Rice — Hazvaiiai! Legends 63 



At length the two warriors stood ready for the encounter. Their spears 

 were thrown at the same time. Kawelo was struck and stunned and his 

 body rolled in the dust. Kahakaloa lost one ear and a little finger. 



The king's messenger urged the soldier to strike the fallen Kawelo 

 again, as his eyes were still open, but Kahakaloa answered, "He is killed 

 by one blow from a young man. I shall not strike him again or he will 

 go down to Milu and boast that I had to strike him twice. Now let us go 

 home to eat. After that we shall return and finish our enemy." 



Kamalama ran to his brother, for he believed that he had been killed. 

 But in a short time Kawelo sat up. His dizziness left him. He asked 

 where his antagonist had gone. Then he strengthened himself with food. 



Kahakaloa, in the meantime, had hurried to his king, where he boasted 

 that he had killed the mighty Kawelo, and that he would soon go back to 

 the sea to put out his light forever. Hearing that his great rival was no 

 more, Aikanaka ordered his steward to place the choicest food before the 

 valiant soldier and the faithful messenger. 



While this was being prepared, the king noticed that Kahakaloa had 

 lost a finger and he inquired how the accident had happened. 



'"That was a branch on the outside which was easily struck," answered 

 the soldier. 



"And how about your ear?" 



"Oh, that was a branch on top also easily cut oflf," replied the wounded 

 man. 



After Kahakaloa had eaten the food from the calabash he placed the 

 empty vessel on his head as a helmet and went forth to destroy his rival. 



Seeing someone coming, Kamalama called to his brother, "A bald- 

 headed man is advancing. I can see the sun shining on his forehead." 



But Kawelo was not deceived. He recognized his former antagonist 

 and planned revenge. As Kahakaloa came before him, Kawelo struck the 

 calabash on his head. Being broken, it fell over his eyes so that he could 

 not see, and he was easily killed. 



Again the messenger had to carry news of defeat to his king, whose 

 only comment was, "How could he live, so wounded? He was only 

 Kawelo's pig." 



There still remained on Xounou, Kauahoa, the strongest of all the 

 king's soldiers. He was known all over the islands for his size. He it 

 was whom Kawelo feared most of all. However, Kawelo remembered 

 their boyhood days when he had broken his friend's kite and had escaped 

 unpunished. If Kauahoa feared him as a boy, possibly he still did. This 

 thought cheered him and he planned how he could gain a victory over his 

 old-time opponent. 



