670 Fornandcr Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



[Here is] a story concerning its wood: At Waipio is a stream wherein lived 

 a man-eating shark; when one came to the place (there were no bridges then) he stood 

 on the bank of the stream and threw in a stalk of ti-plant. If it disappeared quickly, 

 go back, the shark was there, and was not gone; to jump in was to be eaten. But, 

 if when thrown in, the stalk did not disappear, then there was no shark; it had gone 

 to another place; then jump in and swim across quickly, because the stream is not 

 wide; but if you tarried or were slow in swimming you would be caught by the shark, 

 the champion of the ocean, and he would spcure a morsel of food, and he would laugh 

 for he had obtained something. 



THE root: that is, the part under the soil. 



The root was used a great deal by the Hawaiians for cooking in the iinu (un- 

 derground oven). After two or three days it would be cooked, then it was used as 

 food during times of plenty and during famine; but it was used mostly during times 

 of famine. Again it was used for simply eating; and then again it was made into a 

 liquor called okolehao," a drink for men, women and children ; that was one cause of 

 famine when time was taken up with those kinds of pleasure. This same root was 

 used for oil to keep the hair together so that it would not be blown by the wind. It 

 is called ki. 



This is all I have obtained by asking questions. The leaf is the most useful 

 part of this plant. 



John Mana. 



THE KUKUI TREE. 



This tree, the kukui,' we are familiar with; we know its kind and what it looks 

 like, and that is, it has a stocky, stout trunk with many branches, and green leaves. 

 This tree commonly grows on the mountains, in the forests and hill tops. It grows 

 also on all of the islands ; but there is no ])lace where it came from ; it is indigenous to 

 Hawaii nei. Here are the uses of the kukui : 



the uses of the leaves." 



They are used for hastening the ripening of bananas, and are also used in the 

 roasting of fish ; those are the uses of the leaves which I know about. 



concerning the nut. 



The nut is edible, after being roasted and the kernel i:)Ounded with salt.^ It 

 is used in the place of fish when sojourning in the mountain, and the day when the eye 



"Okolehao, so named from the introduced iron-pot wrapped aroimd the fruit, wliicli is said to effect in three 



method of its distillation by the beach-comers of early days what would otherwise have required a week's time 



day. to become mellow. Its use in fish roasting was, like the 



'Kukui (Alciin'lrs Moluccana), so called for its recog- ki-leaf, simply to protect it; not for the imparting of 



nized light-furnishing properties, as shown in this paper. ''"y flavor. 



'To ripen bananas, the dry leaves of the kukui were "This furnishes the relish known as inamomi. 



