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toward Hawaii. Iwa then asked: "Have we arrived?" "Yes," replied Keaau, "but it 

 is at that ])oint of land where the cloud hangs over the mountain that we want to go; 

 it is to the west of that point that Unii is now living." Iwa then took up his paddle, 

 Kapahi, and gave one stroke and they arrived outside of Kalaeakeahole, a point of land 

 looking towards Kailua, where Umi had his residence. When they looked about them, 

 they saw Umi just below them, in his canoe. Iwa then said to Keaau: "There is Umi in 

 his canoe with the shells. Let us get our canoe to the rear and out of sight of Umi." 

 When they were some distance from Umi, Iwa said: "Say, Keaau, you must float right 

 at this spot until I return with your shells." Keaau therefore kept his canoe floating on 

 the same spot while Iwa dove down and swam until he had reached the bottom of the 

 ocean, then walked under water to the place where the canoe of Umi was floating, then 

 swam up until he was almost u\) to the surface : and as the shells were being let down 

 on the side of the canoe, Iwa grabbed them and took them down with him to a large 

 coral, there he fastened the fish-line, then he took the shells and swam under water until 

 he reached their canoe and got into it. The two then returned and landed at Leleiwi, in 

 Hilo, where they made their home. Upon the recovery of his shells Keaau again took 

 u]) his favorite occupation, that of squid fishing, taking along his shells, Kalokuna. The 

 squids at sight of the shells climbed and entered the canoe until it was loaded down when 

 they returned to shore. 



(We will here leave Keaau and let us return to Umi.) 



After the shells were taken by Iwa and the line fastened to a coral, Umi after a 

 time pulled up on his line, but to his surprise it would not yield and thinking that the line 

 was entangled to the coral he did not wish to pull very strong, thinking the line would 

 break and he would lose the shells. Fearing he would lose them he remained in his 

 canoe all day, and that night he slept out at sea with his men, and for some days he lived 

 there, while his men dove down to untangle the fish-line and thus recover the much valued 

 shells. Men noted for being able to stay under water a long time were sent for, and 

 these men were told to go down, but the best they could do was to go down three times 

 forty fathoms, seven hundred and twenty feet," not dee]) enough to reach the bottom 

 where the line was tangled. This was kept up for a week. Umi then sent out his run- 

 ners to make a circuit of Hawaii to look for a man who could stay under water long 

 enough to recover the shells. In this trip around the island of Hawaii, Iwa was found at 

 Leleiwi, the point of land adjoining Kunuikahi, between Puna and Hilo. When Iwa 

 heard the king's wish through his runner, Iwa said to him : "There are no shells at the 

 end of the line. The line only is fastened to some coral in the bottom of the ocean. The 

 shells have been recovered by Keaau." When the runner heard this he returned to Umi 

 taking Iwa with him and told Umi of what he had heard from Iwa. L^mi then asked 

 Iwa regarding the shells and Iwa told LTmi just what the runner had told him. At the 

 close of the report Umi asked Iwa: "Can you get these shells for me if you should go 

 for them?" Iwa replied: "Yes,"' Iwa then journeyed back to the home of Keaau in 

 Leleiwi. 



It was Keaau's custom to hide these shells on the end of the house, up next to the 



"Tliis is considerably over twice the record depth by "The alleged "honor among thieves" was not a govern- 



expert divers of the present day. ing principle in this boy's character. 



