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'what'? Spirits! and there they are! I am chasing them, but can not catch them; I have 

 been wisliing to get near them so that T can kill them, for I am possessed with great 

 anger towards them." 



When the owl heard what the prophet said, he said to him, "You are a prophet, 

 and I am a prophet, still I did not see them; and now I hear you saying that if you catch 

 them they die." Where they were holding this conversation, however, was on the plain 

 of Kamaomao. While the others prepared to come for the spirits, Pumaia said to his 

 friend, "Here comes our death; but we will wait. If the new one gets ahead of the 

 old one then we have hope for life." 



So they sat and watched the two prophets. When Pueo distanced the other, 

 Pumaia said to the friend, "We are now saved; it were better that we go to our par- 

 ents. It may be that we would be found there." The friend consented. They came 

 along Kealia, a large pond even to this day. These ])laces above mentioned, the plain 

 of Kamaomao and Kealia are at the eastern isthmus of Maui, connecting East and 

 West Maui. 



Let us leave the ghosts and speak of the prophets. \Miile the prophets were 

 following, and because Pueonuiokona was the faster, an idea occurred to one of them, 

 and he said to himself, "If I catch up to that prophet I shall kill him, for he is simply 

 going after my enemies to save them." The owl went along slowly until his fellow 

 prophet thundered after him and gave his hand a jerk. Pueo asked, "What wrong has 

 a fellow committed that you should tug at the arm from behind and thereby nearly trip- 

 ping me?" The other rejilicd with blazing eyes, "Who told you to go after my ene- 

 mies with the intention of saving them? Why don't you look for your own, and on 

 them |)ractice saving?" The owl replied: "If \-ou excel in strength \-ou can obtain 

 them, but if \du are weak you can not lia\c them; because I, even 1, am an old resi- 

 dent of this plain. When s]iirits from the dead arrive I cause them to revive. Also 

 no prophet comes to this plain; this is the first time that I have seen a prophet on this 

 plain, and that is yourself. Because you complained of my desire to give life to those 

 spirits, so be it! Bv a test of strength will [we know] whether \dn obtain them or 

 I do." 



They immediately commenced to fight. Where they fought was at Kalepolepo,""' 

 near this isthmus. The prophet was killed and his entrails were disemboweled by 

 Pueonuiokona and placed on the akolea.^ That shrub used to be plentiful at that place, 

 but it is destroyed now on account of numerous animals. 



August 8, 1872. KiLIONA. 



A STORY OF PUUPEHE. 



PuuPEHE was the child of Kapokoholua and Kapoiliili. On the island of Ka- 

 ululaau' lix'ed the subject of this story, the champion of that ])ast age. Ect us glance 

 briefly at the occupation of the parents. While they were living together the woman 



°A shipping point of central Maui in early days. 'This identilics it with Lanai, for Kaululaau was the 



'Akolca, a species of fern ( Polxl^odinm kcnnidrcni ^o" of Kakaalaneo, the king of Maui, who hanislied 



una). 'i''" fo"" '"^ vi\\A pranks. 



