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When the prophet arrived, these two flew on to the parents-in-law; when the 

 prophet arrived there, they flew to Kahoolawe, and from there they returned to Ha- 

 naula, and at that place the prophet met them [and olTered his sacrifice] ; and that was 

 how the rain was restored. While these sons lived at Hanaula, they thought a great 

 deal of Puuoinaina, their wife, but they did not know what she was doing. Because 

 after that Puuoinaina took for her the husband of Pele, Lohiau, and forgot her own 

 husbands. 



But when Pele heard what Puuoinaina had done she became angry. She then 

 cursed Puuoinaina. When Puuoinaina heard this cursing from Pele she felt so ashamed 

 that she ran into the sea. She left her home, Kohemalamalama, now called Kahoo- 

 lawe. Pele, residing at Kahikinui, thought so much of her husband, Lohiau, who was 

 living at Kealia, Kamaalaea, that she started out to meet him ; but she found her way 

 blocked by Puuhele, so she went from there and waded through the sea. She saw 

 her lizard rival, Puuoinaina, stretching from Kahoolawe to Makena, so she came along 

 and cut the lizard in two, right in the middle, separating the tail from the head. The 

 tail became Puuolai at Makena, and the head became Molokini. When the husbands 

 heard that their wife was dead, they looked and beheld the head of their beloved stand- 

 ing in the sea, so they called the name of the islet Molokini. That is the story of how 

 it was born of its parents and how it obtained this new name Molokini. 



MOW IT WAS OBTAINED FROM HAUPU, THAT HILL ON MOLOKAI. 



Here is the reason why Molokini was detached from Haupu. It was during the 

 battles of Kana with the chief of Haupu; the latter had taken his mother, and Kana 

 wanted her released to return to her husband ; the husband had felt very badly because 

 his mate, the wife, was separated from him; he had cast about for a way of getting 

 her back, but found none. So the father thought that Kana could bring her back, be- 

 cause he had numerous bodies, and he was born in a queer way. But when Kana 

 went to get the mother, the hill started to grow upwards and nearly touched the 

 heaven. This was the reason for it: there were two turtles under the mountain; 

 so when Kana went over for his mother, the people on the mountain called to the tur- 

 tle in this manner: "O Kahakauwila, lift u]) the hill;" tlien the mountain would rise 

 until Kana became a dwarf alongside of it. This was continued until Kana was hun- 

 gry, because his food had given out,' so he laid down towards Uli, his grandmother, 

 who was residing on Hawaii. She nourished him until he grew large. When his 

 younger brother saw that Kana's feet were plump he said to himself, "Strange! here 

 you have enough to eat and T live in hunger; I shall cut ofl^ your feet." So he cut 

 off Kana's feet. Kana said to his grandmother: "My feet are getting cold." The 

 grandmother replied: "Yes, your younger brother noticed that your feet were fat; he 

 became peeved; and that was why he cho])])ed them off." 



Then Kana arose and commenced the fight with his enemy again ; the mountain 

 started to rise because of the call from the ]ieo])le to do so. But when the mountain 

 rose up, Kana also rose up. They went up together until the hill was lower than Ka- 

 na. Kana tipped it, and when the people [on the hill | looked up and saw Kana's eyes 

 glaring down at them, they trembled with fear. Kana then trod the hill, and broke 



