Rice— Hawaiian Legends 31 



her son, Eye-Brows-Burnt-Off. When the fire was out. she saw the pile 

 of stones and knew that her sister still lived in it. 



Just at this moment the foster parents of Keahiwela, who had become 

 greatly alarmed over her long absence, sent their dog to find her. He was 

 named Kuilio-loa, My-Long-Dog. Everywhere this dog went, the country 

 was polluted. With one bound he landed on Ulukaa and saw that all the 

 people on the island had been destroyed. He returned to his master, telHng 

 him that Keahiwela was dead. The master sent him back to Ulukaa with 

 power to kill Kaanaelike. He jumped back to the island with his mouth 

 wide open to bite Kaanaelike. Keahiwela saw him and, shaking off the 

 rocks that covered her, jumped into the dog's mouth. When Kaanaelike 

 saw the dog with bloody teeth she took her sacred pa-u and struck him, 

 cutting off his tail and ears. From that day to this bob-tailed dogs have 

 lived on the islands. This dog took Keahiwela home to her parents, and 

 then he jumped across to Kauai where he lived until his death. 



When Eye-Brows-Burnt-Off saw all that had happened on Ulukaa, he 

 said to his mother, "You have brought all this trouble to the land. There 

 are no people left for me to rule over. I shall go to some other land 

 where there are people. You must live here alone to the end of your life." 



The old Hawaiians believe that Kaanaelike still lives on the Rolling 

 Island, Ulukaa, which can be seen, a cloud-like vision, with the other eleven 

 islands, on the horizon at sunrise or at sunset. At sunrise the island of 

 Ulukaa has a reddish tinge, which shows that it is still burning. Because 

 they are sacred islands, it is bad luck to point at them. 



