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3. StoRTES OF MoprerN CUNNING 
KULEPE 
A cunning man and great thinker lives on Oahu in the days of 
Peleioholani. He travels to Kalaupapa, Molokai, is hungry, and, see- 
ing some people bent over their food, chants a song that deceives 
them into believing him a soldier and man of the court. They 
become friendly at once and invite him to eat. 
KAWAUNUIAOLA 
A woman of Kula, Maui, whose husband deserts her for another 
woman, makes herself taboo, returns to her house, and offers prayers 
and invents conversations as if she had a new husband. The news 
quickly spreads, and Hoeu starts at once for home. In this cunning 
manner she regains her husband. 
MAIAUHAALENALENAUPENA 
The upland peddlers bring sugar cane, bananas, gourds, etc., to 
sea to peddle for fish. Maiauhaalenalenaupena pretends to be a 
fisherman. He spreads out his net as if just driven in from sea by 
the rough weather. The peddlers trust him with their goods until 
he has better luck; but he really is no fisherman and never gives them 
anything. 
WAAWAAIKINAAUPO AND WAAWAATKINAANAO 
One day these two brothers’ go out snaring birds. The older 
brother suggests that they divide the spoils thus: He will take all 
those with holes on each side of the beak. The unobservant younger 
brother consents, thinking this number will be few, and the older 
wins the whole catch. 
KUAUAMOA 
At Kawaihae, Kohala, lives the great trickster, Kuauamoa. He 
Inows Davis and Young after they are made prisoners by the 
natives, and thus learns some English words. On the plains of 
Alawawai he meets some men going to sell rope to the whites and 
they ask him to instruct them what to say. He teaches them to swear 
at the whites. When the white men are about to beat the peddlers, 
they drop the rope and run away. 
