22 Bcriiice P. Bishop Museum — Bulletin 



Kaanaelike asked the Man-from-the-Sea, as she called the king^ to go 

 home with her. When he reached her house he found it filled with berries. 

 These the queen threw out, and making a bed of mats gave the stranger 

 a room. Thus they lived for two months. Daily he cooked food and fish 

 in his imu and the queen eating thereof grew more beautiful. 



At the end of two months Kaanaelike's parents sent messengers from 

 the mountains with packs loaded with berries. As they neared the house 

 they saw their queen eating the cooked food, so dropping their packs 

 they rushed back to the mountains crying, "The queen will be killed! The 

 queen will be killed !" 



As soon as the queen's parents heard these words they ordered everyone 

 to follow them to the seashore. 



When Kaanaelike saw the messengers running back to the mountains 

 she spoke to Kaeweaoho in this manner : "Man-from-the-Sea, dig a hole 

 under my room. We will line it with mats and there you can hide so that 

 my parents will not kill you when they come." This they did and she hid 

 the king. 



When her parents came Kaanaelike ate the cooked food. At once they 

 and their followers began to wail, thinking that she would die. She told 

 her parents that she would not die. She had eaten of this food for two 

 months, and they could see that she was more beautiful and stronger than 

 before. She persuaded them to eat of the cooked food and she gave the 

 remainder to the followers. 



Then her parents asked Kaanaelike how she had learned to cook food. 

 She told them that the Man-from-the-Sea, who had been very kind to her, 

 had taught her. Her parents said, "If these things you tell us are true the 

 Man-from-the-Sea must be very good." 



No longer fearing for his life, Kaanaelike removed the mats and led 

 forth the king, whom she said she loved and w'ish to marry. Her parents 

 told her that this could not be without the consent of her grandfather. 

 Kaanaelike asked where her grandfather lived, and learned that his home 

 was in the sky. 



In order to visit her grandfather to gain his consent, Kaanaelike was 

 directed to a large calabash which concealed a small coconut tree. This 

 tree she was told to climb. Before she began to climb it her parents gave 

 her the sacred pa-u, or skirt, which she was to hold on her lap and no harm 

 would ever befall her. 



No sooner had the queen climbed into the tree than it began to grow. 

 It grew and grew until it reached the deep blue of heaven. In the sky she 

 found an opening which led into the kingdom of her grandfather. She 



