142 Poniaiiihv Collection of Hatvaiian Folk-lore. 



kind of l)athino- are you going to have?" "We are going to leap from the rocks." He 

 would then say: "Your feet will be bitten." After the people had passed on their way 

 to the sea, he would then follow on behind and jump into the sea and begin to bite ofif 

 the feet of the bathers. This was carried on every time the peoj^le went liathing and 

 they never once suspected him. If the people were on their way to dive for fish their 

 heads would be bitten off and eaten by Kamaikaahui. 



It was his custom to always have a piece of kapa wrapped around his back and he 

 never went without it, because it was to cover up the mouth at his back, for he did not 

 wish to have it seen. One day during one of the king's working days at which Kamai- 

 kaahui was present, with the piece of kapa on his back, the people having seen him thus 

 covered at all times made uj) their n)ind to see why his back was always covered. A 

 general order was therefore issued in which everybody was requested to uncover their 

 back. I'his was followed by everybody except Kamaikaahui. ^\'hen he was requested 

 to unco\er his back he at once attempted to escape and ran off, threw down his clothes 

 and jumped intu the sea where he turned into a shark. The place where he left his 

 clothes is to this day known as Kauhalahala, given to it because he successfully escaped 

 from the hands of the people. 



After transforming himself into a shark he came to W'aipahu in Waikele, Oahu, 

 where he remained. As soon as he was settled in the place he again followed the same 

 practice that he did in Maui. Every time he got his opponent under him his mouth at 

 the back would bite and eat the man. This was done so often that the people of Ewa 

 began to get afraid of him, and he lived as a king over them. 



On the day that Palila decided to leave home, he took up his war club, Huliamahi, 

 and came out of Humuula and stood on the knoll of Komoikeanu, swung his war club, 

 pointed it in front of him and let the club fly. As the clul) flew he hung on to one end of 

 it and he was carried by it until he landed on the clifif of Nualolo on the top of the hill of 

 Kamaile, the hill from which the fire sticks^ are thrown. As he stood on the hill he first 

 looked towards Kahiki, then towards Oahu ; then making up his mind to come to Oahu, 

 he pushed his war club ahead of him and again he was carried by it until he landed on the 

 Kaena point at \\'aianae. 



After leaving Kaena he came to Kalena, then on to Pohakea, then to Maunauna, 

 then to Kanehoa, then to the plain of Keahumoa and looking toward Ewa. At this place 

 he stood and looked at the dust as it ascended into the skv caused by the people who had 

 gathered there; he then ]ntshed his war club toward Honouliuli. When the people 

 heard something roar like an earthquake they were afraid and they all ran to Waikele. 

 When Palila arrived at \\'aikele he saw the ])eople gathered there to witness the athletic 

 games that were being given by the king of Oahu, Ahua]«u by name. His palace was 

 situated at Kalaepohaku, close to Wailuakio at Kapalama. 



Ahuapau was a kii\m chief and he was kept covered up away from the wind and 

 rain. On going out he was carried from place to place inclosed in a palanquin, so high 



'These northern cliffs of Kauai, in olden time were lightness of the wood and upward current of wind ren- 

 famed as the scene of Hawaiian pyrotechnics on festive dering a slowness of descent at times as to entirely con- 

 occasions, which consisted of firebrands of auhau or sume the firebrand in mid air. This was particularly a 

 other very light wood being thrown from their heights sport of Kauai folk, and has occasional practice in re- 

 to descend slowly ablaze to the sea at their base ; the cent years. 



