Rice — Hazi'aiian Legends 45 



Hearing that her son was in trouble, the princess hurried to her kahuna, 

 asking what she should do to save her boy. The kahuna answered, "Take 

 the nmlo and the lei palaoa of the king and six kukiii nuts. You must walk 

 to Kekaha, and as you go you must be ever tossing the six nuts into the 

 air and catching them. If you drop one, your child will die. If you catch 

 all, his life will be spared." The princess at once set out for Kekaha. Her 

 journey was successful, for not once did she let fall a nut. 



When she came into the presence of the king, who was sitting in the 

 heiau of Hauola, she saw her son bound, ready to be offered as a sacrifice, 

 for his crime of breaking the sacred kapu. Going before the king, she 

 showed him his malo and lei palaoa. He at once recognized the princess 

 and spared the life of his son whom he called Ola, or Life, and named him 

 as his successor. 



Upon the death of the king, Ola succeeded to the kingdom. His first 

 thought was for his people whose troubles he well knew. They had had 

 a great deal of diiificulty in bringing the water from the Waimea River 

 down to their taro patches in the Waimea flats, as none of their flumes 

 had lasted. 



Wishing to remove this trouble Ola consulted his kahuna, Pi, who gave 

 him this advice: "Establish a kapu so that no one can go out of his house 

 at night. Then I shall summon the Menehune to build a stone water-lead 

 around the point of the Waimea River so that your people will always have 

 an abundant water supply." 



Ola established the kapu. No man, woman, or child was to go out of 

 his house at night. Then Pi summoned the Menehune to come from 

 foreign lands and make the water-lead in one night. 



Beforehand Pi had arranged the stones in a cliff, every one of the same 

 size and shape. From this cliflf each Menehune took one stone which he 

 called Haawe-a-Pi, the Pack-of-Pi, and placed it in the lead. This water 

 course is still called Kiki-a-Ola, and it has stood the floods of many years. 



When this task was finished a great feast was given at the heiau of 

 Hauola. The Menehune made such a great noise that the ducks in the 

 pond of Kawainui, at Kailua, Oahu, were frightened. 



Ola next ordered the Menehune to build a large canoe house in the 

 mountains. When it was finished they hewed out canoes, which they took 

 to the king as he asked for them. One night as two canoes were being 

 dragged from the mountains, they broke into two pieces and filled up the 

 mouth of the valley of Kawaa-haki. Debris collected around the broken 

 canoes until a road was made. 



