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weeping: asked her: "Wh)' are you weeping?" Makolea replied: "I am weeping for 

 you, for I am afraid my huslwnd will kill you. His si)ear is never known to miss. He 

 can hit a blade of grass, an ant or a flea. How can he miss you, your shadow being 

 much larger?" Kepakailiula then said boastingly: 



He has fruit, I have fruit, 



He has testes, I have testes, 



He is a male person, I am a male person. 



No one can tell of the outcome. 



Whether lie will win or I will win. 



After this they again fell asleep. At the first crow of the cock, Kepakailiula said 

 to Makolea: "I am returning to Hawaii and at the end of three days I will come again. 

 I want you, therefore, to stand a flag wherever you are and within its sacred precincts 

 gather all whom you love and wish to be saved." 



Early that morning Kepakailiula boarded his canoe and set out on his journey 

 back to Kohala, where he arrived in good time and went to sleep. 



At daylig-ht the next day they came together and had their morning meal. At the 

 end of the meal he said to his young wife, Kapuaokeonaona : "Say, I have a word for 

 you and it must be between ourselves only. Are you a favorite with your father?" 

 "Yes," said she. "I am a favorite. Everything I will ask he will do." "Yes? Then tell 

 your father to bring all the canoes of Kohala together, gather all the people, leaving no 

 one behind, from the largest to the smallest, and then let the people accompany me to 

 Maui on a journey of sightseeing, after which we will return." When Kukuipahu heard 

 the wish of his daughter, the officers and runners were sent out all over Ivohala, from 

 one end to the other carrying the orders of the king. On the third day everything was 

 ready. On the fourth day, the whole army set out for Maui. 



On this voyage the whole channel of Alanuihaha was covered with canoes, there 

 being so many. It was said that they covered the whole distance from the Upolu point 

 to the point of Kauiki. On the trip across the canoes headed for the harbor of Hana 

 where the king, Kakaalaneo, was then living with the chiefs and people. 



When the canoes came close to land, Kepakailiida said to his followers : "Say, I 

 want you all to float here out at sea and I will go ashore alone. If you look and see that 

 I am killed, you can turn around where you are and return to Hawaii. But if I should 

 live, then come ashore." Kepakailiula then went ashore taking his war club along with 

 him. When he landed he stepped first over the wet sand, then the dry sand, then over 

 the pohuehue vines and then over the alaalapuloa.'' Kakaalaneo came out to meet him, 

 carrying two small spears, one in his right hand and one in his left. From the time Ke- 

 pakailiula came ashore until he was met by Kakaalaneo, the peoi)le kept on shouting 

 in admiration of the good looks of Kepakailiula. Some of the people pitied him so much, 

 for fear that he would be killed by Kakaalaneo that they wept. 



"Alaalapuloa, a low shrub. 



