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for the food, the fish and for the women you promised us; the canoe men for their share 

 of one, two and three, and for the five you promised our chief, Kahaookamoku." To this 

 Hanaaumoe repHed : "They are coming on up ; Ewa is a long ways off, Nuuanu is quite 

 a steep chmb, and Kulaokahua is a long dry plain, but they will be arriving soon." 



After Hanaaumoe had departed, Kaneopa began to entertain a belief that there 

 was something wrong and that there were chances of their being killed, for he was al- 

 most sure that Hanaaumoe was deceiving them. 



Just after midnight, Hanaaumoe again arrived and called out as at first, and again 

 Kaneopa gave the same answer and the same reply was repeated by Hanaaumoe. With 

 this last call Kaneopa made sure that they would be killed, so he thought of a way to 

 save himself. After spending some time in study he hit upon the plan of concealing him- 

 self under the threshold, so he proceeded to dig a hole right under the door and after 

 it was deep enough he got down into it and hid himself. 



When it was almost time for the crowing of the first cock, Hanaaumoe again 

 came up to the house and called out: 



Say, Halahalakau ; 

 Say, Halahalakau, 



Are you people asleep? 



There was no reply, not a sound was heard. Hanaaumoe then said to himself : 



So we have you at last. 



Here you have come to Oahu to do your sleeping. 



Why didn't you sleep in Kauai ? 



You have brought yourselves here and are sleeping on the island 



of the ghosts. 

 You shall all be killed by Halalii ; none shall escape. 

 The flesh will be consumed, the bones will be consumed, nothing 



will be left. 



After making these remarks, Hanaaumoe returned to the king, Halalii, and the 

 rest of the ghosts. When Hanaaumoe arrived, Halalii asked him: "What about the 

 people, are they asleep?" Hanaaumoe answered that they were. With this all the 

 ghosts came to the beach house where Kahaookamoku and his followers were all sound 

 asleep. The ghosts then entered the house while Halalii sat down on the threshold, un- 

 der which Kaneopa was hiding. Kaneopa had guessed that the king would sit on this 

 very spot which was the reason why he had decided to make his hiding place there and 

 was the means of his escape from the ghosts, later. 



As soon as the ghosts entered the house, they began killing and eating the sleep- 

 ing men. After eating all that had been killed, a search was made of the house to see 

 that none had been overlooked. Every corner was searched and the house was almost 

 turned up side down, but as the king was sitting on the threshhold that place was not 

 searched. 



At daylight the next day, the ghosts all returned to the uplands and Kaneopa 

 crawled out of the house to the canoes, pushed one out into the sea, got into it and set 



