652 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [BTH. ANN. 88 
13. KALAEHINA 
The younger brother of Kalaepuni can throw a canoe into the 
sea as if it were a spear, and split wood with his head. He proves 
his worth by getting six canoes for his brother out of a place where 
they were stuck, in the uplands of Kapua, South Kona, Hawaii. He 
makes a conquest of the island of Maui; its king, Kamalalawalu, 
flees and hides himself when Kalaehina defies his taboo. There he 
rules until Kapakohana, the strong usurper of Kauai, wrestles with 
him and pushes him over the cliff Kaihalulu and kills him.t 
14. LoNoIkKAMAKAHIKE 
Lonoikamakahike was king of Hawaii after Keawenuiaumi, his 
father, 64 generations from Wakea. According to the story, he is 
born and brought up at Napoopo, Hawaii, by the priests Loli and 
Hauna. He learns spear throwing from Kanaloakuaana; at the test 
he dodges 3 times 40 spears at one time. He discards sports, but 
becomes expert in the use of the spear and the sling, in wrestling, 
and in the art of riddling disputation, the hoopapa. He also pro- 
motes the worship of the gods. While yet a boy he marries his cousin 
Kaikilani, a woman of high rank who has been Kanaloakuaana’s 
wife, and gives her rule over the island until he comes of age. Then 
they rule together, and so wisely that everything prospers. 
Kaikilani has a lover, Heakekoa, who follows them as they set 
out on a tour of the islands. While detained on Molokai by the 
weather, Lonoikamakahike and his wife are playing checkers when 
the lover sings a chant from the cliff above Kalaupapa. Lonoika- 
makahike suspects treachery and strikes his wife to the ground with 
the board. Fearful of the revenge of her friends he travels on to 
Kailua on Oahu to Kekuhihewa’s court, which he visits incognito. 
Reproached because he has no name song, he secures from a visiting 
chiefess of Kauai the chant called “The Mirage of Mana.” In the 
series of bets which follow, Lonoikamakahike wins from Kakuhihewa 
all Oahu and is about to win his daughter for a wife when Kaikilani 
arrives, and a reconciliation follows. The betting continues, con- 
cluded by a riddling match, in all of which Lonoikamakahike is 
successful. 
1Qne of the most popular heroes of the Puna, Kau, and Kona coast of Hawaii to-day 
is the kupua or ‘‘ magician,’ Kalaekini. His power, mana, works through a rod of 
kauila wood, and his object seems to be to change the established order of things, some 
say for good, others for the worse. The stories tell of his efforts to overturn the rock 
called Pohaku o Lekia (rock of Lekia), of the bubbling spring of Punaluu, whose 
flow he stops, and the blowhole called Kapuhiokalaekini, which he chokes with 
cross-sticks of kauila wood. The double character of this magician, whom one native 
paints as a benevolent god, another, not 10 miles distant, as a boaster and mischief- 
maker, is an instructive example of the effect of local coloring upon the interpretation 
of folklore. Daggett describes this hero. He seems to be identical with the Kalaehina 
of Fornander. 
