This done, Kalelealuaka repeated the performances of the previous
battle. The enemy melted away before him, whichever way he turned. He
stayed his hand only when he had slain the captain of the host and
stripped him of his feather cloak and helmet, taking also his right
ear and little finger. The speed with which Kalelealuaka returned
to his home at Puuloa was like the flight of a bird. The spoils and
trophies of this battle he disposed of as before.

The two young women, Kalelealuaka's wives, turned the nozzle of the
water-gourd downward, as they were bidden, and continued to press it
into the water, in the vain hope that it might rise and fill their
container, until the noonday sun began to pour his rays directly upon
their heads; but no water entered their calabash. Then the younger
sister proposed to the elder to fill the calabash in the usual way,
saying that Kalelealuaka would not know the difference. This they did,
and returned home.

Kalelealuaka would not drink of the water, declaring that it had been
dipped up. At this the younger wife laughed furtively; the elder broke
forth and said: "It is due to the slowness of the way you told us
to employ in getting the water. We are not accustomed to the menial
office of fetching water; our father treated us delicately, and a
man always fetched water for us, and we always used to see him pour
the water into the gourd with the nozzle turned up, but you trickily
ordered us to turn the nozzle down. Your exactions are heartless."

Thus the women kept complaining until, by and by, the tramp of the
returning soldiers was heard, who were boasting of the great deeds of
Keinohoomanawanui. The King, however, said: "I do not believe a word of
your talk; when my cripple comes he will tell me the truth. I do not