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chasm with accelerated motion. He ran till he reached 
the place where we were sitting. 
Here he met his sister Koae, but had only time to 
say, Aroha oe ! “ Alas for you !” and then ran on to the 
sea-shore. His younger brother had just landed from 
his fishing canoe, and had hastened to his house to 
provide for the safety of his family, when Kahavari 
arrived; he and his friend leaped into the canoe, and 
with his broad spear paddled out to sea. Pel6 per¬ 
ceiving his escape, ran to the shore, and hurled after 
him, with prodigious force, huge stones and fragments 
of rock, which fell thickly around, but did not strike 
his canoe. When they had paddled a short distance 
from the shore, the Kumukdhi (east wind) sprung up. 
He fixed his broad spear upright in the canoe, which 
answering the double purpose of mast and sail, he soon 
reached the island of Maui. Here they rested one 
night, and proceeded to Ranai. On the day following 
he removed to Morokai, and from thence to Oahu, the 
abode of Koronohairaau his father, and Kanewahine- 
keaho his sister, to whom he related his disastrous 
perils, and with whom he took up his permanent 
abode. 
The above tale is a tolerable specimen of most of 
their traditions, though it is among the least marvel¬ 
lous of the many fabulous stories we have met with, 
and the truth may easily be separated from the fiction. 
A sudden and unexpected eruption of a volcano, when 
a chief and his people were playing at horua, is pro¬ 
bably its only foundation. It exhibits, however, much 
of the general character of the people, the low estima¬ 
tion in which the females were held, and the wretched 
state of their social and domestic society, in which 
