Story oi Pikoiakaalala. 



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CHAPTER I. 



LA LA was the father and Koukou was the mother of Pikoiakaalala; lole and Opea- 

 pea were the sisters of Pikoiakaalala, born before him. The parents as well as 

 the children were rats who sometimes changed into human beings, as this story 

 will clearly show. Wailna in Kanai was the birthplace of Pikoiakaalala." The first 

 child of Konkou was lole, a danghter; then followed Opeapea, another daughter. These 

 two were brought up by their parents until they were of age, when they moved to Oahu 

 and married husbands who were connected to certain high chiefs and who were large 

 land owners, during the reign of Kaulamawaho' and Kekakapuomaluihi. As lole and 

 Opeapea had left Kauai for Oahu before the birth of Pikoiakaalala, therefore, they were 

 not present' at the birth of their young brother. After they had left, Koukou, their 

 mother, conceived and gave birth to Pikoiakaalala, a son, to whom great care was ex- 

 ercised in his bringing up. In the course of time the child grew to be fine looking 

 but with hair that resembled rat's hair. 



At about this time it was customary for the people to gather at Wailua to join 

 in and to witness the different athletic sports. One day while the different games were 

 going on, the shouts and yells to encourage the different contestants were heard by 

 Pikoiakaalala. He therefore asked his father Alala: "Say, Alala, what is the cause of 

 that shouting down at Wailua?" "Thej^ are playing olohu,"^ answered Alala. "What 

 is that?" asked Pikoiakaalala. "It is played in this way: there are two contestants 

 playing; when one has rolled his stone disk farther than the other's, the multitude 

 would shout. That is the noise you hear." Pikoiakaalala then asked: "Let me go and 

 witness the games?" "You cannot go and see them until after toda}'," said Alala. 

 After this the multitude shouted again. When Pikoiakaalala heard the commotion, 

 he again asked Alala, this being the second time: "What is that renewed shouting down 

 there?" "The}' are plaj-ing at a game called pahee.' When the stick thrown by one 

 contestant slides farther than the one thrown by the other the people would 3'ell." 

 "I must go down," said Pikoiakaalala. Alala refused, saying: "Yoii cannot go." 



Again there was yelling at the place, this being the third time. Pikoiakaalala 

 again asked: "What is that fresh shouting that is going on?" Alala replied: "They 

 are playing koieie,'' at a place in the river near the rapids. The game is played in this 



'This name, showing Pikoi's descent, is a departure '/'nAcc, a favorite betting game of sliding a stick along 



from the customary form, being not only of, or from, a grass or gravel course. 



Alala, but is more definite as from ka (the) Alala. '•Koieie, probably the same as koieiei, a play at a flow- 



' A'aiilatiiawalw, outside rope; k'ekakapuaiiialiiihi. ing stream where the incoming tide or current will return 



"the arrow shooting of Maluihi". the object thrown. The sport of sliding down the rap- 



^Ikeole laua, as translated here, may also mean "they "1*. as in Samoa or other islands of Polynesia, takes the 



did not know", or "were unaware", etc. same name. 



■" Oto/iu. name of a stone disk for a rolling game, which 

 takes the same name. 



