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your brother." He then took the boj'S to the river in the order of their birth. But 

 before this he told his sons: "Let each of you bring his ti-leaf canoe' and sail it across 

 the river, each one to have but one trial, and under no condition are you to have a 

 second trial. The one whose canoe shall come between my thighs, that boy shall be 

 the one to go and bring your brother." 



After giving them these instructions he proceeded to the opposite bank of the 

 river and sat down at the edge of the water directly facing the wind. The boys in the 

 meantime proceeded to the windward at a point right opposite their father. The oldest 

 boy then set his canoe down in the water and steered it for the desired point, but it 

 missed the mark, as it sailed off in another direction. The second boy then set his 

 canoe down in the water and it, too, missed the mark. The third and fourth boys also 

 took their turns and they too failed to hit the desired mark. Then Kila, the j^oungest 

 son of Moikeha, took his canoe and set it down in the water and it sailed directly to 

 his father and passed between his thighs. When his brothers saw that their young- 

 est brother had won they became very angry and from then on they tried to devise 

 some way of killing him. 



Some time after this his older brothers enticed him to go and play at shooting 

 arrows," but as their parents were aware of the fact that they had no love for their 

 youngest brother, their father did not allow Kila to accompany them. The older 

 brothers then coaxed him and pretended to be kind to him in every way possible, but 

 their father, Moikeha, would not allow him to go along with them. 



At last, when it was almost time for Kila to undertake his trip to Tahiti, to 

 bring Laamaikahiki, Moikeha then thought of giving him the desired permission to 

 accompany his older brothers. Upon deciding that he would do this Moikeha told 

 Kila: "My son, I am not going to keep you away from your brothers any longer. 

 You can now accompan}^ them. It is possible that the journey you are to undertake 

 may take you away from them altogether, so you may now accompany them wherever 

 they go. After the kapu days of the temple are ended, in the following days you shall 

 then sail for Tahiti." Kila then replied: "Yoii must not permit me to accompany my 

 brothers for I might get killed. I think you ought to provide them with a god so that 

 the}' will fear the god and in that way prevent them from killing me. Then I think 

 it will be safe for me to accompany my brothers." When Moikeha saw that the boy 

 had used good judgment in the matter, he called his sons together and told them 

 that they must now have a god. Upon hearing this the boys would not consent to 

 such a proposition. At this Moikeha approved of Kila's discretion and therefore 

 refused to allow him to accompany his brothers in their excursions. 



Shortly after this Moikeha proceeded to get everything in readiness for Kila's 

 voyage to Tahiti as was formerly planned by him. Before he set out for Tahiti, 

 Moikeha advised him as follows: "When you sail from here, go by way of Oahu, and 



' A toy made from a curved leaf of the /■/ plant {Dra- 

 caena iey»iinalis). 



° These arrows were made from the blossom-stalk of 

 the sugar-cane and were of two kinds, one of less tlian 

 two feet in length for shunting along the ground; the 



other was usually the full length of the stalk, its use 

 being with a short string so affixed as to detach itself as it 

 was jerked from the ground for its flight. Both kinds 

 hall to be perfectly straight to accomplish long flights; 

 any tendency to curve rendered the arrow defective. 



