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Now the girls’ main purpose in becoming guardians of Paliuli was, 
if Aiwohikupua should again enter Paliuli, to have power to bar 
their enemy. 
Thus they dwelt in Paliuli, and while they dwelt there never did 
they weary of life. Never did they even see the person who pre- 
pared them food, nor the food itself, save when, at mealtimes, the 
birds brought them food and cleared away the remnants when they 
had done. So Paliuli became to them a land beloved, and there 
they dwelt until the trouble came upon them which was wrought by 
Halaaniani. 
Here, O reader, we leave speaking of the sisters of Aiwohikupua, 
and in Chapter XIII of this tale will speak again of Aiwohikupua 
and his coming to Kauai. 
