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On his next trip Aukelenuiaiku met with a queer' experience. His body was 

 bitten all over, while his neck was all scratched up, and in places it was cut. On this 

 evening he again came home with two more small fish. On reaching the house 

 Namakaokahai looked at her husband's body and neck and saw that he was all 

 scratched. She then spoke in parables saying: "Yes, there are two kinds of fish in 

 the sea that bite: the shark and the eel." Then she continued: "Strange, that your 

 skin is all bitten and your neck scratched, but you don't return with any sharks 

 and eels." 



Aukelenuiaiku then said with great cunning: "I met with a queer experience 

 today. When I arrived at the seashore I tied the bait to my hook and cast it into the sea. 

 After I had let the line down it got caught in the coral down below, and so I dived 

 down and after getting the line loose I came up. I was not at all hurt at this time. 

 But on casting my line the second time it again got tangled and I dived the second 

 time. After this it was caught the third time and again I went down, but before I had 

 gone very far I got the cramps and I was carried by the current away down to the 

 bottom where I was rubbed against the coral until my back was all cut up. After 

 this I recovered myself and swam up, and this time I was caught in an eel hole, and 

 there I was rolled about by the surf until I was almost out of breath. Had I been a 

 boy from the backwoods I would have been killed, and you would not have known 

 how, and how pitiful that would have been." 



To those who may be reading this story, it is plain to all the fair sex' that 

 Aukelenuiaiku was a deceiver, and that his scratches and bites came from another 

 source altogether. The trait, however, will be found in his descendants in these latter 

 days. And here we see that his wife was not to be deceived by him. 



CHAPTER XV. 



How Namakaokahai Quarreled with Her Cousins Pele and Hiiaka. 



With all Aukelenuiaiku's smooth words, his wife did not believe him. She 

 then said to him: "Say, cunning, do you think I am a fool, and am not aware of your 

 doings and your deceit? I know that you have a woman whom you go down every 

 day to see. So here is what I wish to say to you : The outside of your body is free to 

 others, but your skin and flesh are my property, and I do not want to have you scratched 

 and ill-treated." 



With all this advice from his wife, still Aukelenuiaiku did not take heed ; they 

 were as nothing to him, for he kept on going down to fish. When Aukelenuiaiku 

 came back from his next trip his body was scratched and bitten all over and his neck 

 was cut in several places. When Namakaokahai saw how her husband was all cut up, 



'.-//ijX-/, delined here as "queer," the sense in which ^ Anekelope viaka palupalu.XW.. "soft-eyed antelope", 



Aukele wished his wife to iinderstan<l him was "having introduces a new animal to Hawaiian story in this 



again met misfortune." The general use of the word modern complimentaryexpression implyingthefairsex. 

 is akin to cunning deception. 



