliant\ncolors, and when he called to them they would come and rest upon the\nbranches around the place where he was; there they would sing their\nhappiest songs to him.\n\nThere was a visitor who came from another land to the country that\nMa-ui lived in. He boasted of all the wonderful things that were in his\ncountry, and it seemed to the people of Ma-ui\u2019s land that they had\nnothing that was fine or that could be spoken about. Then Ma-ui called\nto the birds. They came and they made music on every side. The visitor\nwho had boasted so much was made to wonder, and he said that there was\nnothing in his country that was so marvellous as the music made by\nMa-ui\u2019s friends, the birds.\n\nThen, that they might be honored by all, Ma-ui said a charm by which\nthe birds came to be seen by men\u2014the red birds, the i-i-wi and the\naha-hani, and the yellow birds, the o-o and the mamo, and all the other\nbright birds. The delight of seeing them was equal to the delight of\nhearing the music that they made. Ever afterwards the birds were seen\nand heard, and the people all rejoiced in them. This Ma-ui did when he\nwas still a boy growing up with his brothers and with his sister in his\nmother\u2019s house. But this is not counted amongst the great deeds of\nMa-ui the hero.\n\n\n\n\nHOW MA-UI LIFTED UP THE SKY.\n\nThen he lifted up the sky to where it is now. This was the second of\nMa-ui\u2019s great deeds.\n\nWhen he was growing up in his mother\u2019s house the sky was so low that\nthe trees touched it and had their leaves flattened out. Men and women\nburned with the heat because the sky was so near to them. The clouds\nwere so close that there was much darkness on the earth. Something had\nto be done about it, and Ma-ui made up his mind that he would lift up\nthe sky.\n\nSomewhere he got a mark tattooed on his arm that was a magic mark and\nthat gave him great strength. Then he went to lift up the sky. And from\nsome woman he got a drink that made his strength greater. \u201cGive me to\ndrink out of your gourd,\u201d he said, \u201cand I will push up the sky.\u201d The\nwoman gave him her gourd to drink from. Then Ma-ui pushed at the sky.\nHe lifted it high, to where the trees have their tops now. He pushed at\nit again, and he put it where the mountains have their tops now. And\nthen he pushed it to where it rests, on the tops of the highest\nmountains.\n\nThen the men and women were able to walk about all over the earth, and\nthey had light now and clear air. The trees grew higher and higher, and\nthey grew more and more fruit. But even to this day their leaves are\nflattened out: it is from the time when their leaves were flattened\nagainst the sky.\n\nWhen the sky was lifted up Ma-ui went and made a kite for himself. From\nhis mother he got the largest and strongest piece of tapa-cloth she had\never made, and he formed it into a kite with a frame and cross-sticks\nof hau wood. The tail of the kite was fifteen fathoms long, and he got\na line of olona vine for it that was twenty times forty fathoms in\nlength. He started the kite. But it rose very slowly; the wind barely\nheld it up.\n\nThen the people said: \u201cLook at Ma-ui! He lifted the sky up, and now he\ncan\u2019t fly a kite.\u201d Ma-ui was made angry when he heard them say this: he\ndrew the kite this way and that way, but still he was not able to make\nit rise up. He cried out his incantation\u2014\n\n\n        \u201cStrong wind, come;\n        Soft wind, come\u201d\u2014\n\n\nbut still the kite would not rise.\n\nThen he remembered that in the Valley of Wai-pio there was a wizard who\nhad control of the winds. Over the mountains and down into the valley\nMa-ui went. He saw the calabash that the wizard kept the winds in, and\nhe asked him to loose them and direct them to blow along the river to\nthe place where he was going to fly his kite. Then Ma-ui went back. He\nstood with his feet upon the rocks along the bank of the Wai-lu-ku\nRiver; he stood there braced to hold his kite, and where he stood are\nthe marks of his feet to this day. He called out:\n\n\n        \u201cO winds, winds of Wai-pio,\n        Come from the calabash\u2014\u2018the Calabash of perpetual winds.\u2019\n        O wind, O wind of Hilo,\n        Come quickly; come with power.\u201d\n\n\nThe call that Ma-ui gave went across the mountains and down into the\nvalley of Wai-pio. No sooner did he hear it than the wizard opened his\ncalabash. The winds rushed out. They went into the bay of Hilo, and\nthey dashed themselves against the water. The call of Ma-ui came to\nthem:\n\n\n        \u201cO winds, winds of Hilo,\n        Hurry, hurry and come to me.\u201d\n\n\nThe winds turned from the sea. They rushed along the river. They came\nto where Ma-ui stood, and then they saw the great, strange bird that he\nheld.\n\nThey wanted to fall upon that bird and dash it up against the sky. But\nthe great kite was strong. The winds flung it up and flung it this way\nand that way. But they could not carry it off or dash it against the\nsky as they wanted to.\n\nMa-ui rejoiced. How grand it was to hold a kite that the winds strove\nto tear away! He called out again:\n\n\n        \u201cO winds, O winds of Hilo,\n        Come to the mountains, come.\u201d\n\n\nThen came the west wind that had been dashing up waves in the bay of\nHilo. It joined itself with the north wind and the east wind, the two\nwinds that had been tearing and pushing at Ma-ui\u2019s kite. Now, although\nthe kite was made of the strongest tapa, and although it had been\nstrengthened in every cunning way that Ma-ui knew, it was flung here\nand flung there. Ma-ui let his line out; the kite was borne up and up\nand above the mountains. And now he cried out to the kite that he had\nmade:\n\n\n        \u201cClimb up, climb up\n        To the highest level of the heavens,\n        To all the sides of the heavens.\n        Climb thou to thy ancestor,\n        To the sacred bird in the heavens.\u201d\n\n\nThe three winds joined together, and now they made a fiercer attack\nupon Ma-ui\u2019s kite. The winds tore and tossed it. Then the line broke in\nMa-ui\u2019s hands.\n\nThe winds flung the kite across the mountains. And then, to punish it\nfor having dared to face the heavens, they rammed it down into the\nvolcano, and stirred up the fires against it.\n\nThen Ma-ui made for himself another kite. He flew it, and rejoiced in\nthe flying of it, and all who saw him wondered at how high his kite\nwent and how gracefully it bore itself in the heavens. But never again\ndid he call upon the great winds to help him in his sport. Sometimes he\nwould fasten his line to the black stones in the bed of the Wai-lu-ku\nRiver, and he would let the kite soar upward and range here and there.\nHe knew by watching his soaring kite whether it would be dry and\npleasant weather, and he showed his neighbors how they might know it.\n\u201cEh, neighbor,\u201d one would say to another, \u201cit is going to be dry\nweather; look how Ma-ui\u2019s kite keeps in the sky.\u201d They knew that they\ncould go to the fields to work and spread out their tapa to dry, for as\nlong as the kite soared the rain would not fall.\n\nMa-ui learned what a strong pull the fierce winds had. He used to bring\nhis kite with him when he went out on the ocean in his canoe. He would\nlet it free; then, fastening his line to the canoe, he would let the\nwind that pulled the kite pull him along. By flying his kite he learned\nhow to go more swiftly over the ocean in his canoe, and how to make\nfurther voyages than ever a man made before.\n\nNevertheless, his kite-flying is not counted amongst the great deeds of\nMa-ui.\n\n\n\n\nHOW MA-UI FISHED UP THE GREAT ISLAND.\n\nNow, although Ma-ui had done deeds as great as these, he was not\nthought so very much of in his own house. His brothers complained that\nwhen he went fishing with them he caught no fish, or, if he drew one\nup, it was a fish that had been taken on a hook belonging to one of\nthem, and that Ma-ui had managed to get tangled on to his own line. And\nyet Ma-ui had invented many things that his brothers made use of. At\nfirst they had spears with smooth heads on them: if they struck a bird,\nthe bird was often able to flutter away, drawing from the spear-head\nthat had pierced a wing. And if they struck through a fish, the fish\nwas often able to wriggle away. Then Ma-ui put barbs upon his spear,\nand his spear-head held the birds and the fish. His brothers copied the\nspear-head that he made, and after that they were able to kill and\nsecure more birds and fish than ever before.\n\nHe made many things that they copied, and yet his brothers thought him\na lazy and a shiftless fellow, and they made their mother think the\nsame about him. They were the better fishermen\u2014that was true; indeed,\nif there were no one but Ma-ui to go fishing, Hina-of-the-Fire, his\nmother, and Hina-of-the-Sea, his sister, would often go hungry.\n\nAt last Ma-ui made up his mind to do some wonderful fishing; he might\nnot be able to catch the fine fish that his brothers desired\u2014the u-lua\nand the pi-mo-e\u2014but he would take up something from the bottom of the\nsea that would make his brothers forget that he was the lazy and the\nshiftless one.\n\nHe had to make many plans and go on many adventures before he was ready\nfor this great fishing. First he had to get a fish-hook that was\ndifferent from any fish-hook that had ever been in the world before. In\nthose days fish-hooks were made out of bones\u2014there was nothing else to\nmake fish-hooks out of\u2014and Ma-ui would have to get a wonderful bone to\nform into a hook. He went down into the underworld to get that bone.\n\nHe went to where his ancestress was. On one side she was dead and on\nthe other side she was a living woman. From the side of her that was\ndead Ma-ui took a bone\u2014her jaw-bone\u2014and out of this bone he made his\nfish-hook. There was never a fish-hook like it in the world before, and\nit was called \u201cMa-nai-i-ka-lani,\u201d meaning \u201cMade fast to the heavens.\u201d\nHe told no one about the wonderful fish-hook he had made for himself.\n\nHe had to get a different bait from any bait that had ever been used in\nthe world before. His mother had sacred birds, the alae, and he asked\nher to give him one of them for bait. She gave him one of her birds.\n\nThen Ma-ui, with his bait and his hook hidden, and with a line that he\nhad made from the strongest olona vines, went down to his brothers\u2019\ncanoe. \u201cHere is Ma-ui,\u201d they said when they saw him, \u201chere is Ma-ui,\nthe lazy and the shiftless, and we have sworn that we will never let\nhim come again with us in our canoe.\u201d They pushed out when they saw him\ncoming; they paddled away, although he begged them to take him with\nthem.\n\nHe waited on the beach. His brothers came back, and they had to tell\nhim that they had caught no fish. Then he begged them to go back to sea\nagain and to let him go this time in their canoe. They let him in, and\nthey paddled off. \u201cFarther and farther out, my brothers,\u201d said Ma-ui;\n\u201cout there is where the u-lua and the pi-mo-e are.\u201d They paddled far\nout. They let down their lines, but they caught no fish. \u201cWhere are the\nu-lua and the pi-mo-e that you spoke of?\u201d said his brothers to him.\nStill he told them to go farther and farther out. At last they got\ntired with paddling, and they wanted to go back.\n\nThen Ma-ui put a sail upon the canoe. Farther and farther out into the\nocean they went. One of the brothers let down a line, and a great fish\ndrew on it. They pulled. But what came out of the depths was a shark.\nThey cut the line and let the shark away. The brothers were very tired\nnow. \u201cOh, Ma-ui,\u201d they said, \u201cas ever, thou art lazy and shiftless.\nThou hast brought us out all this way, and thou wilt do nothing to help\nus. Thou hast let down no line in all the sea we have crossed.\u201d\n\nIt was then that Ma-ui let down his line with the magic hook upon it,\nthe hook that was baited with the struggling alae bird. Down, down went\nthe hook that was named \u201cMa-nai-i-ka-lani,\u201d \u201cMade fast to the heavens.\u201d\nDown through the waters the hook and the bait went. Ka-uni ho-kahi, Old\nOne Tooth, who holds fast the land to the bottom of the sea, was there.\nWhen the sacred bird came near him he took it in his mouth. And the\nmagic hook that Ma-ui had made held fast in his jaws.\n\nMa-ui felt the pull upon the line. He fastened the line to the canoe,\nand he bade his brothers paddle their hardest, for now the great fish\nwas caught. He dipped his own paddle into the sea, and he made the\ncanoe dash on.\n\nThe brothers felt a great weight grow behind the canoe. But still they\npaddled on and on. Weighty and more weighty became the catch; harder\nand harder it became to pull it along. As they struggled on Ma-ui\nchanted a magic chant, and the weight came with them.\n\n\n            \u201cO Island, O great Island,\n            O Island, O great Island!\n            Why art thou\n            Sulkily biting, biting below?\n            Beneath the earth\n            The power is felt,\n            The foam is seen:\n            Come,\n            O thou loved grandchild\n            Of Kanaloa.\u201d\n\n\nOn and on the canoe went, and heavier and heavier grew what was behind\nthem. At last one of the brothers looked back. At what he saw he\nscreamed out in affright. For there, rising behind them, a whole land\nwas rising up, with mountains upon it. The brother dropped his paddle\nwhen he saw what had been fished up; as he dropped his paddle the line\nthat was fastened to the jaws of old Ka-uni ho-kahi broke.\n\nWhat Ma-ui fished up would have been a mainland, only that his\nbrother\u2019s paddle dropped and the line broke. Then only an island came\nup out of the water. If more land had come up, all the Islands that we\nknow would have been joined in one.\n\nThere are people who say that his sister, Hina-of-the-Sea, was near at\nthe time of that great fishing. They say she came floating out on a\ncalabash. When Ma-ui let down the magic hook with their mother\u2019s sacred\nbird upon it, Hina-of-the-Sea dived down and put the hook into the\nmouth of Old One Tooth, and then pulled at the line to let Ma-ui know\nthat the hook was in his jaws. Some people say this, and it may be the\ntruth. But whether or not, every one, on every Island in the Great\nOcean, from Kahiki-mo-e to Hawaii nei, knows that Ma-ui fished up a\ngreat Island for men to live on. And this fishing was the third of\nMa-ui\u2019s great deeds.\n\n\n\n\nHOW MA-UI SNARED THE SUN AND MADE HIM GO MORE SLOWLY ACROSS THE\nHEAVENS.\n\nThe Sky had been lifted up, and another great Island had come from the\ngrip of Old One Tooth and was above the waters. The world was better\nnow for men and women to live in. But still there were miseries in it,\nand the greatest of these miseries was on account of the heedlessness\nof the Sun.\n\nFor the Sun in those days made his way too quickly across the world. He\nhurried so that little of his heat got to the plants and the fruits,\nand it took years and years for them to ripen. The farmers working on\ntheir patches would not have time in the light of a day to put down\ntheir crop into the ground, so quickly the Sun would rush across the\nheavens, and the fishermen would barely have time to launch their\ncanoes and get to the fishing grounds when the darkness would come on.\nAnd the women\u2019s tasks were never finished. It was theirs to make the\ntapa-cloth: a woman would begin at one end of the board to beat the\nbark with her four-sided mallet, and she would be only at the middle of\nthe board by the time the sunset came. When she was ready to go on with\nthe work next day, the Sun would be already halfway across the heavens.\n\nMa-ui, when he was a child, used to watch his mother making tapa, and\nas he grew up he pitied her more and more because of all the toil and\ntrouble that she had. She would break the branches from the ma-ma-ka\ntrees and from the wau-ke trees and soak them in water until their bark\nwas easily taken off. Then she would take off the outer bark, leaving\nthe inner bark to be worked upon. She would take the bundles of the wet\ninner bark and lay them on the tapa-board and begin pounding them with\nlittle clubs. And then she would use her four-sided mallet and beat all\nthe soft stuff into little thin sheets. Then she would paste the little\nsheets together, making large cloths. This was tapa\u2014the tapa that it\nwas every woman\u2019s business in those days to make. As soon as morning\nreddened the clouds Ma-ui\u2019s mother, Hina-of-the-Fire, would begin her\ntask: she would begin beating the softened bark at one end of the\nboard, and she would be only in the middle of the board when the sunset\ncame. And when she managed to get the tapa made she could never get it\ndried in a single day, so quickly the Sun made his way across the\nheavens. Ma-ui pitied his mother because of her unceasing toil.\n\nHe greatly blamed the Sun for his inconsiderateness of the people of\nthe world. He took to watching the Sun. He began to know the path by\nwhich the Sun came over the great mountain Ha-le-a-ka-la (but in those\ndays it was not called Ha-le-a-ka-la, the House of the Sun, but\nA-hele-a-ka-la, The Rays of the Sun). Through a great chasm in the side\nof this mountain the Sun used to come.\n\nHe told his mother that he was going to do something to make the Sun\nhave more considerateness for the men and women of the world. \u201cYou will\nnot be able to make him do anything about it,\u201d she said; \u201cthe Sun\nalways went swiftly, and he will always go swiftly.\u201d But Ma-ui said\nthat he would find a way to make the Sun remember that there were\npeople in the world and that they were not at all pleased with the way\nhe was going on.\n\nThen his mother said: \u201cIf you are going to force the Sun to go more\nslowly you must prepare yourself for a great battle, for the Sun is a\ngreat creature, and he has much energy. Go to your grandmother who\nlives on the side of Ha-le-a-ka-la,\u201d said she (but it was called\nA-hele-a-ka-la then), \u201cand beg her to give you her counsel, and also to\ngive you a weapon to battle with the Sun.\u201d\n\nSo Ma-ui went to his grandmother who lived on the side of the great\nmountain. Ma-ui\u2019s grandmother was the one who cooked the bananas that\nthe Sun ate as he came through the great chasm in the mountain. \u201cYou\nmust go to the place where there is a large wili-wili tree growing,\u201d\nsaid his mother. \u201cThere the Sun stops to eat the bananas that your\ngrandmother cooks for him. Stay until the rooster that watches beside\nthe wili-wili tree crows three times. Your grandmother will come out\nthen with a bunch of bananas. When she lays them down, do you take them\nup. She will bring another bunch out, and do you take that up too. When\nall her bananas are gone she will search for the one who took them.\nThen do you show yourself to her. Tell her that you are Ma-ui and that\nyou belong to Hina-of-the-Fire.\u201d\n\nSo Ma-ui went up the side of the mountain that is now called\nHe-le-a-ka-la, but that then was called A-hele-a-ka-la, The Rays of the\nSun. He came to where a great wili-wili tree was growing. There he\nwaited. The rooster crew three times, and then an old woman came out\nwith a bunch of bananas. He knew that this was his grandmother. She\nlaid the bananas down to cook them, and as she did so Ma-ui snatched\nthem away. When she went to pick up the bunch she cried out, \u201cWhere are\nthe bananas that I have to cook for my Lord, the Sun?\u201d She went within\nand got another bunch, and this one, too, Ma-ui snatched away. This he\ndid until the last bunch of bananas that his grandmother had was taken.\n\nShe was nearly blind, so she could not find him with her eyes. She\nsniffed around, and at last she got the smell of a man. \u201cWho are you?\u201d\nshe said. \u201cI am Ma-ui, and I belong to Hina-of-the-Fire,\u201d said he.\n\u201cWhat have you come for?\u201d asked his grandmother. \u201cI have come to\nchastise the Sun and to make him go more slowly across the heavens. He\ngoes so fast now that my mother cannot dry the tapa that she takes all\nthe days of the year to beat out.\u201d\n\nThe old woman considered all that Ma-ui said to her. She knew that he\nwas a hero born, because the birds sang, the pebbles rumbled, the grass\nwithered, the smoke hung low, the rainbow appeared, the thunder was\nheard, the hairless dogs were seen, and even the ants in the grass were\nheard to sing in his praise. She decided to give help to him. And she\ntold him what preparations he was to make for his battle with the Sun.\n\nFirst of all he was to get sixteen of the strongest ropes that ever\nwere made. So as to be sure they were the strongest, he was to knit\nthem himself. And he was to make nooses for them out of the hair of the\nhead of his sister, Hina-of-the-Sea. When the ropes were ready he was\nto come back to her, and she would show him what else he had to do.\n\nMa-ui made the sixteen ropes; he made them out of the strongest fibre,\nand his sister, Hina-of-the-Sea, gave him the hair of her head to make\ninto nooses. Then, with the ropes and the nooses upon them, Ma-ui went\nback to his grandmother. She told him where to set the nooses, and she\ngave him a magic stone axe with which to do battle with the Sun.\n\nHe set the nooses as snares for the Sun, and he dug a hole beside the\nroots of the wili-wili tree, and in that hole he hid himself. Soon the\nfirst ray of light, the first leg of the Sun, came over the mountain\nwall. It was caught in one of the nooses that Ma-ui had set. One by one\nthe legs of the Sun came over the rim, and one by one they were caught\nin the nooses. One leg was left hanging down the side of the mountain:\nit was hard for the Sun to move that leg. At last this last leg came\nslowly over the edge of the mountain and was caught in the snare. Then\nMa-ui gathered up the ropes and tied them to the great wili-wili tree.\n\nWhen the Sun saw that his sixteen legs were held fast by the nooses\nthat Ma-ui had set he tried to back down the mountain-side and into the\nsea again. But the ropes held him, and the wili-wili tree stood the\ndrag of the ropes. The Sun could not get away. Then he turned all his\nburning strength upon Ma-ui. They fought. The man began to strike at\nthe Sun with his magic axe of stone; and never before did the Sun get\nsuch a beating. \u201cGive me my life,\u201d said the Sun. \u201cI will give you your\nlife,\u201d said Ma-ui, \u201cif you promise to go slowly across the heavens.\u201d At\nlast the Sun promised to do what Ma-ui asked him.\n\nThey entered into an agreement with each other, Ma-ui and the Sun.\nThere should be longer days, the Sun making his course slower. But\nevery six months, in the winter, the Sun might go as fast as he had\nbeen in the habit of going. Then Ma-ui let the Sun out of the snares\nwhich he had set for him. But, lest he should ever forget the agreement\nhe had made and take to travelling swiftly again, Ma-ui left all the\nropes and the nooses on the side of Ha-le-a-ka-la, so that he might see\nthem every day that he came across the rim of the mountain. And the\nmountain was not called A-hele-a-ka-la, the Rays of the Sun, any more,\nbut Ha-le-a-ka-la, the House of the Sun. After that came the saying of\nthe people, \u201cLong shall be the daily journey of the Sun, and he shall\ngive light for all the peoples\u2019 toil.\u201d And Ma-ui\u2019s mother,\nHina-of-the-Fire, learned that she could pound on the tapa-board until\nshe was tired, and the farmers could plant and take care of their\ncrops, and the fishermen could go out to the deep sea and fish and come\nback, and the fruits and the plants got heat enough to make them ripen\nin their season.\n\n\n\n\nHOW MA-UI WON FIRE FOR MEN.\n\nMa-ui\u2019s mother must have known about fire and the use of fire; else why\nshould she have been called Hina-of-the-Fire, and how did it come that\nher birds, the alae, knew where fire was hidden and how to make it\nblaze up? Hina must have known about fire. But her son had to search\nand search for fire. The people who lived in houses on the Islands did\nnot know of it: they had to eat raw roots and raw fish, and they had to\nsuffer the cold. It was for them that Ma-ui wanted to get fire; it was\nfor them that he went down to the lower world, and that he went\nsearching through the upper world for it.\n\nIn Kahiki-mo-e they have a tale about Ma-ui that the Hawaiians do not\nknow. There they tell how he went down to the lower world and sought\nout his great-great-grandmother, Ma-hui\u2019a. She was glad to see Ma-ui,\nof whom she had heard in the lower world; and when he asked her to give\nhim fire to take to the upper world, she plucked a nail off her finger\nand gave it to him.\n\nIn this nail, fire burned. Ma-ui went to the upper world with it. But\nin crossing a stream of water he let the nail drop into it. And so he\nlost the fire that his great-great-grandmother had given him.\n\nHe went back to her again. And again Ma-hui\u2019a plucked off a finger-nail\nand gave it to him. But when he went to the upper world and went to\ncross the stream, he let this burning nail also drop into the water.\nAgain he went back, and his great-great-grandmother plucked off a third\nnail for him. And this went on, Ma-ui letting the nails fall into the\nwater, and Ma-hui\u2019a giving him the nails off her fingers, until at last\nall the nails of all her fingers were given to him.\n\nBut still he went on letting the burning nails fall into the water that\nhe had to cross, and at last the nails of his great-great-grandmother\u2019s\ntoes as well as the nails of her fingers were given to him\u2014all but the\nnail on the last of her toes. Ma-ui went back to her to get this last\nnail. Then Ma-hui\u2019a became blazing angry; she plucked the nail off, but\ninstead of giving it to him she flung it upon the ground.\n\nFire poured out of the nail and took hold on everything. Ma-ui ran to\nthe upper world, and Ma-hui\u2019a in her anger ran after him. He dashed\ninto the water. But now the forests were blazing, and the earth was\nburning, and the water was boiling. Ma-ui ran on, and Ma-hui\u2019a ran\nbehind him. As he ran he chanted a magic incantation for rain to come,\nso that the burning might be put out:\n\n\n            \u201cTo the roaring thunder;\n            To the great rain\u2014the long rain;\n            To the drizzling rain\u2014the small rain;\n            To the rain pattering on the leaves.\n            These are the storms, the storms\n            Cause them to fall;\n            To pour in torrents.\u201d\n\n\nThe rain came on\u2014the long rain, the small rain, the rain that patters\non the leaves; storms came, and rain in torrents. The fire that raged\nin the forests and burned on the ground was drowned out. And Ma-hui\u2019a,\nwho had followed him, was nearly-drowned by the torrents of rain. She\nsaw her fire, all the fire that was in the lower and in the upper\nworlds, being quenched by the rain.\n\nShe gathered up what fragments of fire she could, and she hid them in\nbarks of different trees so that the rain could not get at them and\nquench them. Ma-ui\u2019s mother must have known where his\ngreat-great-grandmother hid the fire. If she did not, her sacred birds,\nthe alae, knew it. They were able to take the barks of the trees and,\nby rubbing them together, to bring out fire.\n\nIn Hawaii they tell how Ma-ui and his brothers used to go out fishing\nevery day, and how, as soon as they got far out to sea, they would see\nsmoke rising on the mountain-side. \u201cBehold,\u201d they would say, \u201cthere is\na fire. Whose can it be?\u201d \u201cLet us hasten to the shore and cook our fish\nat that fire,\u201d another would say.\n\nSo, with the fish that they had caught, Ma-ui and his brothers would\nhasten to the shore. The swiftest of them would run up the\nmountain-side. But when he would get to where the smoke had been, all\nhe would see would be the alae scratching clay over burnt-out sticks.\nThe alae would leave the place where they had been seen, and Ma-ui\nwould follow them from place to place, hoping to catch them while their\nfire was lighted.\n\nHe would send his brothers off fishing, and he himself would watch for\nthe smoke from the fire that the alae would kindle. But they would\nkindle no fire on the days that he did not go out in the canoe with his\nbrothers. \u201cWe cannot have our cooked bananas to-day,\u201d the old bird\nwould say to the young birds, \u201cfor the swift son of Hina is somewhere\nnear, and he would come upon us before we put out our fire. And\nremember that the guardian of the fire told us never to show a man\nwhere it is hidden or how it is taken out of its hiding place.\u201d\n\nThen Ma-ui understood that the bird watched for his going and that they\nmade no fire until they saw him out at sea in his canoe. He knew that\nthey counted the men that went out, and that if he was not in the\nnumber they did no cooking that day. Every time he went in the canoe he\nsaw smoke rising on the mountain-side.\n\nThen Ma-ui thought of a trick to play on them\u2014on the stingy alae that\nwould not give fire, but left men to eat raw roots and raw fish. He\nrolled up a piece of tapa, and he put it into the canoe, making it like\na man. Then he hid near the shore. The brothers went fishing, and the\nbirds counted the figures in the canoe. \u201cThe swift son of Hina has gone\nfishing: we can have cooked bananas to-day.\u201d \u201cMake the fire, make the\nfire, until we cook our bananas,\u201d said the young alae.\n\nSo they gathered the wood together, and they rubbed the barks, and they\nmade the fire. The smoke rose up from it, and swift Ma-ui ran up the\nmountain-side. He came upon the flock of birds just as the old one was\ndashing water upon the embers. He caught her by the neck and held her.\n\n\u201cI will kill you,\u201d he said, \u201cfor hiding fire from men.\u201d\n\n\u201cIf you kill me,\u201d said the old alae, \u201cthere will be no one to show you\nhow to get fire.\u201d\n\n\u201cShow me how to get fire,\u201d said Ma-ui, \u201cand I will let you go.\u201d\n\nThe cunning alae tried to deceive Ma-ui. She thought she would get him\noff his guard, that he would let go of her, and that she could fly\naway. \u201cGo to the reeds and rub them together, and you will get fire,\u201d\nshe said.\n\nMa-ui went to the reeds and rubbed them together. But still he held the\nbird by the neck. Nothing came out of the reeds but moisture. He\nsqueezed her neck. \u201cIf you kill me, there will be no one to tell you\nwhere to get fire,\u201d said the cunning bird, still hoping to get him off\nhis guard. \u201cGo to the taro leaves and rub them together, and you will\nget fire.\u201d\n\nMa-ui held to the bird\u2019s neck. He went to the taro leaves and rubbed\nthem together, but no fire came. He squeezed her neck harder. The bird\nwas nearly dead now. But still she tried to deceive the man. \u201cGo to the\nbanana stumps and rub them together, and you will get fire,\u201d she said.\n\nHe went to the banana stumps and rubbed them together. But still no\nfire came. Then he gave the bird a squeeze that brought her near her\ndeath. She showed him then the trees to go to\u2014the hau tree and the\nsandalwood tree. He took the barks of the trees and rubbed them, and\nthey gave fire. And the sweet-smelling sandalwood he called\n\u201cili-aha\u201d\u2014that is, \u201cfire bark\u201d\u2014because fire came most easily from the\nbark of that tree. With sticks from these trees Ma-ui went to men. He\nshowed them how to get fire by rubbing them together. And never\nafterwards had men to eat fish raw and roots raw. They could always\nhave fire now.\n\nThe first stick he lighted he rubbed on the head of the bird that\nshowed him at last where the fire was hidden. And that is the reason\nwhy the alae, the mud-hen, has a red streak on her head to this day.\n\n\n\n\nHOW MA-UI OVERCAME KUNA LOA THE LONG EEL.\n\nHina-of-the-Fire lived in a cave that the waters of the river streamed\nover, a cave that always had a beautiful rainbow glimmering across it.\nWhile her sons were away no enemy could come to Hina in this cave, for\nthe walls of it went up straight and smooth. And there at the opening\nof the cave she used to sit, beating out her tapa in the long days that\ncame after Ma-ui had snared the Sun and had made him go more slowly\nacross the heavens.\n\nIn the river below there was one who was an enemy to Hina. This was\nKuna Loa, the Long Eel. Once Kuna Loa had seen Hina on the bank of the\nriver, and he had wanted her to leave her cave and come to his abode.\nBut Hina-of-the-Fire would not go near the Long Eel. Then he had gone\nto her, and he had lashed her with his tail, covering her with the\nslime of the river. She told about the insults he had given her, and\nMa-ui drove the Long Eel up the river, where he took shelter in the\ndeep pools. Ma-ui broke down the banks of the deep pools with thrusts\nof his spear, but Kuna Loa, the Long Eel, was still able to escape from\nhim. Now Ma-ui had gone away, and his mother, Hina-of-the-Fire, kept\nwithin the cave, the smooth rock of which Kuna Loa could not climb.\n\nThe Long Eel came down the river. He saw Hina sitting in the mouth of\nthe cave that had the rainbow glimmering across it, and he was filled\nwith rage and a wish to destroy her. He took a great rock and he put it\nacross the stream, filling it from bank to bank. Then he lashed about\nin the water in his delight at the thought of what was going to happen\nto Hina.\n\nShe heard a deeper sound in the water than she had ever heard before as\nshe sat there. She looked down and she saw that the water was nearer to\nthe mouth of the cave than she had ever seen it before. Higher and\nhigher it came. And then Hina heard the voice of Kuna Loa rejoicing at\nthe destruction that was coming to her. He raised himself up in the\nwater and cried out to her: \u201cNow your mighty son cannot help you. I\nwill drown you with the waters of the river before he comes back to\nyou, Hina.\u201d\n\nAnd Hina-of-the-Fire cried \u201cAlas, Alas,\u201d as she watched the waters\nmount up and up, for she knew that Ma-ui and her other sons were far\naway, and that there was none to help her against Kuna Loa, the Long\nEel. But, even as she lamented, something was happening to aid Hina.\nFor Ma-ui had placed above her cave a cloud that served her\u2014\u201cAo-opua,\u201d\n\u201cThe Warning Cloud.\u201d Over the cave it rose now, giving itself a strange\nshape: Ma-ui would see it and be sure to know by its sign that\nsomething dire was happening in his mother\u2019s cave.\n\nHe was then on the mountain Ha-le-a-ka-la, the House of the Sun. He saw\nthe strangely shaped cloud hanging over her cave, and he knew that some\ndanger threatened his mother, Hina-of-the-Fire. He dashed down the side\nof the mountain, bringing with him the magic axe that his grandmother\nhad given him for his battle with the Sun. He sprang into his canoe.\nWith two strokes of his paddle he crossed the channel and was at the\nmouth of the Wai-lu-ku River. The bed of the river was empty of water,\nand Ma-ui left his canoe on the stones and went up towards Hina\u2019s cave.\n\nThe water had mounted up and up and had gone into the cave, and was\nspilling over Hina\u2019s tapa-board. She was lamenting, and her heart was\nbroken with the thought that neither Ma-ui nor his brothers would come\nuntil the river had drowned her in her cave.\n\nMa-ui was then coming up the bed of the river. He saw the great stone\nacross the stream, and he heard Kuna Loa rejoicing over the destruction\nthat was coming to Hina in her cave. With one stroke of his axe he\nbroke the rock across. The water came through the break. He struck the\nrocks and smashed them. The river flowed down once more, and Hina was\nsafe in her cave.\n\nKuna Loa heard the crash of the axe on the rock, and he knew that Ma-ui\nhad come. He dashed up the stream to hide himself again in the deep\npools. Ma-ui showed his mother that she was safe, and then he went\nfollowing the Long Eel.\n\nKuna Loa had gone into a deep pool. Ma-ui flung burning stones into the\nwater of that pool, making it boil up. Then Kuna Loa dashed into\nanother pool. From pool to pool Ma-ui chased him, making the pools boil\naround him. (And there they boil to this day, although Kuna Loa is no\nlonger there.) At last the Eel found a cave in the bottom of one of the\npools, and he went and hid in it, and Ma-ui could not find him there,\nnor could the hot stones that Ma-ui threw into the water, making it\nboil, drive Kuna Loa out.\n\nHina thought she was safe from the Long Eel after that. She thought\nthat his skin was so scalded by the boiling water that he had died in\nhis cave. Down the river bank for water she would go, and sometimes she\nwould stand on the bank all wreathed in flowers.\n\nBut one day, as she was standing on the bank of the river, Kuna Loa\nsuddenly came up. Hina fled before him. The Eel was between her and her\ncave, and she could not get back to her shelter. She fled through the\nwoods. And as she fled she shrieked out chants to Ma-ui: her chants\nwent through the woods, and along the side of the mountain, and across\nthe sea; they came at last up the side of Ha-le-a-ka-la, where her son\nMa-ui was.\n\nThere were many people in the places that Hina fled through, but they\ncould do nothing to help her against the Long Eel. He came swiftly\nafter her. The people in the villages that they went through stood and\nwatched the woman and the Eel that pursued her.\n\nWhere would she go now? The Long Eel was close behind her. Then Hina\nsaw a bread-fruit tree with great branches, and she climbed into it.\nKuna Loa wound himself around the tree and came after her. But the\nbranch that Hina was in was lifted up and up by the tree, and the Long\nEel could not come to her.\n\nAnd then Ma-ui came. He had dashed down the side of the mountain and\nhad crossed the channel with two strokes of his paddles and had hurried\nalong the track made by the Long Eel. Now he saw his mother in the\nbranch that kept mounting up, and he saw Kuna Loa winding himself up\nafter her. Ma-ui went into the tree. He struck the Eel a terrible blow\nand brought him to the ground. Then he sprang down and cut his head\noff. With other blows of his axe he cut the Eel all to pieces. He flung\nthe head and the tail of Kuna Loa into the sea. The head turned into\nfish of many kinds, and the tail became the large conger eel of the\nsea. Other parts of the body turned into sea monsters of different\nkinds. And the blood of Kuna Loa, as it fell into the fresh water,\nbecame the common eels. The fresh and the salt water eels came into the\nworld in this way, and Ma-ui, by killing the Long Eel, wrought the\nsixth of his great deeds.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SEARCH THAT MA-UI\u2019S BROTHER MADE FOR HIS SISTER HINA-OF-THE-SEA.\n\nMa-ui had four brothers, and each of them was named Ma-ui. The doer of\nthe great deeds was known as \u201cthe skillful Ma-ui,\u201d and the other four\nbrothers were called \u201cthe forgetful Ma-uis.\u201d\n\nBut there was one brother who should not have been called \u201cforgetful.\u201d\nHe was the eldest brother, Ma-ui Mua, and he was sometimes called\nLu-pe. He may have been forgetful about many things that the skillful\nMa-ui took account of, but he was not forgetful of his sister, of\nHina-of-the-Sea.\n\nHis great and skillful brother had set Hina-of-the-Sea wandering. She\nwas married, and her husband often went on journeys with the skillful\nMa-ui. And once Ma-ui became angry with him because he ate the bait\nthat they had taken with them for fishing; he became angry with his\nsister\u2019s husband, and in his anger he uttered a spell over him, and\nchanged his form into the form of a dog.\n\nWhen Hina-of-the-Sea knew that her husband was lost to her she went\ndown to the shore and she chanted her own death-song:\n\n\n        \u201cI weep, I call upon the steep billows of the sea,\n        And on him, the great, the ocean god;\n        The monsters, all now hidden,\n        To come and bury me,\n        Who am now wrapped in mourning.\n        Let the waves wear their mourning, too,\n        And sleep as sleeps the dead.\u201d\n\n\nAnd after she had chanted this, she threw herself into the sea.\n\nBut the waves did not drown her. They carried her to a far land. There\nwere no people there; according to the ancient chant\u2014\n\n\n        \u201cThe houses of Lima Loa stand,\n        But there are no people;\n        They are at Mana.\u201d\n\n\nThe people were by the sea, and two who were fishermen found her. They\ncarried her to their hut, and when they had taken the sea-weed and the\nsea-moss from her body they saw what a beautiful woman she was. They\nbrought her to their chief, and the chief took Hina-of-the-Sea for his\nwife.\n\nBut after a while he became forgetful of her. After another while he\nabused her. She had a child now, but she was very lonely, for she was\nin a far and a strange land.\n\n\n        \u201cThe houses of Lima Loa stand,\n        But there are no people;\n        They are at Mana.\u201d\n\n\nShe was not forgotten, for Ma-ui Mua, her eldest brother, thought of\nher. In Kahiki-mo-e they tell of his search for her, and they say that\nwhen he heard of her casting herself into the sea, he took to his canoe\nand went searching all over the sea for her. He found new Islands,\nIslands that no one had ever been on before, and he went from Island to\nIsland, ever hoping to find Hina-of-the-Sea. Far, far he went, and he\nfound neither his sister nor any one who knew about her.\n\n\n        \u201cThe houses of Lima Loa stand,\n        But there are no people;\n        They are at Mana.\u201d\n\n\nAnd every day Hina-of-the-Sea would go down to the shore of the land\nshe was on, and she would call on her eldest brother:\n\n\n        \u201cO Lu-pe! Come over!\n        Take me and my child!\u201d\n\n\nNow one day, as Hina cried out on the beach, there came a canoe towards\nher. There was a man in the canoe; but Hina, hardly noticing him, still\ncried to the waves and the winds:\n\n\n        \u201cO Lu-pe! Come over!\n        Take me and my child!\u201d\n\n\nThe man came up on the beach. He was worn with much travel, and he was\nwhite and old-looking. He heard the cry that was sent to the waves and\nthe winds, and he cried back an answer:\n\n\n        \u201cIt is Lu-pe, yes, Lu-pe,\n        The eldest brother;\n        And I am here.\u201d\n\n\nHe knew Hina-of-the-Sea. He took her and her child in his canoe,\nrejoicing that his long search was over at last and that he had a\nsister again. He took her and her child to one of the Islands which he\nhad discovered.\n\nAnd there Hina-of-the-Sea lived happily with her eldest brother, Ma-ui\nMua, and there her child grew up to manhood. The story of her eldest\nbrother\u2019s search for Hina is not told in Hawaii nei, and one has to go\nto Kahiki-mo-e to hear it. But in Hawaii nei they tell of a beautiful\nland that Ma-ui the Skillful came to in search of some one. It is the\nland, perhaps, that his brother and sister lived in\u2014the beautiful land\nthat is called Moana-liha-i-ka-wao-ke-le.\n\n\n\n\nHOW MA-UI STROVE TO WIN IMMORTALITY FOR MEN.\n\nWould you hear the seventh and last of great Ma-ui\u2019s deeds? They do not\ntell of this deed in Hawaii nei, but they tell of it in Kahiki-mo-e.\nThe last was the greatest of all Ma-ui\u2019s deeds, for it was his\ndangerous labor then to win the greatest boon for men\u2014the boon of\neverlasting life.\n\nHe heard of the Goblin-goddess who is called Hina-nui-ke-po, Great\nHina-of-the-Night. It is she who brings death on all creatures. But if\none could take the heart out of her body and give it to all the\ncreatures of the earth to eat, they would live for ever, and death\nwould be no more in the world.\n\nThey tell how the Moon bathes in the Waters of Life, and comes back to\nthe world with her life renewed. And once Ma-ui caught and held the\nMoon. He said to her, \u201cLet Death be short, and as you return with new\nstrength let it be that men shall come back from Death with new\nstrength.\u201d But the Moon said to Ma-ui, \u201cRather let Death be long, so\nthat men may sigh and have sorrow. When a man dies, let him go into\ndarkness and become as earth, so that those whom he leaves behind may\nweep and mourn for him.\u201d But for all that the Moon said to Ma-ui, he\nwould not have it that men should go into the darkness for ever and\nbecome as earth. The Moon showed him where Hina-of-the-Night had her\nabode. He looked over to her Island and saw her. Her eyes shone through\nthe distance; he saw her great teeth that were like volcanic glass and\nher mouth that was wide like the mouth of a fish; he saw her hair that\nfloated all around her like seaweed in the sea.\n\nHe saw her and was afraid; even great Ma-ui was made afraid by the\nGoblin-goddess, Great Hina-of-the-Night. But he remembered that he had\nsaid that he would find a way of giving everlasting life to men and to\nall creatures, and he thought and thought of how he could come to the\nGoblin-goddess and take the heart out of her body.\n\nIt was his task then to draw all creatures to him and to have them\npromise him that they would help him against the Goblin-goddess. And\nwhen at last he was ready to go against her the birds went with him. He\ncame to the Island where she was, Great Hina-of-the-Night. She was\nsleeping, and all her guards were around her. Ma-ui passed through her\nguards. He prepared to enter her terrible open mouth, and bring back\nher heart to give to all the creatures of the earth.\n\nAnd at last he stood ready to go between the jaws that had the fearful\nteeth that were sharp like volcanic glass. He stood there in the light\nof a sun-setting, his body tall and fine and tattooed all over with the\nhistories of his great deeds. He stood there, and then he gave warning\nto all the birds that none of them was to sing or to laugh until he was\noutside her jaws again with the heart of the Goblin-goddess in his\nhands.\n\nHe went within the jaws of Great Hina-of-the-Night. He passed the\nfearful teeth that were sharp like volcanic glass. He went down into\nher stomach. And then he seized upon her heart. He came back again as\nfar as her jaws, and he saw the sky beyond them.\n\nThen a bird sang or a bird laughed\u2014either the e-le-pa-io sang, or\nPaka-kai the water-wagtail laughed\u2014and the Goblin-goddess wakened up.\nShe caught Ma-ui in her great teeth, and she tore him across. There was\ndarkness then, and the crying of all the birds.\n\nThus died Ma-ui who raised the sky and who fished up the land, who made\nthe Sun go more slowly across the heavens, and who brought fire to men.\nThus died Ma-ui, with the Meat of Immortality in his hands. And since\nhis death no one has ever ventured near the lair of Hina-nui-ke-po, the\nGoblin-goddess.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAU-KE-LE THE SEEKER.\n\n\nIn a land that is now lost, in Ku-ai-he-lani, the Country that Supports\nthe Heavens, there lived a King whose name was Iku. He had twelve\nchildren, and of these eleven grew up without ever having received any\nfavor or any promise from their father.\n\nBut when the twelfth child was born\u2014Au-ke-le was his name\u2014his father\ntook him up in his arms, and he promised him all the honor and power\nand glory that was his, and he promised him the kingship of\nKu-ai-he-lani, the Country that Supports the Heavens.\n\nThe other children were angry when they saw their father take little\nAu-ke-le up in his arms, and they were more angry when they heard the\npromises that were made to him. And the eldest brother, who was the\nangriest of all, said, \u201cI am the eldest born, and my father never made\nsuch promises to me, and he never took me up in his arms and fondled\nme.\u201d And this brother, who was now a man grown, went from before his\nfather, and his other brothers went with him.\n\nAu-ke-le grew up. His father gave him many of his possessions\u2014feather\ncloaks, and whale-tooth necklaces, and many sharp and polished weapons.\nHe grew up to be the handsomest of handsome youths, with a body that\nwas straight and faultless. One day, knowing that they had gone to play\ngames in a certain house, he went to follow his brothers. But Iku, his\nfather, said to him, \u201cDo not go where your brothers have gone; they are\nangry with you, and they have always been angry with you, and it may be\nthat they will do some harm to you in that place.\u201d But in spite of the\nwords of his father Au-ke-le followed his brothers. He came to the\nhouse where his brothers were, and he shot his arrow into it. One of\nhis brothers took up the arrow and said, \u201cThis is not a stranger\u2019s\narrow; this is an arrow from our own house; see, it is twisted.\u201d The\neldest brother, who was the angriest of all, took up the arrow and\nbroke it to pieces. He sent the others outside to invite Au-ke-le\nwithin the house. And Au-ke-le, believing in the kindness of his\nbrothers, and thinking they were going to let him join in their games,\ncame within.\n\nBut they had made a plan against him. They laid hold upon him when he\ncame within the house, and, at the words of the eldest brother, they\nuncovered a pit and they flung Au-ke-le down into it.\n\nIn that pit there lived a mo-o whose name was Ka-mo\u2019o-i-na-nea. This\nmo-o was really Au-ke-le\u2019s grandmother. She had been a mortal woman;\nbut she had transformed herself into a mo-o, and now she lived in that\npit, and she devoured any creature that came into it.\n\nThe angry brother called out, \u201cMo-o, Mo-o, here is your food; eat it.\u201d\nThen he went away. But a younger brother who felt kindly to Au-ke-le\nwhispered down, \u201cDo not eat this youth, Mo-o, for he is your own\ngrandson.\u201d The mo-o heard the words of both. She came before Au-ke-le\nand she signed for him to follow her. He followed, and they came out on\nthe dry sand that was before the ocean.\n\nThen the mo-o spoke to Au-ke-le her grandson. \u201cThere is a land beyond\nthis sea,\u201d she said, \u201ca land that I travelled through in my young days\nbefore I took on this dragon-form. Very few people live in that land.\nYou must sail to it; living there you will become great and wise.\n\n\u201cThe name of that land is Ka-la-ke\u2019e-nui-a-Kane. The mountains are so\nhigh that the stars rest upon them. The people who live there are\nNa-maka-o-Kahai, the Queen, and her four brothers, who take the forms\nof birds, and two women-servants. The watchers of her land are a dog\ncalled Mo-e-la and a great and fierce bird called Ha-lu-lu.\n\n\u201cI will give you things to take with you. Here is a calabash that has a\nMagic in it. It has an axe in it also that you can use. And here is\nfood that will last for the longest voyage. It is a leaf, but if you\nput it to your lips it will take away your hunger and your thirst. I\ngive you my skirt of feathers also; the touch of it will bring death to\nyour enemies.\u201d Then his mo-o grandmother left him, and Au-ke-le was\nupon the sea-shore with a calabash that had Magic in it, with the\nleaves that stayed his hunger and his thirst, and with the skirt of\nfeathers that would destroy his enemies. And he had in his heart the\nresolve to go to the land that his mo-o grandmother had told him about.\n\nIn the meantime Iku-mai-lani, the kind brother, had gone back to his\nfather\u2019s house. Iku asked what had happened to his favorite son. Then\nIku-mai-lani, weeping, told his father that the boy had been flung into\nthe pit where the mo-o was and that he feared the mo-o had devoured him\nas she had devoured others. Then the father and mother of Au-ke-le\nwept.\n\nAs they were weeping he came within the house. His mother and father\nrejoiced over him, and Iku-mai-lani hurried to give the news to his\nbrothers. They were building a canoe, and when the eldest brother heard\nof Au-ke-le\u2019s escape, and heard the sound of rejoicings in his father\u2019s\nhouse, he gave orders to have all preparations made for sailing and to\nhave the food cooked and every one aboard, that they might sail at once\nfrom the land.\n\nIt was then that Au-ke-le came up to where they were. He called out to\nhis kind brother, to Iku-mai-lani, and asked him what he might do to be\nlet go in the canoe with them. His brother said: \u201cHow can we take you\nwhen it is on your account only that we are going away from the country\nwe were born in? We are going because you only of all of us have been\npromised the kingdom and the glory that belongs to our father. And we\nare going because we tried to kill you, and now are ashamed of what we\ndid.\u201d\n\nStill Au-ke-le craved to be let go with them. Then the kind brother\nsaid to him: \u201cYou cannot gain your way through us. But with our eldest\nbrother is a boy\u2014a little son whom he is taking along, and for whom he\nhas a great love. If the child of our eldest brother should ask you to\ncome on board you will surely be let come.\u201d\n\nThen Au-ke-le went to the canoe. And the little boy who was his eldest\nbrother\u2019s son saw him and clapped his hands and called out to him, \u201cMy\nuncle, come on board of the ship and be one of us.\u201d\n\nAu-ke-le then went on board. The eldest brother, he who had been the\nmost angry with him, let Au-ke-le stay because his young son had\nbrought him on board. Au-ke-le then sent the men back to his father\u2019s\nhouse for the things that his grandmother had given him\u2014for the\ncalabash with the Magic in it, and for the feather dress. The men\nbrought these things to him; then the paddlers took up their paddles;\nthe canoe went into the deep sea, and Au-ke-le and his brothers\ndeparted from the land of Ku-ai-he-lani, the Country that Supports the\nHeavens.\n\n\n\nThey sailed far and far away, and no land came to their sight. All the\nfood they had brought in the canoe was eaten, and they no longer had\nfood or drink. Their men died of hunger and thirst. Au-ke-le\u2019s brothers\nwent below, and they stayed in the bottom of the canoe, for they were\nwaiting for death to come to them.\n\nAt last the boy who was the son of the eldest brother went down to seek\nhis father. He was lying there, too weak to move by reason of his\nhunger and thirst. And Au-ke-le\u2019s eldest brother said to his son: \u201cHow\npitiful it is for you, my son! For my own life I have no regret, for I\nhave been many days in the world; but I weep for you, who have lived so\nshort a time and have but so short a time to live. Here is all I have\nto give you\u2014a joint of sugar cane.\u201d Then the boy replied, \u201cI have no\nneed for food\u2014my uncle Au-ke-le has a certain leaf which he puts to my\nlips, and with that leaf my hunger and my thirst are satisfied.\u201d His\nfather hardly heard what he said, so weak he had become. Then the boy\nwent back to Au-ke-le.\n\nAnd when he came before his uncle again tears were streaming down his\nface. \u201cWhy do you weep?\u201d Au-ke-le asked. \u201cI am weeping for my father,\nwho is almost dead from hunger.\u201d Au-ke-le said: \u201cYou too would have\ndied from hunger had I not come with you. I am hated by your father as\nhis most bitter enemy, but I would act as a brother acts. Now let us go\nto where my brothers are.\u201d\n\nSo they went below. Au-ke-le went to each of his brothers and put the\nleaf to their lips. It was as if each of them had got food and drink.\nTheir faintness went from them, and they were able to get about the\nship once more.\n\nSoon afterwards they came in sight of land; Au-ke-le knew that this was\nthe country that his mo-o grandmother had told him about. And,\nremembering what he had been told about the dangers of this land, he\nasked his brothers to let him take charge of the canoe, so that they\nmight avoid these dangers. His brothers said, \u201cWhy did you not build a\ncanoe for yourself, so that you might take charge of it and give orders\nabout it?\u201d Au-ke-le said, \u201cIf you give me charge of the canoe, we shall\nbe saved; but if you take charge yourselves, we shall be destroyed.\u201d\nHis brothers laughed at him.\n\nIn a while they saw birds approaching the ship\u2014four birds. Au-ke-le,\nremembering what his mo-o grandmother had told him, knew that these\nwere the Queen\u2019s brothers. They came and lit on the yards, and asked of\nthose below what they had come for. Au-ke-le told his brothers to say\nthat they had not come to make war and that they had come on a voyage\nof sight-seeing. His brothers would not say this; instead they cried\nout to the birds, \u201cOurs is a ship to make war.\u201d The birds flew back;\nthey told their sister Na-maka that the ship had come to make war. Then\nthe Queen put on her war-skirt and went down to the shore.\n\nAu-ke-le knew that all in the canoe would be destroyed. He took up his\ncalabash that had the Magic in it, and he threw it into the sea. As he\ndid this he saw the Queen standing there with her war-skirt on. She\ntook up her feathered standard and shook it in the air. Au-ke-le sprang\nfrom the ship and swam after the floating calabash. Then the ship and\nall who were on it disappeared: Na-maka the Queen made a sign, and they\nwere seen no more.\n\n\n\nAnd now Au-ke-le was left on the land that his grandmother had told him\nabout\u2014the land of Ka-la-ke\u2019e-nui-a-Kane, where the stars rest on the\ntops of the mountains. He brought the calabash that had his Magic in it\nand the skirt of feathers that his mo-o grandmother had given him, and\nhe rested under a tree by the sea-shore.\n\nThe dog that was called Mo-e-la, the Day Sleeper, smelt his blood and\nbarked. And, hearing her dog bark, Na-maka the Queen came out of her\nhouse and called to her four bird-brothers: \u201cYou must go and find out\nwhat man of flesh and blood my dog is barking at.\u201d But her four\nbrothers, being sleepy, said, \u201cSend your two women-servants and let us\nrest.\u201d So the Queen sent her two women-servants to find out what the\ndog was barking at. \u201cAnd if it be a creature of flesh and blood, kill\nhim,\u201d said the Queen.\n\nThen the two servants went towards the shore where Au-ke-le was\nresting. But his Magic told him what was coming and what he should do.\n\u201cWhen they come you must call the servants by their names, and they\nwill be so abashed at a stranger\u2019s knowing them that they will not know\nwhat to do.\u201d\n\nSo when the Queen\u2019s two women-servants came before him Au-ke-le called\nout, \u201cIt is U-po-ho and it is Hua-pua-i-na-nea.\u201d The two servants were\nso abashed because their names were known to this stranger that they\nstood there looking at each other.\n\nThen Au-ke-le called them to him, and they came, and they sat near him.\nHe asked them to play the game that is played with black and white\nstones. He moved the stones, and as he moved them he chanted, and his\nchant was to let them know who he was.\n\n\n        \u201cThis is my turn; your turn now;\n        Now we pause; the blacks cannot win;\n        The whites have won:\n        Nothing can break the boy from Ku-ai-he-lani.\u201d\n\n\nThe servants knew then that he was from Ku-ai-he-lani, the Country that\nSupports the Heavens. They said to him, \u201cWe were sent to kill you, but\nwe are going back to tell the Queen that in no place could we find a\ncreature of flesh and blood.\u201d\n\nThey returned, and they told the Queen that neither on the uplands nor\non the sea-shore, neither on the tops of the trees nor on the tops of\nthe cliffs, were they able to find a creature of flesh and blood. While\nthey were speaking the Queen\u2019s dog came out and barked again. Her four\nbird-brothers had rested, and the Queen sent them to search for the\ncreature of flesh and blood that the dog had barked at.\n\nThen the Magic in his calabash spoke again to Au-ke-le. \u201cFour birds are\ncoming towards you. You must greet them and you must call them by their\nnames. They will be so abashed at their names being known to a stranger\nthat they will not know what to do.\u201d\n\nAs the four birds came towards him Au-ke-le called aloud: \u201cThis is\nKa-ne-mo-e, and I give greetings to him. This is Ka-ne-a-pua, and I\ngive greetings to him. This is Le-a-pua, and I give greetings to him.\nAnd this is Ka-hau-mana.\u201d The four bird-brothers were amazed to hear\ntheir names spoken by a stranger, and they said to each other, \u201cWhat\ncan we do with this man who knows our names, even?\u201d And another said,\n\u201cHe can take our lives from us.\u201d And they spoke to each other again and\nsaid, \u201cWe have one thing worthy to give to this man: let us give him\nour sister, the Queen.\u201d\n\nSo the four brothers came to Au-ke-le, and they offered him the Queen\nto be his wife. Au-ke-le was pleased; he told them that he would go to\nthe Queen\u2019s house.\n\nThe four bird-brothers went back to tell the Queen about the man who\nwas coming to her and to whom they had promised her. The Queen said,\n\u201cIf he is such that he can overcome the dangers that are before him, I\nwill marry him, and he will be the ruler with me of the land of\nKa-la-ke\u2019e-nui-a-Kane.\u201d\n\nWhen the brothers had gone his Magic spoke again to Au-ke-le, and it\nsaid: \u201cWhen you go to the Queen, don\u2019t enter the house at once, for\nthat would mean your death. If they offer you food in a calabash, don\u2019t\neat it, for that would mean your death. The dog that is called Mo-e-la\nwill be set upon you, and if you overcome him the four brothers will\nattack you. Eat the melons on the vines outside the house, and they\nwill be meat and drink for you.\u201d\n\nAfter hearing the words that his Magic had said to him, Au-ke-le went\nto the house of the Queen. He stood outside the door, and as he stood\nthere the Queen said to her women-servants, \u201cUse your powers now and\ndestroy this creature of flesh and blood.\u201d But when the servants saw\nthe man who knew their names, one changed herself into a rat and ran\ninto a hole, and the other changed herself into a lizard and ran up a\ntree.\n\nThen Mo-e-la the dog came towards him; he opened his mouth wide and he\nshowed all his teeth. But when he was touched by the skirt that\nAu-ke-le had been given, the dog was turned into ashes. And then the\nQueen, on seeing the death of her watchdog, bowed down her head and\nwept.\n\nShe called upon her brothers to kill the stranger. But they were\nabashed at his knowing their names, and they wanted to hide from him.\nOne turned himself into a rock and lay by the doorway, and another\nturned himself into a log of wood and lay beside his brother, and the\nthird changed himself into a coral reef, and the fourth became a pool\nof water.\n\nFood was brought to Au-ke-le, but he would eat none of it. He went to\nthe vine, and he ate the melons that were growing there, and he found\nthat the melons gave food and drink to him. And when the Queen and her\nbrothers saw him eating the melons they said to each other: \u201cHow\nwonderful this man is! He is eating the food that we eat. Who could\nhave told him where to find it?\u201d After that he won the Queen, and she\nbecame his wife.\n\n\n\nBut it was after his adventure with the bird Ha-lu-lu that Au-ke-le\nknew that the Queen had come to love him and was inclined to be kind to\nhim. One day he was standing by the sea-shore, looking out to the place\nwhere the canoe that had had his brothers on board was sunk, when a\ngreat shadow came over where he was and covered the light of the sun.\nHe looked up, and he saw above him the outstretched wings of a great\nbird. Immediately he picked up the calabash that had his Magic in it;\nthen the bird Ha-lu-lu seized him and flew off with him.\n\nThe bird flew to a cave that was in the face of a great high cliff. He\nstowed Au-ke-le there. And Au-ke-le, searching the cave, found two men\nwho had been carried off by Ha-lu-lu, the great bird. \u201cWe are two that\nare to be devoured,\u201d said the men. \u201cWhat does the bird do when she\ncomes to devour us?\u201d said Au-ke-le. \u201cShe stretches her right wing into\nthe cave and draws out a man. She devours him. Then she stretches her\nleft wing into the cave and draws out another man.\u201d \u201cIs the cave deep?\u201d\nAu-ke-le asked. \u201cIt is deep,\u201d said the men. \u201cGo, then,\u201d said Au-ke-le,\n\u201cand make a fire in the depth of the cave.\u201d\n\nThe men did this. Then Au-ke-le opened the calabash that his mo-o\ngrandmother had given him, and he took out the axe that was in it. He\nwaited for the giant bird to stretch her wing within. When she did he\ncut the wing off with his axe, and the two men took it and threw the\nwing on the fire. The other wing reached in; Au-ke-le cut off the other\nwing, too. Then the beak was stuck in, and Au-ke-le cut off head and\nbeak.\n\nAfter Ha-lu-lu the great bird had been killed, Au-ke-le took the\nfeathers from her head and threw them over the cliff. The feathers flew\non until they came to where the Queen was. She saw them, and she knew\nthem for the head feathers of the bird Ha-lu-lu, and she cried when she\nsaw them.\n\nWhen her brothers came to her she said, \u201cHere are the head-feathers of\nthe bird Ha-lu-lu, and now there is no great bird to guard the Island.\u201d\nBut her brothers said, \u201cIt is right that Ha-lu-lu should be killed, for\nshe devoured men.\u201d They waited then to see what their sister would do\nto Au-ke-le, who was in the cave. She brought the rainbow, the\nshort-ended rainbow that has only three colors, red, yellow, and green,\nand she set it against the cliff. And by the bridge of the rainbow\nAu-ke-le was able to get down from the cliff.\n\n\n\nWhen his wife and her brothers saw him come back they welcomed Au-ke-le\nwith joy. The Queen gave him her kingdom and everything else that was\nat her command. And she sent a message to her uncles, who were in the\nsky, to tell them that she had given her husband all her\npossessions\u2014the things that were above and below, that were on the\nuplands and on the lowlands, the drift iron, the iron that stands in\nthe ground, the whale\u2019s tooth, the turtle-shell, the things that grow\non the land, and the cluster of stars. All these things were his now.\nBut with all these things in his possession Au-ke-le was not satisfied,\nfor he thought upon the canoe that was sunken and on his brothers who\nwere all drowned.\n\nHe dreamed of his brothers and of his young nephew; and, with the\nthoughts that he had, he could not enjoy himself on the land that he\nruled over. And, seeing her husband so sad, sorrow for him entered the\nheart of the Queen. He told her that he thought of the men who had come\nwith him and who were now dead. And when he spoke of what was in his\nmind the Queen said: \u201cIf you have great strength and courage, your\nbrothers may come back to life again; but if your strength or your\ncourage fail, they will never be restored to life, and your own life,\nperhaps, will be lost.\u201d Then Au-ke-le said to the Queen, \u201cWhat is it\nthat I must do to win them back to life?\u201d And the Queen said: \u201cYou must\nuse all your strength and your courage to gain the Water of Everlasting\nLife, the Water of Ka-ne. If you are able to gain it and bring it to\nthem, your brothers and your nephew will live again.\u201d When Au-ke-le\nheard this from the Queen he ceased to be sorrowful; he ate and he\ndrank, and he had gladness in his possessions. Then he said to the\nQueen, \u201cWhat way must I take to gain the Water of Everlasting Life, the\nWater of Ka-ne?\u201d His wife said: \u201cI will show you the way: from the\nplace where we are standing you must go towards the rising sun, never\nturning from the road that I set you on. And at the end of your journey\nyou will come to the place where you will find the Water of Everlasting\nLife, the Water of Ka-ne.\u201d\n\n\n\nWhen Au-ke-le heard this he put on his skirt of feathers that his mo-o\ngrandmother had given him; he took up the calabash that had his Magic\nin it; he kissed his wife farewell; and he took the path from his house\nthat went straight towards the rising sun.\n\nAfter he had been on his way for a month the Queen came to the door of\nher house, and she looked towards where he had gone. She saw him, and\nhe was still upon his way. At the end of another month she went out\nagain and looked towards where he had gone. He was still upon the path\nthat led to the rising sun. Another month passed, and she went and\nlooked towards where he had gone. No trace of her husband could she\nsee, and she knew that he must have gone off the path she had shown\nhim. She began to weep, and when her four brothers came before her she\nsaid, \u201cYour brother-in-law has fallen into space, and he is lost.\u201d\n\nShe then sent her brothers to bring all things and creatures together\nthat they might all mourn for Au-ke-le. They went and they brought the\nnight and the day, the sun, the stars, the thunder, the rainbow, the\nlightning, the waterspout, the mist, the fine rain. And the grandfather\nof the Queen, Kau-kihi-ka-malama, who is the Man in the Moon, was sent\nfor, too.\n\nBut where indeed was Au-ke-le?\n\nHe had left the straight line towards the rising sun; he had fallen\ninto space, and now he was growing weaker and weaker as he fell. But he\nstill had the calabash that had his Magic in it. He held it under his\narm; and now he spoke and asked where they were. His Magic said to him:\n\u201cWe have gone outside the line that was shown to us, and now I think\nthat we shall never get back. There is nothing in the sky to help us or\nto show us the way; all that was in the sky has gone down to the\nearth\u2014the night and the day, the sun and the stars, the thunder, the\nrainbow, the lightning, the waterspout, the mist, the fine rain. No, I\ncan see no thing and no creature that can help us.\u201d Au-ke-le asked,\n\u201cWho is it that is still up there?\u201d His Magic replied: \u201cGo straight and\nlay hold upon him, and we may be saved. That is Kau-kihi-ka-malama, the\nMan in the Moon.\u201d\n\nThe reason that Kau-kihi-ka-malama had not gone down to earth with the\nothers was that he had delayed to prepare food to bring down to the\nearth, for he thought that there was no food there. He was just\nstarting off when Au-ke-le came up to him and held him tightly. \u201cWhose\nconceited child are you?\u201d the Man in the Moon asked. \u201cMy back has never\nbeen climbed, even by my own granddaughter, and now you come here and\nclimb over it. Whose conceited child are you?\u201d \u201cYours,\u201d said Au-ke-le.\n\u201cI will take you to earth, and my granddaughter Na-maka will tell me\nwho you are.\u201d And so Kau-kihi-ka-malama brought Au-ke-le back to earth.\nAnd when he reached the earth all the people there wept with joy to see\nhim. Then the sun, the day, the night, the lightning, the thunder, the\nmist, the fine rain, the waterspout, and the Man in the Moon all\nreturned back to the heavens.\n\n\n\nBut nothing would do Au-ke-le but to set out again to find the Water of\nEverlasting Life, the Water of Ka-ne. So he started off from the door\nof his house, and he went in a straight line towards the rising sun.\nAnd in six months from the time he started he stood by the edge of a\nhole at the bottom of which was the Water of Everlasting Life, the\nWater of Ka-ne.\n\nHe climbed over the shoulder of the guard, and the guard said to him:\n\u201cEh, there! Whose conceited child are you? My back has never been\nclimbed over before, and now you come here and do it. Whose conceited\nchild are you?\u201d \u201cYour own,\u201d said Au-ke-le. \u201cMy own by whom?\u201d \u201cMy father\nis Iku,\u201d said Au-ke-le. \u201cThen you are the grandson of Ka-po-ino and\nKa-mo\u2019o-i-na-nea.\u201d \u201cI am.\u201d \u201cMy greetings to you, my lord,\u201d said the\nguardian of the edge of the hole.\n\nAu-ke-le had to go deep down into the hole to get the Water of\nEverlasting Life, the Water of Ka-ne. The guardian of the edge of the\nhole warned him that he must not strike the bamboo that was growing on\none side, because if he did the sound would reach the ears of one who\nwould cover up the water. Au-ke-le went down. He came to a second\nguardian, and he made himself known to him, claiming relationship with\nhim through Ka-mo\u2019o-i-na-nea, his mo-o grandmother. This guardian told\nhim to go on, but he warned him not to fall into the lama trees that\nwere growing on one side, for if he did the sound would reach the ears\nof one who would cover up the Water of Everlasting Life, the Water of\nKa-ne.\n\nHe went on, and he came to the third guardian, and he made himself\nknown to him, claiming relationship with him through his mo-o\ngrandmother. This guardian told him to keep on his way, but he warned\nhim, above all things, not to fall into the loula palms, for if he did\nthe sound would reach one who would cover up the Water of Everlasting\nLife, the Water of Ka-ne.\n\nAt last he came before the fourth guardian. \u201cWho are you?\u201d he was\nasked. \u201cThe child of Iku.\u201d \u201cWhat has brought you here?\u201d he was asked.\n\u201cTo gain the Water of Everlasting Life, the Water of Ka-ne.\u201d \u201cYou shall\nget it. Go to your grand-aunt who is at the base of the cliff. She is\nthe Old Woman of the Forbidden Sea. She is blind. You will find her\nroasting bananas. When she reaches out to take one to eat, you take it\nand eat it. Do this until all the bananas have been taken from her.\nWhen she says, \u2018What mischievous fellow has come here?\u2019 take up the\nashes and sprinkle them on her right side, and then climb into her\nlap.\u201d\n\nAu-ke-le kept going and ever going until he came to where his\ngrand-aunt sat, roasting bananas\u2014his grand-aunt, the Old Woman by the\nForbidden Sea. He took the bananas that she was about to eat; he\nsprinkled her with ashes on her right side, and he climbed into her\nlap. \u201cWhose conceited child are you?\u201d said the blind old woman. \u201cYour\nown,\u201d said Au-ke-le. \u201cMy own through whom?\u201d \u201cYour own through Iku.\u201d\nWhen his grand-aunt heard him say this she asked him what he had come\nfor. He told her he had come for the Water of Everlasting Life, the\nWater of Ka-ne.\n\nThen the Old Woman by the Forbidden Sea made up a plan by which he\nmight get the water. Ho-a-lii, he who watched above the water, had\nhands that were all black, and no hands but his were permitted to take\nup the Water of Ka-ne. His grand-aunt made Au-ke-le\u2019s hands black, and\nshe showed him where to go to come to the water.\n\nAu-ke-le went there. He put down his blackened hands, and the guards\ngave him a gourd of water. But this, as he had been told by the Old\nWoman by the Forbidden Sea, was bitter water, and not the Water of\nEverlasting Life. He threw the water out. He reached his hands down\nagain; and this time the Water of Ka-ne was put into his hands, the\nWater of Everlasting Life.\n\nHe took the gourd into his hands, and he ran back. But he fell into\nloula palms as he ran on, and the sound came to the ears of Ho-a-lii,\nwho was the guardian of the water. Ho-a-lii listened, but it was two\nmonths before another sound came to him. That was when Au-ke-le got\nentangled in the lama trees that grew on the side of the hole that he\nhad to travel up. Ho-a-lii kept awake and listened. But no sound came\nto him for two months more. Then he heard the rustling of the bamboo\ntrees that Au-ke-le had fallen into. He came in pursuit. But now\nAu-ke-le was out of the hole and was flying towards the earth. Ho-a-lii\nfollowed; but when he asked the watcher how long it was since one had\npassed that way, he was told that a year and six months had gone by\nsince one came up through the hole. Ho-a-lii could not catch up with\none who by this time had gone so far; and Au-ke-le, with the Water of\nEverlasting Life, the Water of Ka-ne, came back to the earth.\n\n\n\nHe came to where his brothers and his nephew were drowned in the sea,\nand he poured half of the Water of Ka-ne into the sea. Nothing came up\nfrom the sea, and Au-ke-le sat there weeping. Then his wife came to\nhim, and she blamed him for pouring so much of the water into the sea.\nOut of what was left she took water in her hands and poured it over the\nsea. Then Au-ke-le looked. In a while there stood a canoe with men\nclimbing the masts, and folding the sails, and coiling the ropes. They\nwere his brothers. Au-ke-le greeted them, and his brothers knew him,\nand they came to the land.\n\nThen Au-ke-le gave his brothers all his possessions. But they were not\nsatisfied to live on that land with him, and after a while they sailed\naway for other lands.\n\nThen after long years Au-ke-le said to his wife: \u201cMy wife, we have\nlived long together; I would not die in a foreign land, and I beg that\nyou will let me go so that I may see Ku-ai-he-lani, the country of my\nparents.\u201d\n\nHe went, with his wife\u2019s four brothers. And they went by a course that\nbrought them there in two days and two nights. Upon their arrival\nAu-ke-le looked over the land; but he saw no people, and the sound of\nbirds singing or of cocks crowing did not come to him, and then he saw\nthat the land of Ku-ai-he-lani was all grown over with weeds.\n\nHe came to the mouth of the cave where his mo-o grandmother used to be.\nHe shouted down to her, but no sound came back from her to him. He went\ndown. The coral of the floor of the sea had grown over her, and she was\nnot able to answer the call of her grandson Au-ke-le.\n\nHe broke away the pieces of coral that were around her. He saw the body\nof his mo-o grandmother, and it was reduced to a thread, almost. He\ncalled her name, \u201cKa-mo\u2019o-i-na-nea.\u201d\n\nKa-mo\u2019o-i-na-nea said \u201cYes,\u201d and she looked up and saw her grandson.\nShe greeted him and asked him what had brought him to her. \u201cI came to\nsee you,\u201d he said, \u201cand to ask you where are Iku and the others.\u201d\n\n\u201cIku fought with Ma-ku-o-ae,\u201d his grandmother told him. When she said\nthat, Au-ke-le knew that Death and his father had met.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPI-KO-I: THE BOY WHO WAS GOOD AT SHOOTING ARROWS.\n\n\n\u201cWhat is the cause of all that shouting down there?\u201d said Pi-ko-i to\nhis father, Ala-la the Raven. \u201cThey are playing olohu,\u201d said Ala-la,\nhis father. \u201cAnd how is that game played?\u201d said Pi-ko-i. \u201cIt is played\nin this way,\u201d said his father. \u201cThere are two in the game; they roll a\ndisk of stone, and the crowd shouts for the one who rolls it farthest.\nThat is the reason of the noise down there.\u201d \u201cI will go down and look\nat the games they are playing,\u201d said Pi-ko-i. \u201cYou cannot go,\u201d said his\nfather, \u201cuntil after to-day.\u201d\n\nLater on there was more shouting. \u201cWhat are they shouting for now?\u201d\nsaid Pi-ko-i to Ala-la the Raven. \u201cThey are playing a game called pahee\nnow,\u201d said Ala-la. \u201cThey slide a stick down a grassy slope, and when\nthe stick thrown by one slides farther than the stick thrown by another\nthe people all shout.\u201d \u201cI will go and watch this game,\u201d said Pi-ko-i.\n\u201cYou cannot go until after to-day,\u201d said his father.\n\nThe next day there was shouting again at the same place. \u201cWhat is this\nfresh shouting for?\u201d said Pi-ko-i to Ala-la, his father. \u201cThey are\nplaying a game now called ko-ie-ie.\u201d \u201cHow is that game played?\u201d said\nPi-ko-i. \u201cIt is played in this way,\u201d said his father. \u201cA board is\nsmoothed and thrown into the river at a place near the rapids. It has\nto float steadily in one place without going down the rapids. The one\nwhose board floats the steadiest without being carried over the rapids\nwins. That is the game of ko-ie-ie.\u201d \u201cMay I go down to watch that\ngame?\u201d said Pi-ko-i. \u201cYou may go down and join in the game,\u201d said his\nfather.\n\nThen Ala-la smoothed a board so that it would float steadily on the\nwater, and he gave it to his son Pi-ko-i. Pi-ko-i then went where the\ncrowd was; and this was the first time he had ever been with a crowd.\n\nHe had a sharp face, and he had little bones, and he had hair that was\nlike a rat\u2019s hair. When the crowd saw him they cried out, \u201cA rat, a\nrat! What is a rat doing amongst us?\u201d Pi-ko-i did not mind what they\nsaid; he went to where they were casting their boards on the current,\nand he cast on it the board that his father had smoothed for him.\n\nIt floated the steadiest of all the boards. It floated in one place\nwithout being carried down the rapids. The crowd shouted for Pi-ko-i.\nThen the other boys got jealous of him; they took his board, and they\nflung it over the rapids. Pi-ko-i jumped after his board. He was\ncarried over the rapids and down to the sea. \u201cA good riddance,\u201d said\nthe boys to each other. \u201cWhat business has a rat coming amongst us?\u201d\n\nPi-ko-i was carried out to sea. For two days and two nights he floated\non the currents of the ocean, and then he was washed up on the beach of\nanother Island.\n\nNow it happened that where he was washed up was near where his older\nsisters, I-ol-e and O-pea-pea, lived with their husbands. A man came\ndown to the beach and found Pi-ko-i, and this man was Kaua, the good\nservant of I-ol-e and O-pea-pea. \u201cWhere have you come from?\u201d said Kaua\nto Pi-ko-i when he found him on the beach, all wearied out, and weak\nfrom hunger and the buffeting of the ocean. \u201cFrom the sea,\u201d said\nPi-ko-i. \u201cCome with me,\u201d said the good servant, and he brought the boy\nto his sisters\u2019 house.\n\nThe servant spoke to the sisters and he said, \u201cI found him lying on the\nsand, and all he says is that he has come from the sea.\u201d \u201cWhere are you\nfrom? Where were you born, and who are your parents?\u201d said the sisters\nto him. Pi-ko-i answered: \u201cI am from Wai-lua on the Island of Kau-ai;\nAla-la is my father, and Kou-kou is my mother.\u201d\n\nWhen he told them this, the women of the house knew that the boy was\ntheir brother. They sprang upon him, and they cried over him, and they\ntold him that they were his sisters.\n\nAnd then their husbands came home, and a great feast was prepared for\nPi-ko-i. A pig was killed, yams were made ready, and pig and yams were\nput into the underground oven to cook. But while the cooking was being\ndone, Pi-ko-i left the house and wandered off to where there was a\ncrowd and where games were being played.\n\nThe King and the Queen were at these games. It was a game of shooting\nthat was on; a man was shooting arrows at rats, and the King and the\nQueen were making wagers on his shooting.\n\nIt was a Prince who was shooting arrows at the rats\u2014Prince\nMai-ne-le\u2014and all thought that his aim was most wonderful. The King was\nwinning all her property from the Queen, for he was laying wagers all\nthe time on Mai-ne-le\u2019s shooting.\n\nPi-ko-i stood and watched the game for a while. After the Prince had\nshot several arrows he said: \u201cHow simple all this is! Why, any one\ncould shoot as this man shoots.\u201d When the Queen heard the stranger boy\nsay this, she said, \u201cCould you shoot as well as the Prince?\u201d \u201cYes,\nma\u2019am,\u201d said Pi-ko-i. \u201cThen I will wager my property on your shooting,\u201d\nsaid the Queen.\n\nThe King kept on staking his property on the Prince\u2019s shooting, while\nthe Queen now staked hers on Pi-ko-i\u2019s. Whoever should strike ten rats\nwith one arrow would win, and whoever should strike less than ten would\nlose the match. Prince Mai-ne-le shot first. His arrow went through ten\nrats, and all the people shouted, \u201cMai-ne-le has won, Mai-ne-le has\nwon! The stranger boy cannot do better than that!\u201d But Pi-ko-i only\nsaid, \u201cHow left-handed that man must be! I thought that he was going to\nshoot the rats through their whiskers!\u201d\n\nPrince Mai-ne-le heard what Pi-ko-i said, and he answered angrily: \u201cYou\nare a deceiving boy. From the first day I began shooting rats until\nthis day, I have never seen a man who could shoot rats through their\nwhiskers.\u201d \u201cYou will see one now,\u201d said Pi-ko-i.\n\nThen bets were made as to whether one could shoot through rats\u2019\nwhiskers. These were new bets, and when they were all made, Pi-ko-i\nmade ready to shoot. But now the rats were all gone; not one was in\nsight. Thereupon Pi-ko-i said a charm to bring the rats near:\n\n\n            \u201cI, Pi-ko-i,\n            The offspring of Ala-la the Raven,\n            The offspring of Kou-kou:\n            Where are you, my brothers?\n            Where are you, O Rats?\n            There they are,\n            There they are!\n            The rats are in the pili grass:\n            They sleep, the rats are asleep:\n            Let them awaken;\n            Let them return!\u201d\n\n\nAnd when he said this charm the rats all came back. Pi-ko-i then let\nhis arrow fly. It struck ten rats, and the point of it held a bat. The\nrats were all made fast by their whiskers.\n\nWhen Mai-ne-le saw this he said: \u201cIt is a draw. The boy shot ten rats,\nand I shot ten rats.\u201d The people all agreed with Mai-ne-le\u2014it was a\ndraw, they said. But Pi-ko-i would not have it so. \u201cThe bat must count\nas a rat,\u201d he said. \u201cI have killed, not ten, but eleven rats.\u201d The\ncrowd would not agree. Pi-ko-i kept saying, \u201cIt counts as a rat\naccording to the old words:\n\n\n            \u201c\u2018The bat is in the stormless season\u2014\n            He is your younger brother, O Rat:\n            Squeak to him.\u2019\u201d\n\n\nAnd when he said that, every one had to agree that the bat counted as a\nrat and that Pi-ko-i had killed eleven rats with his single arrow. And\nso he won the match against Prince Mai-ne-le.\n\nWhile the wagers were being handed over, Pi-ko-i slipped away. He went\nback to his sisters\u2019 house; he was there as the food was being taken\nout of the oven. He sat down to the food; he would not let any one\nspeak to him while he ate. He ate nearly the whole oven-full. And when\nhe had finished that meal he was a changed boy: he was no longer\nsharp-faced and small-boned; he still had hair like rat\u2019s hair, but for\nall that he was now a fine-looking youth.\n\nShortly after this the King and Queen wanted to have a canoe built in\nwhich they could sail far out on the ocean. The King went with his\ncanoe-builders into the forest, so that they might mark for\ncutting-down a large koa tree. They came to a great tree. But before\nthey could put the axe to it two birds flew up to the very top of the\ntree and then cried out in a loud voice, \u201cSay, Ke-awe, you cannot make\na canoe out of this tree; it is hollow.\u201d And then they cried out, \u201cA\nworthless canoe, a hollow canoe, a canoe that will never sail the\nocean.\u201d\n\nWhen the King heard this he turned from the tree, and he and his\ncanoe-builders sought out another. They found another fine-looking\ntree, but before they put an axe to it, the same two birds flew up to\nthe very top of it and cried out, \u201cA worthless canoe, a hollow canoe, a\ncanoe that will never sail the ocean.\u201d And to the top of every tree\nthat the King and his canoe-builders thought was a good-timbered tree,\nthe birds flew and made their unlucky cry, \u201cA worthless canoe, a hollow\ncanoe, a canoe that will never sail the ocean.\u201d\n\nDay after day the King and his canoe-makers went into the forest, and\nday after day the birds flew to the top of every tree that they would\ncut down. At last the King saw that he could get no canoe-making tree\nout of the forest until he had killed the birds that made the unlucky\ncry.\n\nSo he sent for Prince Mai-ne-le to have him kill the birds while they\nwere crying on the tree-top. And he promised him, or any one else who\nwould kill the birds, his daughter in marriage and a part of the land\nof his kingdom.\n\nNow when Kaua, the good servant, heard of the King\u2019s offer he made up\nhis mind that the boy whom he had found on the sand should win the\nKing\u2019s daughter and a portion of the land of the Island. So he went to\nwhere Pi-ko-i was, and he told him all that he had heard. \u201cAnd if you\nare able to shoot birds as you are able to shoot rats,\u201d he said, \u201cyou\nwill become son-in-law to the King and one of the great men of the\nIsland. But Prince Mai-ne-le is going to let fly his arrow at the\nbirds, and perhaps you will not want to match yourself with him,\u201d said\nhe.\n\nWhen the servant said that, Pi-ko-i rose up from where he was sitting,\nand he said: \u201cI am going to shoot at the birds that make the unlucky\ncry, and you must do this for me.\u201d Thereupon he told Kaua that he\nshould make a large basket, and that he should tell every one that this\nbasket was for the safe-keeping of his idol. Into this basket he,\nPi-ko-i, would go and remain hidden there. And Kaua was to go with\nPrince Mai-ne-le\u2019s party, and he was to bring the basket with him,\nbeing careful, though, to let no one find out that there was a man in\nthe basket. Kaua made the basket out of i-e vines, and Pi-ko-i went and\nhid in it. Then Kaua took the great basket, and went and joined\nMai-ne-le\u2019s party.\n\nThe canoes made swift passage, for the evening breeze behind them sent\nthem flying, and by the dawn of the next morning they were able to make\nout the waterfalls on the steep cliffs of the land where the forest was\nthat the King walked in. They landed. Kaua was able to get men to carry\nthe basket that had, as all supposed, his idol in it. They entered the\nforest, and they came to where the King and his canoe-makers were.\n\nThey were under a great koa tree. To mark it the men raised their axes.\nAs they did so the birds flew to the top of it and cried out their\nunlucky cry: \u201cSay, Ke-awe, you cannot make a canoe out of this tree. A\nworthless canoe, a hollow canoe, a canoe that will never sail the\nocean!\u201d\n\nAs soon as the cry was heard Prince Mai-ne-le shot at them. His arrow\ndid not go anywhere near the birds, so high was the tree-top, so far\nabove were they. Then the King\u2019s men built a platform that was half the\nheight of the tree. From the platform Mai-ne-le shot at the birds\nagain, and again his arrow failed to reach them. Then Pi-ko-i from the\nbasket whispered to Kaua. \u201cAsk Mai-ne-le and ask the King why the birds\nstill cry out and why they have not been hit. Is it because Mai-ne-le\nis not really shooting at them?\u201d Kaua said all this to the King. Prince\nMai-ne-le, when he heard what was said, replied, \u201cWhy do you not shoot\nat the birds yourself?\u201d And then he said: \u201cThere are the birds, and\nhere is the weapon. Now see if you can hit them.\u201d \u201cWell,\u201d said Kaua, \u201cI\nwill ask my idol.\u201d He opened the basket then, and Pi-ko-i appeared. He\nhad changed so much since he had eaten the feast in his sisters\u2019 house\nthat no one there knew him for the stranger boy who had beaten\nMai-ne-le in the shooting-match before.\n\nAnd what he said made all of them amazed. He asked the King to have a\nbasin of water brought to the tree. It was brought. Pi-ko-i then stood\nlooking into the water. He saw the reflection of the birds that were on\nthe tree-top far, far above. He held his arms above his head; his arrow\nwas aimed at the birds whose reflection he saw in the water. He brought\nthe arrow into line with them; he let it fly. It struck both of them;\nthey fell; they came tumbling down. Into the basin of water they fell,\nand the people, on seeing the great skill shown by Pi-ko-i, raised a\ngreat shout.\n\nThen the canoe-makers got to work, and after many days\u2019 labor they\nhewed down the great tree. The canoe was built for the King and the\nQueen, and they went in it and sailed on the ocean. Pi-ko-i was with\nthem when they made the voyage. But before that, they had given him\ntheir daughter in marriage, and together with the girl they had given\nhim a portion of the land of Hawaii. Out of the portion that was given\nhim Pi-ko-i gave land to Kaua, and the good servant became a rich man.\nAnd as for Mai-ne-le, he was made so ashamed by his second defeat by\nyoung Pi-ko-i that he went straight back to his own land and never\nafterwards did he shoot an arrow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPAKA: THE BOY WHO WAS REARED IN THE LAND THAT THE GODS HAVE SINCE\nHIDDEN.\n\n\nPaka was reared in Pali-uli, the land that the gods have since hidden\nfrom men. That land he did not leave until he went forth to wed the\nfair woman whom one of his foster-fathers had found for him\u2014the\nPrincess Mako-lea.\n\nBut first I have to tell you about Pali-uli and the two men who found\nit in the old days and brought the child Paka there.\n\nThese two men were the brothers of Paka\u2019s mother; they were both named\nKi-i, and one was called Ki-i the Stayer and the other was called Ki-i\nthe Goer. One night Ki-i the Stayer had a dream: in that dream a spirit\ntold him: \u201cYou must go to Pali-uli and live there, you and your\nbrother; it is a land in which you can live without labor and without\ndiscontent.\u201d He dreamed this dream for three nights, and, each morning\nafter, he told his dream to Ki-i the Goer. But Ki-i the Goer paid no\nattention to the dream that was told him. And then the dream came to\nKi-i the Goer, and the same words were said to him by the spirit in the\ndream: \u201cYou must go to Pali-uli and live there, you and your brother,\nKi-i the Stayer; it is a land in which you can live without labor and\nwithout discontent.\u201d\n\nThen Ki-i the Goer was all for going to the land of Pali-uli. Soon the\ntwo brothers made preparations for going there. One night they went to\nbed early; they woke up at the second crowing of the cock; then, in the\nearly dawn while it was still dark, they started off to seek Pali-uli,\nthe restful land.\n\nGuided by a spirit, they found Pali-uli. (No one will ever find it\nagain; it has since been hidden from men by the gods.) It was a level\nland; it was filled with all things that men might desire: the mountain\napple there grew to be as large as the bread-fruit; the sugar-cane grew\nuntil it doubled over, and then it shot up again; the bananas fell\nscattering on the ground, ripe always; the pigs grew until their tusks\nwere as long as a pig is with us; the chickens grew until their spurs\nwere as big as eggs; the dogs grew until their backs could be made into\nseats and cushions; there were fish ponds there, and they were stocked\nwith all the fish of the ocean except whales and sharks. Such was\nPali-uli when Ki-i the Stayer and Ki-i the Goer came into it.\n\nThey lived there in great plenty and in much content for a while. Then\none day Ki-i the Goer said, \u201cHow strange it is that we have all these\nthings growing, and we have no one to leave them to!\u201d Then Ki-i the\nStayer said: \u201cWe will take a young child and rear him up here, and let\nhim have some of the things that are growing in such plenty. Let us go\nback to our sister\u2019s now, and whatever young child she has, we will\ntake him back with us.\u201d\n\nSo they went back to their sister\u2019s; they found Paka, the child who was\njust born, and they took him back with them. Paka had no form at all\nwhen he was born; indeed, he was just like an egg. Ki-i the Goer\nwrapped him in a feather cape as they went travelling back to Pali-uli.\nAfter ten days they unwrapped the feather cape, and they saw that the\nchild was becoming formed. When they looked at him again they saw that\nhe had become most beautiful, a child with a straight back and an open\nface. Then he grew up, and his beauty was such that it lighted Pali-uli\nday and night.\n\nAnd so he grew to be a youth. One day when they were looking on him,\nKi-i the Goer said to Ki-i the Stayer, \u201cThere is one thing wanting\nnow.\u201d \u201cAnd what is that?\u201d asked Ki-i the Stayer. \u201cA beautiful wife for\nPaka.\u201d Then Ki-i the Stayer said, \u201cYou must go search for a wife for\nhim.\u201d\n\nKi-i the Goer consented, and he started off to search for a wife who\nwould be beautiful enough to wed with Paka. He found one girl who was\nvery much admired. But when he looked her over he saw that her eyes\nbulged like the nuts of the ku-kui. He passed her by. And then in the\nland of Kau he heard of another admired girl. But when he looked her\nover he saw that her lips were deformed. Her, too, he passed by, and he\nwent on in his search. And then, in the beautiful land of Kona, he\nfound Mako-lea, a Princess who was as faultless as the full moon.\n\nKi-i the Goer went before the Princess and spoke to her of Paka. \u201cIs he\nas handsome as so-and-so?\u201d said she to him. \u201cSo-and-so,\u201d said he, \u201cis\nas the skin of Paka\u2019s feet.\u201d \u201cOh, bring him to me,\u201d said the Princess.\n\u201cBring me the youth you want to be my husband, and do not be slow.\u201d\nThen back to Pali-uli went Ki-i the Goer.\n\nThey knew that they would have to leave the beautiful land with the\nyouth whom they had brought up there; Ki-i the Goer and Ki-i the Stayer\nknew that, and they knew that they could never come back to it. They\nwailed because of their great love for that land and for everything\nthat was in it. They kissed and they wept over everything in their\nbeautiful house. Then they committed Pali-uli to the charge of the gods\nwho had shown that land to them. And never since that day has Pali-uli\nbeen seen by men.\n\nWhen they were ready for the journey to Kona, Ki-i the Goer stood up;\ntaking Paka by the hand, he left the house. But Ki-i the Stayer did not\nmove. His brother turned to him and said, \u201cHow strange of you to want\nto remain when the youth whom we reared has to leave this place!\u201d Upon\nhearing his brother say this, Ki-i the Stayer stood up and left the\nhouse. Then, with the youth whom they had reared, Ki-i the Goer and\nKi-i the Stayer left Pali-uli, the easeful land.\n\nNow the King of Kau-ai had long wanted to steal Mako-lea. He sent his\nservants Ke-au-miki and Ke-au-ka to carry her off and bring her to him.\nOn the very day that Paka was to reach Kona, Mako-lea and her\nattendants went down to the beach to join in the surf-riding. Standing\non her surf-board the Princess was carried with wonderful speed across\nthe reef and back to the beach. She brought her surf-board out again.\nBut this time Ke-au-miki and Ke-au-ka overturned her surf-board and\ntook her and carried her off to Kau-ai.\n\nWhen Paka came to Kona and found that Mako-lea had been taken away, he\ntook leave of Ki-i the Stayer and Ki-i the Goer. He asked Mako-lea\u2019s\nfather for a small canoe, and a small canoe was given him. In it he\nwent over the sea until he came to the Island of Kau-ai.\n\nWhen he reached the Island he broke his canoe into small pieces, and he\nleft the pieces on the shore. Then he went into the land. Now the King\nwho had taken Mako-lea was a great thrower of the spear, a great boxer,\nand a great man for asking and answering riddles. Paka had heard all\nabout him, and he was prepared to meet him.\n\nDown to the beach came the King with a great spear in his hand. \u201cWho\nshall have the first chance with the spear?\u201d he cried out when he saw\nPaka, \u201cthe stranger or the son of the soil?\u201d \u201cThe son of the soil,\u201d\nanswered Paka.\n\nWhen that answer was made the King threw his spear in the full belief\nthat it would go through the stranger, for he had never missed his\nthrow. As the spear neared him Paka moved; he moved aside ever so\nslightly. He made a quick motion of his elbow outward, and he allowed\nthe spear to enter between his arm and his body. He closed his arm on\nthe spear as the wind whistled by, and the point of the spear quivered\nwhere he held it. The spear was held for a moment; then Paka let it\nfall down.\n\nThe King was sure he had struck the stranger, and he uttered his\ntriumph in a chant.\n\n\n        \u201cHow could he stand against my spear?\n        It never misses what it is flung at!\n        Not the blade of grass,\n        Not the ant, not the flea!\n        How then could it miss the stranger, a man?\u201d\n\n\nBut when he had uttered all this he saw Paka let the spear drop from\nunder his arm. The King looked on him with amazement, and he chanted\nthis:\n\n\n        \u201cHow did my spear miss the mark?\n        Was it pushed from its course by the southern storm?\n        Did a wind ward it off from him?\u201d\n\n\nHe waited for the stranger to throw the spear back at him, but Paka did\nnot throw it. Then the King turned and went to his house.\n\nWhen Paka came before it he heard shouts within. \u201cWhat is going on?\u201d\nPaka asked. \u201cIt is for a game,\u201d said a by-stander. \u201cOur King is engaged\nin a boxing-match; he is winning, for no one can beat him.\u201d Paka then\nwent within, and he found the place filled with people. The King,\nseeing him, said, \u201cWill the stranger join in a boxing-match?\u201d \u201cI know\nsomething of that game,\u201d said Paka, \u201cbut not much. I am willing to try\na bout with the son of the soil.\u201d\n\nThereupon they took up their positions. The King struck, and his blow\nstunned Paka. Then Paka pulled himself together, and he struck. His\nblow knocked the King down; he lay on the ground for a time long enough\nto bake an oven of food. Then he rose up. He said, \u201cThat was a good\nstroke; the stranger makes a real opponent.\u201d\n\nBecause Paka had not been defeated in the boxing-bout, he was given a\nhouse and food and clothes. Soon afterwards the King sent a crier\nthrough the country telling the people that they must all come to the\nKing\u2019s house on the fourth day after to hear the riddles that the King\nproposed. Now this crier had never been given any food except what\ndropped from the King\u2019s eating place; he had never been given any\nclothes, either, and he looked fearful in his naked, unwashed, and\nwasted form. No one would go near the man, or speak to him, or give him\nanything. Such was the King\u2019s crier. He had a loud voice, however, and\nthe people all heard what he cried out.\n\nHe came along crying: \u201cEvery one is commanded to be in the King\u2019s\npresence on the fourth day from this to hear the riddles that the King\nwill propose. No man, woman, or child may stay at home except those who\nare not able to walk.\u201d\n\nAs the crier came along, Paka looked out and saw him, and he said to\nthose who were with him, \u201cCall that man in and give him something to\neat.\u201d Those who were with him said, \u201cNo, we cannot do that; he is a\ndisgusting-looking man; no one can bear to be near where he is.\u201d But\nPaka still said, \u201cCall him to us.\u201d The crier was called over; he came,\nbut he was ashamed to stand before the people who had called him.\n\nPaka had the man wash himself. He gave him new clothes, and he bade him\nsit down and eat. He ate until he was satisfied. Then said the King\u2019s\ncrier: \u201cI have travelled all around the Island, and no one has ever\ngiven me food before. Now at last I have found out that pork and yams\nand bananas are pleasant to the taste. How can I pay you for this?\u201d\n\nAnd then the King\u2019s crier said: \u201cI will pay you by telling you the\nanswers to the riddles that the King will propose. He will ask you to\njoin in the game, and if you join and are not able to answer the\nriddles, he will have you slain. But if you are able to answer them, he\nwill have to give you whatever possession of his you ask for. This is\nthe first riddle that he will ask:\n\n\n        \u201c\u2018Put it all around from top to bottom,\n        Leave, and leave a place with nothing around.\u2019\n\n\nThe answer is a house, for the thatch goes around from top to bottom,\nwith a place not thatched for the doorway. And this is the second\nriddle that he will ask:\n\n\n        \u201c\u2018The men that stand up,\n        The men that lie down,\n        The men that are folded.\u2019\n\n\nThe answer to that, too, is a house, for the timbers stand up, the\nbeams lie down, the thatch is folded. If you have an answer for these\ntwo riddles, you may join in the game, and the King cannot have you\nslain.\u201d\n\nThe fourth day after this Paka went with the rest of the people to the\nKing\u2019s house. The King saw him, and he called out, \u201cLet the stranger be\nseated here.\u201d Paka went and sat near him. And then after a while the\nKing said, \u201cWill the stranger join in the game?\u201d\n\n\u201cI will,\u201d Paka said, \u201cbut you must tell me the conditions of the game.\u201d\n\u201cThese are the conditions,\u201d said the King. \u201cI have two riddles to give\nout: if you enter the game and cannot answer them correctly, you will\nbe slain; if you can answer them correctly, you are free to leave my\nland and to take with you any possession of mine that you choose.\u201d \u201cI\nwill enter the game,\u201d said Paka.\n\nThen said the King: \u201cThis is the first riddle:\n\n\n        \u201c\u2018Put it all around from top to bottom,\n        Leave, and leave a place with nothing around.\u2019\u201d\n\n\nPaka waited. He waited, watching an oven that was being heated. If he\ndid not give the correct answer, he would be flung into that oven. When\nthe oven was all heated, he said:\n\n\u201cIt is a house. A house is thatched all around, with a place for the\ndoorway left open.\u201d\n\n\u201cThen answer my second riddle,\u201d said the King, and he gave it out:\n\n\n        \u201cThe men that stand up,\n        The men that lie down,\n        The men that are folded.\u201d\n\n\n\u201cThe answer to that, too,\u201d said Paka, \u201cis a house. For the timbers of a\nhouse stand up, the beams lie down, the thatch is folded.\u201d\n\n\u201cThat is the answer, but who has told you?\u201d cried the King.\n\nHe was not able to have Paka killed, and he had to give him whatever\nPaka chose to ask for. And Paka asked for the Princess Mako-lea who had\nbeen stolen away from him. He asked for her, and he was brought into\nanother house. And there he beheld the Princess. And when he looked on\nher he knew that when his foster-father had said that she was faultless\nas the full moon he had spoken the truth. He took her back to Kona, to\nthe house of her father and her mother, and in Kona they were wed, Paka\nand Mako-kea. And his two foster-fathers, Ki-i the Goer and Ki-i the\nStayer, married Mako-lea\u2019s two attendants; and thereafter the two\nelders lived so well that they almost came to forget Pali-uli, the\neaseful land.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE STORY OF HA-LE-MA-NO AND THE PRINCESS KAMA.\n\n\nIn Puna lived the Princess Kama, and she was so beautiful that two\nKings strove to win her\u2014the King of Puna and the King of Hilo. They\nsent presents to her mother and to her father and to herself. But Kama\nnever saw either of those Kings. She was sent to live in a house that\nno one was permitted to enter except herself and her brother. \u201cIn a\nwhile Kama will come to the height of her beauty,\u201d her parents said,\n\u201cand then we will give her to be Queen to one of these Kings. But until\nthat time comes no one must speak to her.\u201d And so, in a house that was\nforbidden to every one else, Kama lived with only her young brother for\nher companion.\n\nFar away, on the Island of Oahu, there lived a youth whose name was\nHa-le-ma-no. Every night he had a dream in which he met a beautiful\nmaiden who talked to him and whose name in his dream he knew. But when\nhe wakened up he could not remember what name she had told him to call\nher by, nor what words they had said to each other. He remembered only\nher beautiful form and face, the dress and the wreaths she wore, and\nthe scent that was in her dress. The youth became so that he could\nthink of nothing else except this maiden, and he wasted away because of\nthis thought that put every other thought out of his mind. Then it came\nabout that he would eat no food, and at last his fasting and his\nwasting thought brought him near his death.\n\nBut Ha-le-ma-no had a sister who had magical powers. Her name was\nLae-ni-hi. She was travelling with her other sisters when she saw\nHa-le-ma-no\u2019s image in the sky, and she knew by that sign that her\nbrother was near his death. Her sisters wept for Ha-le-ma-no when they\nsaw that sign in the sky, but Lae-ni-hi uttered a magic spell, and\nthrough that spell Ha-le-ma-no was brought back to life.\n\nThen she went and she visited her brother, and when she was with him\nshe asked what it was that had brought him so near his death. \u201cIt is\nbecause of a maiden whom I dream of continually,\u201d he told her, \u201cthat I\nwas near my death, and that I may come near my death again.\u201d\n\nHis sister asked him what the maiden was like, and he told her. \u201cShe is\ntall and very beautiful, and she seems to be a Princess. She has a\nwreath of hala on her head and a lei of lehua-blossoms around her neck.\nHer dress is of scented tapa, and it is dyed red.\u201d \u201cIt is in Puna,\u201d\nsaid his sister, \u201cthat the women wear the lehua lei, and have scented\ntapa for their dresses.\u201d\n\nThen she asked, \u201cHow do your meetings come about?\u201d \u201cWhen I fall\nasleep,\u201d said Ha-le-ma-no, \u201cthe maiden comes to me. Then she tells me\nher name. But when I waken up I do not know the name I called her by.\u201d\n\nHe slept, and his wise sister watched over him. In his sleep he again\nmet the beautiful maiden. She heard him speak the dream-woman\u2019s name.\nIt was Kama. Soon afterwards Ha-le-ma-no wakened from his sleep.\n\n\u201cShe is Kama, and of her I have heard much,\u201d said his sister. \u201cShe is\nvery beautiful. But no one is permitted to come into the house where\nshe lives. And in a while, when she has reached the height of her\nbeauty, she will be given in marriage to the King of Puna or the King\nof Hilo.\u201d \u201cUnless I can take her out of that forbidden house and away\nfrom these two Kings,\u201d said Ha-le-ma-no, \u201cI shall surely die.\u201d\n\nThen his sister promised him that she would strive to find some way of\nbringing him and Kama together. He ate his food because she made that\npromise, and he became well again. Then, that he might be able to\nfollow her travels, she told him of the signs she would show. \u201cIf it\nrains here,\u201d she said, \u201cyou will know that I have got as far as the\nIsland of Mo-lo-kai. If the lightning flashes, you will know that I\nhave reached the Island of Maui. If it thunders, I am at Kohala. And if\nyou see red water flowing, I have reached Puna, where your Princess\nlives.\u201d\n\nHa-le-ma-no\u2019s sister started off. Soon it rained; soon the lightning\nflashed; soon thunder was heard; soon red water flowed. Lae-ni-hi had\ncome to Puna.\n\nWhen she came there she began to devise ways by which she could come to\nthe Princess in her forbidden house. She caused the wind to blow. It\naroused the sea from its repose, and the surf began to roll in on the\nbeach of Kai-mu. That was a place where the people used to go for\nsurf-riding. When they saw the surf coming in in great rollers they\nbegan to shout. They got their surf-boards and prepared to ride in on\nthe rolling surf.\n\nWhen Kama\u2019s brother heard the shouting he came down on the beach. He\nsaw the people riding the surf, and he went back to ask his sister\u2019s\npermission to ride the surf like the others. She came down to the beach\nwith him. And when she saw the surf coming in in such fine rollers she\ntoo became excited, and she longed to go riding it.\n\nShe allowed the first roller to come in until it reached the shore; she\nallowed the second roller to come in; then the third. And when that\nroller reached the shore she plunged in and swam out with her board to\nthe place where the rollers began to curve up. When she reached that\nplace she took the first roller that came along, and, standing on her\nsurf-board, she rode in on it. The people watching shouted in\nadmiration for her, so beautiful was her figure as she stood upon the\nboard that came racing in with the rolling surf.\n\nShe rode the surf three times, and she was becoming more and more\ndelighted with the sport, when the wind ceased to blow and the surf\nwent down. Kama was left in shallow water. She looked down, and she saw\na bright fish in the water. And her brother, who was looking towards\nher, saw the fish at the same time. He called out to her, \u201cO my sister,\ntake up and bring to me the bright fish that is in the shallow water.\u201d\n\nNow the fish was Lae-ni-hi, who had transformed herself. Kama put her\nhands under her and took her up. She put the fish into a calabash of\nwater and gave her to her brother for a plaything. He carried the fish\nwith him, and in that way Lae-ni-hi came into the house that was\nforbidden to all except the Princess and her brother.\n\nIn the middle of the night she changed back into a woman, and she stood\nabove where the Princess lay. Kama wakened up and saw the strange woman\nnear her. \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d the Princess asked. \u201cI am from near\nhere.\u201d \u201cThere is no woman who is like you anywhere near. Besides, no\none belonging to this place would come into this house, for all know\nthat it is forbidden.\u201d \u201cI have come from beyond the sea.\u201d \u201cYes, now you\nare telling me the truth.\u201d\n\nThen Lae-ni-hi asked the Princess if she had ever met a youth in her\ndream. The Princess would not answer when she asked this. \u201cIf you would\nhave me bring one to you, give me a wreath that you have worn, and a\ndress,\u201d said Ha-le-ma-no\u2019s sister. Kama gave her a wreath that was\nwithered and one of her scented dresses.\n\nLae-ni-hi went back to her brother. She showed him the wreath and the\ndress that the Princess had worn. Upon seeing these things Ha-le-ma-no\nwas sure that his sister had been with the dream-maiden, and he rose up\nto go at once to where she was.\n\nBut his sister would not let him go without her. And before she would\ngo back to Puna she had toys and playthings made\u2014toys and playthings\nthat would take the fancy of Kama\u2019s young brother. She had wooden birds\nmade that would float on the waves; she had a toy canoe made and\npainted red; in it there were men in red to paddle it; she had other\nfigures made that could stand upright; then she fixed up a colored and\nhigh-flying kite.\n\nWith the toys and playthings in their canoe, Ha-le-ma-no and Lae-ni-hi\nstarted off for Puna. And when they drew near the shore Ha-le-ma-no let\nthe kite rise up. As it went up in the air the people on the beach saw\nit, and they shouted. The Princess\u2019s brother heard the shouts, and he\ncame out to see what was happening.\n\nWhen he saw the kite he ran down to the beach. He saw a canoe with two\npersons in it, and one of them held the string of the kite. He called\nout to them, \u201cOh, let me have the thing that flies!\u201d Lae-ni-hi then\nsaid to her brother, \u201cLet the boy have it,\u201d and he put the string of\nthe kite into the boy\u2019s hand. Then the birds were put into the water,\nand they floated on the waves. Then the toy canoe with its men in red\nwas let down, and it floated on the water. The boy cried out, \u201cOh, let\nme have these things,\u201d and Lae-ni-hi gave them to him.\n\nAnd then she put along the side of the canoe the standing figures that\nshe had brought. The boy saw them, and them he wanted too. Then\nLae-ni-hi said to him, \u201cAre you a favorite with your sister?\u201d \u201cI am,\u201d\nthe boy said; \u201cshe will do anything I ask her to do.\u201d \u201cCall her so that\nshe comes near us, and I will give you these figures.\u201d The boy then\ncalled her. \u201cUnless you come here, sister,\u201d he said, \u201cI cannot get\nthese playthings.\u201d\n\nKama came near. Then Ha-le-ma-no saw that she had the very height of\nthe maiden whom he had seen in his dreams. \u201cAre you a favorite with\nyour sister, and would she mind if you asked her to turn her back to\nus?\u201d Lae-ni-hi said. The boy asked his sister to turn her back, and\nthen Ha-le-ma-no saw how straight her back was. After this Lae-ni-hi\nsaid, \u201cAre you a favorite with your sister, and would she mind if you\nasked her to show her face to us?\u201d After that Kama stood facing the\ncanoe, and Ha-le-ma-no saw that this was indeed the maiden of his\ndream.\n\nThen they met, Ha-le-ma-no and Kama. The Princess knew him for the\nyouth she had seen in her dreams. She let him take her by the hands and\nbring her into the canoe. When they were in the canoe Lae-ni-hi paddled\nit off. The people of Puna and the people of Hilo came in chase of\nthem. But by the power that Lae-ni-hi had, the canoe was made to go so\nswiftly that those who followed were left far behind.\n\n\n\nAfter this the two Kings said to each other: \u201cYes, we have sent much of\nwhat we owned to her and to her parents with the idea that one or the\nother of us would get her for his wife. Now she has been carried off\nfrom us. Let us make war upon those who have taken her, and punish them\nfor having carried her off.\u201d\n\nAnd so the two Kings made war upon Ha-le-ma-no\u2019s people. Ha-le-ma-no\nand Kama had to flee away. And after enduring much suffering and much\npoverty they came to the Island of Maui. There they lived; but instead\nof living in state and having plenty, they had to dig the ground and\nlive as a farmer and a farmer\u2019s wife.\n\nNear where they lived there was a beach, and people used to go down to\nit for surf-riding. One day Kama went down to this beach. She took a\nboard and went surf-riding. And when she was racing in on the surf she\nremembered how she had once lived as a Princess, and she remembered how\nHa-le-ma-no had come and had taken her away, and how she had nothing\nnow but a grass hut and the roots that she and her husband pulled out\nof the ground. And then she was angry with Ha-le-ma-no, and she longed\nto be back again in Puna.\n\nWhen she finished surf-riding and came in on to the shore she saw that\nthere were red canoes there\u2014the canoes of a King. And then she saw\nHua-a, the King of Puna. He came to her, and he took her by the hands.\nShe went with him, leaving her husband, who was working in his fields.\nBut in a while she was sorry for what she had done, and she left Hua-a.\nAnd after that Kama went wandering through the Islands.\n\n\n\nNow when Ha-le-ma-no knew that his wife had left him, he grew so ill\nthat again he was near his death. But again his sister saved him. Then,\nwhen he was well, Ha-le-ma-no told his sister that he would learn to be\na fisherman, for he thought that if he were something else than a\nfarmer Kama would come back to him.\n\nHis sister told him to learn to be a singer and a chanter of verses;\nshe told him that, if he had that art, he would be most likely to win\nhis wife back to him. Ha-le-ma-no made up his mind to learn the art of\nsinging and of chanting verses.\n\nWhen he was on his way to learn this art he passed by a grove at\nKe-a-kui. He went within the grove, and he saw the mai-le vine growing\non the ohia trees. Then he began to strip the vine from the trees and\nmake wreaths of it. He was sitting down making the wreaths when he saw\nthe top of the mountain Ha-le-a-ka-la, like a pointed cloud in the\nevening, with other clouds drifting about it. And when he looked upon\nthat mountain he thought of the places where he and his wife had\ntravelled. And as he was thinking of her, his wife, who had been\nwandering about that Island, came near where he was. She saw him and\nshe knew him; she came and she stood behind him. And then Ha-le-ma-no,\nlooking upon the mountain, was moved to chant these verses:\n\n\n    \u201cI was once thought a good deal of, O my love!\n    My companion of the shady trees.\n    For we two once lived on the food from the long-speared\n                                        grass of the wilderness.\n    Alas, O my love!\n    My love from the land of the Kau-mu-ku wind,\n    As it comes gliding over the ocean,\n    As it covers the waves of Papa-wai,\n    For it was the canoe that brought us here.\n    Alas, O my love!\n    My love of the home where we were friendless,\n    Our only friend being our love for one another.\n    It is hooked, and it bites to the very inside of the bones.\u201d\n\n\nKama was going to put out her hand to touch him, but, hearing him chant\nthis, she thought that he was in such sorrow that he would never\nforgive her. She wept and she went away, leaving the place without\nspeaking to him.\n\nAfter that Ha-le-ma-no went on his way; he learned the art of singing\nand of chanting verses. Afterwards, when he was very famous, it\nhappened that he was invited to a place where there were games and\nsinging.\n\nHe came to that place; covered over with a mantle, he sat by himself,\nand he watched those who came in. Many people came in, and amongst them\na woman who wanted to be a wife to Ha-le-ma-no\u2014a woman of great riches.\nBut as Ha-le-ma-no looked towards this woman, he saw sitting there, in\nall her beauty and her grace, his own wife Kama. They asked him to\nchant to them. Then he remembered how he and she had lived together and\nhad wandered together in different places; and, remembering this, he\nchanted:\n\n\n    \u201cWe once lived in Hilo, in our own home,\n    For we had suffered in the home that was not ours,\n    For I had but one friend, myself.\n    The streams of Hilo are innumerable,\n    The high cliff was the home where we lived.\n    Alas, my love of the lehua blossoms of Moku-pa-ne!\n    The lehua blossoms that were braided with the hala blossoms,\n    For our love for one another was all that we had.\n    The rain fell only at Le-le-wi,\n    As it came creeping over the hala trees at Po-mai-kai,\n    At the place where I was punished through love.\n    Alas, O my love!\n    My love from the leaping cliffs of Pi-i-kea;\n    From the waters of Wai-lu-ku where the people are carried under,\n    Which we had to go through to get to the many cliffs of Hilo,\n    Those solemn cliffs that are bare of people,\n    Peopled by you and me alone, my love,\n    You, my own love!\u201d\n\n\nAnd when she heard these verses Kama knew who the man was who chanted\nthem. She bowed her head, and she chanted:\n\n\n    \u201cAlas, thou art my bosom companion, my love!\n    My companion of the cold watery home of Hilo.\n    I am from Hilo,\n    From the rain that pelts the leaves of the bread-fruit\n                                                of Pi-i-honua;\n    For we live at the bread-fruit trees of Malama.\n    Love is shown by the tears,\n    Love is the friend of my companion,\n    My companion of the thick forests of Pana-ewa,\n    Where you and I have trod,\n    Our only fellow-traveller our love.\n    Alas, O my companion, my love!\n    My love of the cold, watery home of Hilo,\n    The friendless home where you and I lived.\u201d\n\n\nAnd when she had chanted this, Kama looked towards Ha-le-ma-no, and she\nsaw that forgiveness was in his eyes. They stood up then, and they\njoined each other. Then they went away together.\n\n\n    \u201cYou will surely see Hai-li,\n    Hai-li where the blossoming lehua trees\n    Are haunted by the birds,\n    The o-o of the forest,\n    Whose sweet notes can be heard at eventide.\u201d\n\n\nSo they sang to each other as they went away together.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE ARROW AND THE SWING.\n\n\nHi-ku lived on a peak of the mountain, and Ka-we-lu lived in the\nlowlands. Ka-we-lu was a princess, but at the time when she was in the\nlowlands she had no state nor greatness; she was alone except for some\nwomen who attended her. Hi-ku was a boy; he had a wonderful arrow that\nwas named Pua-ne.\n\nOne day Hi-ku took his arrow and he went down towards the lowlands. He\nmet some boys who were casting their arrows, and he offered to cast his\nagainst theirs. He cast his arrow; it went over the heads of a\nbald-headed man and a sightless man; it went over the heads of a lame\nman and a large-headed man; it went across the fields of many men, and\nit fell at last before the door of the girl Ka-we-lu.\n\nHer women attendants brought the arrow to her. Ka-we-lu took it and hid\nit. Then Hi-ku came along. \u201cHave any of you seen my arrow?\u201d he said to\nthe women attendants. \u201cWe have not seen it,\u201d they said. \u201cThe arrow fell\nhere,\u201d said Hi-ku, \u201cfor I watched it fall.\u201d \u201cWould you know your arrow\nfrom another arrow?\u201d asked the Princess from her house. \u201cKnow it! Why,\nmy arrow would answer if I called it,\u201d answered Hi-ku. \u201cCall it, then,\u201d\nsaid the Princess. \u201cPua-ne, Pua-ne,\u201d Hi-ku called. \u201cHere,\u201d said Pua-ne\nthe arrow. \u201cI knew you had hidden my arrow,\u201d said Hi-ku. \u201cCome and find\nit,\u201d said the Princess.\n\nHe went into her house to search for the arrow, and the Princess closed\nthe door behind him. He found the arrow. He held the arrow in his hand,\nand he did not go, for when he looked around he saw so many beautiful\nthings that he forgot what he had come for.\n\nHe saw beautiful wreaths of flowers and beautiful capes of feathers; he\nsaw mats of many beautiful colors, and he saw shells and beautiful\npieces of coral. And he saw one thing that was more beautiful than all\nthese. He saw Ka-we-lu the Princess. In the middle of her dwelling she\nstood, and her beauty was so bright that it seemed as if many ku-kui\nwere blazing up with all their light. Hi-ku forgot his home on the\nmountain peak. He looked on the Princess, and he loved her. She had\nloved him when she saw him coming towards her house; but she loved him\nmore when she saw him standing within it, his magic arrow in his hand.\n\nHe stayed in her house for five days. Every day Ka-we-lu would go into\none of the houses outside and eat with her attendants. But neither on\nthe first day nor the second day, neither on the third day nor the\nfourth day, nor yet on the fifth day, did she offer food to Hi-ku, nor\ndid she tell him where he might go to get it.\n\nHe was hungry on the second day, and he became hungrier and hungrier\nand hungrier. He was angry on the third day, and he became angrier and\nangrier. And why did the Princess not offer him any food? I do not\nknow. Some say that it was because her attendants made little of him,\nsaying that the food they had was all for people of high rank, and that\nit might not be given to Hi-ku, whose rank, they said, was a low one.\nPerhaps her attendants prevented her giving food to him, saying such\nthings about him.\n\nOn the fifth day, when Ka-we-lu was eating with her attendants in a\nhouse outside, Hi-ku took up his arrow and went angrily out of the\nhouse. He went towards the mountain. Then Ka-we-lu, coming out of the\nhouse where her attendants were, saw him going. She ran up the side of\nthe mountain after him. But he went angrily on, and he never looked\nbackward towards the Princess or towards the lowlands that she lived\nin.\n\nShe went swiftly after him, calling to him as the plover calls, flying\nhere and there. She called to him, for she deeply loved him, and she\nlooked upon him as her husband. But he, knowing that she was gaining on\nhim, made an incantation to hold her back. He called upon the mai-le\nvines and the i-e vines; he called upon the ohia trees and the other\nbranching trees to close up the path against her. But still Ka-we-lu\nwent on, struggling against the tangle that grew across her path. Her\ngarments were torn, and her body became covered with tears and\nscratches. Still she went on. But now Hi-ku was going farther and\nfarther from her. Then she sang to him aloud, so that he could not but\nhear:\n\n\n        \u201cMy flowers are fallen from me,\n        And Hi-ku goes on and on:\n        The flowers that we twined for my wreath.\n        If Hi-ku would fling back to me\n        A flower, since all mine are gone!\u201d\n\n\nHe did not throw back a flower, nor did he call out a word to her as\nshe followed him up the mountain ways. The vines and the branches held\nher, and she was not able to get through them. Then she raised her\nvoice, and she sang to him again:\n\n\n        \u201cDo you hear, my companion, my friend!\n        Ka-we-lu will live there below:\n        My flowers are lost to me now:\n        Down, down, far down, I will go.\u201d\n\n\nHi-ku heard what she sang. But he did not look back or make any answer.\nHe kept on his way up the mountain-side. Ka-we-lu was left behind,\nentangled in the vines and the branches. Afterwards he was lost to her\nsight, and her voice could not reach him.\n\nHe went up to the peak of the mountain, and he entered his parents\u2019\nhouse. And still he was angry. But after a night his anger went from\nhim. And then he thought of the young Princess of Kona, with her deep\neyes and her youth that was like the gush of a spring. More and more\nher image came before him, and he looked upon it with love.\n\nNow one day, when he was again making his way up the mountain-side, a\nsong about himself and Ka-we-lu came into his mind. It was a song that\nwas for Lo-lu-pe, the god who brings together friends who have been\nlost to each other.\n\n\n        \u201cHi-ku is climbing the mountain-ridge,\n        Climbing the mountain-ridge.\n        The branch hangs straggling down;\n        Its blossoms, flung off by Lo-lu-pe, lie on the ground.\n        Give me, too, a flower, O Lo-lu-pe,\n        That I may restore my wreath!\u201d\n\n\nAnd singing this song he went up to his parents\u2019 house.\n\nStrangers were in the house. \u201cWho are they, and what have they come\nfor?\u201d Hi-ku asked. \u201cKa-we-lu, the young Princess of Kona, is dead,\u201d his\nparents told him, \u201cand these people have come for timbers to build a\nhouse around her dead body.\u201d\n\nWhen Hi-ku heard this, he wept for his great loss. And then he left his\nparents and went seeking the god Lo-lu-pe, for whom he had made a song\non his way up the mountain.\n\nNow Lo-lu-pe was in the form of a kite, because he went through the air\nsearching for things that people needed and prayed to him to find for\nthem. And outside a wizard\u2019s house Hi-ku saw the image of Lo-lu-pe, a\nkite that was like a fish, and with tail and wings. Hi-ku went and said\nhis prayer to Lo-lu-pe, and then he let the kite go in the winds.\n\nThat night Lo-lu-pe came to him in his dream, and showed him where\nKa-we-lu was; she had gone down into the world that Mi-lu rules\nover\u2014the world of the dead that is below the ocean. And Lo-lu-pe, in\nhis dream, told him how he might come to her, and how he might bring\nKa-we-lu\u2019s spirit back to the world of the living.\n\nHe was to take the morning-glory vines, and he was to make out of them\nthe longest ropes that had ever been made. And to each of the long\nropes he was to fix the cross-piece of a swing. Then he was to let two\nswings go down into the ocean\u2019s depths, and he was to lower himself by\none of them. And what he was to do after that was twice told to him by\nLo-lu-pe.\n\nHi-ku went where the morning-glory vines grew; he got the longest of\nthe vines and, with the friends who went with him, made the longest of\nropes. Then, with his friends, he went out over the ocean; he lowered\nthe two longest ropes that were ever made, each with the cross-piece of\na swing fixed to it. Down by one of the ropes Hi-ku went. And so he\ncame to the place of the spirits, to the place at the bottom of the sea\nthat Mi-lu rules over.\n\nAnd when he came down to that place he began to swing himself on one of\nthe swings. The spirits all saw him, and they all wanted to swing. But\nHi-ku kept the swing to himself; he swung himself, and as he swung, he\nsang:\n\n\n        \u201cI have a swing, a swing,\n        And the rest of you children have none:\n        Whom will I let on my swing?\n        Not one of this crowd, not one.\u201d\n\n\nThe spirit of Ka-we-lu was standing there beside Mi-lu, the King. Hi-ku\nsaw her amongst the crowd of spirits. But Ka-we-lu did not know Hi-ku.\n\nMi-lu came to where Hi-ku was swinging. He wanted to go on the swing.\nHi-ku gave him the seat. Then the spirits began to swing him, and Mi-lu\nwas so delighted with the swinging that he had all the spirits pull on\nthe ropes to swing him\u2014the ropes that were on the cross-piece and that\nwere for pulling.\n\nThen Hi-ku went to Ka-we-lu. \u201cHere is our swing,\u201d he said, and he\nbrought her where the second vine-rope was hanging. He put her on the\nseat, and he began to swing her. And as he swung her he chanted as they\nchant in the upper world, the world of the living, when one is being\nswung:\n\n\n        \u201cWounded is Wai-mea by the piercing wind;\n        The bud of the purple ohai is drooping;\n        Jealous and grieved is the flower of the ko-aie;\n        Pained is the wood of Wai-ka;\n        O Love! Wai-ka loves me as a lover;\n        Like unto a lover is the flower of Koo-lau;\n        It is the flower in the woods of Ma-he-le.\n        The wood is a place for journeying,\n        The wild pili grass has its place in the forests,\n        Life is but a simple round at Ka-hua.\n        O Love! Love it was which came to me;\n        Whither has it vanished?\n        O Love! Farewell.\u201d\n\n\nHe chanted this, thinking that Ka-we-lu would remember her days in the\nupper world when she heard what was chanted at the swinging-games. But\nKa-we-lu did not remember.\n\nThen Hi-ku went on the swing. \u201cCome and swing with me,\u201d he said, when\nhe got on the seat. \u201cSit upon my knees,\u201d he said, \u201cand I will cover\nmyself with my mantle.\u201d\n\nKa-we-lu jumped up, and she sat upon Hi-ku\u2019s knees. They began to swing\nbackward and forward, backward and forward, while Mi-lu, the King of\nthe Dead, was being swung by the spirits. Then Hi-ku pulled on the\nmorning-glory vine. This was a signal; his friends did as he had told\nthem to do; they began to pull up the swing. Up, up, came Hi-ku, and up\ncame Ka-we-lu, held in Hi-ku\u2019s arms.\n\nBut Ka-we-lu shrank and shrank as she came up near the sunlight; she\nshrank until she was smaller than a girl, smaller than a child; until\nshe was smaller than a bird, even. Hi-ku and she came to the surface of\nthe ocean. Then he, holding her, went back in his canoe and came to\nwhere, the timbers built around it, her body was laid. He brought the\nspirit to the body, the spirit that had shrunken, and he held the\nspirit to the soles of the body\u2019s feet. The spirit went in at the soles\nof the feet; it passed up; it came to the breast; it came to the\nthroat. Having reached the throat, the spirit stayed in the body. Then\nthe body was taken up by Hi-ku; it was warmed, and afterwards Ka-we-lu\nwas as she had been before. Then these two, Ka-we-lu and Hi-ku, lived\nlong together in a place between the mountain and the lowlands, and\nthey wove many wreaths for each other, and they sang many songs to each\nother, and they left offerings for Lo-lu-pe often\u2014for Lo-lu-pe, who\nbrings to the people knowledge of where their lost things are.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF KU-AI-HE-LANI.\n\n\nThe Country that Supports the Heavens, Ku-ai-he-lani, was where Maki-i\nlived and ruled as King. He came to one of our Islands, and there he\ntook a wife. After a while he had to go back to Ku-ai-he-lani, and\nbefore he went he said this to the woman he had married: \u201cI know that a\ndaughter will be born to us. I would have you name the girl\nLau-kia-manu. If, when you have brought her up, she has a desire to\ncome to live with me, let her make the journey to Ku-ai-he-lani. But\nshe must come in a red canoe with red sails and red cords, with red\nbailing-cups, and with men in red to have charge of it. And she must be\naccompanied by a large canoe and a small canoe, by big men and by\nlittle men. And give her these; they will be tokens by which I shall\nknow her for my daughter\u2014this necklace of whales\u2019 teeth, this bracelet,\nand this bright feather cloak.\u201d Maki-i then gave the tokens to his\nwife, and he departed for the land of Ku-ai-he-lani.\n\nA child was born to the wife whom he had left behind, and she named the\nchild Lau-kia-manu. Meanwhile Maki-i in his own land had planted a\ngarden and had filled it with lovely flowers, and another garden and\nhad filled it with pleasant fruits, and had made a bathing pool; he\nmade the gardens and the pool forbidden places to every one except the\ndaughter who might come to him in Ku-ai-he-lani. And he had instructed\nthe guards about the tokens by which they would know Lau-kia-manu, his\ndaughter.\n\nThe girl grew up under her mother\u2019s care. As she grew older she began\nto ask about her father\u2014who was he and where had he gone to? And once\nwhen she asked about him, her mother said to her: \u201cGo to the cliff\nyonder; that is your father.\u201d The child went to the cliff and asked:\n\u201cAre you my father?\u201d The cliff denied it and said, \u201cI am not your\nfather.\u201d The child came back and craved of her mother, again, to tell\nher who her father was. \u201cGo to the bamboo bush yonder,\u201d said her\nmother; \u201cthat is your father.\u201d The child went to the bamboo bush and\nsaid, \u201cAre you my father?\u201d \u201cI am not,\u201d said the bamboo bush. \u201cMaki-i is\nyour father.\u201d \u201cAnd where is he?\u201d said the child. \u201cHe has gone back to\nKu-ai-he-lani.\u201d\n\nShe went back and said to her mother, \u201cMaki-i is my father, and he is\nin the land of Ku-ai-he-lani, and you have hidden this from me.\u201d Her\nmother said: \u201cI have hidden it because if you went to visit him\nterrible things would befall you. For he told me that you should go to\nhim in a red canoe with red sails and red cords, with red bailing-cups,\nand with men in red to have charge of it. And he said that you should\nbe accompanied by a large canoe and a small canoe, by big men and\nlittle men. He gave me tokens for you to bring also, but there is no\nuse in giving you these, for you cannot go except in the canoes he\nspoke of, and there is no way by which you can come by possessions that\ndenote such royal state.\u201d\n\nSo her mother said, but Lau-kia-manu still had thoughts of going to\nKu-ai-he-lani, where her father was King. She grew to be a girl, and\nthen one day she said to her mother, \u201cI have no way by which I can come\ninto possession of canoes that would denote my royal state, but for all\nthat I will make a journey to Ku-ai-he-lani; I will not remain here.\u201d\nHer mother said, \u201cGo if you will, but terrible things will befall you.\u201d\nAnd then her mother said: \u201cGo on and on until you come to where two old\nwomen are roasting bananas by the wayside. They are your grandmother\nand your grand-aunt. Reach down and take away the bananas they are\nroasting. Let them search for them until they ask who has taken them.\nTell them then who you are. When they ask \u2018What brings you this way?\u2019\nsay, \u2018I have come because I must have a roadway.\u2019 When you say this to\nthem, your grandmother and your grand-aunt will give you a roadway to\nKu-ai-he-lani.\u201d\n\nLau-kia-manu left her mother and went upon her way. She came where the\ntwo old women were by the wayside, and she did as her mother had told\nher. \u201cWhose offspring are you?\u201d asked the old women. \u201cYour own,\u201d said\nLau-kia-manu, and she told them the name of her mother. \u201cWhat brings\nyou, lady, to us here?\u201d asked the old women. And the girl answered, \u201cI\nhave come to you because I want a roadway.\u201d\n\nThereupon one of the old women said: \u201cHere is a roadway; it is this\nbamboo stalk. Climb to the top of it, and when it leans over it will\nreach into Ku-ai-he-lani.\u201d Lau-kia-manu went to the top of the bamboo\nstalk and sat there. It began to shoot up. When it reached a great\nheight it leaned over; the end of it reached Ku-ai-he-lani, the Country\nthat Supports the Heavens.\n\nLau-kia-manu then went along until she came to a garden that was filled\nwith lovely flowers. She went into it. There grew the ilima and the\nme-le ku-le and the mai-le vine. She gathered the vines and the\nflowers, and she twined them into wreaths for herself. And she went\nfrom that garden into another garden. There all kinds of pleasant\nfruits were growing. She plucked and she ate of them. She saw beyond\nthat garden the clear, cool surface of a pool. She went there; she\nundressed herself, and she bathed in that pool. And when she was in the\nwater there, a turtle came and rubbed her back.\n\nShe dressed, and she sat on the edge of the pool. And then the guards\nwho had been placed over the flower garden and the fruit garden and the\nbathing pool came to where she was. \u201cYou are indeed a strange girl,\u201d\nthey said to her, \u201cfor you have plucked the flowers and the fruit in\nthe gardens that are forbidden to all except the King\u2019s daughter, and\nyou have bathed in the pool that is for her alone. You will certainly\ndie for doing these things,\u201d\n\nThe guards went to Maki-i: they told him about the strange girl and\nwhat she had done. The King ordered that they should tie her hands and\nstand guard over her all night, and that when the dawn came they should\ntake her to the sea-shore and slay her there.\n\nThe guards took Lau-kia-manu; they tied her hands, they flung her into\na pig-pen, and they remained on watch over her all night. At midnight\nan owl came and perched over where the girl lay. Then the owl called\nout to her:\n\n\n        \u201cSay, Lau-kia-manu,\n        Daughter of Maki-i!\n        Do you know what will befall you?\n        Die you will, die you must!\u201d\n\n\nTo that the girl made answer:\n\n\n        \u201cWicked owl, wicked owl!\n        You are bad indeed,\n        Thus to reveal me:\n        Lau-kia-manu, Lau-kia-manu,\n        Daughter of Maki-i.\u201d\n\n\nThe call of the owl and the answer of the girl came twice before the\nguards heard them. Then they stood up and they listened. They heard the\ncall again, and they heard the answer of the girl within the pig-pen.\nThen one of the guards said, \u201cThis must be Lau-kia-manu, the King\u2019s own\ndaughter; we must tell him about it all.\u201d But the other guard said:\n\u201cNo. Lau-kia-manu, the King\u2019s daughter, was to come in a red canoe,\nhaving red sails, red cords, and red bailing-cups, with men in red in\ncharge, and with a large canoe, a small canoe, big men, and little men\naccompanying it. This is a low-class girl; she has come with none of\nthese things.\u201d The owl spoke again, and the girl made answer, and when\nthey heard what was said the guards agreed that they should go to the\nKing and tell him all that they had heard.\n\nThe King went back with the two guards. The owl was still above the\npig-pen, and the girl still within it. The owl called out:\n\n\n        \u201cSay, Lau-kia-manu,\n        Daughter of Maki-i!\n        Do you know what will befall you?\n        Die you will, die you must!\u201d\n\n\nAnd to that the girl made answer:\n\n\n        \u201cWicked owl, wicked owl!\n        You are bad indeed,\n        Thus to reveal me:\n        Lau-kia-manu, Lau-kia-manu,\n        Daughter of Maki-i.\u201d\n\n\nWhen the King heard this he went into the pig-pen.\n\nNow, after the guards had gone to inform the King of what they had\nheard the owl flew down upon Lau-kia-manu; it clapped its wings over\nthe girl; it placed the necklace of whales\u2019 teeth around her neck, it\nplaced the bracelet upon her arm, it put the cloak of bright feathers\naround her. For this owl was really her grand-aunt, and it was to her\nthat Lau-kia-manu\u2019s mother had given the tokens by which the girl was\nto be recognized when she came into Maki-i\u2019s kingdom.\n\nWhen her father broke into the pig-pen he saw her standing there with\nthe necklace of whales\u2019 teeth around her neck, with the bracelet upon\nher wrist, and with the cloak of bright feathers around her. He took\nher up and he wept over her; he gave her the garden of flowers and the\ngarden of fruits and the bathing pool with the clear cool water. Then,\nin a while, he brought Ula to her.\n\nUla was a prince from Kahiki-ku, and he was as handsome as she was\nlovely. What a sight it was to see them together, Lau-kia-manu and Ula,\nthe prince from Kahiki-ku! \u201cWhat light is that in yonder house?\u201d he had\nsaid to her father on the night that he came to Ku-ai-he-lani, \u201cThat is\nnot a light,\u201d said Maki-i; \u201cit is the radiance of the woman who is\nwithin.\u201d He brought Ula into the house, and Ula and Lau-kia-manu met.\n\nFor fifty days they were together. Then Ula had to return to his own\nland, to Kahiki-ku. \u201cYou cannot go there unless you take me with you,\u201d\nsaid Lau-kia-manu. \u201cYou cannot come with me,\u201d said Ula. \u201cIf you came\nyou would meet with terrible suffering at the hands of the Queen of\nKahiki-ku.\u201d\n\nHe went back to his own land. Lau-kia-manu remained in Ku-ai-he-lani,\nbut she was so overcome by her love for Ula that, every morning when\nshe saw the clouds in the sky drifting towards Kahiki-ku, she would\nchant this poem:\n\n\n        \u201cThe sun is up, it is up:\n        My love is ever up before me:\n        Love is a burthen when one is in love,\n        And falling tears are its due.\u201d\n\n\nShe would weep then. And when she found out that she could not put her\nlove away from her, either by night or by day, she went down to the\nsea-shore and she wept there. Then, when her weeping was at an end, she\ncalled out, \u201cO turtle with the shiny back, O my grandmother of the sea,\ncome to me.\u201d\n\nThe turtle with the shiny back appeared. She opened her shell at her\nback. Lau-kia-manu went within the shell. Then the turtle went under\nthe water. She swam under the sea, and she swam on and on until she\ncame with Lau-kia-manu to the land of Kahiki-ku. The girl stepped on\nthe sea-shore, and the turtle dived into the ocean and disappeared.\nLau-kia-manu went along by the sea-shore. She came to where there was a\nfish pond that belonged to the Queen of Kahiki-ku. She stayed beside\nthe fish pond while she uttered a charm, saying:\n\n\n        \u201cYe forty thousand gods,\n        Ye four hundred thousand gods,\n        Ye rows of gods,\n        Ye assemblies of gods,\n        Ye older brothers of the gods,\n        Ye four-fold gods,\n        Ye five-fold gods,\n          Take away from me my beauty, make it hidden:\n          Give me the form of a crone, bowed and blear-eyed.\u201d\n\n\nAnd when she had said that, her beauty was taken away from her, and she\nappeared as an old woman, bent and wandering, with a stick in her hand,\ngathering sea-eggs.\n\nIn the fish pond there were many kinds of silver fish. Lau-kia-manu\nuttered a spell, and caused them all to disappear a minute after she\nhad seen them swimming about. Still she stayed near, dragging herself\nhere and there about the sea-shore. And while she was there, messengers\ncame to bring from the Queen\u2019s pond silver fish for the Queen.\n\nThere was not a single fish in the pond. When the messengers saw this,\nthey accused the old woman who was near by of having taken the fish out\nof the pond. She made no reply to them. Then nothing would do the\nmessengers but to take her before the Queen and charge her with having\nstolen the silver fish out of her pond.\n\nSo they brought her before the Queen. \u201cThere is not a single fish in\nyour pond,\u201d they said, \u201cand we found this old woman near it, going up\nand down.\u201d The Queen said, \u201cNothing will happen to you, old woman, if\nyou will take as your name the name of my sickness.\u201d The old woman said\nthat she would do that. Then the Queen named her Li-pe-wa-le, the name\nof the Queen\u2019s sickness; she let her stay in the house, and she gave\nher food.\n\nSo Lau-kia-manu became known as Li-pe-wa-le. In the Queen\u2019s house she\ndid menial tasks. And into the house came the Prince who was to wed the\nQueen. He was Ula. Once when she was lying on her mat asleep, Ula came\nand kissed Lau-kia-manu. She wakened up and cried out, \u201cWho is kissing\nme?\u201d The Queen heard her voice and said, \u201cWhat is it, Li-pe-wa-le?\u201d\nLau-kia-manu made no answer. We can see by what Ula did that he knew\nhis sweetheart of Ku-ai-he-lani in spite of her being transformed into\nan old woman.\n\nOne day the Queen went down to the sea-shore to bathe. She bade\nLi-pe-wa-le stay within the house and decorate a dress that she was to\nwear. Li-pe-wa-le did as she was ordered. But she worked so quickly on\nthe dress that she had it all done very soon, and she was able to\nfollow the Queen and her attendants down to the sea-shore. And on her\nway she caused herself to be transformed back into her own shape, with\nher own beauty. She passed the others by; she bathed near where the\nQueen bathed, and the Queen and all her attendants were able to look\nupon her. Then she dressed herself and hurried away.\n\nThey all hurried after her; the Queen was angry that one who was more\nbeautiful than she was should be in her country. Lau-kia-manu went more\nquickly than they did, and when they came to the Queen\u2019s house she had\nalready transformed herself, and the only one they saw there was\nLi-pe-wa-le, the old and withered woman.\n\nThat night the Queen and her attendants and Ula the Prince went to\ndance in a house that the Queen had built. She put on her beautiful\nwreaths with the dress that Li-pe-wa-le had decorated for her. But she\nordered Li-pe-wa-le to stay within the house and decorate another\ndress.\n\nThere she stayed, and the sounds of the music and the dancing came to\nher. And then the girl went without. She looked over to the house where\nthe dance was going on, and she uttered this charm:\n\n\n        \u201cYe forty thousand gods,\n        Ye four hundred thousand gods,\n        Ye rows of gods,\n        Ye assemblies of gods,\n        Ye older brothers of the gods,\n        Ye gods that whisper,\n        Ye gods that watch by night,\n        Ye gods that show your gleaming eyes by night,\n          Come down, awake, make a move, stir yourselves!\n          There is the house, the house.\u201d\n\n\nAnd when she uttered this spell the Queen, who was dancing, fell down\non the ground. Fire burst out all around the house. And then\nLau-kia-manu, in the light of the fires, in the light of her own\nbeauty, stood in the doorway of the house. Ula the Prince saw her\nthere. \u201cCome to me, oh, come to me, beautiful woman,\u201d he said. But\nLau-kia-manu made answer: \u201cI will not go to you now, nor ever again. In\nyour own country you did not cherish me, but you left me to sorrow and\naffliction. Now I go back to Ku-ai-he-lani.\u201d So she left the burning\nhouse, and she went down to the sea-shore. She called upon the turtle\nwith the shiny back, her grandmother of the sea; and the turtle came\nand opened the shell on her back, and Lau-kia-manu went within it. And\nshe journeyed through the ocean, under the waves, and came back again\nto the land of Ku-ai-he-lani, and there ever afterwards she stayed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE FISH-HOOK OF PEARL.\n\n\nThere are fish-hooks and fish-hooks, but the most wonderful fish-hook\nthat any one ever heard of was the fish-hook owned by Ku-ula. It was a\nfish-hook of pearl-shell; and every time Ku-ula went fishing he took a\ncanoe, not five fathoms or eight fathoms in length, but ten fathoms,\nand when he fished with that hook (Ka-hu-oi was the name it had) the\ncanoe would be filled up with the catch.\n\nAnd it was the finest of fish, the aku fish, that would rise to that\nhook. He would let it down into the water, and the aku would throw\nthemselves into the canoe. Ku-ula was rich because of all the fine fish\nhe could catch with his pearl hook. It had been given to him by a bird\nthat was called Ka-manu-wai, and this bird would sit on the rail of the\ncanoe that Ku-ula went fishing in and eat some of the fish that Ku-ula\ncaught.\n\nOne day when Ku-ula went fishing outside of Mamala the King of that\nplace went fishing there too. The King caught few fish, and none of\nthem were fine ones. He looked, and he saw Ku-ula fishing, and he saw\nthat the aku fish were jumping in hundreds around the hook that the\nfisherman let down. His attendants told him of the pearl hook that was\ncalled Ka-hu-oi, and the King made up his mind to have this hook. He\nsent for Ku-ula, and he made him give up the hook that the bird\nKa-manu-wai had given him.\n\nAfter that Ku-ula caught no more aku fish; the bird Ka-manu-wai, not\ngetting the food it liked, flew away; its eyes were closed with hunger\nwhere it roosted, and the place where that bird roosted is called\nKau-maka-pili, \u201cRoosting with Closed Eyes,\u201d to this day. And Ku-ula got\npoorer and poorer, and he and his family got more and more hungry from\nthat day.\n\nAnd so it came about that when his child Ai-ai was born they had no\nfood for him. They let him float down the stream, putting him in just\nabove the place where the bird Ka-manu-wai roosted. The child floated\ndown; a rock in the stream held him, and there little Ai-ai stayed in\nthe shallow water. That very day the King\u2019s daughter, who was then a\nyoung girl, was bathing in the stream with her attendants. She found\nlittle Ai-ai, and she took him to the King\u2019s house; there Ai-ai grew\nup, and he was tended by the King\u2019s daughter while he was a child.\n\nWhen he grew up he was a strong and handsome youth. The King\u2019s daughter\nwho had saved him came to love him; she would have him marry her, and\nat last he and she got married.\n\nIt happened that one day after they were married his wife was sick, and\nshe asked Ai-ai to get her some fish. He took a rod, and he went\nfishing along the shore. He caught a few fish, and he brought them home\nto her. After a while she was sick again, and she had a longing for\nfish again. And this time she wanted the aku, the fine fish from the\ndepth of the sea.\n\nHe told her then that he could not fish for aku unless he had a canoe\nand a fish-hook of pearl. When she heard him say that, she remembered\nthat her father had a pearl fish-hook. So she went to the King, her\nfather. When she came before him, he said, \u201cWhat is it you want, my\ndaughter?\u201d She said, \u201cA canoe for my husband, and a pearl fish-hook.\u201d\nHe told her that her husband might take a canoe out of his canoe-shed,\nand then he said to her, \u201cI have a pearl fish-hook, and I will give it\nto you for him.\u201d\n\nSo he gave a pearl fish-hook to his daughter, and she hurried home with\nit. Now Ai-ai, since he had grown up, had known his father and had\nheard how the King had taken away the hook Ka-hu-oi from him. So when\nhe saw the pearl fish-hook in his wife\u2019s hands he was overjoyed; he\ntook it from her, and he got a canoe in the King\u2019s shed, and he went\nout to fish in the sea.\n\nA bird came down and watched the shining fish-hook that he held. It\nrested on the rail of the canoe as he paddled out to sea. It watched\nhim lower the hook. Its eyes were half closed, but now it opened them\nwide and looked down after the shining hook. This was the bird\nKa-manu-wai that had given the hook to his father, Ai-ai knew; now the\nbird was going to eat plenty of the fine aku.\n\nBut no aku came on the hook, and no aku dashed up on the canoe on\nseeing the shining thing in the water. The bird closed its eyes again.\nIt gave a croak and then flew away.\n\nAi-ai came back to his wife without any aku for her. Again she was\nsick, and she begged Ai-ai again to get her the aku fish. \u201cIt may be,\u201d\nhe said, \u201cthat the King has another pearl hook. Go to him once more and\nask him for one. Tell him that in the calabash in which he keeps the\nfishing utensils that he used long ago there may be another pearl\nfish-hook.\u201d\n\nSo again she went before the King. \u201cI have come for a pearl fish-hook\nso that my husband may go out and catch me the aku fish that I long\nfor.\u201d \u201cI gave the pearl fish-hook that I had.\u201d \u201cIn the calabash in\nwhich you keep the fishing utensils that you used long ago there may be\nanother pearl fish-hook.\u201d\n\nThe King ordered that this calabash be brought to him. He searched\namongst all the utensils that were in it, and at last he found the\npearl fish-hook that he had taken. He had left it there and had\nforgotten it, for he had gone fishing only once after he had taken it\nfrom Ku-ula.\n\nAnd now he gave the hook Ka-hu-oi to his daughter. She hurried home,\nand she put the pearl hook into the hands of her husband Ai-ai. He went\nstraight down to the beach and took out the canoe and went fishing in\nthe place where his father used to go. As he went the bird Ka-manu-wai\nflew down and lighted on the rail of the canoe. It opened wide its eyes\nto watch him let down the shining hook.\n\nWhen he came to Mamala the aku began to jump to the hook. They threw\nthemselves up and into the canoe. They filled it up\u2014even that\nten-fathom canoe was deep with them, and Ai-ai was hardly strong enough\nto paddle it back. The bird Ka-manu-wai ate of the fish, and as it ate\nthe gleam came back into its plumage, and it was a wide-eyed,\nstrong-winged bird once more.\n\nIt took the pearl fish-hook and flew away with it. But every day it\nwould come back with the hook when Ai-ai took out his canoe. The bird\nguarded the hook and would never let it go into a stranger\u2019s hands\nagain. Sometimes it would bring Ka-hu-oi to Ku-ula, Ai-ai\u2019s father; for\nthe old man took to going out in his canoe again, and he would fish for\naku outside of Mamala.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE STORY OF KANA, THE YOUTH WHO COULD STRETCH HIMSELF UPWARDS.\n\n\nKana and Ni-he-u were brothers. Ni-he-u was such a great warrior that\nhe would fight against a whole army without thinking about the odds,\nand he was able to carry such a war-club that, by resting one end of it\nin his canoe and putting the other end against a cliff, he could walk\nfrom the canoe on to the land. Certainly an extraordinary man was\nNi-he-u.\n\nBut if Ni-he-u was extraordinary, Kana was many times more\nextraordinary. And what an extraordinary life Kana had! When he was\nborn he was in the form of a piece of rope\u2014just a piece of rope! But\nhis grandmother (Uli was her name) took him to her house and reared\nhim. As he began to grow she had to have a special house built for him;\nit had to be a very long house, a house that had to be lengthened out\nas Kana kept growing. At last the house that Kana lived in stretched\nfrom the mountains to the edge of the sea.\n\nThe name of the mother of Ni-he-u and Kana was Hina. She was carried\naway from her husband, the boys\u2019 father. And the way Hina was carried\naway was very remarkable.\n\nThere was a Chief named Pe-pe\u2019e who wanted to take Hina. He owned a\nhill that was called Hau-pu. He lived on that hill; it was very\nstrange, but he was able to make that hill move about and do things for\nhim. I have heard that the hill was really a turtle, and that its real\nname was Ka-honu-nunui ma-eleka. And if that was so, it is easy to see\nhow Pe-pe\u2019e could get it to move about and do things for him.\n\nOne of the things that it did for him was to carry off Hina, the mother\nof Ni-he-u and Kana. The hill came across the sea from Mo-lo-kai to\nHilo, carrying Pe-pe\u2019e and his people upon it. Hina saw the hill when\nit came over to Hilo. It looked so fresh and so green that she thought\nit would be nice to walk upon it. So she went over and she climbed up\nHau-pu. And then, all at once, the hill moved from Hilo and went over\nto the Island of Mo-lo-kai.\n\nWhen Ni-he-u heard that his mother had been carried off he went to his\nfather and said: \u201cNeither I nor you can get to her and bring her back.\nOnly Kana, my brother, can do that. You must go to him yourself, my\nfather, and ask him to do it. Don\u2019t be afraid of him and run away if he\nshould turn and look at you. Just keep your eyes away from him, and\nthen you won\u2019t be frightened.\u201d After Ni-he-u had told him this, the\nChief, his father, went off to find Kana.\n\nWhen he came to where his son was living, Kana looked at him, and the\nsight of Kana was so terrible that his father turned around and would\nhave run away. But Kana called to him and said, \u201cWhat have you come\nfor?\u201d \u201cI have come to tell you that the mother of you two has been\ncarried off by Pe-pe\u2019e, the Chief of the Hill of Hau-pu, and she is now\nin Mo-lo-kai, and unless you, Kana, go to bring her back, no one can\nbring her back.\u201d\n\nWhen Kana heard this, he said, \u201cGo and call all your people together\nand order them to hew out a canoe by which we can get to Mo-lo-kai.\u201d\nThe Chief then went back, and he sent out an order to his people: they\nshould gather together and hew out a great double canoe that would be\nten fathoms in length. His people did as they were ordered. Then they\nthought that all was ready for the voyage to Mo-lo-kai.\n\nBut when the double canoe was brought down to where Kana was, he just\nstretched out his hand and laid it upon it, and the canoe sank out of\nsight. Other canoes of the same length were hewn out. But Kana did the\nsame thing to them; he laid his hand on one after another of them, and\none after another they all sank down into the sea. His father and the\nmen of the Island were left without a canoe in which to make the voyage\nto Mo-lo-kai.\n\nWhen the Chief told this to his son Ni-he-u, Ni-he-u said, \u201cThen the\nonly thing to do is to go to Uli, my grandmother and Kana\u2019s\ngrandmother, and ask her what we are to do about it.\u201d The Chief went to\nher. And when he came before Uli, she said, \u201cWhat have you come for?\u201d\n\u201cI have come for a canoe for Kana, in which he will be able to make the\nvoyage to Mo-lo-kai and fight Pe-pe\u2019e, who lives on the hill Hau-pu,\nand bring back Hina, my wife, to me.\u201d\n\nAnd when he had told her that, Uli said: \u201cThere is only one canoe that\nKana can travel in; it is in Pali-uli, and it is buried there. Go, get\nall your people together and send them off to get that canoe.\u201d And Uli\nchanted:\n\n\n    \u201cGo, get it,\n    Go, get it,\n    Go, get the canoe:\n    The canoe that is covered with the cloak of the old woman;\n    The canoe that jumps playfully in the calm;\n    The canoe that rises and eats the cords that bind it:\n    Go, get it,\n    Go, get it,\n    Go, get the canoe.\u201d\n\n\nShe told the Chief where to dig and how to dig for the canoe that would\nbring Kana to Mo-lo-kai.\n\nSo he took his men to Pali-uli, and there they all began to dig. The\nmen all thought that their labor would be in vain, for they never\nexpected that they would come by a canoe by digging for it. They worked\nin the rain and under the thunder and lightning. And when they had dug\nfor the whole length of a day they came, first on the sticks at the bow\nand stern of the canoe, and then the body of it. It was a great double\ncanoe. With much labor it was dragged down to the sea.\n\nThen Ni-he-u and Kana made ready to go aboard it with their father and\nhis people and sail over to the Island of Mo-lo-kai. And that night\nPe-pe\u2019e\u2019s wizard\u2014Moi was his name\u2014had a dream; he went to Pe-pe\u2019e about\nit. He told the Chief what he had dreamt, and it was this:\n\n\n        \u201cA long man, a short man,\n        A stunted youth, a god-man.\n        The eyes touched the heaven,\n        The earth was o\u2019ershadowed:\n        Such was my dream.\u201d\n\n\nAnd when Pe-pe\u2019e asked him what the dream meant, he said: \u201cIt means\nthat the borders of Hau-pu will be broken and that the hill will fall\nto pieces in the sea. Therefore, depart from this place now while your\ndeath is still at a distance.\u201d\n\nPe-pe\u2019e was very angry when his wizard told him this. \u201cYou are the one\nthat death is close to, you deceiving wizard. And if my hill is not\nconquered in the coming fight, look out, for I shall kill you.\u201d\n\nThen Pe-pe\u2019e made preparations against the people who were coming\nagainst him. He sent the plover, Ko-lea, and the wandering tattler,\nUli-li, to fly around and look out for Kana and Ni-he-u. And he told\nthem to go also to his warrior, the one who had charge of. the ocean,\nKe-au-lei-na-kahi the Sword-fish, and command him to pierce the canoe\nthat was coming and slay Ni-he-u and Kana.\n\nSo Ko-lea the Plover, and Uli-li the Tattler, flew around until they\ncame to the place where Kana was lying. Said Ko-lea to Uli-li, \u201cLet us\nfly so high that we shall be out of reach of his long arms, and then\nlet us call out to him and tell him that he is going to be killed.\u201d So\nthe plover and the wandering tattler, flying high, called out to Kana.\nHe lifted his hands to catch the birds; if he had not been lying down\nhe would have caught them, so high did his hands stretch up. The birds\nwent higher. But the wind that was made with the sweep of his arms sent\nthem far over the sea. There they hovered above Ke-au-lei-na-kahi the\nSwordfish. \u201cYou are commanded to pierce the double canoe that is coming\nover the ocean, and to kill Ni-he-u and Kana,\u201d they said.\n\nKana and Ni-he-u boarded the canoe. Kana folded himself into many\nfolds, but for all his folding he took up the full length of the canoe.\nWhen they were halfway across they were met by Ke-au-lei-na-kahi the\nSword-fish. He smote the canoe with the sword that was in his snout. He\nthought he could pierce it and then slay Ni-he-u and Kana. But Ni-he-u\nstood up, and with his great war-club he struck at the Sword-fish. He\nkilled Ke-au-lei-na-kahi there and then, and after that there was no\none to guard the seas before them.\n\nSo they came before where the hill Hau-pu was standing. Hau-pu rolled a\ngreat rock towards the canoe. Kana was lying on the platform of the\ncanoe, and the people shouted that the rock was coming. \u201cWe shall be\nkilled, we shall all be killed,\u201d they shouted. Then Kana stretched\nhimself out. He put out his hand, and he stopped the rock. He held the\nrock with his right hand, and with his left hand he picked up a small\nstone from the beach and placed it under the rock; that stopped it from\nrolling any farther. It was stopped halfway down a steep cliff, and\nthere that rock is to be seen to this day.\n\nThe canoe was saved and the people were saved from destruction. Then\nNi-he-u started off. He wanted to go by himself to the top of Hau-pu\nand rescue his mother all alone. He did not know what I have already\ntold you, that the hill was really a turtle; it was, and it had\nflippers on its sides; when it closed these flippers the hill would\nrise up; it could keep on rising until it touched the sky.\n\nAround the house that was on the top of the hill there was a fence of\nthick and wide leaves\u2014they were thick enough and wide enough to keep\nthe wind from the Chief\u2019s house. When Ni-he-u came up to this fence he\nbegan to beat the leaves down with his great war-club. Then the wind\nthat was around the hill-top blew upon the house that was called\nHa-le-hu-ki. \u201cWhat has caused the wind to blow on my house?\u201d said\nPe-pe\u2019e. \u201cThere is a boy outside with a club, and he has beaten down\nyour fence,\u201d said his watchmen. \u201cIt is Ni-he-u, my brave son. He is\nwithout fear,\u201d said Hina.\n\nThen Ni-he-u came in. He took hold of Hina and started to carry her off\nand down the hill. And as they were going Hina said, very foolishly:\n\u201cWhat great strength you have, my brave son! And who would have known\nthat all that strength is in the strands of your hair?\u201d Ko-lea and\nUli-li heard what she said. They flew after them; they flew down, and\nthey held Ni-he-u by the hair.\n\nThen Ni-he-u had to put Hina down while he took up his club and fought\nwith the birds. They were drawing his strength away as they pulled out\nof his head the strands of his hair. He struck at Ko-lea and Uli-li.\nBut while he was striking at them, Hina, frightened, ran back to the\nChief\u2019s house.\n\nWhen Ni-he-u came down to the canoe he was questioned by Kana. \u201cWhere\nis our mother?\u201d \u201cI had taken her; we were on our way when I was\nattacked by two birds. I had to lay her down; then she was frightened,\nand she ran back, and I could not go back to fetch her again, or all my\nstrength would have been drawn from me by the birds.\u201d \u201cNow you stay and\nwatch in the canoe while I go to rescue our mother,\u201d said Kana.\n\nWith that he stood up in the canoe and peeped over the hill Hau-pu.\nThen Kana rose above the hill. He stretched himself until he was up in\nthe blue of the sky. The hill rose up too. Kana had to stretch himself\nand stretch himself. And as he stretched himself he became thinner and\nthinner. When he stood up in the blue of the sky his body was as thin\nas the thread of a spider\u2019s web.\n\nNow all that Ni-he-u could see of his brother was his legs, and he saw\nthem grow thinner and thinner as the days passed and Kana had no food.\nNi-he-u knew that Kana was starving. He shouted up to him, \u201cLie over\ntowards Kona, towards the house of Uli, our grandmother, and she will\ngive you something to eat.\u201d\n\nIt took three days for the words that Ni-he-u shouted to reach Kana. At\nlast he heard the words, and he stooped over the sea and over the\nmountain He-le-a-ka-la. (It was then that he made the groove in the\nmountain that is there to this day.) And so he reached to Kona, and he\nput his head down at his grandmother\u2019s door.\n\nThere he stayed until Uli rose up in the morning. She went outside, and\nthere she saw Kana, her grandson. She began to feed him. She fed him,\nand she fed him, and she fed him. He got fat in his body, and then the\nfatness of his body began to reach down into his legs. Ni-he-u saw the\nfatness coming on the legs that were in the canoe where he watched and\nwaited.\n\nNi-he-u watched the legs getting fatter and fatter. But still he had to\nwait, for his brother was doing nothing. Then he became angry, and he\nmade a cut in one of Kana\u2019s legs.\n\nIt was three days before the numbness of this cut reached up to Kana\u2019s\nhead. At last it came to him, and then he spoke to his grandmother\nabout it. \u201cIt is because your brother Ni-he-u is angry with you because\nyou have not remembered him or your mother, but stay here all the time\nfeeding yourself, and he has made a cut in your leg.\u201d Then his\ngrandmother said, \u201cThe hill keeps towering up, but if you rise up above\nit, and then stoop over and break off the flipper on the right side\n(for the hill is really a turtle, as I have told you), and then stoop\nover and break off the flipper on the left side, it will not be able to\nrise up any more, and you will then be able to conquer it.\u201d\n\nWhen he heard that said, Kana arose once more. He extended himself up.\nHe towered over Hau-pu. Then he stooped over, and he reached down, and\nhe broke off the flipper that was on the right side. Again he stooped\nover, and he broke off the flipper that was on the left side. And when\nthese two flippers were broken off the power went out of Hau-pu. It\nrose no more. Then Kana stepped on the hill, and it broke to pieces.\nThe pieces fell into the sea. They were left there in the forms of\nrocks and little hills. There they are to this day, and that is all\nthat is left of the hill that carried off Hina.\n\nThe Chief Pe-pe\u2019e was conquered, for he had no power after his hill was\ndestroyed. Kana and Ni-he-u took back their mother in the canoe, and\nshe lived ever afterwards with her own husband in her own house. But\nKana did not live there. He went to stretch himself in the long house\nthat went from the mountains to the edge of the sea. And this ends the\nstory of Kana\u2019s victory over the hill Hau-pu.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE ME-NE-HU-NE.\n\n\nKa-u-ki-u-ki\u2014that was the name of the Me-ne-hu-ne who boasted to the\nrest of his folk that he could catch the Moon by holding on to her\nlegs; Ka-u-ki-u-ki, the Angry One.\n\nThe Me-ne-hu-ne folk worked only at night; and if one could catch and\nhold on to the legs of the Moon, the night would not go so quickly, and\nmore work could be done by them. They were all very great workers. But\nwhen the Angry One made his boast about catching the legs of the Moon,\nthe rest of the Me-ne-hu-ne made mock of him. That made Ka-u-ki-u-ki\nmore angry still. Straightway he went up to the top of the highest\nhill. He sat down to rest himself after his climb; then, they say, the\nOwl of Ka-ne came and sat on the stones and stared at him. Ka-u-ki-u-ki\nmight well have been frightened, for the big, round-eyed bird could\neasily have flown away with him, or flown away with any of the\nMe-ne-hu-ne folk. For they were all little men, and none of them was\nhigher than the legs of one of us\u2014no, not even their Kings and Chiefs.\nLittle men, broad-shouldered and sturdy and very active\u2014such were the\nMe-ne-hu-ne in the old days, and such are the Me-ne-hu-ne to-day.\n\nBut Ka-u-ki-u-ki was brave: the Me-ne-hu-ne stared back at the Owl, and\nthe Owl of Ka-ne stared back at the little man, and at last the bird\nflew away. Then it was too late for him to try to lay hold on the legs\nof the Moon that night.\n\nThat was a long time ago, when the Me-ne-hu-ne were very many in our\nland. They lived then in the Valley of Lani-hula. There they planted\ntaro in plants that still grow there\u2014plants that they brought back with\nthem from Kahiki-mo-e after they had been there. It was they who\nplanted the bread-fruit tree first in that valley.\n\nOur fathers say that when the men-folk of the Me-ne-hu-ne stood\ntogether in those days they could form two rows reaching all the way\nfrom Maka-weli to Wai-lua. And with their women and children there were\nso many of them that the only fish of which each of the Me-ne-hu-ne\ncould have one was the shrimp, the littlest and the most plentiful fish\nin our waters.\n\nFor the rest of their food they had hau-pia, a pudding made of\narrow-root sweetened with the milk of coco-nut; they had squash and\nthey had sweet potato pudding. They ate fern fronds and the cooked\nyoung leaves of the taro. They had carved wooden dishes for their food.\nFor their games they had spinning-tops which they made out of ku-kui\nnuts, and they played at casting the arrow, a game which they called\nKea-pua. They had boxing and wrestling, too, and they had tug-of-war:\nwhen one team was about to be beaten all the others jumped in and\nhelped them. They had sled races; they would race their sleds down the\nsteep sides of hills; if the course were not slippery already, they\nwould cover it with rushes so that the sleds could go more easily and\nmore swiftly.\n\nBut their great sport was to jump off the cliffs into the sea. They\nwould throw a stone off the cliff and dive after it and touch the\nbottom as it touched the bottom. Once, when some of them were bathing,\na shark nearly caught one of the Me-ne-hu-ne. A-a-ka was his name. Then\nthey all swam ashore, and they made plans for punishing the shark that\nhad treated them so. Their wise men told them what to do. They were to\ngather the morning-glory vine and make a great basket with it. Then\nthey were to fill the basket with bait and lower it into the sea.\nAlways the Me-ne-hu-ne worked together; they worked together very\nheartily when they went to punish the shark.\n\nThey made the basket; they filled it with bait, and they lowered it\ninto the sea. The shark got into the basket, and the Me-ne-hu-ne caught\nhim. They pulled him within the reef, and they left him there in the\nshallow water until the birds came and ate him up.\n\nOne of them caught a large fish there. The fish tried to escape, but\nthe little man held bravely to him. The fish bit him and lashed him\nwith its tail and drew blood from the Me-ne-hu-ne. The place where his\nblood poured out is called Ka-a-le-le to this day\u2014for that was the name\nof the Me-ne-hu-ne who struggled with the fish.\n\nOnce they hollowed out a great stone and they gave it to their head\nfisherman for a house. He would sit in his hollow stone all day and\nfish for his people.\n\nNo cliff was too steep for them to climb; indeed, it was they who\nplanted the wild taro on the cliffs; they planted it in the swamps too,\nand on cliff and in swamp it grows wild to this day. When they were on\nthe march they would go in divisions. The work of the first division\nwould be to clear the road of logs. The work of the second division\nwould be to lower the hills. The work of the third division would be to\nsweep the path. Another division had to carry the sleds and the\nsleeping mats for the King. One division had charge of the food, and\nanother division had charge of the planting of the crop. One division\nwas composed of wizards and soothsayers and astrologers, and another\ndivision was made up of story-tellers, fun-makers, and musicians who\nmade entertainment for the King. Some played on the nose-flute, and\nothers blew trumpets that were made by ripping a ti-leaf away from the\nmiddle ridge and rolling over the torn piece. Through this they blew,\nvarying the sound by fingering. They played stringed instruments that\nthey held in their mouths, and they twanged the strings with their\nfingers. Others beat on drums that were hollow logs with shark-skin\ndrawn across them.\n\nIt would have been wonderful to look on the Me-ne-hu-ne when they were\non the march. That would be on the nights of the full moon. Then they\nwould all come together, and their King would speak to them.\n\nAnd that reminds me of Ka-u-ki-u-ki, the Angry One. Perhaps he wanted\nto hold the legs of the Moon so that they might be able to listen a\nlong time to their King, or march far in a night. I told you that he\nkept staring at the Owl of Ka-ne until the bird flew away in the night.\nBut then it was too late to catch hold of the legs of the Moon. The\nnext night he tried to do it. But although he stood on the top of the\nhighest hill, and although he reached up to his fullest height, he\ncould not lay hold on the legs of the Moon. And because he boasted of\ndoing a thing that he could not do, the rest of the Me-ne-hu-ne\npunished him; they turned him into a stone. And a stone the Angry One\nis to this day\u2014a stone on the top of the hill from which he tried to\nreach up and lay hold upon the legs of the Moon.\n\nPerhaps it was on the very night which Ka-u-ki-u-ki tried to lengthen\nthat their King told the Me-ne-hu-ne that they were to leave these\nIslands. Some of the Me-ne-hu-ne had married Hawaiian women, and\nchildren that were half Me-ne-hu-ne and half Hawaiian were born. The\nKing of the Me-ne-hu-ne folk did not like this: he wanted his people to\nremain pure Me-ne-hu-ne. So on a bright moonlit night he had them all\ncome together, men, women, and children, and he spoke to them. \u201cAll of\nyou,\u201d he said, \u201cwho have married wives from amongst the Hawaiian people\nmust leave them, and all of the Me-ne-hu-ne race must go away from\nthese Islands. The food that we planted in the valley is ripe; that\nfood we will leave for the wives and children that we do not take with\nus\u2014the Hawaiian women and the half-Hawaiian children.\u201d\n\nWhen their King said this, no word was spoken for a long time from the\nranks of the Me-ne-hu-ne. Then one whose name was Mo-hi-ki-a spoke up\nand said: \u201cMust all of us go, O King, and may none of us stay with the\nHawaiian wives that we have married? I have married an Hawaiian woman,\nand I have a son who is now grown to manhood. May he not go with you\nwhile I remain with my wife? He is stronger than I am. I have taught\nhim all the skill that I possessed in the making of canoes. He can use\nthe adze and make a canoe out of a tree trunk more quickly than any\nother of the Me-ne-hu-ne. And none of the Me-ne-hu-ne is so swift in\nthe race as he is. Take my son in my place, and if it ever happens that\nthe Me-ne-hu-ne need me, my son can run quickly for me and bring me\nback.\u201d\n\nThe King would not have Mo-hi-ki-a stay behind. \u201cWe start on our\njourney to-morrow night,\u201d he said. \u201cAll the Me-ne-hu-ne will leave the\nIslands, and the crop that is now grown will be left for the women and\nchildren.\u201d\n\nAnd so the Me-ne-hu-ne in their great force left our Islands, and where\nthey went there is none of us who know. Perhaps they went back to\nKahiki-mo-e, for in Kahiki-mo-e they had been for a time before they\ncame back to Hawaii. But not all of the Me-ne-hu-ne left the Islands.\nSome stole away from their divisions and hid in hollow logs, and their\ndescendants we have with us to this day. There are still many\nMe-ne-hu-ne away up in the mountains, living in caves and in hollow\nlogs.\n\nBut the great force of them left the Islands then. Before they went\nthey made a monument. Upon the top of the highest hill they built it,\ncarrying up the stones the night after the King had commanded them to\nleave. The monument was for the King and the Chiefs of the\nMe-ne-hu-ne\u2014the monument of stones that we see. And for the Me-ne-hu-ne\nof common birth they made another monument. This they did by hollowing\nout a great cave in the mountain. The monument of stones on the top of\nthe mountain and the cave in the side of the mountain you can see to\nthis day.\n\nOn the next moonlit night the Me-ne-hu-ne in their thousands looked and\nsaw the monuments they had raised. They were ready for the march as\nthey looked, men and women, half-grown men and half-grown women, and\nlittle children. They looked and they saw the monument that they had\nraised on the mountain. Thereupon all the little men raised such a\nshout that the fish in the pond of No-mi-lu, at the other side of the\nIsland, jumped in fright, and the moi, the wary fish, left the beaches.\nAnd then, with trumpets sounding, flutes playing, and drums beating,\nthe Me-ne-hu-ne started off.\n\n\n\nO my younger brothers, I wish there were some amongst us, the Hawaiians\nof to-day, who knew the Me-ne-hu-ne of the mountains and who could go\nto them. All the work that it takes us so long to do, they could do in\na night. Here we go every day to cut sandalwood for our King. We go\naway from our homes and our villages, leaving our crops unplanted and\nuntended. We are up in the mountains by the first light of the morning,\nworking, working with our axes to cut the sandalwood. And we go back at\nthe fall of night carrying the loads of sandalwood upon our shoulders\nthe whole way down the mountain-side. Ah, if there were any amongst us\nwho knew the Me-ne-hu-ne or who knew how to come to them! In one night\nthe Me-ne-hu-ne would cut all the sandalwood for us! And the night\nafter they would carry it down on their shoulders to the beach, where\nit would be put on the ships that would take it away to the land of the\nPa-ke. But only those who are descendants of the Me-ne-hu-ne can come\nto them.\n\nA long time ago a King ruled in Kau-ai whose name was Ola. His people\nwere poor, for the river ran into the stony places and left their\nfields without water. \u201cHow can I bring water to my people?\u201d said Ola\nthe King to Pi, his wizard. \u201cI will tell you how you can do it,\u201d Pi\nsaid. And then he told the King what to do so as to get the help of the\nMe-ne-hu-ne.\n\nPi, the wise man, went into the mountains. He was known to the\nMe-ne-hu-ne who had remained in the land, and he went before their\nChief, and he asked him to have his people make a water-course for\nOla\u2019s people: they would have to dam the river with great stones and\nthen make a trench that would carry the water down to the people\u2019s\nfields\u2014a trench that would have stones fitted into its bed and fitted\ninto its sides.\n\nAll the work that takes us days to do can be done by the Me-ne-hu-ne in\nthe space of a night. And what they do not finish in a night is left\nunfinished. \u201cHo po hookahi, a ao ua pau,\u201d \u201cIn one night and it is\nfinished,\u201d say the Me-ne-hu-ne.\n\nWell, in one night all the stones for the dam and the water-course were\nmade ready: one division went and gathered them, and another cut and\nshaped them. The stones were all left together, and the Me-ne-hu-ne\ncalled them \u201cthe Pack of Pi.\u201d\n\nNow King Ola had been told what he was to have done on the night that\nfollowed. There was to be no sound and there was to be no stir amongst\nhis people. The dogs were to be muzzled so that they could not bark,\nand the cocks and the hens were to be put into calabashes so that there\nshould be no crowing from them. Also a feast was to be ready for the\nMe-ne-hu-ne.\n\nDown from the mountain in the night came the troops of the Me-ne-hu-ne,\neach carrying a stone in his hand. Their trampling and the hum of their\nvoices were heard by Pi as he stayed by the river; they were heard\nwhile they were still a long way off. They came down, and they made a\ntrench with their digging tools of wood. Then they began to lay the\nstones at the bottom and along the sides of the trench; each stone\nfitted perfectly into its place. While one division was doing this the\nother division was building the dam across the river. The dam was\nbuilt, the water was turned into the course, and Pi, standing there in\nthe moonlight, saw the water come over the stones that the Me-ne-hu-ne\nhad laid down.\n\nPi, and no one else, saw the Me-ne-hu-ne that night: half the size of\nour men they were, but broad across the chest and very strong. Pi\nadmired the way they all worked together; they never got into each\nother\u2019s way, and they never waited for some one else to do something or\nto help them out. They finished their work just at daybreak; and then\nPi gave them their feast. He gave a shrimp to each; they were well\nsatisfied, and while it was still dark they departed. They crossed the\nwater-course that was now bringing water down to the people\u2019s taro\npatches.\n\nAnd as they went the hum of their voices was so loud that it was heard\nin the distant island of Oahu. \u201cWawa ka Menehune i Puukapele, ma Kauai,\npuoho ka manu o ka loko o Kawainui ma Koolaupoko, Oahu,\u201d our people\nsaid afterwards. \u201cThe hum of the voices of the Me-ne-hu-ne at\nPu-u-ka-pe-le, Kau-ai, startled the birds of the pond of Ka-wai-nui, at\nKo\u2019o-lau-po-ko, Oahu.\u201d\n\n\n\nLook now! The others from our village are going down the mountain-side,\nwith the loads of sandalwood upon their backs. It is time we put our\nloads upon our shoulders and went likewise. As we go I will tell you\nthe only other story I know about the Me-ne-hu-ne.\n\nThere was once a boy of your age, O my younger brother, and his name\nwas Laka. As he grew up he was petted very much by his father and his\nmother. And while he was still a young boy his father took a canoe and\nwent across the sea to get a toy for him. Never afterwards did Laka see\nhis father.\n\nHe grew up, and he would often ask about his father. His mother could\ntell him nothing except that his father had gone across the sea in a\ncanoe and that it was told afterwards that he had been killed in a cave\nby a bad man. The more he grew up the more he asked about his father.\nHe told his mother he would go across the sea in search of him. But the\nboy could not go until he had a canoe. \u201cHow am I to get a canoe?\u201d he\nsaid to his mother one day.\n\n\u201cYou must go to your grandmother,\u201d said she, \u201cand she will tell you\nwhat to do to get a canoe.\u201d\n\nSo to his grandmother Laka went. He lived in her house for a while, and\nthen he asked her how he might get a canoe.\n\n\u201cGo to the mountains and look for a tree that has leaves shaped like\nthe new moon,\u201d said his grandmother. \u201cTake your axe with you. When you\nfind such a tree, cut it down, for it is the tree to make a canoe out\nof.\u201d\n\nSo Laka went to the mountains. He brought his axe with him. All day he\nsearched in the woods, and at last he found a tree that had leaves\nshaped like the new moon. He commenced to cut through its trunk with\nhis little axe of stone. At nightfall the trunk was cut through, and\nthe tree fell down on the ground.\n\nThen, well content with his day\u2019s work, Laka went back to his\ngrandmother\u2019s. The next day he would cut off the branches and drag the\ntrunk down to the beach and begin to make his canoe. He went back to\nthe mountains. He searched and searched through all the woods, but he\ncould find no trace of the tree that he had cut down with so much\nlabor.\n\nHe went to the mountains again the day after. He found another tree\ngrowing with leaves shaped like the new moon. With his little stone axe\nhe cut through the trunk, and the tree fell down. Then he went back to\nhis grandmother\u2019s, thinking that he would go the next day and cut off\nthe branches and bring the trunk down to the beach.\n\nBut the next day when he went to the mountains there was no trace of\nthe tree that he had cut down with so much labor. He searched for it\nall day, but could not find it. The next day he had to begin his labor\nall over again: he had to search for a tree that had leaves like the\nnew moon, he had to cut through the trunk and let it lie on the ground.\nAfter he had cut down the third tree he spoke to his grandmother about\nthe trees that he had cut and had lost sight of. His wise grandmother\ntold him that, if the third tree disappeared, he was to dig a trench\nbeside where the next tree would fall. And when that tree came down he\nwas to hide in the trench beside it and watch what would happen.\n\nWhen Laka went up to the mountain the next day he found that the tree\nhe had cut was lost to his sight like the others. He found another tree\nwith leaves shaped like the new moon. He began to cut this one down.\nNear where it would fall he dug a trench.\n\nIt was very late in the evening when he cut through this tree. The\ntrunk fell, and it covered the trench he had made. Then Laka went under\nand hid himself. He waited while the night came on.\n\nThen, while he was waiting, he heard the hum of voices, and he knew\nthat a band of people were drawing near. They were singing as they came\non. Laka heard what they sang.\n\n\n        \u201cO the four thousand gods,\n        O the forty thousand gods,\n        O the four hundred thousand gods,\n        O the file of gods,\n        O the assembly of gods!\n        O gods of these woods,\n        Of the mountain, the knoll,\n        Of the dam of the water-course, O descend!\u201d\n\n\nThen there was more noise, and Laka, looking up from the trench, saw\nthat the clearing around him was all filled with a crowd of little men.\nThey came where the tree lay, and they tried to move it. Then Laka\njumped out of the trench, and he laid hands upon one of the little\npeople. He threatened to kill him for having moved away the trees he\nhad cut.\n\nAs he jumped up all the little people disappeared. Laka was left with\nthe one he held.\n\n\u201cDo not kill me,\u201d said the little man. \u201cI am of the Me-ne-hu-ne, and we\nintend no harm to you. I will say this to you: if you kill me, there\nwill be no one to make the canoe for you, no one to drag it down to the\nbeach, making it ready for you to sail in. If you do not kill me, my\nfriends will make the canoe for you. And if you build a shed for it, we\nwill bring the canoe finished to you and place it in the shed.\u201d\n\nThen Laka said he would gladly spare the little man if he and his\nfriends would make the canoe for him and bring it down to the shed that\nhe would make. He let the little man go then. The next day he built a\nshed for the canoe.\n\nWhen he told his grandmother about the crowd of little men he had seen\nand about the little man he had caught, she told him that they were the\nMe-ne-hu-ne, who lived in hollow logs and in caves in the mountains. No\none knew how many of them there were.\n\nHe went back, and he found that where the trunk of the tree had lain\nthere was now a canoe perfectly finished; all was there that should be\nthere, even to the light, well-shaped paddle, and all had been finished\nin the night. He went back, and that night he waited beside the shed\nwhich he had built out on the beach. At the dead of the night he heard\nthe hum of voices. That was when the canoe was being lifted up. Then he\nheard a second hum of voices. That was when the canoe was being carried\non the hands of the Me-ne-hu-ne\u2014for they did not drag the canoe, they\ncarried it. He heard a trampling of feet. Then he heard a third hum of\nvoices; that was when the canoe was being left down in the shed he had\nbuilt.\n\nLaka\u2019s grandmother, knowing who they were, had left a feast for the\nMe-ne-hu-ne\u2014a shrimp for each, and some cooked taro leaves. They ate,\nand before it was daylight they returned to the mountain where their\ncaves were. The boy Laka saw the Me-ne-hu-ne as they went up the side\nof the mountain\u2014hundreds of little men tramping away in the waning\ndarkness.\n\nHis canoe was ready, paddle and all. He took it down to the sea, and he\nwent across in search of his father. When he landed on the other side\nhe found a wise man who was able to tell him about his father, and that\nhe was dead indeed, having been killed by a very wicked man on his\nlanding. The boy never went back to his grandmother\u2019s. He stayed, and\nwith the canoe that the Me-ne-hu-ne had made for him he became a famous\nfisherman. From him have come my fathers and your fathers, too, O my\nyounger brothers.\n\nAnd you who are the youngest and littlest of all\u2014gather you the ku-kui\nnuts as we go down; to-night we will make strings of them and burn\nthem, lighting the house. And if we have many ku-kui nuts and a light\nthat is long-lasting, it may be that I will tell more stories.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE STORY OF MO-E MO-E: ALSO A STORY ABOUT PO-O AND ABOUT KAU-HU-HU THE\nSHARK-GOD, AND ABOUT MO-E MO-E\u2019S SON, THE MAN WHO WAS BOLD IN HIS WISH.\n\n\nLight it now. One ku-kui nut and then another will burn along the\nstring as I tell my stories. It is well that you have brought so many\nnuts, my younger brother.\n\nAt Ke-kaa lived Ma-ui and Mo-e Mo-e; they were friends, but no two men\ncould be more different: the great desire of one was to go travelling,\ndoing mighty deeds, and the great desire of the other was to sleep.\nWhile Ma-ui would be travelling, Mo-e Mo-e would be sleeping. He was\ncalled O-pe-le at first, but afterwards he was called Mo-e Mo-e because\nno one before or since ever slept so much as he: he could keep asleep\nfrom the first day of the month to the last day of the month; if a\nthunder-storm happened, it would wake him up; if no thunder-storm\nhappened, he might go on sleeping for a whole year.\n\nOnce he went off travelling. He had not gone far when he lay down by\nthe roadway and slept. While he was sleeping a freshet of water flowed\ndown and covered him with pebbles and brambles and grasses\u2014covered all\nof him except his nostrils. Then a ku-kui nut rested in his nostril and\nbegan to grow. It grew tall; it began to tickle his nostril; and then\nMo-e Mo-e wakened up. \u201cHere am I,\u201d he said, \u201cat my favorite pastime,\nsleeping, and yet I am wakened up by this cursed ku-kui tree.\u201d He\nstarted off then to find his friend Ma-ui.\n\nHe did not find Ma-ui. He found, however, a woman whom he liked, and he\nmarried her and settled down in her part of the country. His wife had\nmuch land, and Mo-e Mo-e went out and worked on it. He needed no more\nsleep for a while, and he worked night and day until all the lands that\nhis wife owned were cleared and planted. Then one day he told her that\nhe would have to return to his own country. \u201cAnd if something should\nhappen to prevent my coming back to you,\u201d said he to his wife, \u201cand if\na child should be born to us, name the child, if it should be a girl,\nfor yourself; but if it should be a boy, name him Ka-le-lea.\u201d His wife\nsaid she would remember what he told her, and Mo-e Mo-e started off on\nhis journey.\n\nOn his way he felt sleepy, and he lay down by the roadside. He fell\ninto one of his long slumbers. He had been sleeping for ten days, or\nperhaps for two less than ten days, when two men came along, and,\nseeing him lying there, took him up and carried him on their backs to\nwhere their canoe was moored.\n\nNow these were two men who had been sent out to find a man who might be\nsacrificed to one of the gods in the temple. They were highly pleased\nwhen they came upon one who could give them such little trouble. They\nput Mo-e Mo-e in their canoe and brought him to the Island of Kau-ai.\nHe didn\u2019t waken all the time they were at sea. They carried him to the\ntemple, and still he did not waken. Then they made ready to sacrifice\nhim to the god who was there.\n\nWhile they were waiting for the hour of the sacrifice, a thunder-storm\ncame. That made Mo-e Mo-e waken up. He saw where he was: and the pig\nthat was to be sacrificed, and the bananas, the fish, and the awa, were\nbeside him. He saw the two men who had taken him, squatting down with a\nspear between them, and he heard what they were saying. They, like us\nhere, were telling a story. \u201cAnd so,\u201d said one, \u201cKa-ma-lo went on his\nway.\u201d Mo-e Mo-e listened, and he heard part of the story.\n\n\n\nKa-ma-lo, a squealing pig upon his shoulder (said the second man), went\nhurrying on his way.\n\nNo man going into danger ever went so quickly as Ka-ma-lo did. And he\nwas going into great danger, for he was on his way to the cavern where\nthe Shark-God Kau-hu-hu had his abode. And you know, my comrade, that\nif a man had ever ventured into that cavern before, he never came out\nof it alive.\n\nHe came to it. Before the cavern was the great sea. Inside of it were\nMo-o and Waka, the Shark-God\u2019s watchmen.\n\nWhen they saw a man hurrying up to the cavern with a squealing pig upon\nhis shoulders, Waka and Mo-o shouted to him to go back. But Ka-ma-lo\ncame right up to them. \u201cOur lord is away,\u201d they said, \u201cand it is lucky\nfor you, O man, that he is away. Fly for your life, for he will soon\nreturn.\u201d Ka-ma-lo would not go. He put down on the ground the pig which\nhe had brought.\n\nWaka and Mo-o ran here and there, beseeching Ka-ma-lo to go away. The\nman would not go. \u201cI have brought this pig as an offering to the\nShark-God,\u201d he said, \u201cand I will speak to him even if afterwards he\ndestroy me.\u201d \u201cIt is now too late for you to get away,\u201d said Waka, \u201cfor,\nlo, our lord returns.\u201d \u201cHide yourself in the cavern; tie up your pig,\nand perhaps when our lord sleeps you will be able to get away,\u201d said\nMo-o. They tied the pig, and they covered it up with seaweed; Ka-ma-lo\nwent into the cavern and hid behind one of the rocks.\n\nA great rolling wave came to the cavern; another came, and then\nanother. With the eighth roller the Shark-God came out of the ocean.\nKa-ma-lo looked out and saw him. And when he looked upon him he\ntrembled and drew himself farther into the depths of the cavern.\n\nThe Shark-God transformed himself. He was now in the shape of a man,\nbut he was taller and broader than any two men that Ka-ma-lo had ever\nseen. He came within the cavern, and Ka-ma-lo saw that he had still one\nmark of the shark upon him: on his back and between his great shoulders\nthere were, as if made with tattoo, the lines of a shark\u2019s opened\nmouth.\n\nWhen he came within, Kau-hu-hu began to sniff. \u201cI smell a man, a man,\u201d\nhe said. Ka-ma-lo quaked with terror: the Shark-God, with his great\nheight and breadth, seemed fearful to the man.\n\nAnd still he moved about the cavern, and Mo-o and Waka, his watchmen,\nran this way and that way, striving to get him to give up his search.\nThere was a squealing outside. Kau-hu-hu stopped and ordered his\nwatchmen to bring to him the thing that squealed. They went outside and\ncame back with Ka-ma-lo\u2019s pig.\n\n\u201cA pig!\u201d sniffed the Shark-God. \u201cThen there must be a man about. Where\nis he?\u201d\n\nThen, in their terror, the two watchmen pointed to where Ka-ma-lo had\nhidden himself. The Shark-God put down his two big hands and drew the\nman up.\n\n\u201cMan, I will eat you,\u201d said the Shark-God.\n\n\u201cI have brought this pig as an offering to you,\u201d said Ka-ma-lo. \u201cDo not\neat me.\u201d\n\nThen Kau-hu-hu wondered at a man\u2019s being so bold as to come within his\ncavern with an offering for him. \u201cMan, why have you come?\u201d he said.\n\nThen said Ka-ma-lo: \u201cKau-hu-hu, you are a shark, but you are also a\ngod. I have come to ask you to avenge me upon a cruel King and a wicked\npeople. No one else is able to exact the vengeance that my soul craves,\nand so I have come where no man ever ventured before\u2014into your cavern\nand into your presence.\u201d\n\n\u201cI am a shark, but I am also a god,\u201d said Kau-hu-hu, \u201cand if that King\nand that people deserve the vengeance that you crave, it shall be\nwrought upon them. But if they do not deserve that vengeance, I will\nkill you and devour you for having come into my cavern.\u201d\n\n\u201cI will tell you why I crave vengeance on that King and on that\npeople.\u201d And thereupon Ka-ma-lo told the Shark-God all that he had\nsuffered.\n\n\n\nThe King of the land I live in (said Ka-ma-lo) is the owner of a drum,\nand it is a drum that he had brought to him from far Kahiki. He would\nnot let any one strike on this drum but himself. He made a place for\nthe drum, a sacred enclosure that no one might go into. Now the King of\nmy land, Ku-pa, is a cruel King; indeed, so cruel is he that his people\nhave become cruel, for the kind and the gentle have fled away, and\nthose who have remained under his rule have become harder and harder.\nAnd at last it has come about that no one will get angry at even the\nworst thing that the King will do.\n\nI wish that I had fled from the land when others fled. But I had two\nchildren, boys, and there was no place that I might have taken them to.\nThey used to play with the King\u2019s children. Yesterday I went into the\nforest to choose a tree that might be made into a new canoe, for I am\nthe King\u2019s canoe-builder. And while I was away my two boys went towards\nthe King\u2019s house. They came before the enclosure where the drum was\nkept. The King\u2019s children were not there to play with, and my two boys\nplayed with each other for a while.\n\nNow and then they would stand before where the drum was placed, and\nlook at it. They did not know that Ku-pa was watching them\u2014watching to\nsee what the children would do.\n\nAt last the boys went into the sacred enclosure, and their going there\nbroke the law that the King had made. They sat down there, my two sons,\nand they struck upon the drum. They could have struck upon it so that\nthe whole land would hear, or they could have struck so softly that the\nnoise would be only like the fall of rain upon leaves. And that was how\nthey struck the drum; the noise that they made was only a little noise\nand like the falling of rain upon the leaves in the forest.\n\nBut the King heard even that little sound; he came very softly up to\nthe enclosure. The boys looked around. They saw him standing there; his\neyes were hard as I have seen them, and his lips were cruel and\nrevengeful. He called for his executioner. The executioner came; he\nslew my two boys in the enclosure where the King\u2019s drum is kept.\n\nAll that happened while I was in the forest. When I came back I went\ninto the enclosure where the King\u2019s canoes are sheltered. I stood there\nbeside the great canoe that was painted red. I put my hands upon it,\nfor then I greatly rejoiced in this work of my hands. I put my hands\nalong the outrigger of the canoe. And then I looked down, and it seemed\nto me that I saw a hand stretched out from under the canoe.\n\nI stooped down, and I looked under it. I saw two bodies with their\nhands outstretched. I drew them out, and I saw that they were the\nbodies of my sons. And when I looked upon them I knew that my sons had\nbeen slain by the King\u2019s executioner.\n\nI went away from the King\u2019s house. I met many men, and I spoke to them,\ntelling them of the terrible thing that the King had done to me. But\neach one I spoke to said: \u201cYes, such is Ku-pa, our King. He has not\ndealt with you harder than he has dealt with others.\u201d And when they\nsaid this they looked at me; and I saw that their looks were hard, even\nas the King\u2019s.\n\nI went within my house, and I sat there thinking. To whom could I go\nfor vengeance on the King? Who would be powerful enough to avenge me\nupon Ku-pa? And then I thought of you, Kau-hu-hu. You would be able to\navenge me, and no one else would be able. And so I made up my mind to\ngo to you\u2014even to go into the cavern where no man had ever ventured\nbefore,\n\nI took a pig as an offering, and I went hurrying on my way; no man\ngoing into danger ever went so swiftly before.\n\n\n\nMo-e Mo-e heard no more of the story then. He stood up. The two who\nwere guarding him were so startled that they did not lay hands on him.\nHe took up the spear that was between them, and he went off.\n\nBack to his wife\u2019s he went, and he left the long spear with its edge of\nshark\u2019s teeth in the house. \u201cI will have to make another journey,\u201d he\nsaid, \u201cand if again anything should happen to me that will prevent my\ncoming back, and if a son is born to us, and if he should want to go in\nsearch of me, give him the spear so that I may know him; and give him\nthe name that I told you.\u201d\n\nHe went to work in the fields again, and he worked day and night, and\nhis wife\u2019s brother Po-po-lo-au and her servant Po-o were astonished at\nthe work he did. And then, on the very night that his son was born,\nMo-e Mo-e fell asleep. He slept for ten days and for another ten days.\nHis wife, her brother, and her servant tried to waken him; all they\ncould do could not waken Mo-e Mo-e, Then his wife shook him; she made\nnoises; she poured water on his eyes, but still he slept. Then she\nsaid, \u201cThere is no doubt about it: Mo-e Mo-e is dead.\u201d\n\nShe called her brother and her servant, and she said to them: \u201cThe\nChief is dead. Wrap him up and carry him to the beach and cast him into\nthe sea; that is the best that one can do for a dead man.\u201d Her brother\nand her servant did as she ordered, and a wrap was put around Mo-e\nMo-e, and then he was carried down to the beach and cast into the sea.\nThen Po-po-lo-au went home, and Po-o went home.\n\nHis wife\u2019s name was Ka-le-ko\u2019o-ka-lau-ae, and concerning her and her\nbrother Po-po-lo-au and her servant Po-o a strange story is told. After\nthey had left what they thought was the dead body of Mo-e Mo-e in the\nsea, Po-po-lo-au and Po-o went up the mountains to get timbers for the\nroofing of a house. They were far from home, and the night came on dark\nand rainy. Po-o wanted to go back to the house, but Po-po-lo-au would\nnot return through the dark and the rain. Nothing would do him but that\nthey should spend the night in a cave.\n\nSo they went into a cave that no one had ever gone into before. And at\nPo-po-lo-au\u2019s desire they lighted a great fire to keep themselves from\nthe cold. And then, although there were things in the cave that they\nshould have been fearful about, they both went to sleep.\n\nIn the middle of the night Po-po-lo-au was startled by something that\nhe thought was happening. He wakened up, and he saw that the fire was\nburning Po-o. He called him, but the servant would not waken up. He\nwent to him and tried to rouse him, but still he would not awaken. The\nfire, which had been burning the man\u2019s feet, went farther up his body.\nPo-po-lo-au lifted him and tried by every way to bring him to\nwakefulness, but there was no stir from Po-o. Then, when the fire had\nburned up to his neck, Po-po-lo-au let him lie there and ran out of the\ncave. He ran towards a hill. When he reached the top of it he heard a\nvoice calling to him, \u201cWait until I come to you, and we will go home\ntogether.\u201d He looked back, and he saw a head with fire streaming out of\nit coming up the hill after him.\n\nHe ran to the valley, and the head rolled down the hill after him. He\nlooked back, and he saw tongues of fire shooting out of the rolling\nhead, and he became more frightened than before. He ran on and on.\nThrough many valleys he raced, and always the head raced behind him. He\nreached the plain, and then he could hardly go on because of the terror\nhe was in.\n\nIt happened that at that time a wizard was walking with his friends\nalong that plain. \u201cDo you see the person who is coming towards us?\u201d he\nsaid. \u201cIf he is not caught until he comes up to us, he will be saved.\nBut if he is caught before that, I do not know what will happen to\nhim.\u201d As he said that, Po-po-lo-au came running up to them; and then\nthe head did not come any nearer.\n\nPo-po-lo-au told the wizard all that had befallen him. Then he went to\nhis sister, the wife of Mo-e Mo-e. She asked about her servant, and he\ntold her of how he had been burned and how his head had chased him.\n\nThen the wizard came into the house. \u201cI have come to you,\u201d he said,\n\u201cbecause I fear you may be burned. The head that chased this man will\ncome here. It will want to come within and stay in the house, but do\nnot ask it to come in, or you will come into its power. It will ask you\nto go outside to it, but do not go out. It will ask you to send your\nchild out to it, but do not send him out.\u201d\n\nAnd then he said: \u201cWhen you hear a whistle outside, it will mean that\nthe head is near. Then move into a corner of the house and keep very\nstill. When the outside is all lighted up you will know that it has\ncome, and when the inside is lighted up you will know that it has\nentered the house.\u201d\n\nThe woman stayed within the house, and about the middle of the night\nshe heard a whistle outside; then all outside was lighted up, and the\nvoice of Po-o called to her asking her to come without. \u201cI will not go\noutside, for it is raining,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is no rain,\u201d said the\nvoice of Po-o.\n\nThen the voice spoke again and said to her, \u201cSend out to me your little\nchild.\u201d And the voice went on to say: \u201cI have what your child liked\nwell\u2014ripe bananas. Send him out to me, and I will give them to him.\u201d\n\n\u201cI will not send him out to you,\u201d the woman said, \u201cfor the child is now\nasleep.\u201d\n\nThen the head came within the house, but the woman had hidden herself\nand was not to be found. The wizard stole in; he drew the woman out of\nthe house, and he closed the door. The head called out: \u201cDo not close\nthe door on me; I wish to come outside.\u201d But those outside blocked up\nthe door and would not let it out, for they knew that what was within\nthe house was the demon of the cave that had gone into the man\u2019s head.\nThen fire burst out in the house; there were twelve loud sounds; the\nhead was shattered, and after that there was nothing ever seen of it.\nAnd that is the strange story about Po-o.\n\n\n\nAnd now we can speak of Mo-e Mo-e, or at least we can speak of Mo-e\nMo-e\u2019s son. He grew up with a stepfather, for his mother had married\nagain. Now, the stepfather was not always kind to Mo-e Mo-e\u2019s son, and\nthe boy was often punished by him.\n\nOne day he said to his mother: \u201cI will go in search of my real father.\u201d\n\u201cYour father is dead and in the sea,\u201d said his mother. \u201cPerhaps he is\nnot,\u201d said the boy. \u201cI will go in search of him, and I will bring with\nme the spear that my father left for me.\u201d\n\nSo he started off in search of Mo-e Mo-e, his father. Now when Mo-e\nMo-e had been flung into the sea long before, he had gone down to the\nbottom. He lay there, for his slumber was still deep. The fish bit at\nhim, but they did not awaken him, and the salt of the deep sea went\ninto his skin. Still he lay there asleep. Then a thunder-storm came. He\nwakened up. He went to the surface of the sea. Then he swam to the\nshore.\n\nHe had been made bald by the salt water that had got into his skin. His\nskin had been scraped off by the bites of the fishes. He crawled to a\npig-pen, and there he lay down. From that place he crawled to another\nplace. There a wizard found him; he gave Mo-e Mo-e medicine that cured\nhim.\n\nThen he went back to his own home, to the place that he had first come\nfrom. He went on no more trips after that, and he took to sleeping like\nan ordinary man.\n\nAnd now his son, with the great spear of dark-red wood with the ridges\nof shark\u2019s teeth upon it, went off in search of him. He came to the\nIsland where Mo-e Mo-e had lived when his name was O-pe-le. He went\ndown into the valley where O-pe-le had had his farm.\n\nThe boy came to a field where a man was planting taro. He sat down to\nwatch the man, holding the spear in his hands. Two men came along.\nSeeing the spear that the boy held, they stopped and looked at it. \u201cIs\nit not like the spear we carried when we took away the man who slept\nall the way in our canoe and all the time on the black stones of the\ntemple?\u201d one said to the other. \u201cIt is the very same spear,\u201d said the\nother. \u201cYou laid it down, and I was looking at it while I was telling\nyou the story of Ka-ma-lo, who went to the cave of the Shark-God.\u201d \u201cI\nnever heard the rest of that story,\u201d said the first man, \u201cand I should\nlike to hear it.\u201d\n\nThe two sat together, and then the man who had been telling the story\nthat Mo-e Mo-e had heard, went on.\n\n\n\nWhen Ka-ma-lo had told him all that had happened, the Shark-God said to\nhim: \u201cGo back to Ku-pa\u2019s country and live there with his people. But\nmake ready a great offering for me\u2014an offering of black pigs, white\nfowl, and red fish\u2014and when the new moon comes take the offering into\nthe temple enclosure, and stay there until you see a cloud coming over\nthe mountains of La-na-i. And when you see that cloud, leave the temple\nenclosure and get into your canoe and go out to sea.\u201d So Kau-hu-hu\nsaid; then he lay down in the cavern and went to sleep. Ka-ma-lo did\nnot stay any longer; he went quickly out of the cavern.\n\nHe went back, and he lived for a while under the cruel King who had\ndestroyed his children and amongst the hard people that the King ruled\nover. He began to put together the offering for Kau-hu-hu the\nShark-God; and by the time he had got all the black pigs and all the\nwhite fowl and all the red fish, the new moon had come.\n\nHe took his offering to the temple enclosure; he left the black pigs\nand the white fowl and the red fish within, and he stood upon the black\nstones, and he looked towards the mountains of La-na-i.\n\nHe heard the King beating upon his drum: it was to summon all his\npeople to him. He heard the sound of the drum, but he did not go\ntowards the King\u2019s house; he stood upon the black stones that made the\ntemple enclosure, and he watched and he waited, moveless as the stone\nthat he stood on. Louder and louder beat the King\u2019s drum. The people\nall gathered at his house. Then Ka-ma-lo saw a speck of cloud over the\nmountains of La-na-i. He watched, and he saw it coming nearer and\nnearer. He left the place that he had been watching from, and he went\nto the beach.\n\nAs he went he saw the crowd of people that were gathered together by\nthe King\u2019s drum. They called to him, but he went past them. He came to\nthe beach, and he pushed but in his canoe.\n\nWhen he looked back he saw that the end of the rainbow was now resting\non the temple enclosure, and he knew that the Shark-God had set a guard\non the offering that he had left there. The cloud was coming nearer,\nand it was growing bigger and bigger as it came. It made a darkness\nover all the land.\n\nKa-ma-lo paddled beyond the reef, and he went far out to sea. Out of\nthe darkness that covered the land there came a fearful storm: down\npoured the rain; the trees in the forest cracked and broke; the rivers\nsuddenly filled up; as they rushed into the valley, trees, houses, and\nmen were swept away and out to sea. Ka-ma-lo, in his canoe, saw the\nred-covered drum of the King go floating by. That was the end of Ku-pa\nand his people. And if the spear that this young man holds in his hands\nbe the same spear that I had when we were in the temple enclosure the\nday I told you the beginning of the story, that spear is the only thing\nthat has come out of his kingdom.\n\n\n\nKa-le-lea then spoke up and said: \u201cYes, this is the spear you carried\non that occasion, for my father, Mo-e Mo-e, heard you tell the\nbeginning of that story; he related it to my mother, who told it to me.\nAnd now I am seeking him; I am seeking that man, for he is my father.\u201d\n\u201cIf you are seeking the man who slept while we brought him to the\ntemple and slept there while we were making the preparations to\nsacrifice him, you have not far to go,\u201d said the men. \u201cWe have seen him\nsince, and we know where he is.\u201d \u201cAnd where is he?\u201d asked the boy. \u201cThe\nman planting taro there,\u201d said the man, \u201cis no other than he; he is\nO-pe-le, who came to be called Mo-e Mo-e.\u201d\n\nThen the boy called out to the man who was planting taro in the field,\n\u201cSay, your rows of taro are crooked.\u201d The man looked at his rows, and\nthen he began to straighten them. But no matter how he straightened\nthem, the boy would call out the same thing. Then the man said to\nhimself: \u201cHow strange this is! Here I have been doing this work night\nand day, and my rows were never made crooked before. Now it seems that\nI cannot make them straight.\u201d Thereupon he quit working and went to the\nedge of the patch where the boy was standing, the great spear in his\nhands. \u201cWhose offspring are you?\u201d said he, when he looked at the boy\nand looked at the spear. \u201cYours,\u201d said the boy, \u201cyours and\nKa-li-ko\u2019o-ka-lau-ae\u2019s.\u201d \u201cWhat name have you?\u201d said the man. \u201cI am\nKa-le-lea,\u201d said the boy. \u201cYou have found me, my son,\u201d said Mo-e Mo-e.\n\nAnd thereupon the two went into the house.\n\n\n\nThe boy who came to Mo-e Mo-e, Ka-le-lea, is also known in our stories;\nin them he is called \u201cThe Mari Who Was Bold in his Wish,\u201d and when you\nhave lighted some more ku-kui nuts I will tell you how he came to get\nthat name.\n\nWhen he grew up he became a fisherman, and he and another youth had a\nhouse together. Ke-ino was the other youth\u2019s name. Now whenever other\nhouses were dark, Ka-le-lea\u2019s and Ke-ino\u2019s would be lighted up. They\nwould have gathered many ku-kui nuts, they would string them together,\nand they would light them up. And the light that Ka-le-lea and Ke-ino\nhad in their house would be seen by travellers and watchmen and those\nwho looked out of their houses at night. What was being done in the\nhouse where there was so much light, people wondered?\n\nWell, when Ka-le-lea and Ke-ino came into their house in the evening,\nthey would, first of all, partake of their evening meal. Then they\nwould light the ku-kui nuts and keep lighting them as they burned out.\nThen they would lie down on their mats with their pillows under their\nheads, and they would look up at the roof, Ka-le-lea looking at the\ngable end, and Ke-ino looking at the end opposite. They would watch the\nmice running along the ridge-pole of the house. Then one would say to\nthe other: \u201cHere are we, Ka-le-lea and Ke-ino, awake and with lights\nburning beside us. Let us keep watching the mice running along the\nridge-pole of our house, and as we watch them, let each of us tell out\nhis wishes.\u201d\n\nThen Ke-ino would say: \u201cHere is my wish. I wish that we may sleep until\nthe first crowing of the cock, then waken up, and go into the field and\npull up a root for fish-bait. Then go down to the beach, pound the root\nand set it for eel-bait. Then catch an eel after having waited around\nthe beach for a bit, go home with it, and wrap it in banana-leaves for\ncooking. Put it in the oven after a while. Then, at the second crowing\nof the cock, open the oven and put the eel one side to cool. Eat, after\na while, until we have had enough. Then lie down on our mats, put the\npillows under our heads, look up and watch the mice run along the\nridge-pole of our house, and tell out our wishes. That is my wish,\nbrother.\u201d\n\nThen Ka-le-lea would say: \u201cIt is a wish, but it is not a manly wish.\nListen now, and I will tell out my wishes.\n\n\u201cI wish that we may eat King Ka-ku-hi-hewa\u2019s dogs that bite the faces\nof the people. I wish that we may eat his hogs with the crossing tusks.\nI wish that we may eat the fat fish of his ponds. And when we have\neaten all belonging to him, I wish that the King himself may prepare\nthe drink for us, bring it to us, and put his own cup to our lips. And\nthen, when we have eaten and drunken, I wish that the King may send for\nhis two daughters, have them brought in, and have each of them marry\none of us, and then have each couple go to live in a house that he has\nhad built for them. That is my wish, my brother, and I want you to know\nit.\u201d\n\nBut when Ka-le-lea would say this (and he would say it every night)\nKe-ino would pull the mat over his face, and he would say: \u201cNo, not\nthat wish. Never let it pass your lips again. We will surely get killed\non account of that wish.\u201d\n\nNow the King whom Ka-le-lea had spoken of was at that time engaged in a\nwar\u2014the war of King Ka-ku-hi-hewa against King Pueo-nui. He had won\nnothing so far in the war, and he was becoming disheartened. His\nwatchmen and his soldiers often saw the light in the house of Ka-le-lea\nand Ke-ino, and one day they told the King about it.\n\nThen the King sent his spy to see or hear what was going on in that\nhouse. The spy stole up and lay outside. He heard Ke-ino tell his wish,\nand then he heard Ka-le-lea tell his. He heard nothing more; before the\nfirst cock crew he stole away, leaving his dagger stuck at the entrance\nof the house to let Ka-le-lea and Ke-ino know that the King\u2019s servant\nhad been there.\n\nWhen the spy came back to the King\u2019s house, the King was there with his\nCouncillor beside him, and they were talking about what should be done\nto bring to some sort of end the war against King Pueo-nui. Said the\nKing when the spy came to them: \u201cWhat is happening in the house that I\nsent you to?\u201d\n\nSaid the spy: \u201cThis and this.\u201d Thereupon he told all he had heard. When\nhe spoke about Ka-le-lea\u2019s wish the King became very angry. \u201cBecause I\nam not winning the war,\u201d he said, \u201cthese people think they can make\nmock of me! Eat my dogs and my hogs and my fat fish indeed! Have me\nprepare the drink for them and put my own cup to their mouths! And then\ngive my daughters in marriage to two such fellows! Tell me, my\nCouncillor, how should I have them slain?\u201d\n\nBut the Councillor was not for having Ka-le-lea and Ke-ino put to death\nin any way. \u201cRather carry out the wish that the boldest of them spoke\nout,\u201d he said. \u201cIf any one can help you in the war, it is that man.\nSend for both of them and carry out the bold one\u2019s wish to the very\nend. You have a wish too: it is to win the whole Island for yourself.\nThat man, believe me, is the one who can help you to have that wish of\nyours made real.\u201d The King agreed at last to let Ka-le-lea and Ke-ino\nlive, and he even agreed to carry out to its very end the wish that\nKa-le-lea had made. He ordered his men to cut timber and build houses\nfor the two fishermen and the wives he was going to give them, and\nafter that he sent an officer with soldiers to bring Ka-le-lea and\nKe-ino to him.\n\n\n\nKe-ino was the first to waken up that morning. And when he went to the\ndoor he saw the dagger that was stuck at the entrance. Then he knew\nthat the King\u2019s servant had been listening in the night and that he had\nheard all that had been said. \u201cWe are going to be killed,\u201d he said to\nKa-le-lea; \u201cyour terrible wish has been overheard, and the two of us\nare going to die for it.\u201d\n\nBut Ka-le-lea only stirred on the mat he was lying on; he didn\u2019t even\nget up to go to the door. And then Ke-ino saw a company of people\ncoming out of the King\u2019s house. They carried axes. \u201cHere are our\ndeaths,\u201d said Ke-ino. But the procession he saw was that of the King\u2019s\nservants as they went towards the mountain to cut timbers for the two\nhouses that were to be built, according to the Councillor\u2019s advice and\nthe King\u2019s orders, for himself and Ka-le-lea and the wives who were to\nbe given to them\u2014the King\u2019s two daughters.\n\nLater on, another procession came from the King\u2019s house. This one came\nstraight towards their house. The men were armed with spears, and the\nofficers had on their shoulders cloaks of bright feathers, and their\nwar-helmets were on their heads. Ke-ino said: \u201cOur deaths are now close\nto us.\u201d But all that Ka-le-lea answered was: \u201cKeep your eye on them.\u201d\n\nHe did not move until then. Then he rose up from the mat he had been\nsleeping on, and he took up his club. He went outside, and by this time\nthe armed men had come up. The officer said: \u201cWe have come to take you\ntwo before the king.\u201d Ka-le-lea said never a word, but with his great\nclub he struck the house a mighty blow, and he scattered its thatch and\nits timbers in all directions.\n\nThen, very much to their surprise, Ka-le-lea and Ke-ino were put into a\nlitter and carried on the shoulders of the soldiers. They were brought\nbefore the King. They were served according to the wish of Ka-le-lea:\nthe dogs and the hogs and the fat fish were given them to eat; the King\nprepared the drink for them, and in his own cup he brought it to\nKa-le-lea and Ke-ino. And when they had drunken, the King\u2019s daughters\nwere brought before them. One was wed to Ka-le-lea, and the other was\nwed to Ke-ino. And then each couple was given a house to live in, a\nhouse that the King had had built for them in a single day.\n\nKa-le-lea, the one who had uttered the bold wish, was not seen much\nafter that. He stayed in the house that had been given him. Ke-ino was\nthe one who was around all the time. And the King took Ke-ino and made\nhim an officer, and gave him a feather cape for his shoulders and a\nwar-helmet to go on his head. After that, Ke-ino went into the fight\nwith a company of men; every day he won a victory. But, for all that,\nthe war still went on.\n\n\n\nKa-le-lea stayed in the house all day with his wife, the King\u2019s\ndaughter. He had no war-helmet, no feather cape, and he never took a\ncompany of men out to battle. Ke-ino was the great man now, and\nKa-le-lea was never spoken of.\n\nStill the war went on. But after the first crow of the cock, a man with\na great club used to go to Ha-la-wa, where the officers and chiefs of\nPueo-nui\u2019s army were, and do battle with them. This the man did every\nday. He would come upon a company of them, and fight with them,\nstriking right and left with his club. He would slay them all. Then he\nwould gather up their feather capes and their war-helmets, and he would\nrun, run away. The fighting chiefs were all killed by him, and\nPueo-nui\u2019s army melted away. There were stories about how the chiefs\nwere killed in the early morning, and of how their feather capes and\ntheir war-helmets were taken away. No one knew the warrior who fought\nwith them and overcame them. But the King was sure that Ke-ino was the\none who did it all.\n\nWhen the last of Pueo-nui\u2019s fighting chiefs was killed, an end came to\nthe war, and Pueo-nui gave his lands and his kingdom to King\nKa-ku-he-hewa. And that very morning, as the stranger warrior who had\ndone battle with the chiefs was running back, he was seen by a watchman\nin the light of the early morning. The watchman flung a spear at the\nrunning man. It struck him on the arm, just above the wrist. He kept on\nrunning. The spear had a hook, and the watchman knew that it would be\nhard for the warrior to draw it out of the flesh of his arm.\n\nAnd now the King made, up his mind to give a great reward to Ke-ino,\nand to get rid of Ka-le-lea, the fellow whom no one had ever seen\noutside his house. He made a proclamation, declaring his victory in the\nwar, and telling how much of it was due to his son-in-law Ke-ino. And\nevery one was satisfied, for every one was sure that Ke-ino had won the\nwar. Every one, that is, except the King\u2019s Councillor and the watchman\nwho had flung the spear at the running man. The watchman kept on saying\nthat it was not Ke-ino but another man who had slain the fighting\nchiefs of Pueo-nui\u2019s army and had carried off their feather capes and\ntheir war-helmets.\n\nThe Councillor advised the King to bring all his people together, men,\nwomen, and children. All came to a place near the King\u2019s house\u2014all but\nthose who fell down and who were not able to get up again. \u201cAre all\nyour people here, O King?\u201d asked the Councillor. \u201cAll are here,\u201d said\nthe King, \u201cexcept that fellow Ka-le-lea. He is asleep at home. His\nfather, they say, was a good sleeper, and my son-in-law takes after his\nfather.\u201d \u201cNevertheless,\u201d said the Councillor, \u201csend for him, and bring\nhim here.\u201d\n\nThen Ka-le-lea was sent for. He came, and he saw all the people\ngathered before the King\u2019s house. He saw Ke-ino there in great state,\nwith a bright feather cape on his shoulders and a war-helmet on his\nhead. He looked at Ke-ino, and Ke-ino looked at him. The watchman, who\nhad been looking at all who came, saw him, and he made a sign to the\nCouncillor.\n\nThen said the Councillor to the King: \u201cSend to this man\u2019s house, and\nhave a search made in it. And all that your men find hidden in it, have\nthem bring here.\u201d Men were sent to Ka-le-lea\u2019s house. They returned\nwith feather capes and war-helmets enough to make a great pile. And\nthen the watchman pointed to Ka-le-lea\u2019s arm, and showed the hook of a\nspear in the flesh of it.\n\nAnd when the watchman told of how he had flung his spear at the warrior\nwho had slain the last of Pueo-nui\u2019s fighting chiefs, it was seen by\nall that Ka-le-lea, and not Ke-ino, was the man who had won the war.\nAfter that he was made the King\u2019s chief officer. But he did nothing\nagainst Ke-ino, who came to serve under him.\n\nAnd this is the story of Mo-e Mo-e\u2019s son, Ka-le-lea. Soon after,\nKa-ku-he-hiwa died. Ka-le-lea came to rule in his stead, for all the\npeople clamored to have over them the Man Who Was Bold in His Wish.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE WOMAN FROM LALO-HANA, THE COUNTRY UNDER THE SEA.\n\n\nLong, long ago, my younger brothers, there lived in Hawaii a King whose\nname was Koni-konia. He sent his fishermen out to catch deep-sea fish\nfor him, and they, without knowing it, let down their lines and\nfish-hooks at a place where, before this, strange things had happened.\n\nIn a while after they had let them down, the hooks were taken off the\nlines. The fishermen wondered at this, for they knew that no fish had\nbitten at their baits. They went back to the King, and they told him\nwhat had happened. There had come no quiver on their lines, they said,\nas there would have come if fish had touched their baits, and their\nhooks had been cut off the lines as if some one with a knife had done\nit.\n\nNow the King had heard before of strange things happening at the place\nin the sea where the fishermen had been; and after they had shown him\nthe lines with the hooks cut off, he sent for a wizard, that he might\nlearn from him how these strange things had come to be.\n\nThe wizard (he was called a Kahuna) came before the King, and after he\nhad been told of what had happened to the fishermen\u2019s lines he said:\n\u201cYour fishermen let their lines down over Lalo-hana, a country that is\nat the bottom of the sea, just under the place where they let their\ncanoes rest. A woman lives there, a very beautiful woman of the sea\nwhose name is Hina; all alone she lives there, for her brothers, who\nwere given charge of her, have gone to a place far off.\u201d When the King\nheard of this beautiful woman of the sea, he longed to see her and to\nhave her for his wife.\n\nThe Kahuna told him how she might be brought out of the sea to him. The\nKing was to have a great many images made\u2014images of a man, each image\nto be as large as a man, with pearl-shell eyes and dark hair, and with\na malo or dress around it. Some of the images were to be brought out to\nsea, and some of them were to be left on the beach and along a path\nthat went up to the King\u2019s house; and one of them was to be left\nstanding by the door of the house.\n\nThe Kahuna went with the men who had taken the images in their canoes.\nWhen they came to that part of the sea that the country of Lalo-hana\nwas under, the Kahuna told the men to let down one of the images. Down,\ndown, the image went, a rope around it. It rested on the bottom of the\nsea. Then another image was let down. But this image was not let as far\nas the bottom of the sea: it was held about the height of a house above\nthe bottom. Then another image was let down and held above that, and\nthen another image, and another image, all held one above another,\nwhile other images were left standing in canoes that went in a line\nback to the beach. And when all the images were in their places, a loud\ntrumpet was blown.\n\nThe Woman of Lalo-hana, Hina, came out of her house, that was built of\nwhite and red coral, and she saw the image of a man of dark color, with\ndark hair and eyes of pearl-shell, standing before her. She was\npleased, for she had never seen even the likeness of a man since her\nbrothers had gone away from her; and she went to the image, and she\ntouched it. As she did so she saw an image above her; and she went and\nshe touched this image too. And all the way up to the top of the sea\nthere were images; and Hina went upward, touching them all.\n\nWhen she came up to the surface of the sea she saw canoes, and in each\ncanoe there was an image standing. Each one seemed to be more beautiful\nthan the others; and Hina swam on and on, gazing on each with delight\nand touching this one and that one.\n\nAnd so Hina, the Woman of the Sea, came to the beach. And on the beach\nthere were other images; and she went on, touching each of them. And so\nshe went through the grove of coco-nut trees and came before the King\u2019s\nhouse. Outside the house there was a very tall image with very large\npearl-shell eyes and with a red malo around it. Hina went to that\nimage. The wreath of sea-flowers that she had in her hair was now\nwithered with the sun; the Woman of Lalo-hana was wearied now, and she\nlay down beside the image and fell asleep.\n\nWhen she wakened it was not the image, but the King, who was beside\nher. She saw him move his hands, and she was frightened because of the\nmovements she saw him make and the sounds that were around her after\nthe quiet of the sea. Her wreath of sea-flowers was all shrivelled up\nin the sunlight. The man kissed her, and they went together into the\nhouse.\n\nAnd so the Woman of Lalo-hana, the Country under the Sea, came to\nHawaii and lived there as the wife of Koni-konia, the King.\n\nAfter a while, when she had learned to speak to him, Hina told\nKoni-konia about precious things that she had in her house in\nLalo-hana, the Country under the Sea, and she begged the King to send a\ndiver to get these things and bring them to her. They were in a\ncalabash within her house, she said. And she told the King that the\ndiver who brought it up was not to open the calabash.\n\nSo Koni-konia the King sent the best of his divers to go down to\nLalo-hana, the Country under the Sea, and bring up the calabash that\nhad Hina\u2019s precious things in it. The diver went down, and found the\nhouse of red and white coral, and went within and took the calabash\nthat was there. He brought it back without opening it and gave it to\nHina.\n\nAfter some days Hina opened the calabash. Within it was the moon. It\nflew up to the heavens, and there it shone clear and bright. When it\nshone in the heavens it was called Kena. But it shone down on the sea\ntoo, and shining on the sea it was called Ana.\n\nAnd then, seeing Ana in the sea, the Woman of Lalo-hana was frightened.\n\u201cMy brothers will come searching for me,\u201d she said. And the next day\nshe said, \u201cMy brothers will bring a great flood of waters upon this\nland when they come searching for me.\u201d And after that she said, \u201cMy\nbrothers will seek me in the forms of pa-o\u2019o fishes, and the Ocean will\nlift them up so that they can go seeking me.\u201d When the King heard her\nsay this he said, \u201cWe will go far from where the Ocean is, and we will\nseek refuge on the tops of the mountains.\u201d\n\nSo the King with Hina, with all his people, went to the mountains. As\nthey went they saw the Ocean lifting up. Hina\u2019s brothers in the forms\nof pa-o\u2019o fishes were there, and the Ocean lifted them up that they\nmight go seeking her.\n\nOver the land and up to the mountains the Ocean went, bearing the\npa-o\u2019o fishes along. Koni-konia and his people climbed to the tops of\nthe mountains. To the tops of the mountains the Ocean went, bearing the\npa-o\u2019o fishes that were Hina\u2019s brothers. Koni-konia and Hina and all\nthe people climbed to the tops of the trees that were on the tops of\nthe mountains. And then the Ocean, having covered the tops of the\nmountains, went back again, drawing back the pa-o\u2019o fishes that were\nHina\u2019s brothers. And it was in this way that the Great Flood came to\nHawaii.\n\nAnd after the waters of the Ocean had gone back to their own place,\nKoni-konia the King, with Hina and his people, went back to the place\nwhere their houses had been. All was washed away; there were mud and\nsand where their houses and fields had been. Soon the sun dried up the\npuddles and the wetness in the ground; growth came again; they built\ntheir houses and cultivated their fields; and Koni-konia, with Hina and\nwith his people, lived once again in a wide land beside the great\nocean.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHINA, THE WOMAN IN THE MOON.\n\n\nA weary woman was Hina, and as the years grew on her she grew more and\nmore weary. All day she sat outside her house beating out tapas for\nclothes for her family, making cloths out of the bark of a tree by\nbeating it on a board with a mallet. Weary indeed was Hina with making\ntapas all the day outside her house. And when she might see no more to\nbeat out the tapas, she would have to get her calabash and bring water\nto the house. Often she would stumble in the dark, coming back with her\ncalabash of water. There was no one in her house to help her. Her son\nwent sailing from island to island, robbing people, and her daughter\nwent to live with the wild people in the forest. Her husband had become\nbad-tempered, and he was always striving to make her do more and more\nwork.\n\nAs Hina grew old she longed more and more to go to a place where she\nmight sit and rest herself. And one day, when she was given a new task\nand was sent to fish up shrimps amongst the rocks with a net, she cried\nout, \u201cOh, that I might go away from this place, and to a place where I\nmight stay and rest myself.\u201d\n\nThe Rainbow heard Hina and had pity on her. It made an arching path for\nher from the rocks up to the heavens. With the net in her hands she\nwent along that path. She thought she would go up to the heavens and\nthen over to the Sun, and that she would go into the Sun and rest\nherself there.\n\nShe went higher and higher along the arch of the Rainbow. But as she\nwent on, the rays of the Sun beat on her more and more strongly. She\nheld the net over her head and went on and on. But when she went beyond\nthe clouds and there was nothing to shelter her, the rays of the Sun\nburnt her terribly. On and on she went, but as she went higher she\ncould only crawl along the path. Then the fire of the Sun\u2019s rays began\nto torture her and shrivel her. She could go no farther, and, slipping\nback along the Rainbow arch, she came to earth again.\n\nIt was dark now. She stood outside her house and saw her husband coming\nback from the pool with a calabash of water, stumbling and saying\nill-tempered words about her. And when she showed herself to him he\nscolded because she had not been there to bring the calabash of water\nto the house.\n\nNow that the Sun was gone down and his rays were no longer upon her,\nher strength came back to Hina. She looked up into the sky, and she saw\nthe full Moon there; and she said: \u201cTo the Moon I will go. It is very\nquiet, and there I can sit for a long, long time and rest myself.\u201d\n\nBut first she went into the house for the calabash that held all the\nthings that on earth were precious to her. She came out of her house\ncarrying the calabash, and there before her door was a moon-rainbow.\n\nHer husband came and asked her where she was going; because she carried\nher calabash he knew she was going far. \u201cI am going to the Moon, to a\nplace where I can rest myself,\u201d she said. She began to climb along the\narch of the Rainbow. And now she was almost out of her husband\u2019s reach.\nBut he sprang up and caught her foot in his hand. He fell back,\ntwisting and breaking her foot as he fell.\n\nBut Hina went on. She was lamed, and she was filled with pain; and yet\nshe rejoiced as she went along through the quiet night. On and on she\nwent. She came to where the Stars were, and she said incantations to\nthem, that they might show her how to come to the Moon. And the Stars\nshowed her the way, and she came at last to the Moon.\n\nShe came to the Moon with the calabash that had her precious\npossessions; and the Moon gave her a place where she might rest. There\nHina stayed. And the people of Hawaii can look up to the bright Moon\nand see her there. She sits, her foot lamed, and with her calabash by\nher side. Seeing her there, the people call her, not \u201cHina\u201d any more,\nbut \u201cLono Moku\u201d\u2014that is, \u201cLame Lono.\u201d And standing outside the door you\ncan see her now\u2014Hina, the Woman in the Moon. But some say that, instead\nof the calabash, she took with her her tapa-board and mallet; and they\nsay that the fine fleecy clouds that you see around the Moon are really\nthe fine tapa-cloths that Hina beats out.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNOTES.\n\n\nTHE BOY PU-NIA AND THE KING OF THE SHARKS\n\nGiven in the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and\nFolk-lore, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian\nEthnology and Natural History, Vol. V, Part II, with the title Kaao no\nPunia, Legend of Pu-nia.\n\nLike many another Polynesian hero, Pu-nia had a mother whose name was\nHina. The shark\u2019s name, Kai-ale-ale, means \u201cSea in great commotion.\u201d\nBut the kindling of the fire inside the shark with the fire-sticks\ncould not have been so easy as it is made to appear. Melville, in\nTypee, describes the operation of fire-making as laborious. This is how\nhe saw it being done:\n\n\u201cA straight, dry, and partly decayed stick of the hibiscus, about six\nfeet in length, and half as many inches in diameter, with a smaller bit\nof wood not more than a foot long, and scarcely an inch wide, is as\ninvariably to be met with in every house in Typee as a box of lucifer\nmatches in the corner of the kitchen cupboard at home. The islander,\nplacing the larger stick obliquely against some object, with one end\nelevated at an angle of forty-five degrees, mounts astride of it like\nan urchin about to gallop off upon a cane, and then grasping the\nsmaller one firmly in both hands, he rubs its pointed end slowly up and\ndown the extent of a few inches on the principal stick, until at last\nhe makes a narrow groove in the wood, with an abrupt termination at the\npoint furthest from him, where all the dusty particles which the\nfriction creates are accumulated in a little heap.\n\n\u201cAt first Kory-Kory goes to work quite leisurely, but gradually\nquickens his pace, and waxing warm in the employment, drives the stick\nfuriously along the smoking channel, plying his hands to and fro with\namazing rapidity, the perspiration starting from every pore. As he\napproaches the climax of his effort, he pants and gasps for breath, and\nhis eyes almost start from their sockets with the violence of his\nexertions. This is the critical stage of the operation; all his\nprevious labours are in vain if he cannot sustain the rapidity of the\nmovement until the reluctant spark is produced. Suddenly he stops,\nbecomes perfectly motionless. His hands still retain their hold of the\nsmaller stick, which is pressed convulsively against the further end of\nthe channel among the fine powder there accumulated, as if he had just\npierced through and through some little viper that was wriggling and\nstruggling to escape from his clutches. The next moment a delicate\nwreath of smoke curls spirally into the air, the heap of dusty\nparticles glow with fire, and Kory-Kory, almost breathless, dismounts\nfrom his steed.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nTHE SEVEN GREAT DEEDS OF MA-UI\n\nThe number seven has no significance in Polynesian tradition; the\nnumber eight has. It just happened that the number of Ma-ui\u2019s deeds\nthat had interest for me as a story-teller was seven. Fornander has\nonly short and passing notices of Ma-ui, and all the material for the\nstories given here has been taken from Mr. W. D. Westervelt\u2019s valuable\nMa-ui the Demi-God. Ma-ui is a hero for all the Polynesians, and Mr.\nWestervelt tells us that either complete or fragmentary Ma-ui legends\nare found in the single islands and island groups of Aneityum, Bowditch\nor Fakaofa, Efate, Fiji, Fotuna, Gilbert, Hawaii, Hervey, Huahine,\nMangaia, Manihiki, Marquesas, Marshall, Nauru, New Hebrides, New\nZealand, Samoa, Savage, Tahiti or Society, Tauna, Tokelau, and Tonga.\nMa-ui is, in short, a Pan-Polynesian hero, and it is as a\nPan-Polynesian hero that I have treated him, giving his legend from\nother sources than those that are purely Hawaiian. However, I have\ntried to make Hawaii the background for all the stories. Note that\nMa-ui\u2019s position in his family is the traditional position for a\nPolynesian hero\u2014he is the youngest of his brothers, but, as in the case\nof other heroes of the Polynesians, he becomes the leader of his\nfamily.\n\nMa-ui\u2019s mother was Hina. She is distinguished from the numerous Hinas\nof Polynesian tradition by being \u201cHina-a-ke-ahi,\u201d \u201cHina-of-the-Fire.\u201d I\nfollow the New Zealand tradition that Mr. Westervelt gives in telling\nhow Ma-ui was thrown into the sea by his mother and how the jelly-fish\ntook care of him. Ma-ui\u2019s throwing the heavy spear at the house is also\nout of New Zealand. His overthrowing of the two posts is out of the\nHawaiian tradition. But in that tradition it is suggested that his two\nuncles were named \u201cTall Post\u201d and \u201cShort Post.\u201d They had been the\nguardians of the house, and young Ma-ui had to struggle with them to\nwin a place for himself in the house. Ma-ui\u2019s taking away invisibility\nfrom the birds and letting the people see the singers is out of the\nHawaiian tradition. So is Ma-ui\u2019s kite-flying. The Polynesian people\nall delighted in kite-flying, but the Hawaiians are unique in giving a\nkite to a demi-god. The incantation beginning \u201cO winds, winds of\nWai-pio\u201d is Hawaiian; the other incantation, \u201cClimb up, climb up,\u201d is\nfrom New Zealand.\n\nThe fishing up of the islands is supposed by scholars to be a folk-lore\naccount of the discovery of new islands after the Polynesian tribes had\nput off from Indonesia. The story that I give is mainly Hawaiian\u2014it is\nout of Mr. Westervelt\u2019s book, of course\u2014but I have borrowed from the\nNew Zealand and the Tongan accounts too; the fish-hook made from the\njaw-bone of his ancestress is out of the New Zealand tradition, and the\nchant \u201cO Island, O great Island\u201d is Tongan.\n\nThe story of Ma-ui\u2019s snaring the sun is Hawaiian, and the scene of\nthis, the greatest exploit in Polynesian tradition, is on the great\nHawaiian mountain Haleakala. The detail about the nooses of the ropes\nthat Ma-ui uses\u2014that they were made from the hair of his sister\u2014is out\nof the Tahitian tradition as given by Gill.\n\nThe Hawaiian story about Ma-ui\u2019s finding fire is rather tame; he forces\nthe alae or the mud-hen to give the secret up to him. I have added to\nthe Hawaiian story the picturesque New Zealand story of his getting\nfire hidden in her nails from his ancestress in the lower world. There\nis an Hawaiian story, glanced at by Fornander, in which Ma-ui obtains\nfire by breaking open the head of his eldest brother.\n\nThe story of Ma-ui and Kuna Loa, the Long Eel, as I give it, is partly\nout of the Hawaiian, partly out of the New Zealand tradition, and there\nis in it, besides, a reminiscence of a story from Samoa. All of these\nstories are given in Mr. Westervelt\u2019s book. That Kuna Loa tried to\ndrown Ma-ui\u2019s mother in her cave\u2014that is Hawaiian; that Hina was driven\nto climb a bread-fruit tree to get away from the Long Eel\u2014that is\nderived from the Samoan story. And the transformation of the pieces of\nKuna Loa into eels, sea monsters, and fishes is out of the New Zealand\ntradition about Ma-ui. \u201cWhen the writer was talking with the natives\nconcerning this part of the old legend,\u201d says Mr. Westervelt, \u201cthey\nsaid, \u2018Kuna is not a Hawaiian word. It means something like a snake or\na dragon, something we do not have in these islands.\u2019 This, they\nthought, made the connection with the Hina legend valueless until they\nwere shown that Tuna (or Kuna) was the New Zealand name of the reptile\nwhich attacked Hina and struck her with his tail like a crocodile, for\nwhich Ma-ui killed him. When this was understood, the Hawaiians were\ngreatly interested to give the remainder of the legend, and compare it\nwith the New Zealand story.\u201d \u201cThis dragon,\u201d Mr. Westervelt goes on,\n\u201cmay be a remembrance of the days when the Polynesians were supposed to\ndwell by the banks of the River Ganges in India, when crocodiles were\ndangerous enemies and heroes saved families from their destructive\ndepredations.\u201d Mrs. A. P. Taylor of Honolulu writes me in connection\nwith this passage: \u201cThere is a spring in the Palama district in\nHonolulu called Kuna-wai (\u2018Eel of Water\u2019). In Hawaiian, kuna-kuna means\neczema, a skin disease.\u201d\n\nThe story of the search that Ma-ui\u2019s brother made for his sister is\nfrom New Zealand. Ma-ui\u2019s brother is named Ma-ui Mua and Rupe. His\nsister is Hina-te-ngaru-moana, \u201cHina, the daughter of the Ocean.\u201d\n\nThe splendidly imaginative story of how Ma-ui strove to win immortality\nfor men is from New Zealand. The Goblin-goddess with whom Ma-ui\nstruggles is Hina-nui-te-po, \u201cGreat Hina of the Night,\u201d or \u201cHina, Great\nLady of Hades.\u201d According to the New Zealand mythology she was the\ndaughter and the wife of Kane, the greatest of the Polynesian gods.\nThere seems to be a reminiscence of the myth that they once possessed\nin common with the New Zealanders in the fragmentary tale that the\nHawaiians have about Ma-ui striving to tear a mountain apart. \u201cHe\nwrenched a great hole in the side. Then the elepaio bird sang and the\ncharm was broken. The cleft in the mountain could not be enlarged. If\nthe story could be completed it would not be strange if the death of\nMa-ui came with his failure to open the path through the mountain.\u201d So\nMr. Westervelt writes.\n\nThe Ma-ui stories have flowed over into Melanesia, and there is a\nFijian story given in Lorimer Fison\u2019s Tales of Old Fiji, in which\nMa-ui\u2019s fishing is described. Ma-ui, in that story, is described as the\ngreatest of the gods; he has brothers, and he has two sons with him.\nWith his sons he fishes up the islands of Ata, Tonga, Haabai, Vavau,\nNiua, Samoa, and Fiji. Ma-ui\u2019s sons depart from the Land of the Gods\nand seize upon the islands that their father had fished up. Then\nDisease and Death come to the islands that the rebel gods, Ma-ui\u2019s\nsons, have seized. Afterwards Ma-ui sent to them \u201csome of the sacred\nfire of Bulotu.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nAU-KE-LE THE SEEKER\n\nGiven in the Fornander Collection, Vol. IV, Part I, of the Memoirs of\nthe Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, with the title He Moolelo no\nAukelenuiaiku, the Legend of Aukelenuiaiku.\n\nLike many another Polynesian hero, Au-ke-le (to cut down his name from\nthe many-syllabled one which means Great Au-ke-le, son of Iku) was the\nyoungest born of his family. Fornander thought that his story \u201chas\nmarked resemblances in several features to the Hebrew account of Joseph\nand his brethren, and is traced back to Cushite origin through\nwanderings and migrations\u201d\u2014an idea which is wholly fantastic. The story\nas I have retold it is very much condensed.\n\nAu-ke-le\u2019s grandmother is a mo-o\u2014literally, a lizard. Dr. Nathaniel\nEmerson and Mr. William Hyde Rice translate \u201cmo-o\u201d by \u201cdragon,\u201d and I\nfancy that \u201cmo-o\u201d created a sufficiently vague conception to allow the\nfantastic and terrifying dragon to become its representative. On the\nother hand, \u201cdragon\u201d tends to bring in a conception that is not\nPolynesian. I have not rendered \u201cmo-o\u201d by either \u201clizard\u201d or \u201cdragon.\u201d\nI prefer to let \u201cmo-o\u201d remain mysterious. Note what Mr. Westervelt says\nabout the \u201cmo-o\u201d or \u201cdragon\u201d being a reminiscence of creatures of\nanother environment.\n\nThe story of Au-ke-le is mythical: it is a story about the Polynesian\ngods. Au-ke-le and his brothers go from one land of the gods to\nanother. The \u201cMagic\u201d that he carries in his calabash is a godling that\nhis grandmother made over to him. There are many things in this story\nthat are difficult to make intelligible in a retelling. It is\ndifficult, for instance, to convey the impression that the maids whom\nthe Queen sends to Au-ke-le,  and her brothers too, were reduced to\nabject terror by Au-ke-le\u2019s disclosing their names. But to the\nPolynesians, as to other primitive peoples, names were not only\nprivate, and intensely private, but they were sacred. To know one\u2019s\nname was to be possessed of some of one\u2019s personality; magic could be\nworked against one through the possession of a name. Our names are\npublic. But suppose that a really private name\u2014a name that was given to\nus by our mother as a pet name\u2014was called out in public: how upset we\nmight be! Stevenson\u2019s mother named him \u201cSmootie\u201d and \u201cBaron Broadnose.\u201d\nHow startled R. L. S. might have been if a stranger in a strange land\nhad addressed him by either name!\n\nLater on Au-ke-le goes on the quest that was the Polynesian equivalent\nof the Quest of the Holy Grail; he goes in quest of the Water of\nEverlasting Life, the Water of Kane. The Polynesian thought that there\nwas no blessing greater than that of a long life. There are many\nstories dealing with the Quest of the Water of Kane, and there is one\npoem that has been translated beautifully by Dr. Nathaniel Emerson. It\nis given in his Unwritten Literature of Hawaii.\n\n\n            A query, a question,\n            I put to you:\n            Where is the Water of Kane?\n            At the Eastern Gate\n            Where the Sun comes in at Haehae;\n            There is the Water of Kane.\n\n            A question I ask of you:\n            Where is the Water of Kane?\n            Out there with the floating Sun,\n            Where cloud-forms rest on the Ocean\u2019s breast,\n            Uplifting their forms at Nohoa,\n            This side the base of Lehua;\n            There is the Water of Kane.\n\n            One question I put to you:\n            Where is the Water of Kane?\n            Yonder on mountain peak,\n            On the ridges steep,\n            In the valleys deep,\n            Where the rivers sweep;\n            There is the Water of Kane.\n\n            This question I ask of you:\n            Where, pray, is the Water of Kane?\n            Yonder, at sea, on the ocean,\n            In the drifting rain,\n            In the heavenly bow,\n            In the piled-up mist-wraith,\n            In the blood-red rainfall,\n            In the ghost-pale cloud-form;\n            There is the Water of Kane.\n\n            One question I put to you:\n            Where, where is the Water of Kane?\n            Up on high is the Water of Kane,\n            In the heavenly blue,\n            In the black-piled cloud,\n            In the black-black cloud,\n            In the black-mottled sacred cloud of the gods;\n            There is the Water of Kane.\n\n            One question I ask of you:\n            Where flows the Water of Kane?\n            Deep in the ground, in the gushing spring,\n            In the ducts of Kane and Loa,\n            A well-spring of water, to quaff,\n            A water of magic power\u2014\n            The water of Life!\n            Life! O give us this life!\n\n\nThe story of Au-ke-le has a solemn if not a tragic ending, which is\nunusual in Polynesian stories. Its close makes one think of that chant\nthat Melville heard the aged Tahitians give \u201cin a low, sad tone\u201d:\n\n\n            A harree ta fow,\n            A toro ta farraro,\n            A now ta tararta.\n              The palm-tree shall grow,\n              The coral shall spread,\n              But man shall cease.\n\n\n\n\nPI-KO-I: THE BOY WHO WAS GOOD AT SHOOTING ARROWS\n\nGiven in the Fornander Collection, Vol. IV, Part III, of the Memoirs of\nthe Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, with the title Kaao No Pikoiakaalala,\nLegend of Pikoiakaalala (Pi-ko-i, the son of the Alala).\n\nHis father was Raven or Crow, his sisters were Rat and Bat. The arrows\nthat Pi-ko-i shot were not from the sort of bow that we are familiar\nwith; the Hawaiian bow, it must be noted, was not a complete bow. The\nstring hung untied from the top of the shaft; the shooter put the notch\nof the arrow into the hanging string, whipped forward the shaft, and at\nthe same time cast the arrow, which was light, generally an arrow of\nsugar-cane. The arrow was never used in war; it was used in sport\u2014to\nshoot over a distance, and at birds and at rats that were held in some\nenclosure. The bird that cried out was evidently the elepaio. \u201cAmong\nthe gods of the canoe-makers,\u201d says Mr. Joseph Emerson, \u201cshe held the\nposition of inspector of all koa trees designed for that use.\u201d The\nHawaiian interest in riddles enters into Pi-ko-i\u2019s story.\n\n\n\n\nPAKA: THE BOY WHO WAS REARED IN THE LAND THAT THE GODS HAVE SINCE\nHIDDEN\n\nGiven in the Fornander Collection, Vol. V, Part II, of the Memoirs of\nthe Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, with the title Kaao no Kepakailiula,\nthe Legend of Kepakailiula.\n\nPali-uli, where Paka\u2019s uncles reared him, is the Hawaiian paradise. In\na chant that Fornander quotes it is described:\n\n\n        O Pali-uli, hidden Land of Kane,\n        Land in Kalana i Hauola,\n        In Kahiki-ku, in Kapakapaua of Kane,\n        The Land whose foundation shines with fatness,\n        Land greatly enjoyed by the god.\n\n\n\u201cThis land or Paradise,\u201d says Fornander, \u201cwas the central part of the\nworld ... and situated in Kahiki-ku, which was a large and extensive\ncontinent.\u201d Paka emerges from this Fairy-land into a world that is\nquite diurnal when he sets about winning Mako-lea. The boxing,\nspear-throwing, and riddling contests that he engages in reflect the\nlife of the Hawaiian courts.\n\n\n\n\nTHE STORY OF HA-LE-MA-NO AND THE PRINCESS KAMA\n\nGiven in the Fornander Collection, Vol. V, Part II, of the Memoirs of\nthe Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, with the title Kaao no Halemano,\nLegend of Ha-le-ma-no.\n\nKama, or, to give her her full name, Kamalalawalu, was living under a\nstrict tapu. Ha-le-ma-no is no thoughtless tapu-breaker, as are other\nyoung men in Hawaiian romance; there is very little of the mythical\nelement in this story; the enchantress-sister, however, is a figure\nthat often comes into Hawaiian romance. This story is remarkable for\nits vivid rendering of episodes belonging to the aristocratic life\u2014the\nsurf-riding, surely the greatest of sports to participate in, as it is\nthe most thrilling of sports to watch; the minstrelsy; the gambling.\nThe poems that Ha-le-ma-no and Kama repeat to each other are very\nbaffling, and are open to many interpretations. In this respect they\nare like most Hawaiian poetry, which has a deliberate obscurity that\nmight have won Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s admiration.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ARROW AND THE SWING\n\nThis is one of the most famous of the Hawaiian stories. It is given in\nthe Fornander Collection, Vol. V, Part I, of the Memoirs of the Bernice\nPauahi Bishop Museum, with the title He Kaao no Hiku a me Kawelu, the\nLegend of Hi-ku and Ka-we-lu. It should be remembered that Hi-ku\u2019s\narrow was more for casting than for shooting: the game that he was\nplaying at the opening of the story consisted in casting his arrow,\nPua-ne, over a distance. Ka-we-lu was living under tapu. But, like many\nanother heroine of Polynesian romance, she was not reluctant about\nhaving the tapu broken. There is one very puzzling feature in this\nstory. Why did Ka-we-lu not give her lover food? Her failure to provide\nsomething for him is against all traditions of Hawaiian hospitality. Of\ncourse, in the old days, men and women might not eat together;\nKa-we-lu, however, could have indicated to Hi-ku where to go for food.\nThe food at hand might have been for women only, and tapu as regards\nmen. Or it might have been tapu for all except people of high rank. If\nthis was what was behind Ka-we-lu\u2019s inhospitality it would account for\na bitterness in Hi-ku\u2019s anger\u2014she was treating him as a person of a\nclass beneath her. But these are guesses merely. I have asked those who\nwere best acquainted with the Hawaiian tradition to clear up the\nmystery of Ka-we-lu\u2019s behavior in this particular, but they all\nconfessed themselves baffled by it. The poems that Ka-we-lu chants to\nHi-ku, like the poems that Ha-le-ma-no chants to Kama, have a meaning\nbeneath the ostensible meaning of the words.\n\nWith regard to Ka-we-lu\u2019s death it should be remembered that according\nto Polynesian belief the soul was not single, but double. A part of it\ncould be separated or charmed away from the body; the spirit that could\nbe so separated from the body was called hau. In making the connection\nbetween Hi-ku and the lost Ka-we-lu I have gone outside the legend as\ngiven in the Fornander Collection. I have brought in Lolupe, who finds\nlost and hidden things. This godling is connected with the\nHi-ku-Ka-we-lu story through a chant given by Dr. Nathaniel Emerson in\nhis notes to David Malo\u2019s Hawaiian Antiquities.\n\nMr. Joseph Emerson gives this account of Lua o Milu, the realm of Milu,\nthe Hawaiian Hades: \u201cIts entrance, according to the usual account of\nthe natives, was situated at the mouth of the great valley of Waipio,\non the island of Hawaii, in a place called Keoni, where the sands have\nlong since covered up and concealed from view this passage from the\nupper to the nether world.\u201d Fornander says that the realm of Milu was\nnot entirely dark. \u201cThere was light and there was fire in it.\u201d The\nswing chant that I have given to Hi-ku does not belong to the legend;\nit is out of a collection of chants that accompany games. The Hawaiian\nswing was different from ours; it was a single strand with a\ncross-piece, and it was pulled and not pushed out.\n\nMr. Joseph Emerson, in a paper that I have already quoted from, The\nLesser Hawaiian Gods, says that Hi-ku\u2019s mother was Hina, the wife of\nKu, one of the greater Polynesian gods. In that case, Hi-ku was\noriginally a demi-god.\n\n\n\n\nTHE DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF KU-AI-HE-LANI\n\nGiven in the Fornander Collection, Vol. IV, Part III, of the Memoirs of\nthe Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, with the title Kaao no\nLaukiamanuikahiki. The girl\u2019s full name means \u201cBird catching leaf of\nKahiki.\u201d Her mother is Hina, a mortal woman apparently, but her father\nis a demi-god, a dweller in \u201cthe Country that Supports the Heavens.\u201d In\nthe original, Ula the Prince is the son of Lau-kia-manu\u2019s father; such\na relation as between lover and lover is quite acceptable in Hawaiian\nromance. When she comes into her father\u2019s country the girl incurs the\ndeath-penalty by going into a garden that has been made tapu.\nLau-kia-manu, in Kahiki-ku, seems to have the r\u00f4le of Cinderella;\nhowever, the Hawaiian story-teller gives her a ruthlessness that is not\nat all in keeping with our notion of a sympathetic character.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FISH-HOOK OF PEARL\n\nThis simple tale is given in the Fornander Collection, Vol. IV, Part\nIII, of the Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Museum, with the title Kaao\nno Aiai, the Legend of Aiai.\n\n\n\n\nTHE STORY OF KANA, THE YOUTH WHO COULD STRETCH HIMSELF UPWARDS\n\nThis story is given in the Fornander Collection, Vol. IV, Part III,\nwith the title Kaao no Kana a Me Niheu, Legend of Kana and Niheu. Mr.\nThrum speaks of the legend of Kana and Niheu as having \u201cear-marks of\ngreat antiquity and such popularity as to be known by several\nversions.\u201d The chant in which his grandmother prays for a double canoe\nfor Kana is over a hundred lines long; Miss Beckwith speaks of this\nchant as being still used as an incantation.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ME-NE-HU-NE\n\nThere are no stories of the Me-ne-hu-ne in the Fornander Collection.\nFornander uses the name, but only as implying the very early people of\nthe Islands. According to W. D. Alexander the name Me-ne-hu-ne is\napplied in Tahiti to the lowest class of people.\n\nThe account of the Me-ne-hu-ne that I give is taken from two\nsources\u2014from Mr. William Hyde Rice\u2019s Hawaiian Legends, published by the\nBishop Museum, and from Mr. Thomas Thrum\u2019s Stories of the Menehunes,\npublished by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. I am indebted to Mr. Rice\nfor the part that treats of the history of the Me-ne-hu-ne, and to Mr.\nThrum for the two stories, \u201cPi\u2019s Watercourse\u201d and \u201cLaka\u2019s Adventure.\u201d\n\nBeginning with \u201cThe Me-ne-hu-ne,\u201d I have treated the stories as if they\nwere being told to a boy by an older Hawaiian. I have imagined them\nboth as being with a party who have gone up into the highlands to cut\nsandalwood. That would be in the time of the first successors of\nKamehameha, when the sandalwood of the islands was being cut down for\nexportation to China, \u201cthe land of the Pa-ke.\u201d As the party goes down\nthe mountain-side the boy gathers the ku-kui or candle-nuts for\nlighting the house at night.\n\n\n\n\nTHE STORY OF MO-E MO-E: ALSO A STORY ABOUT PO-O AND ABOUT KAU-HU-HU THE\nSHARK-GOD, AND ABOUT MO-E MO-E\u2019S SON, THE MAN WHO WAS BOLD IN HIS WISH\n\nThe story of Opele, who came to be called Mo-e Mo-e, is given in the\nFornander Collection, Vol. V, Part I, of the Memoirs of the Bernice\nPauahi Bishop Museum, with the title He Kaao no Opelemoemoe, Legend of\nOpelemoemoe; the story about Po-o is given in the Memoirs of the\nBernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Vol. V, Part III (the stories in this\nvolume do not belong to the Fornander Collection); the story about the\nShark-God is taken from an old publication of the Islands, the Maile\nQuarterly; the story of the Man who was Bold in his Wish is given in\nthe Fornander Collection, Vol. IV, Part III, of the Memoirs of the\nBernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, with the title Kaao no Kalelealuaka a Me\nKeinohoomanawanui, the Legend of Kalelealuaka and Keinohoomanawanui.\n\n\n\n\nTHE WOMAN FROM LALO-HANA, THE COUNTRY UNDER THE SEA\n\nThis story is taken from David Malo\u2019s Hawaiian Antiquities. A variant\nis given in the Fornander Collection. There are many Hinas in Hawaiian\ntradition, but the Hina of this story is undoubtedly the Polynesian\nmoon-goddess.\n\n\n\n\nHINA, THE WOMAN IN THE MOON\n\nThis story is from Mr. Westervelt\u2019s Ma-ui the Demi-God. The husband of\nthis Hina was Aikanaka.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n\n[1] Quoted by Melville in Typee, Chapter XXV. The chronicle of de\nFigeroas\u2019s voyage\u2014the voyage by which the Marquesas were discovered and\nthe Polynesians looked upon for the first time by European man\u2014was\npublished in Madrid, according to Melville, in 1613. Menda\u00f1a\u2019s voyage\nwas made in 1595.\n\n[2] By Ivor H. N. Evans, M.A., Cambridge University Press, 1923.\n\n[3] Written kapu in Hawaiian and taboo by the mariners who came first\namongst the Polynesians. I have been instructed to write the word tapu.\nIts meaning is not merely \u201cforbidden\u201d: it means \u201csacred,\u201d \u201cinviolate,\u201d\n\u201cbelonging to the gods.\u201d In the four stories in the present collection\nwhere tapu is in operation I have made no attempt to explain its\nsignificance; I have merely said that it was forbidden to go to that\nplace or go near that person.\n\n[4] Published by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian\nEthnology and Natural History, 1923.","title":"At the gateways of the day","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":56552}