trance; his virtue had gone out from him to the boy Kalelealuaka.

When Kalelealuaka was ten years old Kaopele began to train the
lad in athletic sports and to teach him all the arts of war and
combat practised throughout the islands, until he had attained
great proficiency in them. He also taught him the arts of running
and jumping, so that he could jump either up or down a high _pali_,
or run, like a waterfowl on the surface of the water. After this, one
day Kalelealuaka went over to Wailua, where he witnessed the games
of the chiefs. The youth spoke contemptuously of their performances
as mere child's play; and when his remark was reported to the King
he challenged the young man to meet him in a boxing encounter. When
Kalelealuaka came into the presence of the King his royal adversary
asked him what wager he brought. As the youth had nothing with
him, he seriously proposed that each one should wager his own body
against that of the other one. The proposal was readily accepted. The
herald sounded the signal of attack, and both contestants rushed
at each other. Kalelealuaka warily avoided the attack by the King,
and hastened to deliver a blow which left his opponent at his mercy;
and thereupon, using his privilege, he robbed the King of his life,
and to the astonishment of all, carried away the body to lay as
a sacrifice on the altar of the temple, hitherto unconsecrated by
human sacrifice, which he and his father Kaopele had recently built
in honor of their deity.

After a time there reached the ear of Kalelealuaka a report of the
great strength of a certain chief who lived in Hanalei. Accordingly,
without saying anything about his intention, he went over to the
valley of Hanalei. He found the men engaged in the game of throwing
heavy spears at the trunk of a cocoanut-tree. As on the previous