the kukui tree (_Aleurites molluccana_).

One day, as they were eking out their frugal meal with a mess of popolo
cooked by the lad from Waianae, Kalelealuaka was greatly disgusted at
seeing a worm in that portion that the youth was eating, and thereupon
nicknamed him _Keinohoomanawanui_ (sloven, or more literally, the
persistently unclean). The name ever after stuck to him. This same
fellow had the misfortune, one evening, to injure one of his eyes by
the explosion of a kukui nut which he was roasting on the fire. As a
result, that member was afflicted with soreness, and finally became
blinded. But their life agreed with them, and the youths throve and
increased in stature, and grew to be stout and lusty young men.

Now, it happened that ever since their stay at their mountain house,
_Lelepua_ (arrow flight), they had kept a torch burning all night,
which was seen by Kakuhihewa, the King of Oahu, and had caused him
uneasiness.

One fine evening, when they had eaten their fill and had gone to bed,
Kalelealuaka called to Keinohoomanawanui and said, "Halloo there! are
you asleep?"

And he replied, "No; have I drunk awa? I am restless. My eyes will
not close."

"Well," said Kalelealuaka, "when you are restless at night, what does
your mind find to do?"

"Nothing," said the Sloven.

"I find something to think about," said Kalelealuaka.

"What is that?" said the Sloven.

"Let us wish" (_kuko_, literally, to lust), said Kalelealuaka.

"What shall we wish?" said the Sloven.

"Whatever our hearts most earnestly desire," said
Kalelealuaka. Thereupon they both wished. The Sloven, in accordance
with his nature, wished for things to eat,--the eels, from the
fish-pond of Hanaloa (in the district of Ewa), to be cooked in an
oven together with sweet potatoes, and a bowl of awa.

"Pshaw, what a beggarly wish!" said Kalelealuaka. "I thought you had
a real wish. I have a genuine wish. Listen: The beautiful daughters
of Kakuhihewa to be my wives; his fatted pigs and dogs to be baked
for us; his choice kalo, sugar cane, and bananas to be served up for
us; that Kakuhihewa himself send and get timber and build a house
for us; that he pull the famous awa of Kahauone; that the King send
and fetch us to him; that he chew the awa for us in his own mouth,
strain and pour it for us, and give us to drink until we are happy,
and then take us to our house."

Trembling with fear at the audacious ambition of his concupiscent
compani