48 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 38 



" Laka was the daughter of Kapo. Yet as a patron of the hula 

 Laka stands first ; she was worshiped at an earlier date than Kapo ; 

 but they are really one." 



Further questioning brought out the explanation that Laka was 

 not begotten in ordinary generation; she was a sort of emanation 

 from Kapo. It was as if the goddess should sneeze and a deity 

 should issue with the breath from her nostrils; or should wink, and 

 thereby beget spiritual offspring from the eye, or as if a spirit should 

 issue forth at some movement of the ear or mouth. 



When the old woman's scruples had been laid to rest, she repeated 

 slowly for the author's benefit the pule given on pages 45 and 46, 

 " Now, Kane, approach,'' * * * of which the first eight lines and 

 much of the last part, to him, were new. 



