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messengers of the king of Kauai, Kaikipaananea, steal her away 
and she becomes this king’s wife. Kepakailiula follows her to Kauai 
and defeats the king in boxing. One more contest is prepared; the 
king has two riddles, the failure to answer which will mean death. 
Only one man knows the answers, Kukaea, the public crier, and he 
is an outcast who has lived on nothing but filth all his life. Kepa- 
kailiula invites him in, feeds, and clothes him. For this attention, 
the man reveals the riddles, Kepakailiula answers them correctly, 
and bakes the king in his own oven. The riddles are: 
1. “ Plaited all around, plaited to the bottom, leaving an opening. 
Answer: A house, thatched all around and leaving a door.” 
2. “'The men that stand, the men that le down, the men that are 
folded. Answer: A house, the timbers that stand, the battens laid 
down, the grass and cords folded.” 
6. IKATPALAOA 
The boy skilled in the art of disputation, or hoopapa, lives in 
Waiakea, Hilo, Hawaii. In the days of Pueonuiokona, king of 
Kauai, his father, Halepaki, has been killed in a riddling contest 
with Kalanialiiloa, the taboo chief of Kauai, whose house is almost 
surrounded by a fence of human bones from the victims he has de- 
feated in this art. Kaipalaoa’s mother teaches him all she knows, 
then his aunt, Kalenaihaleauau, wife of Kukuipahu, trains him until 
he is an expert. He meets Kalanialiiloa, riddles against all his 
champions, and defeats them. They are killed, cooked in the oven, 
and the flesh stripped from their bones. Thus Kaipalaoa avenges 
his father’s death. 
7. MorkeHa. 
Olopana and his wife Luukia, during the flood at Waipio, are 
swept out to sea, and sail, or swim, to Tahiti, where Moikeha is king. 
Olopana becomes chief counsellor, and Luukia becomes Moikeha’s 
mistress. Mua, who also loves Luukia, sows discord by reporting to 
her that Moikeha is boasting in public of her favors. She repulses 
Moikeha and he, out of grief, sails away to Hawaii. The lashing 
used for water bottles and for the binding of canoes is called the 
pauoluukia (“skirt of Luukia”) because she thus bound herself 
against the chief’s approaches. 
Moikeha touches at various points on the islands. At Hilo, 
Hawaii, he leaves his younger brothers Kumukahi and Haehae; at 
Kohala, his priests Mookini and Kaluawilinae; at Maui, a follower, 
Honuaula; at Oahu his sisters Makapuu and Makaaoa. With the 
rest—his foster son Kamahualele, his paddlers Kapahi and Moanai- 
kaiaiwe, Kipunuiaiakamau and his fellow, and two spies, Kaukauka- 
