CHAPTER VI.

Relating to Kahikiula and Kahikihonuakele.

After Makalii had departed from the presence of Kamapuaa, up came Kahikiula, [449] the father of Kamapuaa, a great warrior. When Kamapuaa saw his father his love for him began to well up within him and so he said to Kaneiki: “There is your man.” Kaneiki replied: “He is a powerful man and a great warrior.” Kamapuaa said: “If he is such a great warrior he would have retained possession of his own land, Oahu, and some one else would not have acquired it.”

Kahikiula then faced Kaneiki and without so much as a warning Kaneiki fell on Kahikiula with his war club and struck him to the ground. As he fell Kaneiki jumped on him to make sure of his death, but Kamapuaa spoke up: “Let me finish him, you go on forward.” Kamapuaa then said to Kahikiula: [450] “Say, you are almost dead.” “Yes, I am almost dead; the young man struck me but once and I am laid low.” Kamapuaa again said: “You look as though you were my father and that I was your son.” Kahikiula replied: “I have no other child, [451] but one, that is Kahikihonuakele.” [452] Kamapuaa said to him: “Crawl from here until you meet Makalii and the others in the mountains and there make your home.”

After the departure of Kahikiula, up came Kahikihonuakele, the oldest brother of Kamapuaa. At sight of the new arrival, Kamapuaa said to Limaloa: “There is your man.” Limaloa replied: “I shall be killed for he is a young man.” Kamapuaa replied: “It is because I know he is not strong is the reason why I ask that you take him.” Limaloa then stood up facing Kahikihonuakele and struck him with his club, felling him to the ground. Limaloa then jumped on his opponent to make sure that he was dead, but Kamapuaa spoke up: “Go on forward, I will finish him.” After Limaloa had departed, Kamapuaa took hold of Kahikihonuakele and worked over him [453] until he was restored to consciousness, when Kamapuaa said to him: “You are helpless; one stroke of the young man’s club laid you low. You look as though you were my older brother, and I your younger brother.” Kahikihonuakele replied: “I have no other younger brother. My two younger brothers [454] are dead. One was killed by Pele and the other hung himself.” Kamapuaa said to Kahikihonuakele: “Crawl from here until you find Makalii and the others.”

After this Kaneiki and Limaloa returned, when Kamapuaa said to them: “There is one great conflict yet to be had; it will be against a woman, so we must therefore run away and save ourselves.” The woman spoken of by Kamapuaa was Hina, their own mother. [455] Kaneiki and Limaloa then started to run off. The reason why Kamapuaa ordered these two to run was because he took pity on his mother, Hina.

Because Kamapuaa made use of the stick of wood called Kahikikolo as his war club, he was named “Kaneiki’s-son-in-law-with-the-great-club.”

Some time after this Kamapuaa left his wives and his father-in-law, Kaneiki, and set out to Kalalau to pay his parents a visit, for at this time Kahikiula and Hina were the recognized rulers of the whole island of Kauai. Fish had been caught at Kalalau; Wailinuu was their head fisherman. When Kamapuaa was nearing his parents’ place of abode, he tarried at a woman’s home. While living there, news of plentiful fish reached him.