Story of Palila. 



Palila a Noted Warrior. — His Second Battle. — Of Olomano and Palila's Third 



AND Fourth Battles. 



PALILA was a very brave man and very powerful, for in battle he could fight single 

 handed against a multitude of people. He belonged to Alanapo, in Humuula, at 

 Koloa, Kauai. Alanapo was a kapued temple sacred to the gods from the time of 

 darkness/ and it was in this temple that Palila was brought up by the gods, and while 

 here he received his instruction in all the arts of warfare. 



Kaluaopalena was the father of Palila and Mahinui was his mother. Hina was 

 the grandmother' of Palila and it was she that took him to Alanapo to be brought up 

 by the gods. Namakaokalani^ was the king of one side of Kauai, while Kaluaopalena* 

 ruled the other side. These two were at war with one another constantly ; and Kalua- 

 opalena was seen to be losing and it became a])i)arent that in a short time he would be de- 

 feated when Namakaokalani would have in his ])ossession the whole of Kauai. 



The place where the battle was being fought was called Paa and here the two 

 kings with their chiefs and a great number of their warriors were gathered. While the 

 battle was at its height, Palila rose and came out of Alanapo, took up his war club, Huli- 

 amahi ' by name, and went out until he came to a rise looking down on the lowlands of 

 Paa. The name of this rise is Komoikeanu." While he stood meditating, looking- at the 

 battle that was raging below him, he concluded that it was a battle being fought against 

 his father; so he twirled his club and threw it. The club flew through the air, travel- 

 ing at such speed that the earth shook and the trees were thrown down. It was by means 

 of the falling trees that the warriors of Namakaokalani were destroyed until there were 

 none left. This destruction of the army of Naniakokalani caused his defeat and Kalua- 

 opalena, the father of Palila, became the ruler of the whole of Kauai. 



THE second battle OF PALILA. 



Upon the arrival of Palila in Ewa, at Waikele, there he met Kamaikaahui, a 

 human shark of two natures, that of a human being and that of a shark. 



Kamaikaahui belonged to the land of Mualea in Hana, Maui, and he was a man 

 who lived on the flesh of other men. His mouth was at his back containing several rows 

 of teeth like the shark. It was from Mualea that he came and made his home at Wai- 

 kele. As was his practice while living on Maui, so did he indulge on Oahu. Every time 

 he got a chance he would secretly kill men and eat them up. When Ahuapau, who was 



^Mai ka po mai indicates from very ancient time; at 'Na-maka-o-ka-lani, the eyes of heaven, 



the beginning of things. 'Ka-lmi-o-palena, the second boundary. 



'The care and guardianship of children frequently ''HuU-u-mahi, a not inappropriate name for a weapon ; 



fell to the grandmothers. Hawaiians rarely brought literally "search and dig," though in a figurative sense; 



up their own offspring. \t birth they were generally used in battle, it means "to overflow;" revolution, 



claimed by, or assigned to some relative, who became 'Judging by the name Komoikeami, enter the cold, 



the nnikmi hanm (rearmg parent). ^^^ ^.j^^ ,^^5^ 1,^^^ ^^^^ ^t q„itg a„ elevation. 



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