his own way, working his own piece of ground. The ground prepared by
Kalelealuaka was a strip of great length, reaching from the mountain
down toward the ocean. This he cleared and planted the same day. His
two companions, however, spent several days in clearing their ground,
and then several days more in planting it. While these youths occupied
their mountain home, the people of that region were well supplied
with food. The only lack of Kalelealuaka and his comrades was animal
food (literally, fish), but they supplied its place as well as they
could with such herbs as the tender leaves of the popolo, which they
cooked like spinach, and with inamona made from the roasted nuts of
the kukui tree (_Aleurites molluccana_).

One day, as they were eking out their frugal meal with a mess of popolo
cooked by the lad from Waianae, Kalelealuaka was greatly disgusted at
seeing a worm in that portion that the youth was eating, and thereupon
nicknamed him _Keinohoomanawanui_ (sloven, or more literally, the
persistently unclean). The name ever after stuck to him. This same
fellow had the misfortune, one evening, to injure one of his eyes by
the explosion of a kukui nut which he was roasting on the fire. As a
result, that member was afflicted with soreness, and finally became
blinded. But their life agreed with them, and the youths throve and
increased in stature, and grew to be stout and lusty young men.

Now, it happened that ever since their stay at their mountain house,
_Lelepua_ (arrow flight), they had kept a torch burning all night,
which was seen by Kakuhihewa, the King of Oahu, and had caused him
uneasiness.

One fine evening, when they had eaten their fill and had gone to bed,
Kalelealuaka called to Keinohoomanawanui and said, "Halloo there! are