, by direction of the chief, but
that in one night, the Menehunes gathered together and built it. The
chief and his people were surprised on coming the next morning to
resume their labors, to find the heiau completed.

There stands on the pali of Waikolu, near Kalaupapa, Molokai,
a heiau that Hawaiians believe to have been constructed by no one
else than the Menehunes. It is on the top of a ledge in the face of
a perpendicular cliff, with a continuous inaccessible cliff behind it
reaching hundreds of feet above. No one has ever been able to reach it
either from above or from below; and the marvel is how the material,
which appears to be seashore stones, was put in place.

XI

KAHALAOPUNA, PRINCESS OF MANOA

_Mrs. E. M. Nakuina_

Akaaka (laughter) is a projecting spur of the mountain range at the
head of Manoa Valley, forming the ridge running back to and above
Waiakeakua, "the water of the gods." Akaaka was united in marriage
to Nalehuaakaaka, still represented by some lehua (_Metrosideros
polymorpha_) bushes on the very brow of the spur or ridge. They had
two children, twins, Kahaukani, a boy, and Kauakuahine, a girl. These
children were adopted at birth by a chief, Kolowahi, and chieftainess,
Pohakukala, who were brother and sister, and cousins of Akaaka. The
brother took charge of the boy, Kahaukani, a synonyme for the Manoa
wind; and Pohakukala the girl, Kauakuahine, meaning the famous
Manoa rain. When the children were grown up, the foster parents
determined that they should be united; and the children, having been
brought up separately and in ignorance of their relationship, made
no objections. They were accordingly married and a girl was born
to them, who was called Kahalaopuna. Thus Kolowahi and Pohakukala,
by conspiring to unite the twin brother and sister, made permanent
the union of rain and wind for which Manoa Valley is noted; and the
fruit of such a union was the most beautiful woman of her time. So
the Manoa girls, foster children of the Manoa rains and winds, have
generally been supposed to have inherited the beauty of Kahalaopuna.

A house was built for Kahalaopuna at Kahaiamano on the road to
Waiakekua, where she lived with a few attendants. The house was
surrounded by a fence of auki (_dracaena_), and a _puloulou_ (sign of
kapu) was placed on each side of the gate, indicative of forbidden
ground. The puloulou were short, stout poles, each surmounted
by a ball of white kapa cloth, and i