u, the great lizard of Paliuli, their
god. And the lizard came and she commanded him: "O our god,
Kihanuilulumoku, see to this lawless one, this mischief-maker, this
rogue of the sea; if they send a force here, slaughter them all, let no
messenger escape, keep on until the last one is taken, and beware of
Kalahumoku, Aiwohikupua's great strong dog;[52] if you blunder, there is
an end of us, we shall not escape; exert your strength, all your godlike
might over Aiwohikupua. Amen, it is finished, flown away." This was
Kahalaomapuana's charge to their god.

That night the ten men chosen by the chief went up to destroy the
sisters of Aiwohikupua, and the assistant counsellor made the eleventh
in place of the chief counsellor.

At the first dawn they approached Paliuli. Then they heard the humming
of the wind in the thicket from the tongue of that great lizard,
Kihanuilulumoku, coming for them, but they did not see the creature, so
they went on; soon they saw the upper jaw of the lizard hanging right
over them; they were just between the lizard's jaws; then the assistant
counsellor leaped quickly back, could not make the distance; it snapped
them up; not a messenger was left.

Two days passed; there was no one to tell of the disaster to
Aiwohikupua's party, and because he wondered why they did not return the
chief was angry.

So the chief again chose a party of warriors, twenty of them, from the
strongest of his men, to go up and destroy the sisters; and the
counsellor appointed an assistant counsellor to go for him with the men.

Again they went up until they came clear to the place where the first
band had disappeared; these also disappeared in the lizard; not a
messenger was left.

Again the chief waited; they came not back. The chief again sent a band
of forty; all were killed. So it went on until eight times forty
warriors had disappeared.

Then Aiwohikupua consulted with his counsellor as to the reason for none
of the men who had been sent returning.

Said Aiwohikupua to his counsellor, "How is it that these warriors who
are sent do not return?"

Said his counsellor, "It may be when they get to the uplands and see the
beauty of the place they remain, and if not, they have all been killed
by your sisters."

"How can they be killed by those helpless girls, whom I intended to
kill?" So said Aiwohikupua.

And because of the chief's anxiety to know why his warriors did not come
back he agreed with his counsell