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nuiaiku then asked him: "How am I to get him to listen to me?" "Yon go and call 

 him by his tiame in this way: 'Say, Kauraailnnaoholaniku, ask me to come np on the 

 ship with 3'on so that we may play together. You cannot enjoy yourself with those 

 old men. I am the proper companion that will be suited to you, because you are 

 young and so am I.' " After these instructions had been imparted by his older brother, 

 their father who was listening said: "My boy, don't go with them, for you will be 

 killed. When you are not safe living with me, what chance will you have when you 

 accompany them? If you insist on going you will surely get killed, and your 

 mother and I will not see you again." Aukelenuiaiku answered: "I will not remain 

 with you two. I am going sightseeing and to visit other lands in the sea; therefore 

 I am going." 



After the above conversation, Aukelenuiaiku proceeded to the ship with Iku- 

 mailani his brother. When they arrived at the ship, his brother went aboard, leaving 

 Aukelenuiaiku below on the landing. Aukelenuiaiku then called out to his nephew, 

 and after telling him what he wanted, he was invited by the nephew to come aboard 

 in the following words: "IMy uncle, come al)oard of the vessel." Upon receiving this 

 invitation, Aukelenuiaiku climbed aboard, while his older brothers looked on, for they 

 dared not deny their nephew his wish. The boy was their great favorite; whatever 

 he said was law with them, and all the uncles obeyed his every word. This boy was 

 raised under a very strict kapu; and if he ordered that a person be killed, that person 

 is killed; if he ordered that a person be allowed to go free, that person goes off free. 

 Therefore this boy's person was sacred, and whatever he said was law; nothing was 

 denied him, and no one dared say nay to him. The}' all obeyed him. 



After Aukelenuiaiku had climbed aboard, he asked the boy to send someone for 

 his club and box. When the boy heard this, he sent a couple of men after these things. 

 After the men had returned with these things, the ship started off on its voyage from 

 Kuaihelani. In the first four months of the voyage their food, meat and water, were 

 exhausted and the men began to die of hunger and thirst, and the brothers were in 

 great distress. When the brothers found that all their food was exhausted, they went 

 down into the body of the ship and staid there, while Aukelenuiaiku and the boy staid 

 above. After several days had gone by, the boy began to wonder at the disappearance 

 of his father and uncles, so he went down into the ship to look for them. When he 

 got to the bottom of the vessel he found his father and uncles lying weak from 

 hunger. The boy then climbed onto the breast of his father, Kekamakahinuiaiku, the 

 one with the violent temper, and who hated Aukelenuiaiku most of all. As the boy 

 sat on his father's chest, the father looked up and when he saw his son he said: "Yes, 

 how pitiful ! I have no regrets as far as we are concerned, for we have spent many 

 days in this world; but it is you that I pity, for all the food, the meat and water are 

 gone, and all that is left is two joints of sugar-cane." The boy replied: "I am not 

 distressed, for I am not in need of food, for my uncle has a certain leaf which we touch 

 to our lips and our hunger is satisfied, and we stay without wanting any food for four 

 months." After talking with his father for a while, he returned to his uncle, Ankele- 



