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husband. Moikeha in the meantime was also struck with the beauty and grace of the 

 two sisters, and he, too, fell in love with them and decided to take one of the girls to 

 be his wife. After enjoying the surf for a time, Hooipoikamalanai and her sister 

 returned home and informed their father of what they had seen, and said: "We wish 

 to take that young chief as a husband for one of us." 



Upon hearing the wish of his daughters, the father decided to send for Moikeha, 

 so orders were issued that he be brought to the house of the two princesses. Moikeha 

 and his company were thereupon sent for and were brought in the presence of the 

 king. The love on the part of the young people being mutual, Hooipoikamalanai and 

 Hinauu took Moikeha to be their husband. So Moikeha thus became king of Kauai 

 after the death of his father-in-law. 



CHAPTER II. 



Moikkha's Residence on Kauai and His Doings. 



After Moikeha had taken Hooipoikamalanai and Hinauu to be his wives, he 

 became the king of Kauai, after the death of his father-in-law. Moikeha had five 

 children with his two wives, all boys. Following is the genealogy of that generation: 



Husband. 



Moikeha. 



Wife. 



1 Hooipoikamalanai. 

 ( Hiuauu. 



Child. 

 r Umalehu. 



Kaialea. 

 ( Kila. 



) Kekaihawewe. 

 [ Laukapalala. 



In this genealogy of Moikeha his issue is seen to have continued until the 

 reign of Manookalanipo, who became the ancestor of the chiefs of Kauai and Niihau. 

 But none of those who know anything of this genealogy can produce a direct line with 

 any degree of accuracy. 



After the events stated above, Moikeha assigned himself to the task of making 

 his wives and children happy, giving his undivided attention to the bringing up of 

 his boys, and in this way Moikeha thought no more of Luukia. Some time after this, 

 Moikeha's thoughts were carried back to his son Laamaikahiki, his child with Kapo, 

 and he began to have a yearning desire to see Laamaikahiki. So at a given time he 

 called his five sons together and said to them: "I am thinking of sending one of you 

 boys to go to your elder brother and bring him to Hawaii." Upon hearing the wish 

 of their father, the boys became greatly excited and they all spoke out: "Let me go! 

 Let me go! !" and so on. This was carried on for some time. 



When Moikeha saw that his sons were excited and were so worked up that 

 there was much contention among them, he devised a way of giving them a test at 

 something, to determine who should go to Tahiti. Upon deciding what the nature of 

 the test was to be, he called his sons to him and said: "I have decided to give you a 

 test, and the bo}^ who shall excel over the others, he shall be the one to go and bring 



