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boy said there were six small patches, but here there are six very large patches." The 

 men then began to dig uj) the potatoes, and after they had dug up enough, they col- 

 lected the potatoes and in obedience to the boy's order, they took the large ones as well 

 as the small ones and returned with the potatoes to the beach, lighted the ovens, and 

 after the potatoes were cooked, they sat down and ate their fill. 



After this Kuai)akaa came to them and said: "I want you to take the large po- 

 tatoes for your own use and keep the small ones for me." "Why, no, not so; you 

 must have some of the large ones, too, because the potatoes are yours." "No," said 

 Kuapakaa, "you take the large ones and save the small ones for me. But I want you 

 to do this : peel the skin and then set out the potatoes to dry."'' The people then asked 

 Kuapakaa: "What do you intend doing with the food, boy?" Kuapakaa replied: "I 

 am doing this, because I know you will eat uj) those potato patches and the bad weather 

 of this land generally comes about this time, when the sea will be rough, which will 

 keep you here for some time, for there are three liad months yet to come ; Makalii, Kae- 

 lo and Kaulua.'' In the month of Olana,"' it is possible that fine weather will come, then 

 you people will be able to get away. By that time my potatoes will all be consumed by 

 you, but by doing this, sa\-ing and drying out the small potatoes, T will not be without 

 food and will not be hungry, for I shall then live on the small potatoes which I ask you 

 to keep for me. \\\i\\ this food I will be supplied during the time of planting and care 

 •of a new crop." This talk by Kuapakaa, although true, was intended to deceive them, 

 for Kuapakaa well knew that Keawenuiaumi was going to urge that he go along with 

 him m the search for Pakaa, when good weather once more prevailed. The men, in obe- 

 dience to this order, faithfully kept all the small potatoes after every cooking day. 



WHien Keawenuiaumi left Hawaii on this ex])edition, he left word with the chiefs 

 and the common ])eo])le that he would take up a month in the search for Pakaa. He was, 

 however, mistaken in this, for he was in Molokai for four months. In this prolonged 

 absence the people of Hawaii began to mourn for their king, believing that he was dead. 

 After sta\-ing in Molokai for four months, the followers of Keawenuiaumi began to 

 think of their wives, children and parents, and there was a general feeling amongst them 

 that they abandon the search for Pakaa and return to Hawaii. 



At the exjjiration of the four months, during which bad weather was to i)revail 

 as predicted by Kuapakaa, he closed the wind calabash of Laamaomao, and good 

 weather was once more experienced. He then said to the people: "This is Olana, the 

 pleasant month, then come Welo and Ikiikii (May and June), the ]:»eriod of time when 

 the fisherman's fish line is always wet. These months are the i^leasant months, and 

 hence the fisherman's line is never dr\', because they go out fishing every day." He 

 then said to the chiefs and men: "Bind the lashings of the canoes, for I have kept vou 

 for four months because of the bad weather; now that good weather has come, you 

 must return home." When the chiefs heard this, they made ready their canoes, re- 

 newed the lashings, and pushed the canoes out into the sea and moored them, for the ex- 



"This was the way of preserving food for use in '"Ohiw, or Nana, translated as April, would be the 



tunes of war or on long ocean voyages. March-April of the Hawaii calendar, but July of Molo- 



"'These niontlis would range from mid November to kai's. 

 March, according to Alexander. 



