And Kapeepeekauila, seeing this, hastened to prune the branches of
the kamani tree (_Calophyllum inophyllum_), so that the bluff should
grow upward. And the bluff rose, and Kana grew. Thus they strove,
the bluff rising higher and Kana growing taller, until he became
as the stalk of a banana leaf, and gradually spun himself out till
he was no thicker than a strand of a spider's web, and at last he
yielded the victory to Kapeepeekauila.

Niheu, seeing the defeat of Kana, called out, "Lay yourself along to
Kona, on Hawaii, to your grandmother, Uli."

And he laid himself along with his body in Kona, while his feet rested
on Molokai. His grandmother in Kona fed him until he became plump and
fat again. Meanwhile, poor Niheu, watching at his feet on Molokai,
saw their sides fill out with flesh while he was almost starved with
hunger. "So, then," quoth he, "you are eating and growing fat while
I die with hunger." And he cut off one of Kana's feet for revenge.

The sensation crept along up to his body, which lay in Kona, and Kana
said to his grandmother, Uli, "I seem to feel a numbness creeping
over me."

And she answered, and said, "Thy younger brother is hungry with
watching, and seeing thy feet grow plump, he has cut off one of them;
therefore this numbness."

Kana, having at last grown strong and fat, prepared to wage war again
upon Kapeepeekauila. Food was collected in abundance from Waipio, and
when it was prepared, they embarked again in their canoes and came
back to Haupu, on Molokai. But his grandmother, Uli, had previously