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munolea and his fellow—he reaches Wailua, Kauai, at the beach 
Kamakaiwa. He has dark reddish hair and a commanding figure, 
and the king of Kauai’s two daughters fall in love with and marry 
him. He becomes king of Kauai and by them has five sons, Umalehu, 
Kaialea, Kila, Kekaihawewe, Laukapalala. How his bones are 
buried first in the cliff of Haena and later removed to Tahiti is told 
in the story of Kila.? 
8. Kima 
Moikeha, wishing to send a messenger to fetch his oldest son from 
Tahiti, summons his five sons and tests them to know by a sign 
which boy to send. The lot falls upon Kila, the youngest. On his 
journey Kila encounters dangers and calls upon his supernatural rela- 
tives. The monsters Keaumiki and Keauka draw him down to the 
coral beds, but Kakakauhanui saves him. His rat aunt, Kanepohihi, 
befriends him, and when he goes to his uncle Makalii,? who has all 
‘the food fastened up in his net, she nibbles the net and the food falls 
out. At Tahiti he first kills Mua, who caused his father’s exile. 
Then his warriors are matched with the Tahiti champions and he 
himself faces Makalii, whose club is Naulukohelewalewa. Kila, 
with the club Kahikikolo stuns his uncle “long enough to cook two 
ovens of food.” The spirits of Moikeha’s slain followers appear and 
join their praises to those of the crowd assembled, together with ants, 
birds, pebbles, shells, grass, smoke, and thunder. Kila goes to his 
father’s house, Moaulanuiakea, thatched with birds’ feathers, and 
built of kauwila wood. All is desolate. The man whom he seeks, 
Laamaikahiki, is hidden in the temple of Kapaahu. On a strict 
taboo night Kila conceals himself and, when the brother comes to 
beat the drum, delivers his message. Kila succeeds in bringing his 
brother to Hawaii, who later returns to Kahiki from Kahoolawe, 
hence the name “The road to Tahiti” for the ocean west of that 
island. When Laamaikahiki revisits Hawaii to get the bones of his 
father, he brings the hula drum and kaeke flute. Meanwhile Kila 
has become king, after his father’s death. The jealous brothers en- 
tice him to Waipio, Hawaii, where they abandon him to slavery. 
The priest of the temple adopts him. He gains influence and in- 
troduces the tenant system of working a number of days for the 
landlord, and is ‘beloved for his industry. At the time of famine in 
the days of Hua,’ one of his brothers comes to Waipo to get food. 
Kila has him thrown into prison, but each time he is taken out to be 
1 See Daggett’s account, who places Moikeha’s rule in the eleventh century. 
2Kaulu meets the wizard Makalii in rat form and kills him by carrying him up in 
the air and letting him drop. Makalii means “little eyes’? and refers to a certain mesh 
of fish net. One form of cat’s cradle has this name. It also names the six summer 
months, the Pleiades, and the trees of plenty planted in Paliuli. ‘Plenty of fish’’ seems 
to be the root idea of the symbol. 
3 Daggett tells the story of Hua, priest of Maui. 
