off with his hair. His hair and features, by the way, greatly resemble
those of your son-in-law."

Thus they conversed till daybreak.

After a few days, again came a messenger announcing that the rebel
Kualii was making war on the plains of Kulaokahua. On hearing this
Kakuhihewa immediately collected his soldiers. As usual, the lame
marshal set out in advance the evening before the battle.

In the morning, after the army had gone, Kalelealuaka said to his
wives, "I am thirsting for some water taken with the snout of the
calabash held downward. I shall not relish it if it is taken with the
snout turned up." Now, Kalelealuaka knew that they could not fill
the calabash if held this way, but he resorted to this artifice to
present the two young women from knowing of his miraculous flight to
the battle. As soon as the young women had got out of sight he hastened
to Waialua and arrayed himself in the rough and shaggy wreaths of _uki_
from the lagoons of Ukoa and of _hinahina_ from Kealia. Thus arrayed,
he alighted behind the lame marshal as he climbed the hill at Napeha,
slapped him on the back, exchanged greetings with him, and received a
compliment on his speed; and when asked whence he came, he answered
from Waialua. The shrewd, observant cripple recognized the wreaths
as being those of Waialua, but he did not recognize the man, for the
wreaths with which Kalelealuaka had decorated himself were of such a
color--brownish gray--as to give him the appearance of a man of middle
age. He lifted the cripple as before, and set him down on the brow of
Puowaina (Punch Bowl Hill), and received from the grateful cripple,
as a reward for his service, all the land of Waialua for his own.