them. Last of all they created man as the model, or in the likeness
of Kane. The body of the first man was made of red earth--_lepo ula_,
or _alaea_--and the spittle of the gods--_wai nao_. His head was made
of a whitish clay--_palolo_--which was brought from the four ends of
the world by Lono. When the earth-image of Kane was ready, the three
gods breathed into its nose, and called on it to rise, and it became
a living being. Afterwards the first woman was created from one of
the ribs--_lalo puhaka_--of the man while asleep, and these two were
the progenitors of all mankind. They are called in the chants and in
various legends by a large number of different names; but the most
common for the man was Kumuhonua, and for the woman Keolakuhonua
[or _Lalahonua_].

"Of the creation of animals these chants are silent; but from the
pure tradition it may be inferred that the earth at the time of its
creation or emergence from the watery chaos was stocked with vegetable
and animal. The animals specially mentioned in the tradition as having
been created by Kane were hogs (_puaa_), dogs (_ilio_), lizards or
reptiles (_moo_).

"Another legend of the series, that of _Wela-ahi-lani_, states
that after Kane had destroyed the world by fire, on account of the
wickedness of the people then living, he organized it as it now is,
and created the first man and the first woman, with the assistance
of Ku and Lono, nearly in the same manner as narrated in the former
legend of Kumuhonua. In this legend the man is called Wela-ahi-lani,
and the woman is called Owe."

Of the primeval home, the original ancestral seat of mankind,
Hawaiian traditions speak in highest praise. "It had a number of