84 Beniicc P. Bisliop Miisciiin — DitUctin 



prised when they saw a heavy stone and the hollow log as long as the 

 canoe. 



"The king would never have consented to take your bundles if he had 

 seen their size. You are indeed a strange boy to call a stone and a log 

 bundles. We have been working for the king from childhood up and we 

 have never seen bundles like these,'' cried one messenger. 



To this complaint Ku-a-paakaa answered, "Did you not bring womep 

 with you? Were they not like stones which never work?" 



And so the messengers carried the strange bundles to the paddlers. 

 who were very angry and said that the king would refuse to take them. 

 I>ut the king did not interfere, and at la.st the bundles were loaded on the 

 canoe. 



Then Ku-a-paakaa hurried to the hiding place of his father and told 

 him that everything was ready. Paakaa urged his son to remember all 

 that he had made known to him. 



"I am only a boy. If I am killed it is well. If I kill your enemies 

 then you will be avenged," was the son's reply to his father. 



So he returned to the king and a fair wind drove the canoes gently 

 along. The skill of the paddlers pleased the boy greatly and he asked to 

 hold one of the paddles but was refused. 



After they had passed Oahu and lay ofif Waimea on Kauai, Ku-a-paakaa 

 opened his calabash of winds and released some stormy winds which quickly 

 blew the canoes out to sea. As before, the sea grew angry, and great 

 waves dashed against the canoes, driving them out to the deep water. 

 But the king was not afraid. Peace filled his mind because Ku-a-paakaa 

 was with him. When the king asked what to do, the boy replied, "Anchor 

 the canoe with my big stone which will keep us in one place, so that we 

 shall not be blown out of sight of land. When the storm is over we can 

 reach land." 



Then the byy carried out all the plans his father had so carefully made 

 known to him. 



He gave food and water to the men. He gave them the palm leaves 

 to protect themselves against the wind. The two enemies of his father 

 were given nothing. The enemies realized that death would probably 

 overtake them, but they patiently suffered and asked for nothing. As 

 Ku-a-paakaa saw them growing colder and colder, he knew that his 

 father would soon be avenged. 



At last Hookele-i-hilo fell into the sea. The people cried, "Alas!" but 

 they were too busy saving themselves to grieve. Soon Hookele-i-puna 

 followed his friend and again the people exclaimed, "Alas!" So these 

 two false friends of the king died the death they had plotted for Paakaa. 



