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fast, but this was notliin,c; to the cannibal. They then lje.c?an to wrestle until Kapako- 

 hana was held by the cannibal and was so exhausted that he began to grow faint. 

 Kapakohana, realizing that he would get killed if they were to keep on with the fight," 

 asked of the cannibal that they become friends and to come and go to visit each other 

 and partake of cooked taro.^" 



At this request the hairless cannibal of Hanakapiai agreed to be friends and al- 

 Idwetl Ka]iakohana to get up and to cease the combat. Thinking that Kapakohana 

 was honest in his intentions the robber canjiibal became careless at nights and grew 

 less watchful. One night while he was fast asleep, Kapakohana and two forties of 

 his men came and surrounded the house of the cannibal with nets and ropes and pre- 

 pared to catch him. 



While the men were engaged in their work, the cannibal rose and sat up, for 

 he was disturbed by the sound of the voices of the men outside of the house. He then 

 looked out and saw the people setting their nets ; he then studied a plan as to the best 

 means of getting out. Instead of trying to get out by the doorway he climbed up to 

 the roof and tore open the top of the house and made his escape by taking hold of a 

 branch of the kukui tree which grew close to the house. There he sat and listened to 

 the talk and the orders that were being given by Kapakohana, to make ready and set 

 the house on fire so as to kill the hairless cannibal. When he heard this, he said to 

 himself: "1 am going to kill you all and eat you up, from the smallest to the largest 

 of you." He then jumped down from the tree and crawled uj) to the men and began 

 killing and eating them. He kept this up until he came up to Kapakohana. When Ka- 

 pakohana saw the canni])al he jumped at him and held him by the throat. The fight 

 was continued from the rest of that night and all the next day until just as the sun was 

 sinking in the sea the cannibal was at last made fast and held to the ground. Kapa- 

 kohana, then reached out for his war club and struck the cannibal in the tcmj^le a 

 couple of times, depriving him of the further enjoyment of the heat of the sun, thus 

 killing him.'^ 



Kapakohana then took out the eyes^^ of the cannibal to be used as bait for 

 shark fishing. He next stripjjcd the bones clean'' and used them for a place to hang 

 up his calabashes. The rest of the body was then carried to the temple and placed on 

 the altar as a sacrifice. Thus was the cannibal killed by Kapakohana. 



"A case of "discretion" being "the better part of "Eyes were sacrificial offerings rather than sharl< 



valor." bait, usually, and the departure seems strange in this 



'To "break bread" with one was said to be a seal of case, seeing the body was carried to the temple for such 



friendship with some people ; it may have been the im- purpose, 



pression intended in this case. "To turn one's bones into fish-hooks or other pur- 



"Fancy the physical endurance for a fight of eighteen Poses was the most dreaded insult, 

 or more hours continuous, and to be dispatched with a 

 war club in the end ! 



