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cruel chief.

The King gave her for a bride to the young man who had not only saved
her, but had been the means of avenging her wrongs.

The imus in which Kauhi and his companions were baked were on the
side of the stream of Apuakehau, in the famous Ulukou grove, and very
near the sea. The night following, a great tidal wave, sent in by a
powerful old shark god, a relative of Kauhi's, swept over the site
of the two ovens, and in the morning it was seen that their contents
had disappeared. The bones had been taken by the old shark into the
sea. The chiefs, Kumauna and Keawaa, were, through the power of their
family gods, transformed into the two mountain peaks on the eastern
corner of Manoa Valley, while Kauhi and his followers were turned
into sharks.

Kahalaopuna lived happily with her husband for about two years. Her
grandfather, knowing of Kauhi's transformation, and aware of his
vindictive nature, strictly forbade her from ever going into the
sea. She remembered and heeded the warning during those years,
but one day, her husband and all their men having gone to Manoa to
cultivate kalo (_Colocasia antiquorum_), she was left alone with her
maid servants.

The surf on that day was in fine sporting condition, and a number
of young women were surf-riding, and Kahalaopuna longed to be with
them. Forgetting the warning, as soon as her mother fell asleep she
slipped out with one of her maids and swam out on a surf-board. This
was Kauhi's opportunity, and as soon as she was fairly outside the
reef he bit her in two and held the upper half of the body up out of
the water, so that all the surf-bathers would see and know that he
had at last obtained his revenge.

Immediately on her death the spirit of the young woman went back and
told her sleeping mother of what had befallen her. The latter woke
up, and, missing her, gave the alarm. This was soon confirmed by the
terrified surf-bathers, who had all fled ashore at seeing the terrible
fate of Kahalaopuna. Canoes were launched and manned, and chase given
to the shark and his prey, which could be easily tracked by the blood.

He swam just far enough below the surface of the water to be visible,
and yet too far to be reached with effect by the fishing-spears of
the pursuers. He led them a long chase to Waianae; then, in a sandy
opening in the bottom of the sea, where everything was visible to the
pursuers, he ate up the young woman, so that she could never again
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