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stacks. There were forty such stacks from the two fields. He thereafter started a fire 

 and roasted thereon four clusters of potatoes. 



^^'hile he was cooking' his potatoes his stepfather came home and asked his mother 

 Pokai: "Did you send your child to pull up my potatoes?" Pokai said: "No." Pualii 

 then said : "Well, this day his head and eyes' will be meat for my potato meal. This day 

 he shall die at my hands." He seized an axe and went out to the field where he found 

 Namakaokapaoo roasting his four clusters of potatoes in the fire. All the other boys ran 

 ofif and stood at a distance for fear of Pualii. 



Pualii then said to Namakaokapaoo: "Say, I have in my hand an axe with which 

 to cut ofif your head this day, and when your head is ofif it will be roasted with potatoes 

 so that I may eat first and then it (the potato) will be free." Namakaokapaoo paid no 

 attention to these words of Pualii, who repeated them after an interval. And while Pualii 

 was about to cut Namakaokapaoo with the axe, the latter just then delivered his death 

 prayer against Pualii. The prayer follows : 



O how I long- for the eyes of my Httle fishes (paoo's), 



For which I am undecided, wavering, 



Whether to eat, or whether to leave, 



To leave for Kukuiaimakaokalani.* 



That is Kukuiaimakaokalani, 



This is my little friend 



Xamakaokaia, the great chief of Hawaii. 



Vanquished, yes, vanquished is the coward ; 



The man with the spear. 



The spear and the drum. 



Shall be vanquished by Namakaokapaoo. 



(Let us here make a few remarks relating to Namakaokalani and Namakaokaia. 

 They were great chiefs of Hawaii. The former was the father, the latter the son, but 

 they were mentioned in the prayer of Namakaokapaoo. ) 



At the time that Namakaokapaoo ended his prayer, Pualii struck at Namakao- 

 kapaoo with the axe, but the sharp edge of the axe turned on himself cutting ofif and 

 throwing his head some distance, from whence it said: "Farewell to thee, Namakao- 

 kapaoo." 



Namakaokapaoo picked up Pualii's head and threw it towards Waipouli, a cave 

 situated on the beach at Honouliuli (a distance of about five miles)." After Pualii's death 

 Namakaokapaoo went back to his mother. He did not eat any food. 



At that time Amau, a king of Oahu, was residing at Waikiki. A certain man of 

 Honouliuli came to Waikiki, to where the king was stopping, and said to him: "Your 

 majesty, there is a very strong little boy, who killed his stepfather and threw his 

 (father's) head a very long distance, about five miles." 



When Amau heard this he said : "He is indeed strong if he kills me ; but if he does 

 not kill me he is not strong." While he was talking at Waikiki, Namakaokapaoo heard 



'Referring to his name. "This outclasses any long-distance throwing of present 



"This party is referred to later as Namakaokalani, day athletes, 



father of Namakaokaia. 



