go Fornajidcr Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



After receiving tliese instructions, Aiikelenuiaiku continued on his flight and 

 flew along until lie lit on Kuemanu. After the several questions had been asked and 

 the usual answers given, Aukelenuiaiku said : "I am your own offspring." The guard 

 then asked: "Mine by whom?" "lam the child of Kapapaiakea and Iku." When 

 Kuemanu heard this he wept over Aukelenuiaiku and then asked : "Are you the grand- 

 son of Kapoino and Kamooinanea?" Aukelenuiaiku assented, saying: "Yes, I am 

 their grandchild." Kuemanii then asked: "What thing of such importance is it that 

 has brought you here?" Aukelenuiaiku replied: "I have come in search of the water 

 of everlasting life of Kane, for my nephew and brothers." "Yes, you shall get it. 

 You must go down to your grandaunt, who is down there at the base of the cliff, 

 Luahiuekaikapu, who is blind. When you come to her, you will find her roasting 

 bananas, four in number. When she reaches out to take one up, j'ou also reach and 

 take one ; do this until the last ones are taken. Then when she reaches out for the 

 others and fails to find them and asks, 'What mischievious fellow is this that has 

 come?' and receives no reply, she will take up the ashes and sprinkle them to her 

 right ; you must then run over to her left side. And when she sprinkles the ashes on 

 her left side, you must run to her right side. After this you want to watch her as she 

 takes up the ashes and smells of it. If she should do this, then she will discover you; 

 then be very careful or the old woman will kill you. Look out for another attack, for 

 she will then take up one of her clubs which is used for beating kapas and strike at 

 you with it, when you must run to her left side ; and when she strikes to her left, run 

 to her right. After you have overcome all these things, then you must run and climb 

 on to her back and sit there." 



We will not take up the meeting of Aukelenuiaiku and his grandaunt, and how 

 he overcame all her attacks by strictly following the advice of his granduncle, but we 

 will speak of what took place after Aukelenuiaiku won over the old woman. 



After the old woman had exhausted all her attempts to dispose of her opponent, 

 Aukelenuiaiku then climbed on to her lap, when she asked: "Whose conceited child 

 art thou?" Aukelenuiaiku replied: "Your own." "Mine by whom?" "I am the 

 child of Kapapaiakea and Iku." When the grandaunt heard this, she again asked of 

 Aukelenuiaiku: "Are you, then, the grandchild of Kapoino and Kamooinanea?" 

 Aukelenuiaiku assented to this, saying: "Yes." The grandaunt then asked: "What 

 has brought my lord here?" "I have come for the water of everlasting life of Kane, 

 for my nephew and brothers." The grandaunt then asked him: "Is it not all gone?" 

 "No." She then said: "My grandchild, look at me. I have no eyes; I am blind; I 

 cannot see. I may not be able to give you the water of everlasting life of Kane." By 

 these words of his grandaunt, Aukelenuiaiku began to be doubtful about getting what 

 he wished, and for a moment he did not know what to do. At last he said to his 

 grandaunt: "Let us go outside." When she heard this she assented and she was 

 led out by Aukelenuiaiku and was made to lie down under a coconut tree. Aukele- 

 nuiaiku then climbed up the coconut tree and picked off two 3'oung shoots of the 



