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take my brotliers; 3^011 might perhaps take and kill them." "No," said Koi. They 

 sailed from Kipahiilit and lauded at Kohala, where they heard that Umi-a-Liloa was 

 dead. From here they again set sail and landed in Kekaha at night. In this place 

 was a man who resembled Umi-a-Liloa, whom Koi went and killed and placed in the 

 canoe. From Kekaha, Koi and his companions proceeded and landed on the rocks 

 below Makaeo. It was about midnight when Koi went up and found the guards of the 

 sepulchre asleep. Piimaiwaa was the inner guard, and here was Koi coming in with 

 a substitute body. Piimaiwaa had heard that the corpse of Umi had already been 

 given to Koi. The substitute corpse was placed in position and the body of Umi-a- 

 Liloa was taken out by Koi, and carried over the rocks toward the sea to Makaeo and 

 placed in the canoe. From this night to the next night they traveled till they arrived 

 at the precipitous cliffs of Waimanu, where Koi entered the home of his sister, who, on 

 seeing her brother, ran forward weeping loudly. 



The brother leaped forward and covered her mouth, saying: "Keep quiet, and 

 don't you Qxy ; where is your husband?" "He is in front." "Let me get him;" and 

 Koi went and woke him up. The brothei--in-law recognized Koi, the first time in a 

 long while, and ran forward to cry, but his mouth was covered up, "lest our children 

 awake." They went out and met his sister, when Koi said: "Listen, you two. I have 

 come to meet you two, and have brought our lord to be hidden by us. With you two 

 and myself alone the bones of our lord will be concealed, and his brother-in-law's secret 

 burying-place shall be the place of concealment." Koi and his brother-in-law then 

 selected the secret burial-place belonging to his brother-in-law, because he was the boy 

 of the precipitous cliffs. They then took ropes, and fire sticks and kindlings and all 

 other necessaries together with the corpse of Umi-a-Liloa, and went up to the place of 

 hiding ' where the koae was wont to hover." Many were the stories given oiit, but not 

 authenticated, that the brother-in-law of Koi was rolled down the precipice and killed 

 for fear of his disclosure. 



When Koi returned alone his sister said to him: "You must have done some- 

 thing awful to the parent of our children." "Hush: the bones of our lord should be 

 our secret to conceal, and then live and eat the produce of the land." It is said that 

 Koi brought the bones of Umi-a-Liloa to Maui, and that they have been searched for 

 without success. Koi packed some valuables from the precipitous cliffs that very 

 night, without the knowledge of any one at the house, and set sail for Maui. 



'It is said that no hardship was considered too great to comply with the trvist imposeil on a faitliful friend for the 

 secret interment of their remains, reduced to a prepared bundle of bones. 

 "This indicates its place of concealment as high up in the cliffs. 



