red to this life.

Her parents, on hearing of her end, retired to Manoa Valley, and gave
up their human life, resolving themselves into their supernatural
elements. Kahaukani, the father, is known as the Manoa wind, but his
usual and visible form is the grove of ha-u (_hibiscus_) trees, below
Kahaiamano. Kauakuahine, the mother, assumed her rain form, and is
very often to be met with about the former home of her beloved child.

The grandparents also gave up their human forms, and returned, the
one to his mountain form, and the other into the lehua bushes still
to be met with on the very brow of the hill, where they keep watch
over the old home of their petted and adored grandchild.

XII

THE PUNAHOU SPRING

_Mrs. E. M. Nakuina_

There formerly lived on the Kaala Mountains a chief by the name
of Kahaakea. He had two children, a boy and a girl, twins, whose
mother had died at their birth. The brother was called _Kauawaahila_
(Waahila Rain), and the girl _Kauakiowao_ (Mountain Mist). Kahaakea
was very tenderly attached to his motherless children, and after a
while took to himself a wife, thinking thus to provide his children
with a mother's care and love. This wife was called Hawea and had a
boy by her former husband. This boy was deformed and ugly, while the
twins were very beautiful. The stepmother was jealous of their beauty,
and resented the universal admiration expressed for them, while no one
noticed her boy except with looks of aversion. She was very considerate
toward the twins when their father was present, but hated and detested
them most violently. When they were about ten years old their father
had occasion to go to Hawaii, and had to remain away a long time. He
felt perfectly safe in leaving his children with his wife, as she had
always feigned great love for them, and had successfully concealed from
him her real feelings in regard to them. But as soon as he was fairly
away she commenced a series of petty persecutions of the poor children.

It seems the mother of the children had been "_uhae ia_" at her
death. That is, certain prayers, invocations, fasting, and humiliation
had been performed by certain relatives of the deceased, and quantities
of prepared awa, black, unblemished pig, red fish, and all the
customary food of the gods, had been prepared and offered with the
object of strengthening the spirit of the departed and of attracting it
strongly, as well as giving it a sort of power and co