loo Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



From the time in which this legend deals until today, who can be compared with 

 Aukelenuiaiku for his great liberal nature in giving away his own possessions and 

 even his wife to others? There is none like him. 



In thus giving away his wife and lands, Aukelenuiaiku reserved nothing for 

 himself, and he therefore became like a dependent. While living in this humble way 

 his one occupation was to go down to the seashore daily with a rod and spend his time 

 fishing, and in time he became an expert. In his daily trips out rod fishing he often 

 met Pele and Hiiaka, cousins of Namakaokahai. In their meetings Aukelenuiaiku 

 began to admire the two girls, and he spent more of his time with them than he did at 

 fishing. In time Aukelenuiaiku could do but very little fishing, for the desire to see 

 the two girls, Pele and Hiiaka, was his greatest pleasure, and after a time he became 

 infatuated with them and thought of very little else but the features of Pele and 

 Hiiaka, and he found himself oftener with them than anywhere else. 



We have seen that Namakaokahai had altogether become the property of his 

 brothers, and that Aukelenuiaiku was without a wife ; but Namakaokahai never forgot 

 Aukelenuiaiku; she loved him still and held him as dear to her as before. 



At nights while at home, Aukelenuiaiku thought of nothing else but his two 

 companions, and so each morning he would take up his line, hook and rod, and pretend 

 to be very busy with them as though they needed overhauling. In doing this Aukele- 

 nuiaiku wanted to make his wife, Namakaokahai, believe that he was really very much 

 taken up with his pastime, that of fishing, and in that way keep his wife from suspect- 

 ing him. Aukelenuiaiku was absent once for three whole days on one of his fishing 

 trips, and the wife began to suspect that something was wrong. Before this it was his 

 usual custom to go out early in the morning, and after dark would come home ; but 

 this time he forgot to dry out his fish-line as before. When his wife saw this she be- 

 came suspicious, and knowing that his wife knew his neglect about drying out his 

 fish-line, he was very much depressed. 



The day after this Aukelenuiaiku as usual took up his rod and proceeded to the 

 seashore; and toward evening he returned home. Before he started home, however, 

 he soaked his fish-line and hook into the water so as to make his wife believe that he 

 had really been fishing. When Aukelenuiaiku arrived at the house, he began to ar- 

 range his hook and line, and as he was at it for some time, his wife said : "It would be 

 all right to be constantl}^ occupied with your hook and line if you caught any fish ; then 

 those at home would get some. Here you do nothing else but work on your hook and 

 line, and yet you never bring any fish home. What a waste of time!" The husband 

 replied: "Do you think, my wife, that the fish is something you can catch with your 

 hands in the sea so that I could bring them home all the time? Don't you know that 

 the line and hook are all I have in the matter, and not the bringing of the fish? That 

 is entirely with the fish whether to bite at my hook or not." Shortly after this con- 

 versation Aukelenuiaiku again started out fishing, and late that evening he returned 

 with two small fish called aloiloi.' The wife then said to him: "How strange of you 

 to go all day and return at night, and these are all the fish you bring home!" 



^Aloiloi, a small bony fish, insignificant as an angler's trophy. 



