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this Piikea came out of her house, still crying in a loud voice, and began disrobing and 

 acting the part of one bereft of her mind. In doing this, Piikea was but acting her 

 part; she had her senses about her all right enough, but she did this to impress on her 

 husband Umi that a ver}' great wrong had been committed, to rouse him to action. 



At the end of the wailing, Umi came up to her and asked her: "What is it that 

 has made you cry out so loud and why have you disrobed yourself?" Piikea answered: 

 "Because of the great love I bear my brother; this is the first time that we have met 

 after such a long separation ; and also because I am grieved at the ill-treatmeut given 

 him by his brother Piilani. Because of this treatment I became so worked up that I 

 wanted to show my great grief. We must therefore go and make war on Piilani." 

 When Umi heard this, he said: "I don't think it proper for us to go and make war on 

 Piilani, because he is your own brother; he is not connected to you from a distance, a 

 mere relative." Piikea said: "If you will not give your consent to my request, to go 

 and make war on Piilani, then it would be far better for me to die than to live." At 

 this, Umi decided that he must obey his wife's demand and so he gave his consent. 

 Umi then summoned his war counselors, Omaokamau, Piimaiwaa and Koi, and gave 

 them orders to prepare the fleet of war canoes for a trip to Maui to make war on Piilani. 



These three men were undaunted ; they did not hesitate, but immediately set out 

 to obey the order of their king, for the}^ were anxious to go to Maui to do battle, 

 although Umi was doubtful about mastering Imaikalani,' for he was a very skilful 

 warrior and was well versed in all the arts of warfare, and especially in spear throwing. 

 He was a very powerful man, and he was the greatest man in all of Maui at that time, 

 and he was credited as being the strongest man from Hawaii to Niihau. 



When the preparations were about completed, Umi questioned his great and 

 famous priest, Kaoleioku, saying: "How about this voj^age to Maui to fight Piilani?" 

 Kaoleioku said: "Chief, you may go and make war on Maui, for there is no king to 

 oppose you; it is going to be a war of the common people; you will surely win, and, 

 furthermore, your skin will not be bruised." 



When Umi heard the words of his priest, he was much relieved. He then 

 ordered his chiefs who had charge of the different districts, to get the fleet of war canoes 

 in readiness and to get the men under them ready and to all come together in one 

 place. After several tens of days passed they finally reported that the canoes and men 

 were ready to start out. It was said that the men were so numerous that they could 

 not be counted. 



CHAPTER HI. 



How Umi Made War on Piilani the King of Maui. 



As soon as the preparations were perfected, the canoes left Waipio and set sail 

 for Maui, landing at Kapueokahi. On this expedition, while the first of the canoes 

 were entering the harbor of Kapueokahi ^ the last of the fleet was still in the harbor 

 at Waipio, Hawaii. 



'A discrepancy of tradition appears here, as Imaikalani was the famed blind warrior king of Kau, Hawaii. 

 ^The harbor of Hana. 



