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parations to take along with him his favorites, his warriors as companions and also 

 his servants. 



Kaikilani in the meantime was placed to rule the land and to care for the people. 

 All preparations having been made the king sailed for Kanai arriving there with his 

 entire retinue. Lonoikamakahiki went alone to view the trunkless tree of Kahihikolo 

 his entire retinue having deserted him. There was a native, however, of the place by 

 the name of Kapaihiahiliua who joined the king on his tour. The king while thus 

 journeying happened to look back to see where the rest of his people were and saw 

 only a solitary man following him in the rear. He was a stranger with whom he had 

 no acquaintance. Of the large retinue which accompanied him from Hawaii not one 

 was there, everj' man had deserted. 



When the king observed Kapaihiahilina following him, he said not a word to 

 him but continued on with his journey without even a guide to indicate the place he so 

 much desired to see. When Lonoikamakahiki again turned back Kapaihiahilina was 

 still following him. At this stage Lonoikamakahiki asked the man: "Where are 3'ou 

 going?" Kapaihiahilina replied: "I merely followed you, because I heard from your 

 people who were on their way back, that they had deserted you, and having sympathy 

 for you, I followed." 



Kapaihiahilina, upon being told that the king had been deserted, took a calabash 

 of poi and some fours of mud-fish, and went in search of the king. It was Kapailiiahi- 

 lina's habit during the days he followed the king to observe the etiquette due to royalty, 

 that is to say, during the early morning when the royal shadow was the longest, Kapai- 

 hiahilina, aware there were onl}' the two of them, did not cross his shadow but always 

 respected his royal dignity and position. 



Lonoikamakahiki constantly observed Kapaihiahilina's conduct as being most 

 respectful of royalty. One day in the course of their journey, Kapaihiahilina, always 

 to the rear of him at a respectable distance both when walking and when at sleep, 

 Lonoikamakahiki said to him: "Do not hold me in sacredness because yoii are my own 

 brother. I have nothing dearer than yourself, therefore, where I sleep, there will you 

 sleep also. Do not hold me aloof, because all that is good has passed and we are now 

 traveling in the region of the gods." In consequence of this, the king's wishes were 

 observed, and they sat down together. 



During their wanderings through the mountains of Kauai, in the depths of the 

 mountain recesses they became sorely in need of food and had to subsist on the liala 

 kaao.' They were in great need of clothing and destitute of malo and had to use 

 braided ferns in substitution thereof. They wandered on in this manner until they 

 arrived at the place which Lonoikamakahiki was so desirous of seeing, which place was 

 called Kahihikolo, but still continued on until they reached the shore. During these 

 travels they were in the greatest distress from lack of food, lack of clothing, lack of 

 malo and also distress from the rains. There was locked in the bosom of Lonoika- 

 makahiki the thought always of how he should some day reward Kapaihiahilina. On 

 their return from their mountain wanderings, Kapaihiahilina became a premier and a 



^ Hala kaao, unripe fruit of the pandanus. 



