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broke it blood flowed out, and when I smelt it, it was stinking." Pele replied, "Why, 

 that is what we have been eating, but to you it has changed." 



When Hiiaka heard what they were talking about she said: "Say, do not eat 

 that thing, because it is the body of your mother; the ohelo which are standing up are 

 the bones, and the creeping ohelo is the flesh." When Waialani heard this she was 

 sad and sorry because she had eaten of the body of her dear mother, so she said to 

 Pele: "I now vow and I tell you that I will never recognize you until I reach the 

 grave." That is a Hawaiian way of separating in anger, for one to vow not to speak 

 to the other until death; the only way to rectify this is to kill a pig'^ and fix the mat- 

 ter up, then could they recognize each other during life. If that is not done then they 

 keep up this enmity until death. This is customary here in Hawaii ; it has been the 

 custom from the olden time t(^ the present da}^ 



After that, Hiiaka and she came to Lanai ; she went and got the corpse of Ma- 

 lulani, which was decomposed; they went back to her parents' place, where they all 

 wailed. Then they stayed there, the women, the husband and the daughter. After 

 some days Waialani made up small bundles of the body of Malulani which she scat- 

 tered outside of Heeia, a hill here and a hill there until the place held many hills which 

 are standing even unto this day. And because of the Flood, all these hills were sub- 

 merged, and appeared as islets, and that is why it is called the sharp coral of Heeia; 

 and it is there even to the present time as most of you know who have been to the place. 



While they were living, Heeia took particular notice that Hiiaka" was a ver\' 

 pretty woman ; she had lived at the crater of Kilauea until she became like a wonder- 

 ful blossom of the mountain; Heeia made up his mind to make Hiiaka his own, which 

 desire was reciprocated. They became husband and wife and lived as peacefully as 

 the still water of Hauola. P>ut poor Kaohelo was sad at heart because the Puulena'"' 

 (the cold wind of Kilauea) had gone on to Hilo, gone on to find a mate for it with which 

 to ease its journey during that long travel ; she had been left behind by the son of the 

 shadowy precipices""' of Koolau. Because Kaohelo loved her husband very dearly 

 she hanged herself, and thus endeth the story of Kaohelo. That is the story of how 

 Kaohelo came from Kahiki and was spread about here in Hawaii. 



HOW IT WAS FOUND INDIGENOUS IN HAWAII. 



The parents were of Kauai, Maunakepa being the father and Hooleia the moth- 

 er. They lived together until a daughter was born to them. They called her Kaohe- 

 loula.'" The father's name, liowever, is a famous name even unto this day, and it 

 frequently occurs in songs, such as this : 



The moss peoples the barren lands of Maunakepa : 

 Spattering thereon is the rain from Hanalei. etc. 



While living there the daughter was taken sick ; the parents went about looking 



'■'As a propitiatory offering. "'The name of this cold wind is fignrativo of love 



"Hiiaka, the favorite sister of Pele, is also the fa- chilled through, or by, desertion, 



voritc heroine of Hawaiian story, vvitli possibly one ex- '"The precipitous Koolau mountain range is poetically 



ception, Hina. referred to as the blue palis, or shady precipices. 



"Ka-ohelo-ula, lit., the red ohelo. 



