94 Beniicc P. Bishop Museum — Bulletin 



The happy grandmother placed the baby on the mats, and made a 

 bower of maile, ieie and lehua branches to shade it from the sun. Then 

 UH went to work in her garden, which was very dear to her. and in whicli 

 she was always busy. 



About noon, the grandmother returned and stopped the child's crying 

 by food. So Uli cared for her youngest grandson for forty days. By that 

 time he was forty fathoms long. As he grew in stature she enlarged the 

 bovver over him. 



On the celebrated hill. Haupu, on the island of Molokai, lived Keoloewa, 

 the king. With him were Pepee, Crooked-One, his general ; Mo-i, High- 

 Chief, his kahuna; Moikeha, the High-Chief-who-Objects, his astrologer; 

 and his three plover messengers, Kolea, or Plover: Ulili, or Sand-Piper; 

 and Akekeke, or Snipe. 



One day the king decided that he would marry, so he sent his bird 

 messengers to find the most beautiful woman on earth, whose skin should 

 be like the rising sun. The birds flew everywhere, looking for a woman 

 who would answer the king's description. They found none until they had 

 returned to Hilo and there they saw Haka-lani-leo, the most beautiful 

 woman in the world, bathing in the sea by night. 



At once the birds flew back to their king and told him that they had 

 seen a woman whose skin was like the oo and all the other beautiful birds 

 of Hawaii. 



Keoloewa decided that this wonderful woman should be his wife. He 

 ordered a double canoe prepared for the journey. The birds flew ahead 

 to show the way. They came to the harbor of Hilo just at dusk. There 

 they waited patiently until the first cock crowed, and then they heard a 

 sweet voice singing. The canoe was drifting in the water, where this 

 beautiful woman usually rode the surf. 



Just as Haka-lani-leo noticed the dark object, a voice called to her, 

 "O beautiful woman, come here and rest before you ride the surf." 



The woman swam to the canoe and getting into it was lost in admira- 

 tion of its decorations which were made of the feathers of beautiful birds. 

 It was not until the canoe was being rapidly paddled for Molokai, that 

 she realized that she was being carried away. Then she began to mourn 

 for her husband and her home at Hilo. 



As the days passed and his wife did not return, Ha'ka sent his people 

 to hunt on land and sea for her. She had disappeared completely. No 

 one could find her. 



Then the king called his eleven sons together and asked each one what 

 he should do to find their beautiful mother. He came at last to Niheu 

 who, absently stirring up the fire with a long stick, answered in these 



