from them for six months, but that his
body would remain with them if they obeyed his commands. And, having
kissed his wife, he fell into the dreamful, sacred sleep of Niolo-kapu.

On the sixth day the father-in-law said: "Let us bury your husband,
lest he stink. I thought it was to be only a natural sleep, but it
is ordinary death. Look, his body is rigid, his flesh is cold, and
he does not breathe; these are the signs of death."

But Makalani protested, "I will not let him be buried; let him lie
here, and I will watch over him as he commanded; you also heard his
words." But in spite of the wife's earnest protests, the hard-hearted
father-in-law gathered strong vines of the _koali_ (convolvulus),
tied them about Kaopele's feet, and attaching to them heavy stones,
caused his body to be conveyed in a canoe and sunk in the dark waters
of the ocean midway between Kauai and Oahu.

Makalani lived in sorrow for her husband until the birth of her child,
and as it was a boy, she called his name Kalelealuaka.

PART II

When the child was about two months old the sky became overcast and
there came up a mighty storm, with lightning and an earthquake. Kaopele
awoke in his dark, watery couch, unbound the cords that held his feet,
and by three powerful strokes raised himself to the surface of the
water. He looked toward Kauai and Oahu, but love for his wife and
child prevailed and drew him to Kauai.

In the darkness of night he stood by his wife's bed and, feeling
for her, touched her forehead with his clammy hand. She awoke with
a start, and on his making himself known she screamed with fright,
"Ghost of Kaopele!" and ran to her parents. Not until a candle was
lighted would she believe it to be her husband. The step-parents,
in fear and shame at their heartless conduct, fled away, and never
returned. From this time forth Kaopele was never again visited by a
trance; his virtue had gone out from him to the boy Kalelealuaka.

When Kalelealuaka was ten years old Kaopele began to train the
lad in athletic sports and to teach him all the arts of war and
combat practised throughout the islands, until he had attained
great proficiency in them. He also taught him the arts of running
and jumping, so that he could jump either up or down a high _pali_,
or run, like a waterfowl on the surface of the water. After this, one
day Kalelealuaka went over to Wailua, where he witnessed the games
of the chiefs. The youth spoke contemptuous