A Story of Kawelo. 



CHAPTER I. 



Kawelo a Timid Youth. — Learns Swimming, Fishing and Dancing. — Covets 



THE Wives of Aikanaka. 



KAWELO was born at Pupulinui,' in W'ainiea, Kauai. lieulu was tlie fatlier, 

 and Haianui was the mother, of whom the child, Kawelo, was begotten. Dur- 

 ing Kawelo's childhood he was a timid stripling whenever his companions or 

 others challenged him to fight. His elder brother was Kauahoa,- who was born of 

 the same parents. Kauahoa had been previously adopted by Haulili,^ the great one 

 of Hanalei. The purpose for which his elder brother had been taken away was be- 

 cause he was found to be very strong, and, therefore, was feared lest he should kill 

 his younger brother. 



Let us turn aside and glance at Kawelo. While Kawelo dwelt peacefully with 

 his parents a desire entered his mind to go sea bathing, which was his favorite pas- 

 time from his infancy up to the time of his death. In his eighteenth year a secret 

 longing prompted Kawelo to seek the wives of his half-brother, Aikanaka, the king 

 of Kauai. Said he to Heulu, his father: "How amazing is the greatness of my de- 

 sire for the wives of my lord brother! By what means may they be obtained?" 

 Whereupon the father asked: "Do you really wish the wives of your lord to be yours?" 

 "Yes," Kawelo replied. "Here is the means whereby they may be won : let me teach 

 you how to fish." 



So they entered upon the task of learning, and not very long after the instruc- 

 tion was begun Kawelo became proficient. Wherefore he immediately went out to fish. 

 In a short period of fishing a great heap of fish was caught. He patiently waited for, 

 but failed to secure the women; so he said to the father: "I can not in the least obtain 

 the wives of my elder brother." "Then go farming," answered the father. He went 

 to till the soil, and the things that he planted thrived. He waited, but could not se- 

 cure [them]; then he meditated: "Indeed! It appeared as though my father's instruc- 

 tions to me were the wise policy whereby those women may be mine; but lo! thev are 

 not." 



Thereafter, he began to learn dancing". In educating" himself to dance, and be- 

 coming" proficient therein, he immediately held a dancing" exhibit before a large gather- 

 ing. When he went to dance Kawelo was arrayed in a feather cape. The women 

 saw that Kawelo was very skillful in dancing, so they fell upon him and kissed him. 



'This brief version of Kawelo differs in many re- "The other story sliows Kauahoa, as also Aikanaka, of 



spects from that sljown as No. I in this second vol- same age with Kawelo and brought up together as com- 



ume series, .^t the outset, the parents, birthplace on panions, but unrelated. 



Kauai, and family vary materially. This gives him but 'Adoption of children in infancy by relatives, or near 



one brother ; the other, three brothers and a sister. The friends, was common practice, but oftener at birth than 



mam pomts, however, retam a snndarity. at the development of character traits as here presented. 

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