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all of this talk about himself. He then took and hid his mother in the cave at Waipouli, 

 after which he came back to their house at Keahumoa. He went up on the roof of the 

 house and parted the front and rear thatchings on the ridge and slept there. 



Amau the king sent four companies of men, each company consisting of forty- 

 eight men. When they arrived at Keahumoa they entered the house and found no per- 

 son in it. And when they were preparing to leave Namakaokapaoo called to them from 

 the ridge When they heard the voice without seeing anybody, they asked: "Where are 

 you talking from?" Namakaokapaoo answered: "I am up here." Eight men climbed 

 up on the roof, four from the rear and four from the front, and found Namakaokapaoo. 

 He asked them: "What do you want here?" And they said: "We have come to fight 

 Namakaokapaoo, a small boy just like you, who is very strong and brave, and who killed 

 his father Pualii." He answered and said: "I know; Namakaokapaoo is quite a big 

 man. He has gone to Koolau. I am his namesake." And they said to him: "No, no, 

 you are the one, so we heard; therefore we will kill you; you shall not live." 



Namakaokapaoo then said: "Let us go down and fight it out then." As soon as 

 they were on the ground Namakaokapaoo made a clean sweep, killing them all excepting 

 one man, who ran and met Amau at Waikiki, and reported their total annihilation with 

 the exception of himself. 



THE DEATH OF AMAU. 



When Amau heard this he prepared eighteen war canoes, and set sail for Ewa 

 to fight Namakaokapaoo. When Amau and his men arrived at Ewa, they were sud- 

 denly exterminated by Namakaokapaoo, not a single man escaping. And thus Amau 

 died. Oahu being completely conquered, Namakaokapaoo went and brought his mother 

 and placed her as ruler over the land of Oahu. 



CHAPTER H. 

 The Subjugation of Hawaii by Namakaokapaoo. 



After the complete possession of Oahu by Namakaokapaoo, he was desirous of 

 visiting Hawaii for observation. He then went and got a small gourd wherein to place 

 his garments which his father had left him. This gourd was deposited at Kualakai, 

 where a breadfruit tree is standing to this day. This is the breadfruit impersonation of 

 his father, Kahaiulu.'" When the real person went home the breadfruit tree remained, 

 being in the supernatural state. 



Inside of the gourd was a garment, a girdle and a royal cloak (feather cloak). 

 After he had obtained the gourd he journeyed on till he reached Hanauma," in Mauna- 

 lua. There he found a canoe which was preparing to sail for Hawaii, bearing gar- 

 ments for the king of Hawaii. There were two men preparing to set sail, so Namakao- 

 kapaoo asked them: "Where is your canoe sailing to?" "To Hawaii," they answered. 

 Namakaokapaoo again asked: "Can I not go with you two?" The men refused, saying: 



'"Given at the outset as Kauluakaliai, the breadfruit of "Hanauma Bay, on the eastern side of Coco Head, was 



Kahai. a favorite royal fishing resort. 



