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In this conversation, she asked and answered the questions herself. People 

 passing by who heard it were made to believe that Kawaiinuiaola had a new husband. 

 She also often used the following prayer: 



Here is the food, O god. 



May the love that is beating within me fall. 



Say, Muki ! Here is the food. 



The food is for Muki, 



The god that flies at night. 



Fall toward the upland. 



Fall toward the sea. 



Fall toward the froth of the ocean. 



Fill it to satisfy the craving within, 



Calling from the network within. 



Bind it fast 



The hair of the god, 



Not the binding that is loose and open 



But the binding that is tight and in a knot 



For the great knot that is within me is love. 



Paddle away! Paddle away! 



lyike the paddling of the fishermen in the ocean, 



The husbandman cultivates" in the field. 



Like the paddling of the god along the way. 



Oh, what must it be? 



Along the path trodden by you two 



From Kula to Hamakua. 



Like the game of hide g.nd seek is the rain of 



Hamakua, 

 The rain where one hides in the ti-leaf, 

 Hide thou the object of my love there. 



In all these conversations, Kawaunuiaola showed great cunning. When those 

 who heard her went on their way, they told others that Kawaunuiaola must have obtained 

 a new husband. This was carried to Hoeu her husband one day in the following way: 

 "Say, Hoeu, your wife, Kawaunuiaola acts in a very strange way; she must have 

 obtained a new husband, for we have heard two voices talking; one in the voice of a 

 female and the other in the voice of a man. It must be a new husband." When Hoeu 

 heard this from the people, he stood up and deserted the woman he was living with, the 

 woman who enticed him away from Kawaunuiaola and he returned to his wife, at Kula. 

 Upon his arrival at their home he asked his wife as to the rixmors he had heard, which 

 the wife denied, saying: "I have no husband, I am all alone." They again made up 

 and lived on as husband and wife. She was indeed cunning. 



Legend of Aiai. 



KUULA was the father and Hina was the mother of Aiai. They lived in Nio- 

 lopa,' Nuuanu. Kuula and his wife were great fisher folks, and they had in their 

 possession a pearl fish-hook of great value^ called Kahuoi. This pearl fish-hook 

 was in the keeping of a bird called Kamanuwai and it was kept at Kaumakapili.'' This 

 pearl fish-hook was so enticing that every time Kuula went out for aku, outside of 

 Mamala,' upon seeing the hook they would jump into the canoes of their own accord. 

 This fish was the food which this bird lived on. 



'The resemblance of a husbandman to a paddler is in 

 the way they use their implements, always towards them- 

 selves in their work. 



'That section of Nuuanu Valley in the neighborhood 

 of Wyllie Street. 



^Its great value lay in the fact that it was specially 

 attractive to the fish desired, the aku. 



'That section of Honolulu above Beretania Street, 

 from Nuuanu to the stream, as it used to run. 



^ Mamala, Honolulu harbor entrance. Kou was the 

 harbor itself. 



