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cause it to come to life** again ; that is wliat has happened to those who are Hving again. 

 Many souls came to this place, Kekaa. It is called the Leina-a-ka-uhane, the leaping 

 place of the soul. Only the spirits of subjects go to Kekaa; the souls of farmers® and 

 the souls of chiefs go to the volcano when they die. If they have friends there some 

 of them are driven back [whence they re-enter the body] and live again. 



At Kekaa lived Maui and Moemoe; the great desire of one was to sleep; his 

 head on the pillow, there he would lie until \Velehu'" became the month. This person 

 was Moemoe. The other desired to travel. When Moemoe slept, Maui was travel- 

 ing, each according to his taste. While Moemoe was sleeping a freshet came down 

 and covered him with debris, with the exception of his nostrils ; a kukui nut, however, 

 rested on his nostrils and commenced to grow. It grew tall and at the same time tick- 

 led the nostrils of Moemoe; so he awoke and said: "Here I am at my favorite pas- 

 time, asleep, and vet I am awakened by this cursed kukui tree." So he made up his 

 mind to give up this to which he was addicted and to search for his friend, Maui. 



A road on the northeast side of Kekaa was named after one of these men ; it is 

 called "kc alaiuii kilccckcc a Maui" — the zizgag pathway of Maui. The first one who 

 trod this pathway, however, was Eleio, the fast runner of Kaalaneo, the excellent king 

 of that period. 



Therefore I advise all of you, friends of enlightened civilization of this age, 



those who are being educated at this famous institution of learning, not to allow your 



thoughts to be swayed by, nor approve of, these things of an age of ignorance ; let us 



not glance back and look ui)on the gross darkness of Kane. The old order of things 



with its wickedness has passed away; we have entered a new era and its excellence. 



January 24, 1872. 



S. Kaha. 



A STORY OF KAUIKI. 



Kauiki' is a hill which stands on the eastern side of Maui, right in front of 

 Hana, East Maui ; it is seen by those who sail on vessels from here to Hawaii. Of this 

 hill is the saying by some people of this time: "Kauiki is beloved floating on the sea, 

 as if it were a bird." 



This is a hill famous from olden to the present time. But there are two points 

 which I wish to explain concerning this hill of Kauiki. First: How it originated; sec- 

 ondly, the famous localities near to or connected with this hill. Let us therefore ex- 

 amine some of the erroneous ideas of the olden time. 



first: now it originated. 



Olden people differed in this respect, four accounts of its origin being given 

 I. That this hill originated from the placenta of llamoa,- some claim that it origi- 



'This is one of the supposed provinces of the aumakuo "IVclchu, the month of November of Hawaii's calen- 



or ancestral deity. dar. It differed on the other islands. 



"Nowhere else is tlic idea presented of tlie souls of 'The famous fortress and successful safeguard of 



the /o/i(i— the low farming class— being admitted to the Hana from several stubborn Hawaii invasions, 



same realm as those of the chiefs. On tlic contrary, =,\ division in Hana district to the south of Kauiki 



lacking aumakuas to aid them, their spirits were doomed takes this same n.ime, llaTnii.i, 

 to a waniliring, friendless sphere. 



