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CHAPTER X. 

 Umi Conquers Other Districts. 



HuA-A was the king of Puna, but it was conquered by Umi and his adopted sons, 

 Piimaiwaa, Omaokaniau and Koi, the daring youths and famous generals and also noted 

 ministers during Umi-a-Liloa's administration of the government of Hawaii. So, after 

 the death of Hua-a by Piimaiwaa, on the battlefield of Kuolo, in Keaau, Puna became 

 the possession of Umi-a-Liloa. 



Imaikalani was the king of Kau. He was blind and was famous for his strength 

 and skill in warfare, whereby several chiefs were killed by him in battle. He had a 

 left thrust and a right thrust which were terrible, and if he threw a long spear to the 

 right or to the left hand there was a roaring as of thunder, and flashes as of lightning, 

 and a rumbling sound as of an earthquake ; and if he twirled his spear at his back the 

 dust arose in volumes as whirlwinds. Umi-a-Liloa was afraid of Imaikalani, who was a 

 blind man and could not at all see with his eyes, but his hearing was acute. He had 

 two wild duck watchers which reported to him the appearance of any one either from 

 the front or from the rear, or from the sides, whichever way the voices of the birds 

 indicated. In former times, when Imaikalani was not blind and Kau was not in the 

 possession of Umi, there was war for a long time. Umi therefore went into the moun- 

 tains and made secret raids on Imaikalani, and on the chiefs of Koua, so that he became 

 famous as the mountain rover of Hawaii, and the mountains were familiar to him for 

 the waging of wars. But when Imaikalani became blind they were constantly at war 

 with each other. Imaikalani was never in subjection to Umi. 



Piimaiwaa sought in various ways to learn the source of Imaikalani's great 

 strength, and the skill with which he threw the long spear with such unerring aim, 

 and the stroke of his war club that would rip one open from head to buttocks. Piimai- 

 waa discovered the source of Imaikalani's skill and the daring bravery of this blind 

 man to be by means of the wild ducks hovering above, for when the birds made a noise 

 and the blind man heard it, either in front, or behind, or on the sides, then he (the 

 blind man) would say: "There is a man behind." The men leading him on both sides 

 said: "Yes, there is a man." "Where does he hold his club?" "In front." It was 

 plain that it was a war club. "Is he near?" "Yes." The blind man suddenly threw 

 his own club which cleaved the man from head to buttocks. When the man appeared 

 the birds warned. "Where is his club?" "It is on the right-hand side." "It is a left 

 thrust then that will strike him." When the man made a strike it missed, but the 

 thrust made by the blind man took effect from the head to the waist. 



After Piimaiwaa had measured his (Imaikalani's) strength and great skill, he 

 said : "I will kill you." First he went and destroyed the scout birds ; then the attend- 

 ants who led Imaikalani about on this side and on that, and after them, those who 

 carried the weapons, there were forty in number, ever ready with spears and lances, 

 because Imaikalani usually threw ten spears at a single throw, five from the right and 

 five from the left hand, and on a single throw the spears would fly in a group like 



