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cause of the defeated chief. Knowing that Kawelo has never learned 
the art of dodging stones, they bury him in a shower of rocks, beat 
him with a club, and leave him for dead. He revives when carried to 
the temple for sacrifice, rises, and slays them all; not one escapes. 
9. ICUALIL 
Kualii’s first battle happens before he is a man, when he and his 
father dedicate the temple on Kawaluna, Oahu, as an act of rebellion. 
The chiefs of Oahu come against him with three armies, but Kuali, 
with his warriors, Maheleana and Malanaihaehae, and his war club, 
Manaiakalani, slays the enemy chiefs and beats back 12,000 men at 
Kalena. Later he conducts a successful campaign in Hawaii, estab- 
lishes Paepae against the rebel faction of Molokai, and pacifies 
Haloalena, who is rebelling against the king of Maui. In this cam- 
paign he secures the bold and mischievous Kauhi as his follower, 
who is in time his chief warrior. As Kuali grows stronger, he 
goes in disguise to battle, kills the bravest chief, secures his feather 
cloak, and runs home with it. A lad who sees him pass each day 
runs after and cuts a finger from the dead enemy, after the battle 
of Kalakoa, and reveals the true hero of the day.t. The chant to 
Kuali is composed by two brothers, Kapaahulani and Kamakaau- 
lani, who are in search of a new lord. On the day of battle at 
Kaahumoa one joins each army; one brother leads Kualii’s forces to 
an appointed spot and the other attempts to pacify the chief with the 
prearranged chant, in which he is successful; the brothers are raised 
to honor and peace is declared. Kuali lives to old age, when he is 
“carried to battle in a net of strings.” His genealogical tree carries 
his ancestry back to Kane, and Kualii himself has the knowledge and 
attributes of a god. 
10, OPELEMOEMOE 
A man of Kalauao, Ewa, Oahu, has a habit of falling into a super- 
natural sleep for a month at a time. In such a sleep he is taken to be 
sacrificed at the temple of Polomauna, Kauai, but waking at the 
sound of thunder, he goes to Waimea, where he marries, and culti- 
vates land. When the time comes for his sleep, he warns his wife, but 
she and her brothers and servants decide to drop him into the sea. - 
When the month is up, it thunders, he wakens, finds himself tied in 
the bottom of the sea, breaks loose and comes back to his wife. Be- 
fore their son is born he leaves her and returns to Oahu. The child 
is born, is abused by his stepfather, and finding he has a different 
father, follows Opelemoemoe to Oahu. The rest of his story is told 
under Kalelealuaka. 
1 Compare Kalelealuaka. 
