34 Bcniice P. Bishop Museum — Bulletin 



The great flood came, Kai-a-ka-hina-alii, the Sea-that-Made-the-Chiefs- 

 Fall-Down, (that destroyed the chiefs), submerging all the lower lands, 

 leaving only specks of higher land, now known as islands, above the waters. 

 The lower lands were covered by Moana-nui-kai-oo. Niui, a powerful 

 kahuna, saved a great many people. 



After the Deluge there were three i)eoi)les : the Menehune, who were 

 dwarfs or pygmies ; the Ke-na-mu and the Ke-na-\va. A great part of 

 these other peoples were destroyed by the Menehune. One of the chiefs 

 of the Ke-na-mu had come to Hawaii from Kahiki. The name of this 

 chief was Kualu-nui-kini-akua. Big-Kualu-of-the-Four-Thousand-Gods. 

 He had a son Kualu-nui-pauku-moku-moku, Big-Kualu-of-the-Broken-Rope, 

 the father of Ola, Life. They came from Kapaia-haa, otherwise called Ka- 

 hiki-moe. the land that is now called New Zealand. They came to the land 

 of Ka-ma-wae-lua-lani nei, that is now called Kauai-a-mano-ka-lani-po. That 

 was the land where the three peoples had their home, the Ke-na-mu, the 

 Ke-na-wa, and the Menehune. They lived there and emigrated thence 

 as the people of more recent times have lived and travelled. At one time 

 the Menehune journeyed until they reached the land of Kahiki-ka-paia- 

 haa (New Zealand). That is why some people believe that they came 

 originally from New Zealand, but that is not so. They were natives of 

 Hawaii. 



In the ancient tradition of "Kumulipo" it is told that there were a great 

 many men and women from Ka-houpo-o-kane who went to Kahiki-ka-paia- 

 haa, and in those emigrations, there was one called He-ma, the progenitor 

 of the Maori race. When He-ma went, at about that time, the Menehune 

 people went, too, from Kauai-a-mano-ka-Iani-po. 



At that time Ma-oli-ku-laiakea or Maori-tu-raiatea, in the New Zealand 

 language, was the king of the Menehune. He went with his people, 

 accompanied by their chief, Aliikilola, and his wife, Lepoa. This was in 

 the time of He-ma. And from the first part of the name of the king of the 

 Menehune, the New Zealanders called themselves Maori. From the last 

 part of the same name a place in New Zealand is called Raiatea. That is 

 what is told in the most ancient of all traditions, called "Ke-Kumulipo." 



When the Menehune returned to Kauai, they began to increase. The 

 tribe grew until there were enough grown men to form two rows, reaching 

 all the way from Makaweli to Wailua. They were so many, counting the 

 women and children, that the only fish of which each could have one to 

 himself, was the shrimp. 



The Menehune were a small people, but they were broad and muscular 

 and possessed of great strength. Contrary to common belief they were 

 not possessed of any supernatural powers, but it was solely on account of 



