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have free access to the house until such time when I shall give further orders as to 

 his death, when he shall indeed die." In accordance with the king's orders, Kaialea 

 was taken to the kapu house and there placed in confinement, receiving good treatment 

 and being supplied with all the food he wanted. But with all this good treatment he 

 was not able to eat any of the food placed before him, being overcome with grief at the 

 idea of his being put to death. It was not Kila's wish, however, to sacrifice him, but 

 rather to make Kaialea realize the gravit}' of the evil deed which they had committed 

 against their own brother. 



On the next da}-, the day when he was to be sacrificed, early that morning, while 

 the praj'ers were being said, the note of a mud-hen was heard, when the priests all re- 

 marked: "Something is wrong; the man is saved, because something has happened 

 to interrupt our recital of the prayer. It is too bad ; we were almost at the end when 

 everything would have been well." During the morning the priests proceeded to in- 

 form the king of the interruption in the recital of their prayer, when Kila replied : 

 "If the recital of your prayer has been interrupted, then the man must live; he shall 

 not die toda3\" He then sent for his executioner and said : "Don't put this man on the 

 altar, but take him and place him in one of the other houses and take good care of him 

 until such other time when I shall issue further orders as to his death." So Kaialea 

 was taken to one of the other outhouses of the king. But he did not give up the idea 

 of being killed, because he had heard that he was to be sacrificed some day. 



While Kaialea was in confinement, this time, Kila often came to ask him ques- 

 tions touching upon their evil deed. But Kaialea was very stubborn, so he was ordered 

 to do all kinds of labor. A few days after this, Kila thought of his mother and aunt 

 and the possibility of their meeting death through hunger, so he gave orders to some 

 of his men to proceed to Kauai with food. But when these men started out they did 

 not get as far as Kauai, they only went as far as Kaunakakai, Molokai, and there 

 squandered all the food in adulterous living. After the}' had squandered all the food, 

 they returned to Waipio and reported to Kila that they had delivered the food to his 

 people in Kauai. Several trips were made by these same men with the purpose of going 

 to Kauai, but they never once got that far, only going as far as Molokai in each case. 



In the meantime the people on Kauai awaited Kaialea's return. But after a 

 long wait without hearing anj'thing of him, Hooipoikamalanai and her sister sent a 

 party of men to come and institute a search for him. On this voyage, the party arrived 

 at Waipio, Hawaii. Upon their arrival they were asked why they had come, so they 

 replied that they were in search of a chief, Kaialea by name. On learning the mission 

 of the strangers, the Waipio people informed them that he had been condemned to be 

 put to death. The}^ further told the strangers that Kaialea was now in confinement 

 in the temple, and it had been reported that he was to be sacrificed, but so far no one 

 had seen him sacrificed, but it was possible that he had been put to death secretly. 

 On the other hand he might have been thrown in a deep pit." 



When the searching party heard the word death repeated, they became anxious 

 to see the paddlers who accompanied Kaialea. Upon being told where these men were 



' Lua pa'u was a deep pit, a necessary adjunct to all temples of sacrifice ; virtually a bone pit. 



