Story of Lonoikamakahiki. 



CHAPTER I. 



His Early Training. 



LONOIKAMAKAHIKI ' was the king of Hawaii after the death of Keaweuui- 

 aunii' at a period about sixty-four generations from Wakea. Keawenuiaumi 

 was his father and Kaihalawai was his mother. Lonoikamakahiki was born at 

 Napoopoo, and it was at this place that he was brought up by his retainers until he 

 was full grown. His retainers were Hauna and Loli, and Kohenemonemo the wife of 

 the two men. 



When Lonoikamakahiki was quite young, when he was just about beginning 

 to reason for himself, he looked up one day and saw the various implements used by 

 his father in the different games, which were hanging up in the palace ; when he saw 

 the long spear used in the game of pahee' he looked at it for a long time and then 

 asked his retainers : "What are those long things hanging up there on the side of the 

 house?" The retainers replied: "They are pahee spears." Lonoikamakahiki again 

 asked them: "What are they used for?" The retainers then told him: "When two 

 men wish to wager certain articles of value, they would proceed to the pahee grounds 

 and upon arriving at the place they would decide first as to the wager, whether it be 

 articles of value or pieces of land. If they do not wager these things, then they would 

 put up other things, such as their bones, meaning their lives. After the bets are 

 agreed on, thej' would then proceed to play the game of pahee. If the points to be 

 scored in order to win the game be made fifteen, then the one who first obtains this 

 number of points would win and the one with the lesser points would lose; then the 

 winner takes the articles wagered, or whatever had been placed as wagers. Sometimes 

 the articles of value would be so great that it would take three and four houses to hold 

 them all. But if the things wagered be their bones, then death of course would be 

 meted out to the loser. Wagering for bones was not made very often, only when the 

 parties entered into the merits of their skill by long and spirited arguments, each claim- 

 ing to be superior to the other. That is the use of those long things 3'ou see." 



When Lonoikamakahiki heard this explanation he replied : "Those things are 

 worthless and have very little use; the great objection I have against them is that 

 they are used by men for the purpose of making wagers, even to the extent of their 

 bones, on the result of their skill after heated arguments. That is the reason they are 



' Lonoikamahiki, frequently referred to as Ivono, was a grandson of Umi by his wife Kapukine-a-Liloa. 

 ''Father of Lono. 



^A famous game of the ancients, the slender spears for which were made from the hard, close-grained, heavier 

 woods; a sort of javelin, some five or six feet in length, thicker at one end. 



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