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enough there were ten of them, then he looked for the one with the thin tail. When he 

 found the one he said : "So it was you that told Punia what to do. Youshall die." After 

 this shark was killed, Pvmia called out: "So you have killed one of your own kind." 

 After this Punia returned home to his mother. 



After they had eaten the two lobsters they were again without any fish, so Punia 

 again asked his mother: "Let me go down and ,get us some more lobsters from that 

 cave." The mother replied: "Your last trip probably was the one in which you came 

 home safe. This trip may be your last. Don't go down." Punia, however, rose and 

 went down to the cave of lobsters. When he came to the place, he called out as he did at 

 the first time. Then when Kaialeale and the other sharks woke up he threw a stone 

 toward the other side away from the cave. When the stone struck the water the sharks 

 went after it. Punia then dove down and again got two lobsters. After he got ashore 

 he called out to the sharks as he did at the other time and then counted out the sharks 

 from the first to the tenth, and then named the tenth one as the one which told him 

 what to do. "The one with the large stomach," said Punia. Kaialeale then proceeded 

 to count the sharks and when he found the one with the large stomach, he was killed by 

 the others. Punia then followed out the same line of conversation as used by him at the 

 former time. 



Punia thus continued deceiving the sharks until all were killed except Kaialeale. 

 After this Punia hewed out two sticks each a yard long; he next ])rocured the two neces- 

 sary sticks,^ a hard and a soft one, to make fire; then he procured some charcoal and 

 kindling wood ; then he prepared some food, salt, an opihi^ shell and put all these things 

 into a bag. With this [bag] Punia proceeded to the beach and when he got directly 

 over the cave, where Kaialeale was sleeping, he called out : "If when I dive down Kaiale- 

 ale should bite me and I die and my blood should come to the surface, then my mother 

 will see it and I shall come to life again. But if when I dive, Kaialeale should open wide 

 his mouth so that I am swallowed whole, I shall die and will never be able to come to 

 life again." While Punia was talking, Kaialeale was listening, and he said to himself: 

 "I will not bite you for you might come to life again. I shall open my mouth wide 

 enough for you to walk in. So this is the time when I shall kill you. Yes, you shall 

 die; nothing will save you." Punia then dove down with his bag, when Kaialeale opened 

 his mouth and Punia walked in. As soon as Punia got into the mouth it tried to close 

 up, but Punia took the two sticks he had hewed out and stood them up which kept the 

 mouth open. He then rubbed the two sticks and when the fire was started he placed on 

 the coals ; he next took out his opihi shell and began to scrape the inside of the shark 

 and after he had a ball of meat he proceeded to cook it and when cooked he sat down and 

 with his potatoes he made his meal, while the shark was swimming here and there 

 through the ocean. This scraping hurt the shark so much that he could not keep still ; he 

 was forced to go here and there. Punia was carried around in the shark for about ten 

 days, when at last the shark began to grow weak and it made its way back toward 



'The two sticks required to prodr.ce fire by friction auliina, the one held in the hand. The process, or act 



were the auiiaki that is rubbed into, of soft wood, and of producing fire, was called hia. 



'Ofilii, a limpet {Neritina granosa). 



