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and how he had disregarded her words of advice, she grew less augry of him and trans- 

 ferred all her anger to her cousins, Pele and Hiiaka. 



We will here see how Namakaokahai ill-treated her own cousins, her own flesh 

 and blood. When Namakaokahai's anger was aroused she seized her cousins and gave 

 them a severe beating. When the brothers saw this the}^ jumped in to help the girls, 

 but this interference was of no avail, for Namakaokahai gave her brothers some of the 

 beating, and she gave them so much that they all had a hard time to save themselves. 

 Because of this the cousins rose and departed to some other place to dwell; but 

 Namakaokahai followed them and again drove them away. The cousins in the mean- 

 time thought that she would forget the cause of her auger, but she followed after them 

 and drove them away from their new home. At this persistency on their cousin's part, 

 they vowed that they would never again turn back, nor ever again live in the same land 

 with their cousin. At this expulsion, the two sisters studied where they would move 

 to, and after considering several places they decided on Kauai and there make their 

 future home. In this journey, when they reached Kauai," where they made their home, 

 they had an idea that their cousin would leave them in peace and not follow them up. 

 The place where Pele and Hiiaka took up as their first home on Kauai was at Puuka- 

 pele, a place to the east of Mana. When they settled at this place they started a fire 

 whose glare was seen from the high peaks in the land of Nuumealani, where Namaka- 

 okahai was stationed on the lookout for her cousins. The height of these peaks was 

 probably as high as that of Kaala mountain. 



When Namakaokahai saw the glare of the fire on Kauai, she knew that Pele 

 and Hiiaka were there, so she followed on to Kauai where she met her cousins and 

 another fight was had. In this fight Pele and Hiiaka almost overcame their cousin, 

 but being possessed of great strength Namakaokahai was enabled to overcome her 

 cousins. Therefore, being driven from their Kaviai home, they journeyed on to Oahu 

 where they settled. Because of the fight that took place on Kauai, the land in which 

 it occurred was called Puukapele, and it is so to this daj^ 



Upon their arrival on Oahu, Pele and Hiiaka took up their abode in Kealiapaa- 

 kai, at Moanalua, where they dug down into the ground and made a home. On coming 

 from Kauai they brought some red dirt and some salt with them and deposited these 

 things in their new home. Because of this fact these places were given the names of 

 Kealiapaakai and Kealiamanu. Upon finding that the place was too shallow they went 

 to settle at Leahi. While living at Leahi they tried digging down into the place, but 

 again found it too shallow. The two then moved on to Molokai and settled down at 

 Kalaupapa. After a time they began digging and were again disappointed in striking 

 water; so they left Molokai. The hole they dug was called Kauhako. From Molokai 

 they journeyed to Haleakala in Maui. Upon their arrival at this place they began 

 digging a pit which they left open on the top of the mountain. The rocks' in Hana- 

 kaieie, at Kahikinui, are those that were dug up by Pele and Hiiaka. 



'This legendary account of the orijjin and successive ^This had reference to a cluster of rocks in a field or 



changes of volcanic activity throughout the group coin- section of an — rubble lava — in the uplands, said rocks 



cides with the views of geologists relative to the order being noted for their grouping rather than extraordi- 



of change. nary size. 



