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These three things, the cliff, the ocean and the fire were the three supernatural 

 bodies of Namakaokahai, and she gave to her husband the power to change himself 

 into these three different things. She, however, did not reveal her fourth form and 

 power, the power to fly through space. The reason why she did not reveal this fourth 

 power to her husband and did not wish him to possess it, was becaiise she was afraid 

 that he might take it into his mind to fly away and deprive her of him, so she thought 

 she would keep this power to herself." The brothers, however, did not approve of 

 this, and decided to teach their brother-in-law secretly how to acquire this power." 



CHAPTER X. 

 How THE Brothers-in-law of Aukelenuiaiku Secrp:tly Taught Him to Fly. 



We will here see how the four brothers-in-law of Aukelenuiaiku gave him the 

 power to fly, in payment for the offerings made by him to the gods. Some time after 

 this his brothers-in-law said to him: "Today you will realize the blessings of the 

 deity." After a while he was asked: "Say, has your wife given you the power to change 

 yourself into different forms?" Aukelenuiaiku replied: "Yes." "What different 

 forms did she give you?" "The power to change into a cliff, into an ocean, and into 

 fire." The brothers-in-law replied: "Then she has not given you all her powers. She 

 has kept to herself the power to fly." "Yes, my wife has reserved that; she did not 

 give it to me." The brothers-in-law continued, saying: "It is because your wife 

 thought you might fly off and never come back again. That is the reason why she 

 has kept this power from you." After this the brothers-in-law said to Aukelenuiaiku: 

 "Let us teach you how to get this flying power of your wife, so that you may be able 

 to possess it. But you must not tell your wife of this." 



That night, after Namakaokahai had retired to their sleeping house, Aukele- 

 nuiaiku and his brothers-in-law went into another house and there he was given his 

 lessons in the art of flying. They first taught him how to jump and how to fly to 

 certain places; then they asked him to jump to the top of a shelf. After he was suc- 

 cessful in this he was requested to jump to the top roof batten of the house. Aukele- 

 nuiaiku then jumped and held it for a while, then fell to the floor. In this falling, 

 Namakaokahai heard it, and she got up and came to her brothers' house, and asked 

 them: "What are you doing?" "We are learning how to box." "What is that?" 

 "It is played this way. Kanemoe stands up like this on this side, and Kaneapua 

 stands up on that side; then they strike at each other, and the one who gets hit 

 real hard falls to the floor. That was the noise you heard." When Namakaokahai 

 heard this she said : "I see that my husband has some good thing hidden that he 

 has not shown me. How mysterious you are!" After this Namakaokahai returned 

 to her own house. After she disappeared, Aukelenuiaiku again made another at- 

 tempt to reach the top batten, but again he was unsuccessful and he fell to the floor. 



' Reservation of one power, or point of skill, on the 'Kino, in the reference made here as one of the four 



basis of self protection, as here admitted, is a character- bodies which Namakaokahai possessed, is better under- 



istic feature in many of the traditions. stood as her miraculous powers. 



