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grasped him on the back. Uma faced about and threw the end of a rope''^ (about three 

 feet long), which encircled and held fast one of the men. Another man with an iron 

 spade'^ leaped forward to stab him. But Uma got hold of the first man he had caught, 

 b}' the hair, and held him as a shield. This man was hit by the spade of the other 

 man and killed. Another man leaped up to stab Uma with the iron spade but Uma 

 dodged and caught him on the throat; that was his last moment. Three were killed 

 and one ran away, thus escaping from Uma. 



Thence he went on the way down to Kapia, at Waimea, looking toward Mau- 

 nakea mountains, and continued on to Manauea stream to have a drink of water. While 

 he was drinking, ten men appeared from down stream. When they came up to Uma, 

 he saluted them, but they did not respond. He then arose and turned to go when one 

 of the men sprang forward to seize him, but he slipped from under the man and caught 

 the man by the throat, which made the man's tongue hang out. Another man also 

 sprang forward, but he got a kick from Uma that sent him into the water. Thus Uma 

 dealt with the men, save two, who escaped by running away. 



Uma went on to Mahiki," a place between Waimea and Hamakua, where he 

 met an old man sitting in the road, at a resting place in the Hill of Moeawa (Puu o 

 Moeawa). He saluted Uma, and Uma did the same to him. He then took a smoke 

 from his pipe, handing it to Uma after an interval. And while Uma was smoking the 

 old man pushed the back of the pipe, but it did not go down because Uma was on the 

 look-out, and therefore did not receive the misfortune intended for him. Uma, how- 

 ever, had in a loop of his girdle some salt which he threw in the eyes of the old man. 

 And while he was rubbing his eyes which were burning Uma threw the pikoi at end 

 of a three-foot cord, which encircled and held the man fast, and his limbs were brok- 

 en in pieces. Uma then went on his way. 



\\'hile on his way, having passed Hamakua and upi)er Hilo, he came to Kaupa- 

 kuea where a little further on, was a ravine full of ncuclcau^^ shrubbery. When Uma 

 arrived at that ])lace, he found a great big man sitting in the stream. Uma saluted 

 him, but the other did not make any answer. In this meeting Uma came near losing 

 his life by that man, because of the man's great size and his proficiency in the art of 

 bone-breaking. It was when Uma was about to turn and go on his way that the man 

 jumped on his back and grabbed his neck, swinging Uma up. Therefore Uma slipped 

 down and behind the man's leg. He got hold of the man's testicles and tore them from 

 the body, and the man was killed. Thus Uma escaped. 



OF NAPUELUA. 



Napuelua was a celebrated warrior of Kauai, when he was living at his Ijirth- 

 place in Waiakalua, Koolau, Kauai. That was the time that Kaumualii was reigning 

 as king of Kauai. Napuelua was taught to be a warrior and also all the acts in old- 



'"This was likely a pikoi, an elongated ovoid weapon spade of kiiuihi, ultiiihi, hoaic and snch like hard, closc- 



of stone, or hard wood, at the end of a cord, to en- grained woods. 



tangle an opponent on being thrown. "Mahiki. the traditional nnul lane of the Waipio- 



"Iron spades, oo hao, were unknown in the robber Waimea road, 



days of Hawaii. This iron implement is an introduc- "Ncnclcau, sumach (Rhus scmiuhta). 

 tion of civilization to take the place of their wooden 



