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of war, such as long spears, short spears, darts, war clubs, slings, pikoi,' stones, sticks, 

 and various other things. He also saw the three-cornered rock called the "moa." 

 When Piimaiwaa drew near to the men they began to throw stones at him. While the 

 people were throwing stones at him he started to twirl his war club," Wahie, warding 

 off the stones; he was not hit once, for he kept on twirling his club. He kept on ad- 

 vancing until he got right under the ladder which hung against the cliff, where the 

 men who were stoning him were stationed. 



The ladder was about sixty feet long and it was at the foot of it that Piimaiwaa 

 stood protecting himself with his club. By this stand of Piimaiwaa his enemies con- 

 tinued to hurl stones upon him without his being hit at all, on account of his great 

 braver}^ and fearlessness. After standing there for some time he turned and ran down 

 the hill at great speed and barely escaped from the many stones thrown at him. 



When he arrived in the presence of Umi he was asked: "What about your 

 climb?" Piimaiwaa replied: "Well, I went up as far as the ladder and there I encoun- 

 tered the men of Ohiaokealakona." By this reply of Piimaiwaa, several men substan- 

 tiated the statement, for the people from below saw him enter the pass leading to the 

 foot of the ladder, and again when he came back running with great speed. But the 

 people below all thought, when Piimaiwaa entered the pass, that he would be killed, 

 for the place was very narrow and hard to go through ; but when they saw Piimaiwaa 

 return running they shouted with joy, for they realized the difficulties of the way and 

 admired his fearlessness, and also because he was the only man who ever accomplished 

 the feat of going as far as he did, for at this place there was stationed, at this time, 

 about eight thousand men. In the performance of this difficult feat the king and the 

 men from Hawaii were greatly pleased. 



That night when it became quite dark Piimaiwaa again climbed the hill to watch 

 for the large man as was reported, without the least bit of fear, and with a determina- 

 tion to fight him to the end. When he reached the place where Omaokamau and Koi 

 had stood he looked up and sure enough there was the large man, very tall, very large, 

 and his club was the longest he had ever seen. When Piimaiwaa saw the man he began 

 to study out a course of action for him to follow, and finally he decided to do this: that 

 he would challenge the man to battle by the twirling of his war club, Wahie. This way 

 of challenging was usually used, and the acceptance of the challenge was shown by the 

 opponent by a return twirling of the war club. Piimaiwaa reasoned that in case the 

 man should see him and strike at him he would be far enough away not to be touched 

 by the club. Piimaiwaa then stepped up the ladder with firm feet, twirling his club 

 all the while. After twirling his club on his right for some time he changed and 

 twirled it on the left. After twirling the club on the left for some time, he looked at 

 the man for some time studying what the man was going to do. Failing in seeing the 

 man make any motion, he repeated the sign of the challenge, and still the man failed 

 to make any motion. Piimaiwaa therefore concluded that the man knew nothing of 



' The pikoi wns a stone or hard wood weapon, a long kind of ball to which a cord was attached for use in closer 

 than sling-shot encounters. 



" ll'a/n'e, lit., firewood; an odd name for a wooden war club. 



