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on in this manner until tlie house was surrounded hy fire, and tlie head of this god 

 burst; after tweh'e rejjorts [were heard] the projjhet then said that [the head] was 

 dead. This is the end of wiiat 1 know, but perhaps there is more to the story. 



D. Kamaha. 



A STORY OF UALAKAA. 



'I'll IS story is famihar to this and tliat man, and perhaps none of us have failed 

 to hear the story of this potato. There are several versions of this story,' one has a 

 version, and another a different one; this is one. 



This potato was planted at Manoa, Oahu, on the northwestern slope of Manoa. 

 There were two potato fields, one for Kupihe and the other for Kapanaia. Kupihe 

 planted his potato on the side hill while Kapanaia planted his on the flat. When they 

 were cultivating, onlv one potato was found in Kapanaia's field, so he hilled it up. 

 But the potato grew large and became exposed from the hill in which it was planted; 

 the field of the other man, however, did not contain any potato. Afterwards they went 

 to their homes, and on the next day they went up again to cultivate. Kapanaia hast- 

 ened to see [his potato], but when he looked there was no lumi) in the hill; he searched 

 but could not find the potato. He looked here and there, but he could not find it. So 

 he went up to Kupihe's, the field on the hillside. When he looked, he saw this potato 

 causing a luni]) in the other's potato hill, and Kui)ihe was hilling up the soil. Kapa- 

 naia stood there and asked, "Whose potato is this?" The other answered: "It is mine, 

 for it is growing in my potato-hill." After their quarrel over the potato they returned 

 to their homes. That night the potato rolled down the hill and made a deep hole where 

 it first struck; from there it bounced and became again attached to its parent vine. 

 That is one version of the story. But in the story which I heard, it is stated that the 

 stem of this potato was bitten by a rat and the potato rolled down until it landed in 

 Kapanaia's field, and it was left there until new sj^routs commenced to grow from it. 

 That is why new sprouts come from potatoes as we see them now. That was why this 

 potato at Makiki was called Ualakaa, because it rolled [down hill]. Another name 

 which 1 heard [applied to it] was lolekaa (rolling rat). Another has it that Kaau- 

 helemoa pecked at the stem of this potato and it rolled to Kapanaia's field, because Pu- 

 puulima chased after it. 



STORY OF PUULAINA. 



CoNCERNiNi; the origin of this hill,' some say that it was begotten by two moun- 

 tains, Eeke'- and Lihau.-' Eeke was the husband and Lilian was the wife. They were 

 real persons, but it will be shown later the reason for their being changed to mountains. 



'One version of the story of Ualakaa, whence its 'Laina liill (Puulaina) is to the northwest of Laliaina- 



name, "■rollins potato", credits its fame to tlic time of lima, and is of 047 feet elevation. 



Kamcliameha, vvlien (hiring his residence on Oahn lie =Eel<c, or Eke, is a summit crater of the West Maui 



liad the wliole slope of this spur of the Manoa range mountain range; is some 4,500 feet high, hack of 



planted with potatoes which, on hcing dug from the Waihee. 



ground, when grown, rolled down to the holtom of the . ,_;,,.,,, j^ ,|,^. „„,j„„.,i„ „jp i.^ck of Olowalu. 

 hill and wrre there gathered. 



