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he told me." Tlic king spoke u]): "Go and muster tlie men together to capture and 

 beat them until dead, then drag them hither." "AH right," said the man. He then 

 ran out merrily and approached before the men, who said: "\\'herefore came you 

 here?" "The king has commanded me that we go and slay those who kept watch 

 over the corpse of Kawelo, and who have rebelled." Thev immediately prepared and 

 were well equipped. 



Previous, however, to the readiness of the men to make the ascent, the wife, Ka- 

 newahineikiaoha, remarked to Aikanaka : "We will never escape: we shall all be de- 

 feated by Kawelo. I told you frec|uently that if my husband should survive from this 

 death, then we would perish." The husband said: "Will he that is dead come to life? 

 maybe his flesh has become soft; perhaps it has reduced to nothingness."'"'' "It mav 

 be so," the wife answered; "it is not clear." In due time the man urged that they go 

 up and kill those two persons. However, the friend,'" who was the bosom companion 

 of his early childhood, preceded the band. 



As they were about to ascend, the brother-in-law espied this large company 

 coming up, and he bent down and commenced to wee|). And when Kawelo saw it he 

 asked: "Wherefore is this weeping?" The other answered: "It is a death wailing. 

 The company is on its way to capture me." "Vou retire then to the rear, and let 

 me move forward." The brother-in-law retired to the rear; Kawelo gradually mo\'ed 

 towards, and had just gained the edge of the hill, when the company stood directly be- 

 low it, and his friend called out: "Lower the ladder that we may be able to ascend." 

 The former whispered to the brother-in-law. "Say, let the ladder down!" It was 

 nothing; so the ladder was dropped to the grdund. Immediately his friend with his 

 warriors began to climb U]>. He looked, and, catching sight of the friend, his tears 

 rolled down; he recited that chant which llie\- had once before composed: 



I love the blossom of the lehua 



Which is being wilted by the sun 



And which espies Hulianiahi. 



The flesh is just trembling. 



Farewell to you ! 



Farewell to our companionship ! 



Farewell to tlie surf of Wailua! 



We two were fondled together by the same parent. 



And when he had ended his chant, the friend then looked carefully and fully 

 caught sight of Kawelo turning slightly toward him. He shrank back, thinking i)er- 

 haps that he would escape. The soldiers said: "Why the drawing back, for what?" 

 Why not ascend and capture and drag yonder quiet fellow hither?" Their leader an- 

 swered : "We shall not escape ; we will all be vanquished. That is Kawelo sleeping over 

 there. What a great pity it would be that my intestines be allowed to trail down from 

 the tree; while you are simply slain, and your entrails are not taken out."''"' The men 



""The "wish father to the thought", that Kawelo was '"'Tliis evidently has reference to a customary treat- 



so weakened by his stone-bruises and three weeks' fast nient of defeated warriors, in disemboweling the leader 



that he would be an easy prey. and treating the others with ignominy. 



"'Not shown who this may be unless Huliamahi, not 

 heretofore mentioned. 



