instructed him to first destroy all the branches of the kamani tree
of Haupu. Then he showed himself, and began again to stretch upward
and tower above the bluff. Kapeepeekauila hastened again to trim
the branches of the kamani, that the bluff might grow as before;
but behold, they were all gone! It was the end; Kapeepeekauila was
at last vanquished. The victorious Kana recovered his sister, Mo-i,
restored to poor Hakalanileo his wife, Hina, and then, tearing down
the bluff of Haupu, kicked off large portions of it into the sea,
where they stand to this day, and are called "The Rocks of Kana."




IX

KALELEALUAKA

_Dr. N. B. Emerson_



PART I


Kaopele was born in Waipio, Hawaii. When born he did not breathe, and
his parents were greatly troubled; but they washed his body clean,
and having arrayed it in good clothes, they watched anxiously over
the body for several days, and then, concluding it to be dead, placed
it in a small cave in the face of the cliff. There the body remained
from the summer month of _Ikiki_ (July or August) to the winter month