452 Foniaiider Collection of Haiuaiian Folk-lore. 



way: it is a short piece of smoothed board which is thrown iu the river at a place just 

 near the rapids in such a way that it would float steadil}' in one place without being 

 carried down the rapids. The one whose piece of board floats the steadiest and is not 

 carried down the rapids wins. The shouting which 3'ou have just heard is for the 

 winner." "May I go down?" asked Pikoiakaalala. "You maj^," said Alala. 



Alala then proceeded to make a koieie for Pikoiakaalala, and after it was finislied, 

 the bo}' started down for Wailua where the people were gathered at the games. On 

 the arrival of Pikoiakaalala with his koieie the people all looked at him in surprise. 

 Not very long afterwards the people began throwing their koieie boards into the Wailua 

 River; so Pikoiakaalala threw his into the river also. When the people saw how his 

 koieie floated the steadiest, some of the boys got jealous of him and one of them reached 

 down for Pikoiakaalala's koieie and threw it into the rapids which carried it into the 

 sea. As soon as his koieie was thrown into the rapids, Pikoiakaalala jumped in after 

 it and he too was carried into the sea b}' the force of the current for two daj-s and two 

 nights when he landed on Oahu at the harbor of Kou (Honolulu), where he sat on the 

 sand like a castaway, weak from want of food. 



RELATING TO HIS SISTERS. 



The two [sisters] were at this time living with their husbands who were men of 

 note, being large land owners, and who had under them a man by the name of Kaua- 

 kahi as their chief steward. When Kauakahi saw Pikoiakaalala lying there he came 

 up to him and asked: "Where are you from?" "From the sea," answered Pikoiaka- 

 alala. "Come to the house with me," said Kauakahi. 



Upon their arrival at the house, Kauakahi spoke to lole and Opeapea, the sisters 

 of Pikoiakaalala: "I have a boy, here he is. I found him asleep ' on the sand and brought 

 him to the house to live with me." lole and Opeapea then asked Pikoiakaalala: "Where 

 are you from? Where were you born and who are your parents?" Pikoiakaalala an. 

 swered: "Wailua in Kauai is my birthplace. Alala is my father and Koukou is ni}^ 

 mother." When lole and Opeapea heard these answers given by Pikoiakaalala they knew 

 that he must be their brother, as the names of their parents were correctly given; they 

 therefore sprang on him crying, and at the same time informed Pikoiakaalala of their 

 relationship. 



The husbands of the sisters of Pikoiakaalala were out in the fields working with 

 the men, so Kauakahi was sent to bring them home and to tell them that their brother- 

 in-law had arrived. When Kauakahi came up to them he said: "You have been sent 

 for by your two wives to return home because 3-our brother-in-law has arrived from 

 Kauai, and to kill a pig and prepare some food." The food and pig were gotten ready 

 and as soon as they arrived at home they were cooked in the ground. 



While the pig and food were being cooked, Pikoiakaalala left the house and 

 walked over to where the king and queen of Oahu were residing. When he arrived he 

 found them betting on rat shooting." Kaulamawaho the king and Kekakapuomaluihi 



^ E inoe ana might mean simply "lying down", from 'Rat shooting was a pastime of the aliis. 



his exhausted condition. 



