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tions alono- the road surrounding Oahu?" "None." said Ahuai)au. This was, how- 

 ever, a he, as Ahuapau was even at this time determined to have Pahla killed. Palila 

 then said to Ahuapau: "Yes, I am going on ni}' way and in case I meet some one who 

 will attempt to harm me, T will first kill him and then I will return and kill 3'ou and all 

 your men." At this Ahuai)au was frightened and told of Olomana, who was living at 

 Kaelepulu in Koolau and was a great warrior. Palila then said: "I will not kill you 

 now; hut had }'ou ke])t it from me you would have been killed." 



Palila then climbed to the top of Punchbowl hill and looked around him. From 

 this place he walked up to the Nuuanu pali, pushed his war club ahead of him, holding on 

 to one end and flew to Kaelepulu, where he saw Olomana standing. 



Olomana was a very tall man, he being twelve"" yards to the shoulders, and thir- 

 teen in height. He was a very brave man and was much feared. No chief or warrior 

 dared face him. If he stood on the windward side the other side would be a perfect calm; 

 his height also shaded the sun. 



When Palila saw Olomana, he jum|)ed up with his war club, Huliamahi, and stood 

 on the shoulders of Olomana. Olomana then turned and said to Palila: "Where are 

 you from, you haughty youngster? No one has ever dared, before this day, to climb up 

 my shoulders ; and here you have done it." Palila then answered : "I am Palila who was 

 brought up in Alanapo, the temple of the gods from the very beginning of all things, and 

 I have come to fight you." When Olomana heard this, he was sorely afraid, for he 

 knew that those who come from the temple of Alanapo are men richly endowed with 

 supernatural powers and very great warriors; so Olomana begged: "Let me live, Pal- 

 ila." Palila re])lied: "I cannot save you; you shall indeed die, for your works have been 

 of evil." Palila then struck him, cutting him in two; one portion flew toward the sea, 

 being Mahinui, and the other ])ortion remained where he stood, being the present hill of 

 Olomana. It was because of this that the hill is so shar]) at the peak. This was how 

 Olomana, the great soldier of Oahu, was killed by Palila. 



After Palila had completed the circuit of Oahu, he went along to the rise at Kai- 

 muki and then down to Waialae ; from this place he proceeded to Wailu])e and then on to 

 Maunalua wdiere Kahului, a fisherman of that place, was living. Upon seeing him Kahu- 

 lui called, so Palila went to Kahului and they sat down and began to talk on various 

 matters. That afternoon the men and women came along the shore in the pools to catch 

 minnows for bait, for aku fishing for tomorrow." Palila again asked: "How about us 

 two?" "But I have no one to assist me in paddling the canoe because I have a very large 

 one, it being seven fathoms in length." Palila then said: "The two of us will paddle it 

 in order to make it go." They then started out and caught some minnows which they 

 kejjt for the next day. 



In the early morning when they came out they found that all the others had gone 

 before them; so Kahului thought they would not be able to get their canoe into the sea; 

 he then turned to Palila and said : "We will not be able to get our canoe into the sea as 

 there are no men to assist us. Palila replied: "You get in front and lift while I lift the 



"Nothing small, evidently, about a Hawaiian giant, any more than there was in the famous clubs of their heroes. 



