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them will grow into a distinct kukui tree; that is where the kukui tree which we know 

 now comes from. But the bark of this tree is used for dyeing nets, printing kapa, 

 and blackening canoes; [but in the latter case] it is mixed with the ashes of sugar- 

 cane leaves ; the leaves were burnt to produce the ashes. 



Its flower is vised for medicine for certain ailments such as stomachache, weak- 

 ness or ulcers of the mouth. Those kinds of diseases can be cured by that medicine. 



The use of its nut : Its nut was strung into candles ; that is, when the kukui nut 

 is dried a person goes for it and gathers plenty, then he returns to the house, cooks 

 them and when done cracks them ; then string them on a coconut stem, and when that 

 is done it becomes the kukui candle with which to look at each other, but that is a new 

 name; the old name was kali kukui.^^ Here is another thing: The nut of the kukui is 

 also used in place of fish ; it is cooked and when it is done that is the time to eat it. 

 It is then called inaniona, because it was sweet to the taste when eaten. Still another 

 thing: The nut is used in fishing for uhu or in spying for squid; if it were not for the 

 kukui, these kinds of fishing could not be carried on; for the oil of the kukui is the 

 thing which enables one to see the dark places of the ocean. That is one of its uses. 



Here is still another use of the kukui fruit: It is made into oil. It is first 

 gathered, and when there is plenty it is cooked in the imu; when cooked it is cracked 

 and the shell separated from the kernel. The kernel is made into oil by pounding it 

 on a board until it is pulverized; then a large smooth ala^'~ stone is rolled on this pul- 

 verized kukui meat. The juice is then run into a container through a strainer that 

 would keei) out the dregs. That is one use of the fruit of the kukui — for oil; but per- 

 haps there are more uses of the fruit of the kukui, but these are what I have seen 

 being done with my own eyes, and that is why I ha\e brought these things for your en- 

 lightenment, my friends. 



Timothy Lililka. 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE BREADFRUIT. 



There are two places where breadfruit is to be found, i. At Kaawaloa, Kona, 

 Hawaii. Man was the origin of the breadfruit of that place. Before his death he 

 had said to his children: "If I die, both of you watch the tree that may grow at the 

 door of our house; its fruit shall be your food; the hands and hairs are the roots of 

 that breadfruit tree, the legs are its branches, the testicle is the fruit thereon. At that 

 time that was the food that saved this whole family. At the time the forty thousand 

 gods and the four hundred thousand gods saw the fruit of this breadfruit tree, they 

 went and plucked it and tried to eat it green, but it was not palatable; they then tried 

 cooking it on hot coals and found it relishable. They spoke to Kane and Kanaloa' of 

 the sweetness of this fruit ; to which they replied that the fruit was no other than the 

 testes of a certain man who is now dead. At this they vomited until they were ex- 



"ATa/i kukui, string of kukui kernel. 'Kane and Kanaloa, two of the four principal gods 



'■Ala, the fine-grained clingstone, ordinary lava rock "f Hawaiian mythology, 



being too absorbent. 



