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Shortly after tlie above conversation took place, Kila asked his brothers : "W here 

 is your brother Kila?" One of the boys answered: "He was eaten up by a shark, just 

 as our mother has told you." Upon hearing this reply the officers were ordered to 

 arrest them and place them in confinement in the temple where Kaialea was being 

 kept. When this was done Hooipoikamalanai and her sister were greatly troubled 

 because all their sons were now placed in confinement. They then said to them- 

 selves: "How much better it would have been for us had we remained at Kauai, for 

 then all our sons would not have gotten into this trouble. It is best that we all die 

 together now." 



On the next day Kila sent out men to call all the people of Waipio together to 

 come and see Kaialea and his brothers placed on the altar for sacrifice. The order 

 given was as follows: "Come together to see the sacrifice." It was not Kila's inten- 

 tion, however, to do this, but he was preparing to make himself known to his brothers, 

 mother and aunt, and he was also preparing to reveal the great crime his brothers had 

 committed against him, their brother. Furthermore, he was unable to continue being 

 a stranger to his mother any longer, for his grief was more than he could bear. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 How Kila Made Himself Known to His Mother, Aunt and Brothers. 



On the night following the day when the proclamation was issued calling the 

 people together, the night before the day when the sacrifices were to be offered in the 

 temple, the king and his chief priests and the people connected with the chief priests 

 came to recite their pra3'ers in the mua house. From the beginning of the recital of 

 the prayers until midnight everj^thing went off smoothly without a single hitch. 

 After midnight and along the hours before dawn, Kunaka, Kila and the chief priest 

 entered the kapu house and joined in the recital of the prayer called Oneoneohonua.' 

 Toward morning the note of a mud-hen was heard, when the chief priest immediately 

 informed the king and Kila: "Our prayer has been interrupted. Here we are with 

 daylight almost upon us, when the recital of the prayer would end and everything 

 would be satisfactory. Therefore there will be no sacrifice for the altar today." Kila, 

 on the other hand, had known that there would be some interruption in the recital of 

 the prayers that night, because he did not think Kaialea would be killed. 



On this same morning Kila and Kunaka went out of the temple and Kila pro- 

 ceeded to the house where his mother and aunt were living and brought them into the 

 temple. Just as the sun was coming up Kaialea and his brothers were brought in, all 

 being held by the king's officers, and were led up to the base of the altar, when Kila 

 came and stood bj' the anuu' and faced his brothers. His mother and aunt, the chiefs 

 and all the people were gathered there. 



'The oneoneokonHa was a prayer of long duration. and where victims were laid; known also as latianuu, 



^The aniiti was the tall skeleton-frameil, kapa-covered ^^'^ nananuu. 



structure of a temple, before which the idols stood, 



