426 Foniaiidcr Collection of Hazvaiian Folk-lore. 



RELATING TO MAIAUHAALENALENAUPENA. 



Maiauhaalenalenaupena was a very great deceiver and often deceived the ped- 

 dlers* and appropriated their goods without giving anything in return. The way he 

 did this was as follows : In the winter, when the sea was very rough and the wind and 

 rain lasted for months at a time, upon seeing the people from the uplands coming down 

 to the beach with food, sugar-cane, bananas, gourds and other things, he would take up 

 his fish nets and paddle and place them in his canoe, then push out the canoe, into the 

 sea, and would then return and proceed to dry out the nets, making believe that he had 

 just returned from fishing. This was how he came by the name of Maiauhaalenalena- 

 upena.^ 



When the peddlers arrived they would see that he was to all appearances a fisher- 

 man and they would then give him the food and all the other things on credit, fully be- 

 lieving that they would get some fish in return some day in the future, but they never 

 received anything in return, for he was not a fisherman. In this way the peddlers lost 

 all their goods. 



RELATING TO KUAUAMOA. 



Kuauamoa too was a very great deceiver, in fact he was the greatest of them 

 all. Kuauamoa belonged to Kawaihae, in Kohala, Hawaii. While he was living on 

 the beach at Kawaihae, he came in contact with some white men such as Isaac Davis 

 and John Young, and in this way learned how to use certain English words. 



One day Kuauamoa went up into the uplands of Kawaihae and when he arrived 

 on the plains of Alawawai, he met a couple of men from the interior of Kohala, who 

 were carrying some rope to the beach, to be disposed of to the white men, Isaac Davis 

 and John Young. Upon meeting the men Kuauamoa asked them : "What are you going 

 to do with the rope?" "\\t are going to sell it to the white men." Kuauamoa then 

 asked them: "Do you know how to speak English so that you will be able to make good 

 bargains?" "No." "Well, I will teach you a few words of their language so that you 

 will be able to effect a satisfactory sale." When you come to the place of the white 

 men,^ Isaac and All Hands,'^ and they should ask you what the rope is for, you tell them, 

 'Ko kame alaki, ko kahele ia paka.'" If they should ask you another question, say to 

 them, 'Kaukau ikeke i keke mea ai!"" These are the words to efifect a ready sale of 

 the rope of you two if offered; keep them fast in mind lest you forget and suffer loss." 



When the two men came to the white men, Isaac Davis asked them: "Kanaka, 

 what do you want for the rope?" The men replied: "Ko kami alaki, ko kahele ia paka." 

 The white men not understanding the language used, again asked: "What are you sell- 

 ing the rope for?" The men replied : "Kaukau ikeke i keke mea ai." When the white 



'Maauauwa, while peddler, in a sense as here given, is 'John Young was universally known among Hawaii- 

 more a barterer of his own products. ans as Ololiaiia, the nearest they could get to "All 



'■Mai-a-uhaa-lcnalcna-ufcna, literally, "Come, barter, Hands," a nickname they applied to him from his boat- 



the net is spread to-day." swain's call of "all hands," for duties required of them, 



'Kuai make fouo, literally, is to effect cheap or bar- ^^ °" chipboard, 



gain sales, whereas the object in mind was for a ready, ""Cuss phrases, the last meanmg ' Go to hell, you 



satisfactory sale. bugger." 



'Isaac Davis, the companion of John Young, was . '"Not near enough to the pretended English for rccog- 



known as Aikake, their nearest pronounciation of Isaac. nition. 



