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They come just in time to save his life and to win for him the island 
of Kauai. But his pet fish laments his unfaithfulness to his home, 
he takes it up and kisses it and returns to Oahu. 
7. PIKOIAKAALALA 
Raven is the father, Koukou the mother, Rat and Bat the 
sisters, and Pikoiakaalala the brother of the rat family of Wailua, 
Kauai, who change into human beings. The sisters marry men of 
note. Pikoiakaalala wins in his first attempt to float the sozeze 
board, then follows it down the rapids and swims to Oahu. Here 
he beats Mainele, the champion rat shooter, by summoning the rats 
in a chant and then shooting ten rats and one bat at once. Then he 
defeats him in a riddling contest in which the play turns upon the 
word rat. On Hawaii the king, Keawenuiaumi, wants the birds 
shot because they deceive his canoe builders and prevent any trees 
from being felled. Pikoiakaalala succeeds in shooting them by 
watching their reflection in a basin of water. 
8. IXKAWELO 
When Kawelo is born to Maihuna and Malaiakalani in Hana- 
maulu, Kauai, the fourth of five children, the maternal grandparents 
foresee that he is to be a wonder, and they offer to bring him up 
at Wailua, where Aikanaka, the king’s son, and Kauahoa of Hanalei 
are his companions. Later the parents take him to Oahu, where 
Kakuhewa is king, and live at Waikiki, where Kawelo marries 
Kanewahineikiaoha, daughter of a famous warrior, Kalonaika- 
hailaau, from whom he learns the art of war. Fishing he learns 
from Maakuakeke. On his parents’ return to Kauai they are abused 
of their property, and summon Kawelo to redress their wrongs. He 
sends his wife to fetch the stroke Wahieloa from his father-in-law, 
who heaps abuse upon the son-in-law, not aware that Kawelo hears 
all his derisive comments through his god Kalanikilo. A fight 
‘follows in which the son-in-law knocks out the old man and proves 
his competence as a pupil. The Oahu king furnishes a canoe in 
which Kawelo sets out for Kauai with his wife, his brother, Kama- 
lama, and other followers, of whom Kalaumeki and Kaeleha are 
chief. On Kauai he and his brother defeat all the champions of 
Aikanaka, with their followers, one after the other, finally slaying 
his old playmate Kauahoa, this with the aid of his wife, who tangles 
her pikoi ball in the end of his opponent’s war club. 
In the division of land that follows this victory Kona falls to 
his brother and Koolau and Puna to his two chief warriors. But 
Kaelehu visits Aikanaka at Hanapepe, falls in love with his daugh- 
ter, and persuades himself that he could do better by taking up the 
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