BECKWITH] APPENDIX 661 
Umi arranges a contest to prove who is the champion thief. Iwa 
is pitted against the six champions from each of the six districts of 
Hawaii. The test is to see which can fill a house fullest in a single 
night. The six thieves go to work, but Iwa sleeps until cockcrow, 
when he rises and steals all the things out of the other thieves’ house. 
He also steals sleeping men, women, and children from the king’s 
own house to fill his own. The championship is his, and the other 
six thieves are killed. 
MANINIHOLOKUAUA 
This skillful thief lives at Kaunakahakai on Molokai, where he is 
noted for strength and fleetness. In a cave at Kalamaula, in the 
uplands, his lizard guardian keeps all the valuables that he steals from 
strangers who land on his shore. This cave opens and shuts at his 
call. Maniniholokuaua steals the canoe of the famous Oahu runner, 
Keliimalolo, who can make three circuits of Oahu in a day, and this 
man secures the help of two supernatural runners from Nihau, 
Kamaakauluohia (or Kaneulohia), and Kamaakamikioi (or Kan- 
eikamikioi), sons of Halulu, who can make ten circuits of Kauai in 
a day. In spite of his grandmother’s warning, Maniniholokuaua 
steals from them also, and they pursue him to his cave, where he is 
caught between the jaws in his haste. 
PUPUALENALENA 
This marvelous dog named Pupualenalena fetches awa from Ha- 
kau’s food patches in Waipio, Hawaii, to his master in Puako. 
Hakau has the dog tracked, and is about to kill both dog and master 
when he bethinks himself. He has been troubled by the blowing 
of a conch shell, Kuana, by the spirits above Waipio, and he now 
promises life if the dog will bring him the shell. This the dog 
effects in the night, though breaking a piece in his flight, and the 
king, delighted, rewards the master with land in Waipio. 
2. ConTESTS WITH SPrRiIts 
KAULULAAU 
The son of Kakaalaneo, king of Maui and Kanikaniaula, uproots 
all the breadfruit trees of Lahaina to get the fruit that is out of 
reach, and does so much mischief with the other children born on the 
same day with him, who are brought to court for his companions, 
that they are sent home, and he is abandoned on the island of Lanai 
to be eaten by the spirits. His god shows him a secret cave to hide in. 
Each night the spirits run about trying to find him, but every time 
he tricks them until they get so overworked that all die except 
