132 Fornander Colledioti of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



at Hana; about midnight tliey arrived at Waipio, Hawaii. Immediately upon their 

 arrival, while Kila was still asleep, they took him off the canoe and left him on the 

 beach at Waipio, he in the meantime not knowing his brothers' actions. The 

 brothers then proceeded to kidnap a young man from Waipio whose skin was similar to 

 Kila's and returned to Kauai. When they reached Puuloa on their waj? home, Umalehu, 

 Moikeha's eldest son slew the boy they had brought from Waipio, then cut off his 

 hands and took them to their mothers for the purpose of showing them all that was 

 left of Kila, with the report that he had been eaten by a shark. 



Upon their arrival home, they went to their mothers with the dead boy's hands, 

 and with their hair cut in the shape of a war helmet to show their grief for Kila. 

 When they saw their mothers they fell down before them weeping and wailing. By 

 the language used in their wailing, Hooipoikamalanai made out that their brother 

 either was dead, or they were wailing for their father. So in order to be sure Hooipoi- 

 kamalanai and her sister asked them : "Which one of you is it that has been injured?" 

 The sons replied: "Kila has been eaten up by a shark. Upon arriving at the place 

 where our father's bones were laid, we prepared them, took them on to the canoe and 

 we started on our return. When we reached the steep cliffs, where one has to swim to 

 get around them, our canoe got turned over and Kila was attacked by a shark and all 

 we could save of him were his hands which you now see." 



When the mothers heard this account of the death of Kila, Hoopoikanialanai 

 and her sister Hinauu wailed and expressed a desire to take their own lives, their grief 

 for their son was so great. Hooipoikamalanai and her sister then incjuired of their 

 sons: "Where, then, are the bones of your father?" The sons replied: "We lost them 

 in the ocean. When our canoe was overturned we all went to the rescue of Kila, and 

 therefore the bones of our father were neglected and they disappeared." After this 

 Hinauu and her sister traveled around Kauai mourning for Kila, in which the common 

 people also joined with them. 



CHAPTER V. 

 How Kila Was Left at Waipio and His Life There. 



When Kila and his brothers arrived at Waipio, Hawaii, and his brothers saw 

 that he was fast asleep, Umalehu ordered his younger brothers Kaialea, Kekaihawewe 

 and Luakapalala, to launch the canoe. This order the younger brothers obeyed. After 

 the canoe was launched the paddlers jumped aboard, first followed by the young chiefs. 



While this was going on Kila heard the bumping of the canoe, so he sat up and 

 saw that the canoe was floating in the sea. Believing that his brothers would come 

 for him later on, he did not watch them very closely. But when he looked again he 

 saw that the canoe was outside of the line of breakers. He then called out to them: 

 "How about me? How about me?" Umalehu then answered back: "Wait awhile 

 until we come back for you." But he saw that they were to disappear beyond the 



' Disfigurement of the person upon the death of a chief was general and varied. Peculiar hair cutting, even to the 

 shaving of the head, marking of the face, knocking out of the front teeth, etc., being recognized grief signs. 



