6o2 I'oniaiidcr Collection of Hawaiian folk-lore. 



before. She kept on until she came to the tall woods when she found some moun- 

 tain kalo. Others who had sought for food had not gone as far as this. She gathered 

 enough for a large j^ile which she bundled conveniently for carrying. Then she kept 

 going mountainwards, following the stream. She saw cane stretching out on the 

 ground and then rising again, and bananas till they were over-ripe. She hastened to 

 break some cane and to get some bananas, thinking to take home a bundle of sugar- 

 cane. Kahuoi heard the cane snapping and the noise of the banana trees as they were 

 thrown down. So he went along to see what it was, and saw this beautiful woman. 

 When the woman saw the man, she was afraid, and said to him: "If this banana field 

 and this cane are yours, I beseech for pardon before you for my wrong." Kahuoi an- 

 swered and said: "Why should it be wrong to take of the eatables? One must in- 

 deed be famished to search the source of food." And because he was kindly dis- 

 posed, the woman said: "Perhaps you have a wife?" He answered: "I have no wife; 

 I came alone from my country. My ])arents were tired of me because I would not do 

 any cultivating, therefore I was sent away, and 1 found this i)lace and lived here, and 

 now I have met you." 



Then the woman said: "Will you then be a husband to me, and let me be your 

 wife? Because 1 lost my husband a few weeks ago." Then they lived as husband 

 and wife. 



CONCERNING THE r.IRTIT OF THEIR CTTII.nREN. 



While they were living there, a child was born to them, and it was called Awa- 

 hua, a son. After him was born a daughter, and she was named Ae-a. These chil- 

 dren were named after the father,'" not after the mother. While they lived there, the 

 children grew big. The parents went to their cultivating, while the children went to 

 the stream to dig ditches. While so digging, the sister's ditch was broken prema- 

 turely, and she was carried along bv the water without the brother's knowledge. 

 While the brother was digging away at his ditch he happened to glance around and 

 the sister was nowhere in sight, so he started to hunt for her, thinking he could find 

 her quicklv. He saw her at Paliakoae, so he chased after her. When he arrived 

 there she had got to Waiailio," and thus he followed after her until she was finally 

 carried out into the ocean. At that time she threw her ivory necklace upon the beach 

 at a place known as Waioaoaku, and it is so named unto this day. The brother was 

 also carried right along, and when he came to this ])lace he saw the necklace of his 

 sister there, so he threw his loin-cloth, Puakai,'" and it landed by the ivory necklace 

 of his sister. They were taken by the current until the sister was landed at Honu- 

 aula,''' Maui. The brother landed at Puuloa,'' [Oahuj. The brother married Hala- 

 wa,'' while the sister married Kahimanini, who belonged here on Maui. 



'°It was considered customary for boys to be named "'Honuaula is the name of the southwest district of 



after the father's side of liis house and girls after the Maui, one cove of which is noted as \ isiu<l by I,:i 



mother's, Perouse on his fateful voyage in 1786. 



"A point on tlic shore liiu' of the Lualailua division "Puuloa, Pearl Harbor, 



of Kahikinui. "Name of a division of land in tlic Pearl Harbor 



'•Puakai, lit., sea-flower. section. 



