Rice — Hazvaiian Legends 55 



One day as he was at work he heard great shouting down by the sea. 

 His grandparents told him that his brothers were wresthng with the king's 

 strong man. When one of them was thrown down the people shouted. 



At once Kawelo longed to see the sport, but his grandparents forbade 

 his going. So he waited until they were away and then he hurried to the 

 sea, where he saw his brothers surfing. He borrowed a surf-board and 

 joined his brothers and later followed them to the wrestling place. When 

 he stood up to wrestle with the strong man, his brothers tried to prevent 

 him by saying that he was too young, that he was not strong enough. 

 Kawelo did not listen to them and to everyone's surprise he threw the 

 king's great wrestler. This angered the brothers, who were ashamed of 

 their lack of strength, and so they hurried to their grandparents, and told 

 them that Kawelo had been throwing stones at them. Receiving little sym- 

 pathy they decided to return to Kauai. 



Then Kawelo began to desire other accomplishments. First he longed 

 to be able to hula, which meant a training in an art far more diversified 

 than mere dancing. After long schooling the pupils had to pass a strict 

 examination before they could appear in public. But this graceful and 

 difficult art Kawelo could not master, so he turned his mind to other 

 things. His father-in-law taught him, and his wife as well, all manner of 

 spear throwing. Next he wanted to learn to fish well. Makuakeke, the 

 celebrated fisherman, became his teacher. 



At dawn Kawelo awakened his teacher with these words, "Makuakeke, 

 awake ! The sun is high. Bring the fish-hooks and the nets. Let us 

 fish." 



So the fisherman prepared everything. They got into a canoe and 

 paddled out to deep water. .A.s they were going, the older man called out, 

 "Kawelo, the lei of his parents, my king fisherman of Kauai, we will fish 

 here." 



But Kawelo answered, "Not here. We shall go on until we reach the 

 point of Kaena. Hold on to the canoe." 



Then with one mighty stroke of the paddle the canoe lay off Honolulu 

 harbor, with two strokes it neared Puuloa, and with three it reached 

 Waianae. There Kawelo chewed some kukui nuts and blew the oil over the 

 sea so that the water became calm and they could see the bottom. The 

 canoe drifted from the shallow water into the deep as the men fished 

 for ulua. 



As it grew late Makuakeke urged Kawelo to return home, for he knew 

 that it was time for Uhumakaikai, the fish god, to appear and he greatly 

 feared this fish. 



