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them.* The whole island was considered as bound to 
pay them tribute, or support their heiaus, and Iccihu , 
(devotees;) and whenever the chiefs or people failed to 
send the proper offerings, or incurred their displeasure 
by insulting them or their priests, or breaking the tabu 
(sacred restrictions) of their domains in the vicinity of 
the craters, they filled Kirauea with lava, and spouted 
it out, or, taking a subterranean passage, marched to 
some one of their houses (craters) in the neighbour¬ 
hood where the offending parties dwelt, and from 
thence came down upon the delinquents with all their 
dreadful scourges. If a sufficient number of fish were 
not taken to them by the inhabitants of the sea- shore, 
they would go down, and with fire kill the fish, fill 
up with pahoehoe (lava) the shallow places, and destroy 
all the fishing grounds. 
We were told that several attempts had been made 
to drive them off the islands, and that once they were 
nearly overpowered by Tamapuaa, the Centaur of 
Hawaii, a gigantic animal, half hog and half man. He 
travelled from Oahu to countries beyond the heavens, 
viz. beyond the visible horizon, the boundary where 
they supposed the heavens to be, in form of a hollow 
cone, joined to the sea. He also visited Kirauea, and 
made proposals to become the guest and suitor of 
P616, the elder sister. When she saw him standing 
on the edge of the crater, she rejected his proposals 
with contempt, calling him a hog, the son of a hog. 
On her ascending from the crater to drive him away, 
* Vast numbers of hogs, some alive, others cooked, were thrown 
into the craters during the time they were in action, or when they 
threatened an eruption; and also, during an inundation, many 
were thrown into the rolling torrent of lava, to appease the gods, 
and stay its progress. 
