Legend of Namakaokapaoo. 



CHAPTER I. 



Namakaokapaoo Rifles Pualii's Potato Field. — He Threatens to Behead the 

 Boy but Is Killed Instead. — Amau the King Sends a Force to Kill Him. — He 

 Slays Them and the King. 



NAMAKAOKAPAOO was a very brave little boy, and very strong for his young 

 years. He had no compeer in these Islands from Hawaii to Niihau, according 

 to his size for bravery. His father was Kauluakahai of Kahikipapaialewa,^ a 

 land in great Kahiki. Pokai was his mother. His father was a great chief and had a 

 godly relationship. Hoaeae, in Ewa, was the place where they met as man and wife and 

 begat Namakaokapaoo. When Pokai was enciente of Namakaokapaoo, Kauluakahai went 

 back to his own land, leaving Pokai in that condition until childbirth. 



When the child was born Pokai and her child Namakaokapaoo were quite desti- 

 tute, and while they were in that condition of life a good man named Pualii came from 

 Lihue" to fish at Honouliuli. He turned in at the home of Pokai. He looked at her and 

 had a yearning for her. He said: "I desire you to be my wife." Pokai returned: 

 "How could you have a desire for me, seeing that I have already given birth to a child, 

 and my body is defiled?" Pualii answered: "There's nothing in those things if you de- 

 sire our union." Pokai then assented and went with her husband Pualii, and resided at 

 the plans of Keahumoa.' (KuIa-o-Keahumoa.) 



They lived there tilling the soil. Pualii had two large potato patches which re- 

 main to this day ; they are called Namakaokapaoo.^ When the potatoes were ripe Pualii 

 made a vow that when the head^ of an ulna''' fish and the potatoes were roasted, and 

 Pualii had first eaten thereof, then the potatoes would be free, and that his wife and 

 others could eat thereof. Therefore Pualii went down to Honouliuli to catch the fish 

 to be eaten together with the potato. 



When Pualii was gone Namakaokapaoo, with seventeen other youngsters, went to 

 Pualii's potato patches. Namakaokapaoo was only a very small child then, standing two 

 and a half feet high, had not eaten adult food. He had not worn a girdle (malo), and 

 was yet in a state of nudity. 



When they arrived at the potato patches he told the boys to dig up the potatoes 

 and pull up all the \'ines, and allow nothing to stand in the patches. But the boys were 

 afraid and only dug up the potatoes without pulling up the vines. Namakaokapaoo then 

 started to pull up everything from both patches until the vines were piled up high in 



'A mystic, moving, foreign cloud-land. To the Ha- 'Keahumoa was the plain before reaching the Kipapa 



waiian mind, to go beyond the horizon was to sail into gidch. 



the clouds, lani ; lewa, moving; kahiki, foreign. 'gyes of the paoo (a small fish of the Salarias species). 



'Lihue, the uplands of the Waianae side of Wahiawa, 'The e.xpression of head of a fish, or a pig, or a dog, 



Oahu ; a name rarely applied thereto of late years. etc., as commonly used, implied possession of the whole. 



"Ulua, Cavalla {Caraiigus latus). 

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