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monster demigods of the deep, who drew their canoe down to the coral beds of the sea: 

 so Kakakauhanui dove down to the bottom and staid there for ten ' and two nights 

 before coming np again. Keaumiki and Keauka were only able to stay down ten 

 nights. This feat of endurance saved the canoe. The voyage was then resumed. 



When they were approaching near to Tahiti they first touched at a small island 

 where the aunt of Moikeha was living, a supernatural rat, Kanepohihi by name. Her 

 e3'es were covered over with wrinkles and she was blind. When Kila came upon her 

 she was cooking bananas in the ashes. When he saw Kanepohihi cooking bananas, 

 he reached down, took the bananas and placed them on to one side of the cooking 

 place. When Kanepohihi reached for the bananas she was unable to find them, so 

 she said to herself: "There must be a demi-god about." 



At this Kila addressed her saying: "My greetings to you, Kanepohihi." 



Kanepohihi replied: "The same to you." 



Kila continued: "Your grandchild and lord send you aloha greetings." 



Kanepohihi asked: "Who is this grandchild and lord of mine?" 



Kila answered: "Moikeha." 



Kanepohihi again asked: "Is Moikeha then still alive?" 



Kila replied: "He is still alive." 



Kanepohihi again asked: "What is he doing?" 



Kila then chanted the following in a pleasing way: 



"He is indulging in ease in Kauai, 

 Where the sun rises and sets again, 

 Where the surf of Makaiwa curves and bends, 

 Where the sun comes up over 

 The kalukalu- of Kewa; 

 The cool and calm shade of Kewa, 

 The stretched out waters of Wailua, 

 And the entrancing favors of my mother 

 Hooipoikamalanai. 

 He will live and die in Kauai." 



Kanepohihi replied : "You seem to know my name, btit I don't know who you are." 

 He then told her his own name : "I am Kila of the uplands, Kila of the lowlands. I am 

 Kila, the last child of my mother Hooipoikamalanai, and the offspring of Moikeha." 



Kanepohihi replied: "Yoti are my lord. What is the object of this voyage and 

 visit paid me by my lord?" 



Kila replied: "It is a voyage in search of a chief." 



Kanepohihi answered: "There are no chiefs left. Kahuahuakai was the last of 

 the chiefs that was slain, with the exception of your father, myself and yotir father's 

 younger brother. This was the cause why yotir father Moikeha left this place and 

 moved to Kauai." 



^ Anahulu is a measure of time only, indicating a or forty anahulus and so many days, as fractions of 



period of ten days and nights. The term did not an anahulu. 



apply to any other counting, neither of years nor ^A'a/«/tfl/«, a delicate, gauze-like kapa, to which the 



of articles. The length of time might be one, two morning mist is likened as it is dissolved by the rays 



of the rising sun. 



