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why his brother was successfully carried away. After a while Kaulu discovered that 

 his brother was missing, so he inquired of the spirits where his brother had gone to. 

 Upon being told that they knew nothing about him, Kaulu then felt that he was dead. 

 He then proceeded to the seashore, stooped down and drank up the sea so that all the 

 fish were stranded, dry. Kaulu then began to make a search for his brother in all the 

 different man-eating fish, the common shark, the tiger shark and the hihimanu, but he 

 was unable to find him. He then searched in all the four corners of the sea and still 

 Kaeha was not to be found. Kaulu then flew up to Makalii to enquire of him for the 

 whereabouts of Kaeha. When he came up to Makalii he found him lying down with 

 his face turned up. Kaulu then pinched his mons veneris at the same time calling 

 him: "Dead you are, Makalii. What have 3'ou to say?" Makalii replied: "Your oldest 

 brother is in a shark." Kaulu asked: "Tell me of him." While Kaulu was asking 

 these questions of Makalii, Koeleele, a younger brother of Makalii, came in with a large 

 rock, called Ikuwa, which was larger than the island of Maui. Koeleele was a man who 

 had a \^xy bad temper and he was a very powerfiil man. At sight of Kaulu he threw 

 the rock at him, but Kaulu braced up his fore- or poi finger and held the rock up and 

 then said: "Say, the rock from the mighty one is held up, is'nt it?" When Koeleele 

 heard this he ran awa}', thus saving himself from Kaulu. 



Kaulu then asked of Makalii: "Tell me the shark that swallowed my brother 

 and also the place where the shark lives." Makalii then looked, but he was unable to 

 see anything below them, so he chewed some kukui nuts and blew the oily substance 

 over the atmosphere beneath them which caused it to be clear and he was thus enabled 

 to locate the shark which had swallowed Kaeha. Makalii then pointed him out to 

 Kaulu at the same time saying: "It is the one overgrown ' with coral." 



Upon the arrival of Kaulu at the place and found the mass of coral, he asked: 

 "Have you seen my brother?" The king of the sharks, Kukamaulunuiakea, said: "I 

 have swallowed him, he is now within me all digested." Kaulu again asked the shark: 

 "Are you strong?" "Yes, I can reach the heaven with my upper jaw and the bottom 

 of the ocean with my lower jaw." Kukamaulunuiakea then opened its mouth. As 

 soon as this was done Kaulu propped it open while he called for his brother to come 

 out. Kaeha then came out. His hair had all fallen off making him bald headed. 

 Kukamaulunuiakea was thereupon slain by Kaulu and its spirit flew up to heaven and 

 it turned into the Milky Way' as seen at midnight, from ancient time to the present 

 day. Kaulu and Kaeha then returned and Kaulu vomited out the sea water. Kaeha 

 was in front and Kaulu in the rear, as the ocean was restored. It is said that owing to 

 this action of Kaulu the sea water became salty to this day. 



When the spirits looked and saw Kaulu and Kaeha returning, they said amongst 

 themselves: "So Kaeha is not dead." After this the spirit again tempted Kaeha and 

 enticed him to go and play swing. So the spirits and Kaeha proceeded to where a swing 

 was rigged up, when they remarked to Kaeha: "You take the first ride while we push 

 the swing for you." While this conversation was going on, Kaulu arrived and in a 

 cunning way said: "Say, if you all wish to take a ride on the swing, I will pull the 



W« a«a (7 )«««<7Wrt«rt, growing and branching. the Milky Way, it being the spirit of Kukamaulunui- 



= Here perhaps is the origin of the term ia, fish, for akea, the monster king of sharks. 



