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nated from the ])arents of Pele and Iicr liost; others, from Kaihuakala" and Kahaule,'' 

 his wife; still others, from Kalalawalu; and these are their accounts : Pele, Hiiaka and 

 Puuhele were born of their parents ; Kahinalii was their mother. However, Pele and 

 Hiiaka were born witli human bodies, while Puuhele was a bloody foetus when she 

 was born. The elders despised this body, because when they beheld it it was not a hu- 

 man body, but only a foetus of blood; so the two conspired and said one to the other: 

 "It were better for us to throw away our younger sister. How can we care for it? 

 Of course we would care for it if it had a human body!" So they threw away the 

 bloody foetus without the knowledge of the parents. 



From that time onward this bloody foetus kept on traveling; it met Alenuihaha, 

 that is the channel between Maui and Hawaii, and Alenuihaha asked it; "A journey! 

 whither going?" The bloody foetus replied; "Just going to see what is ahead here; 

 I was cast away by my elders and that is the cause of this journeying." 



After their conversation the foetus passed on until it landed at Nuu;'' this place 

 where it landed is at Kauiio; she walked on in the form of a human being. When 

 Nuu looked he beheld a most beautiful woman. She kept right on until she met Puu- 

 omaiai;" she also was a good-looking woman. Puuomaiai asked the stranger: "To 

 where are you journeying?" The other replied: "Going along to places ahead of 

 here." Puuomaiai requested that they be friends, and they became such. She was re- 

 ceived; they ate, and after being satisfied they went along. While they were going 

 Afanawainui' voiced a chant, thus: 



A restlessness seizes me on account of thee, O stranger! 



It is causing numbness to my feelings. 



Is it an antagonist? 



Or is it a traveling companion? 



The foetus turned back and asked : "Why are you calling from behind?" Ma- 

 nawainui replied: "Because I saw you very able in walking, that was why I called 

 you." "What have you to present that you should call?" "Because I saw that you 

 were nothing but a bloody foetus cast away by your elders ! and yet here you are walk- 

 ing! You had better be named Puuhele."** After their conversation the two came 

 alone- until thev arrived at Hana. Puuomaiai said to Puuhele; "I had better return; 

 we have come together; there is yet another time for meeting." Puuhele consented, at 

 the same time saying: "I know not how prosperous this journey is; I may see you again 

 or I may not," and Puuhele kissed her friend on the nose. 



She no sooner commenced on her journey again when she met Kanahaha. 

 Kanahaha first spied Puuhele, however, and she immediately became dead, her limbs 

 extended and spread apart. When Puuhele came up, she found the other dead. This 

 place Kanahaha is a hill from which gushes forth a spring of water to this day. Puu- 



'Kaihuakala, lit., the nose of ttie sun, is tlie mountain "Name of a division of Kaupo eastward of Nuu. 



pealc, 2,458 feet elevation, in the Aleamai division of 'Name of a large tract of land in the adjoining dis- 



Hana. trict westward of Nuu. 



'Kahaule or Kahaula, is the clump of hills just back '\ hill in the vicinity of Waikapu, West Maui, lakes 



of Hana village. tliis name "Puuhele." 



°Nuu is the landing of a division of same name in the 

 Kaupo district. 



