150 Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



While Kila was standing before the people, his mother stood up and spoke for 

 herself and sister as follows: "As four of our sons are to die today, let there be eight 

 of our people killed with them ' and the two of us, making ten." Kila did not pay 

 any attention to these words from his mother, as he knew that his brothers were 

 not going to be killed. Standing on the steps of the altar, he turned and faced his 

 brothers and said : 



"I am Kila of the uplands, Kila of the lowlands, Kila-pa-Wahineikamalanai, 

 the offspring of Moikeha. I had thought that your evil designs against me were 

 ended, but I see }-ou still think evil of me. You brought me and left me here while 

 you went home secretly. I called after you, but you would not turn back. After you 

 had gone I lived as a slave under some of the Waipio people just for the sake of my 

 living. I obeyed all the orders given me and went out to labor in the fields, did the 

 cooking, prepared the food and brought firewood from those cliffs, the cliffs of Puaa- 

 huku. In this way did I labor patiently until I found a father in this person, Kunaka, 

 when my labor for my living ended and I received my reward. I received the blessing 

 you see me enjoj'ing toda}' only through my patience. All would have been well if 

 this was the only crime committed by you. But no; you kidnapped a favorite son 

 from this place; you killed him and took his hands and gave them to my mother 

 and aunt and told them that they were my hands, and that I had been eaten up by a 

 shark. As far as your treatment of me is concerned, I am able to overlook that, but 

 your treatment of one of the favorite sons of Waipio is an act from the consequences 

 of which I am unable to protect you, 3'our life and death being entirely at the disposal 

 of the parents of the boy whom you umrdered." 



While Kila was making himself known, the people with whom he had labored 

 for his living began to realize that he was a very high chief, and they repented of 

 their actions. 



After Kila had made himself known to his mother and aunt and to all the people, 

 Hooipoikamalanai and her sister for the first time discovered the great crime committed 

 by their sons. They then immediately ordered that their sons be forthwith placed on 

 the altar which had been made ready for them, and that death be meted out to them 

 as their just dues. 



Upon hearing these orders Kila deferred putting his brothers to death until the 

 next day, while he studied a way of saving them, for he well knew they would not be 

 killed. During that night he spoke to his mother and aunt as follows: "Let Umalehu 

 and the rest of them be saved, because by their leaving me here in Waipio you are all 

 saved from dying of hunger. Had they thrown me into the ocean you would not have 

 had any food. I think they ought to be saved." When his mother and aunt heard 

 Kila's intentions they would not entertain them, for they had made up their mind that 

 their sons should die. 



When Kila saw that his mother and aunt were bent on seing their sons pun- 

 ished, they being overcome with anger, he decided to keep the matter of saving them 



'This request was for the carrying out of the inoepuu, or "companions-in-death" idea, a not uncommon practice 

 up to the times of Kamehameha. 



