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came to the dry wood; there he found the fire. When he had produced fire, he rubbed 

 the head of the niudhen. That is why the mudhen has a red head as we see it now. 

 And from that time was fire obtained and has been hantled down to the present time. 

 Fire is used to cook food and fish. It also helps in the work of man, because in 

 cultivating- some people use fire [to burn off rubbish | Ijefore planting the leaves. Tlu' 

 fire has various other uses; they can not all be ex])lained because the time is limited. 



R. PUIKT. 



A STORY OF MAKAHI. 



Hamai'' was the father and Hooleia" was the mother. A son was born to 

 them; that is the subject of this story. They lived at Puako, Hawaii. The first-born 

 of these people was a daughter. Luukia was her name. Sixteen years after she was 

 born she went to Oahu. Before she went to Oahu, however, the mother was preg- 

 nant with Makahi ; but she went ofif before the child was l)()rn; after a while it was 

 reported back that she was married, the husband's name being Kamauoha." 



At the time that he married this woman tales of his prodigious strength in cast- 

 ing the spear were carried all round Oahu, and he became a famous man on Oahu. 

 The property of very many people was won by this strong man. He had many friends, 

 and also great wealth. After they lived for some time an idea occvirred to Kaaiai,^ a 

 man of Ewa, Oahu, who wished to test his strength. He came and stood in the pres- 

 ence of Kamauoha the warrior, and spoke animatedly, thinking that he could win." 

 Kamauoha said: "What is the main reason for coming here?" He replied: "I came 

 to see which of us is the stronger." The other asked: "How shall we test strength?" 

 "By piercing with spears," replied Kaaiai. Kaaiai's property consisted of three nar- 

 row strips of land, six sets of scented kapa, eight dogs, fifty hogs, four houses; those 

 were what the man's property consisted of. When they tried, Kamauoha inflicted the 

 first i)ain ;'' all the man's property was completel\' taken over by the opponent, and he 

 returned empty handed to his house. 



His wife asked, "And how was your journey?" "You ask how, indeed! The 

 properties which we accumulated thinking that they would be added to were taken from 

 me, and I returned stripped ; the other's strength was known and yet I dared provoke 

 him, hoping to benefit thereby." 



Let us leave ofif consideration of this brave man and this daring fellow, and 

 speak of the child in the womb of the mother at Hawaii. When the child was born, 

 a female prophet saw that this was to be a strong child, and no one who dared him 

 could escape. The name of this old woman was Kolea, and she lived near the home 

 of the child's parents. The child was brought up until he had attained manhood, when 



'Hainan, "silence". Name also of a species of the ohia. olden times. Sport, or other contests witiioiit liettins, 



"-Hoolcia, one definition of tliis is "denial" : rcfnscd "as almost unknown. 



acknowledgment of. ''Liha iiiua akalii, i. e., got in the Hrst IjIow liy winnin.n 



'Ka-mau-oha, the cndnriii- hranch, or sl..ck. ^ his opponent's property. 



'Kaaiai the hrisjhlness 'Piichu, rendered here completely, conveys the fnrtlur 



.^' ' ' \ , ■ . , . ,. . . ,1 . . • idea of the whirlwind character of Kaaiai's loss. 



One of the iiatii>n;il Ir.iils oflcn put t(i Uie lest m 



