and its companions
kill it, until only the king is left. The king is tricked into
swallowing him whole instead of cutting him into bits. There he remains
until he is bald--"serves him right, the rascal!"--but finally he
persuades the shark to bring him to land, and the shark is caught and
Punia escapes. Next he kills a parcel of ghosts by pretending that this
is an old fishing ground of his and enticing them out to sea two by two,
when he puts them to death, all but one.

WAKAINA

A cunning ghost of Waiapuka, North Kohala, disguises himself as a dancer
and approaches a party of people. He shows off his skill, then calls for
feather cloak, helmet, bamboo flute, skirt, and various other valuable
things with which to display his art. When he has them secure, he flies
off with them, and the audience never see him or their property
again.[1]

[Footnote 1: Gill tells this same story from the Hervey group. Myths and
Songs, p. 88.]

3. STORIES OF MODERN CUNNING

KULEPE

A cunning man and great thinker lives on Oahu in the days of
Peleioholani. He travels to Kalaupapa, Molokai, is hungry, and, seeing
some people bent over their food, chants a song that deceives them into
believing him a soldier and man of the court. They become friendly at
once and invite him to eat.

KAWAUNUIAOLA

A woman of Kula, Maui, whose husband deserts her for another woman,
makes herself taboo, returns to her house, and offers prayers and
invents conversations as if she had a new husband. The news quickly
spreads, and Hoeu starts at once for home. In this cunning manner she
regains her husband.

MAIAUHAALENALENAUPENA

The upland peddlers bring sugar cane, bananas, gourds, etc., to sea to
peddle for fish. Maiauhaalenalenaupena pretends to be a fisherman. He
spreads out his net as if just driven in from sea by the rough weather.
The peddlers trust him with their goods until he has better luck; but he
really is no fisherman and never gives them anything.

WAAWAAIKINAAUPO AND WAAWAAIKINAANAO

One day these two brothers go out snaring birds. The older brother
suggests that they divide the spoils thus: He will take all those with
holes on each side of the beak. The unobservant younger brother
consents, thinking this number will be few, and the older wins the whole
catch.

KUAUAMOA

At Kawaihae, Kohala, lives the great trickster, Kuauamoa. He knows Davis
and Young after they are made prisoner