hen carried to the temple for
sacrifice, rises, and slays them all; not one escapes.

9. KUALII

Kualii's first battle happens before he is a man, when he and his father
dedicate the temple on Kawaluna, Oahu, as an act of rebellion. The
chiefs of Oahu come against him with three armies, but Kualii, with his
warriors, Maheleana and Malanaihaehae, and his war club, Manaiakalani,
slays the enemy chiefs and beats back 12,000 men at Kalena. Later he
conducts a successful campaign in Hawaii, establishes Paepae against the
rebel faction of Molokai, and pacifies Haloalena, who is rebelling
against the king of Maui. In this campaign he secures the bold and
mischievous Kauhi as his follower, who is in time his chief warrior. As
Kualii grows stronger, he goes in disguise to battle, kills the bravest
chief, secures his feather cloak, and runs home with it. A lad who sees
him pass each day runs after and cuts a finger from the dead enemy,
after the battle of Kalakoa, and reveals the true hero of the day.[1]
The chant to Kualii is composed by two brothers, Kapaahulani and
Kamakaaulani, who are in search of a new lord. On the day of battle at
Kaahumoa one joins each army; one brother leads Kualii's forces to an
appointed spot and the other attempts to pacify the chief with the
prearranged chant, in which he is successful; the brothers are raised to
honor and peace is declared. Kualii lives to old age, when he is
"carried to battle in a net of strings." His genealogical tree carries
his ancestry back to Kane, and Kualii himself has the knowledge and
attributes of a god.

[Footnote 1: Compare _Kalelealuaka_.]

10. OPELEMOEMOE

A man of Kalauao, Ewa, Oahu, has a habit of falling into a supernatural
sleep for a month at a time. In such a sleep he is taken to be
sacrificed at the temple of Polomauna, Kauai, but waking at the sound of
thunder, he goes to Waimea, where he marries, and cultivates land. When
the time comes for his sleep, he warns his wife, but she and her
brothers and servants decide to drop him into the sea. When the month is
up, it thunders, he wakens, finds himself tied in the bottom of the sea,
breaks loose and comes back to his wife. Before their son is born he
leaves her and returns to Oahu. The child is born, is abused by his
stepfather, and finding he has a different father, follows Opelemoemoe
to Oahu. The rest of his story is told under Kalelealuaka.

11. KALELEALUAKA

Kakuhihewa, kin