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CHAPTER VI. 

 Relating to Kahikiula and Kahikihonuakele. 



After Makalii had departed from the presence of Kamapuaa, up came Kahi- 

 kiula," the father of Kamapuaa, a great warrior. When Kamapuaa saw his father his 

 love for him began to well up within him and so he said to Kaneiki: "There is your 

 man." Kaneiki replied: "He is a powerful man and a great warrior." Kamapuaa said: 

 "If he is such a great warrior he would have retained possession of his own land, Oahu, 

 and some one else would not have acquired it." 



Kahikiula then faced Kaneiki and without so nuich as a warning Kaneiki fell on 

 Kahikiula with his war club and struck him to the ground. As he fell Kaneiki jumped 

 on him to make sure of his death, but Kamapuaa spoke up: "Let me finish him, you go 

 on forward." Kamapuaa then said to Kahikiula:" "Say, you are almost dead." "Yes, 

 I am almost dead; the young man struck me but once and I am laid low." Kamapuaa 

 again said: "You look as though you were my father and that I was your son." Kahi- 

 kiula replied: "I have no other child," but one, that is Kahikihonuakele."" Kamapuaa 

 said to him: "Crawl from here until 3'ou meet Makalii and the others in the mountains 

 and there make your home." 



After the departure of Kahikiula, up came Kahikihonuakele, the oldest brother 

 of Kamapuaa. At sight of the new arrival, Kamapuaa said to Limaloa : "There is your 

 man." Limaloa replied : "I shall be killed for he is a young man." Kamapuaa replied : 

 "It is because I know he is not strong is the reason why I ask that you take him." Li- 

 maloa then stood up facing Kahikihonuakele and struck him with his club, felling him 

 to the ground. Limaloa then jumped on his opponent to make sure that he was dead, 

 but Kamapuaa si)oke up : "Go on forward, I will finish him." After Limaloa had de- 

 parted, Kamapuaa took hold of Kahikihonuakele and worked over him**" until he was 

 restored to consciousness, when Kamapuaa said to him: "You are helpless; one stroke 

 of the young man's club laid you low. You look as though you were my older brother, 

 and I your younger brother." Kahikihonuakele replied: "I have no other younger 

 brother. My two younger brothers" are dead. One was killed by Pele and the other 

 hung himself." Kamapuaa said to Kahikihonuakele: "Crawl from here until you find 

 Makalii and the others." 



After this Kaneiki and Limaloa returned, when Kamapuaa said to them : "There 

 is one great conflict yet to be had ; it will be against a woman, so we must therefore run 

 away and save ourselves." The woman spoken of by Kamapuaa was Hina, their own 



"The early part of this story locates this person with brother. Kahikihonuakele, lit., muddy foundation for- 



Olopana in Koolau, Oahu. eign land. 



"Kahikiula, father of Kamapuaa, a reason for shield- '"Reviving his brother by the lomilomi process, a rub- 



ing him from certain death at the hand of his antago- bing, pressing method to relieve pain and bruises, 



nist, as also to test him for recognition. "Further insight in Kamapuaa's family history. The 



"This denial was probably based on the supposed failure of father and brother and subsequently the 



death of Kamapuaa in the encounter with Pele. mother to recognize liim shows he had assumed a form 



"This is the first mention of the demigod having a which they were unfamiliar with. 



