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edge of the cliff, on your return, just call out the following words: 'Say, Kaikilani, 

 Chiefess of Puna, love has been sent you by the shady cliff," of Uli of Hea.' If she 

 does not make answer, then call out again these words: 



'Say, Kaikilani, Chiefess of Puna, 

 Your lover sends you his love 

 Of the shady cliff that stands, of Uli of Heakekoa.' 



Will you thus make the call for me?" 



When these people heard these words of Heakekoa they assured him that they 

 would, and proceeded on their way home. When the men came to the top of the Kalau- 

 papa cliff, at a point called Kaomilani, they called out in the words instructed them by 

 Heakekoa. At the first call Kaikilani heard it coming down from the cliff, and she 

 then knew that her lover had arrived. At this time, however, when the call was heard 

 by Kaikilani, she was engaged in a game of konane with her husband, but in order 

 to distract the attention of her husband as to the meaning of the call from the cliff she 

 made some informal remark, yet in connection with the game of konane, saying:' "That 

 is won ; this is on the run, the space is long, the top is falling, the blacks are indistinct; 

 the whites have won." 



After making the calls and believing that they had not been heard by Kaikilani, 

 the men repeated the call, saying: 



"Say, Kaikilani, chiefess of Puna, 

 Your lover sends you his love 

 Of the shady cliff that stands, of Uli of Heakekoa. 



For once Lonoikamakahiki knew that Heakekoa was the lover of Kaikilani, and 

 from the calls he also knew that the fellow had landed at some place on Molokai. 



After Lonoikamakahiki had made out the calls, he then asked of his cousin, his 

 wife: "Say! Your lover Heakekoa sends you his love, I hear." Kaikilani did not 

 make answer to the question put by her husband, however, but continued in her decep- 

 tion, by saying: "This here is won; that is on the run, steady progress, the top is 

 falling, the blacks are indistinct; the whites have won." At this, Lonoikamakahiki 

 took up the konane board and struck his wife on the head, inflicting painful wounds, 

 but not severe enough, however, to kill her. 



Because of this, the anger of Lonoikamakahiki was aroused and his mind was 

 greatly troubled ; he then made an oath that he would never again live with Kaikilani. 

 This oath, however, he maintained within himself, not voicing it to any one. He then 

 put her aside and refused to have anything to do with her. Because of this Kaikilani 

 returned to Hawaii without meeting Heakekoa again, Kaikilani promising herself to 

 have nothing more to do with Heakekoa, knowing full well that if she did she would 

 in all likelihood be killed by Lonoikamakahiki, her husband ; therefore she made up 

 her mind to renounce Heakekoa forever. 



'This is a covert phrase for identification ; a play upon the name of her lover's father, Kalaulipali. 



^These casual remarks as a chant indicating a situation in the game, are quoted in konane contests to this day. 



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