BECKWITH] APPENDIX 635 
royal lineage.” Lanai is a foster child, Kahoolawe a foundling, of 
whose afterbirth is formed the rock island Molokini. Oahu and 
Kauai have the same mother but different fathers. Another pair 
bear the triplets, the islets Niihau, Kaulu, and Nihoa. 
B. PAKUI 
According to this high priest and historian of Kamehameha I, 
from Wakea and Papa are born Kahikiku, Kahikimoe (‘the founda- 
tion stones,” “the stones of heaven”), Hawaii, and Maui. While 
Papa is on a visit to Kahiki, Wakea takes another wife and begets 
Lanai, then takes Hina to wife and begets Molokai. The plover tells 
Papa on her return, and she in revenge bears to Lua the child Oahu. 
After this she returns to Wakea and bears Kauai and its neighboring 
islets. 
C. KAMAHUALELE 
The foster son of Moikeha accompanies this chief on the journey to 
Hawaii and Kauai. On sighting land at Hawaii he chants a song 
in honor of his chief in which he calls Hawaii a “man,” “ child of 
Kahili,” and “ royal offspring from Kapaahu.” 
D. OPUKAHONUA 
This man with his two brothers and a woman peopled Hawaii 95 
generations before Kaméhaméha. According to his chant, the islands 
are fished up from Kapaahu by Kapuheeuanui, who brings up one 
piece of coral after another, and, offering sacrifices and prayers to 
each, throws it back into the ocean, so creating in succession Hawaii, 
Maui, Kauai, and the rest of the islands of the group. 
E. KUKAILANI 
A powerful priest, 75 generations from Opukahonua, on the occa- 
sion of the sacrifice in the temple of the rebel Iwikauikana by Kena- 
loakuaana, king of Maui, chants the genealogies, dividing them into 
the time from the migration from Kahiki to Pili, Pili to Wakea, 
Wakea to Waia, and Waia to Liloa. 
-F, KUALIL 
The song of Kualii was composed about 1700 to celebrate the royal 
conqueror of Oahu. It opens with an obscure allusion to the fishing 
up by Maui from the hill Kauwiki, of the island of Hawaii, out of the 
