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bine, becoming crazy on account of Mua's false tale of Moikeha's unfaithfulness. 

 When Moikeha heard that wrong had been done him he left Tahiti and sailed to 

 Hawaii, and as his canoes approached the beach at Hilo Kamahualele stood up on 

 the cross-boards of the canoe and chanted the following mele in honor of his chief: 



Here is Hawaii, an island, a man, 



Hawaii is a man, 



A man is Hawaii, 



A child of Tahiti, 



A royal flower from Kapaahu. 



From Moaulanuiakea Kanaloa, 



A grandchild of Kahiko and Kapulanakehau. 



It was Papa who begat him. 



The daughter of Kukalaniehu and Kahakaua- 



koko. 

 The scattered islands are in a row; 

 Placed evenly from east to west; 

 Spread evenly is the land in a row. 

 And joined on to Holani. 

 Kaialea the seer went round the land, 

 Separated Nuuhiwa,' landed on Polapola.' 



Kahiko is the root of the land 



Who divided and separated the islands. 



Broken is the fish-line of Kahai, 



That was cut by Kukanaloa. 



Broken into pieces were the lands, the islands, 



Cut by the sacred knife of Kanaloa 



Of Hauniea, bird of Kahikele. 



Moikeha is the chief who is to reside; 



My chief will reside on Hawaii. 



Life, life, O buoyant life! 



The chief and the priest shall live; 



Dwell on Hawaii and be at rest, 



And attain to old age on Kauai. 



Kauai is the island, 



Moikeha is the chief. 



According to this chant of Kamahualele, Wakea and his wife were not the 

 original progenitors of Hawaii nei, and here is this also: it seems from this account 

 that the people came from Tahiti to people these islands as stated in the mele chanted 

 by Kamahualele from the cross-board of the canoe recited above. 



CHAPTER V. 



Thk Story of Oriu^K.^HONUA. 



It is told in the genealogy of Opuukahonua that they were the royal parents 

 or ancestors of the.se islands, and that there were ninety-five generations from him to 

 Kamehameha the Great. And they were found or obtained by the fishing of Kapuhee- 

 uanui, and thus runs the tale: When Kapuheeuanui let down his fishing line into the sea 

 from Kapaahu his line caught something that he thought was a fish and drew the line 

 onto the canoe when, behold, it was a piece of coral. The priest Laulialamakua came 

 along as Kapuheeuanui was disentangling his line from the coral and preparing to throw 

 it away. Then the priest spoke to him, "Eh! Don't throw away that piece of coral, for 

 that is a chief, a foreteller of events. Go thou and look for a pig and appease the god, 

 and after prayer call it's name Hawaiiloa, then throw it back into the sea, and it will 

 grow up into an island." Kaptiheeuanui obeyed the instructions of the priest. The 

 next day Kapuheeuanui went fishing again and his line was again caught by a coral. 

 This time he bethought himself of what the priest had said and took the coral to him, 

 and the priest said to him, "That is a man, a chief; call his name Mauiloa." He did so 

 and then threw the coral back into the sea. On the third day of Kapuheeuanui's fishing 



» Nukuhiva of the Marquesan group. 



^The island of Bolabola of the Society Islands. 



