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man to be offered in sacrifice by tbe king; Maui was taken i)risoner and brought to the 

 chief at Halulukoakoa. This place is at IMoalii, Maui, in a westerly direction from La- 

 hainaluna. He was to be placed on the altar the following da}-. At this time Hina 

 saw in a \'ision what was happening to Maui. So Hina and the owl followed along 

 and at Pohakuawahinemauna" Hina stayed there. This place is between Keawaawn 

 and Kakonanioku. The mvl flew on to where Maui was being guarded; the guards 

 were not asleep. He saw that Maui w'as tied up with coconut-husk cords. The owl 

 waited until early dawn, but the guard would not sleep. 



Maui then spoke: "O thou Aina,'- retard the night that it may be prolonged!" 

 The night was prolonged and everyone went to sleep. The owl entered and came to 

 him; he struck at his bonds and they fell off. They set off; they came to where Hina 

 was waiting. It was then daylight. Hina hid Maui [under the stone] and she sat 

 right outside of him. The sun rose. She opened her sleeping garment and spread il 

 on her lap and looked for fleas. The ow'l had flown to the height of Kekaa. The 

 searching ])arty ajipeared and asked, "Have you seen the man which was to be of- 

 fered by the chief for a sacrifice?"" "No; I lia\'e just now arisen, and because of the 

 warmth of the sun T sought after the fleas in my kapa."" 



X^) sooner had the others gone when these started going mauka. The owl led, 

 wliile Maui followed and Hina came last. They went on in this way until they arrived 

 at home. That was how Maui escaped death. 



This is the end of what was told me ; the other trips were outlined to me ; how he 

 made the circuit of Hawaii and other islands, how he rubbed the forehead of the mud- 

 hen,'" and so forth. 



Lemuel K. N. Papa Jr. 



RELATING TO KEKAA. 



This is one of the famous hills on Maui; it is a noted landmark of the kingdom 

 of Hawaii nei. The stories concerning it are profusely written in the Moolelo Hawaii. 



Some of the ancestors of this Hawaiian race thought that Papa begat these isl- 

 ands, or that W'akea made them with his own hands, while still others held that they 

 originated from Kumuhonua, or they simply appeared; while yet the intelligent folk, 

 the people of the civilized age, say that volcanic forces raised these islands from the 

 bottom of the sea; so it is with Kekaa.' It may be that Kekaa was obtained through 

 one of the agencies above guessed at. 



Here is another thing; Kekaa was the capital" of Maui when Kaalaneo" was 

 reigning over \\'est Maui. It is said that there were nianv people there. Many houses 

 were constructed and the people cultivated a great deal of potatoes, bananas, sugar- 

 cane, and other things of a like nature. Erom what I have been told that country 



"Literally, sloiic of the mountain woman. 'In whatever way these islands originated so was Ke- 



'"Aina, personilication of tlie moon, appealed to. '^''i'' '' origin. 



"This has reference to his learning how lire was pro- 'This must then have hccn earlier than the recogni- 



dnced. lion of Lele, as the earlier name of Lahaina, for Lele 



is the name given at the introduction of the hreadfruit. 

 'Given in tradition also as Kakaalaneo. 



