ls with
the King when he was at home. This included, among others, Lehuanui,
his sister's husband, and their two sons--healthy, chubby little
lads of about eight and six years of age. One day after breakfast,
as the roar of the surf at Waialua could be distinctly heard, the
King remarked that the fish of Ukoa pond at Waialua must be pressing
on to the _makaha_ (floodgates) and he would like some aholehole.

This observation really meant a command to his brother-in-law to go
and get the fish, as he was the highest chief present except his two
royal nephews, too small to assume such duties.

Lehuanui, Kilikiliula's husband, accordingly went to Waialua with a
few of his own family retainers and a number of those belonging to the
King. They found the fish packed thick at the makaha, and were soon
busily engaged in scooping out, cleaning, and salting them. It was
quite late at night when Lehuanui, fatigued with the labors of the day,
lay down to rest. He had been asleep but a short time when he seemed
to see his two sons standing by his head. The eldest spoke to him:
"Why do you sleep, my father? While you are down here we are being
eaten by your brother-in-law, the King. We were cooked and eaten up,
and our skulls are now hanging in a net from a branch of the lehua-tree
you are called after, and the rest of our bones are tied in a bundle
and buried under the tree by the big root running to the setting sun."

Then they seemed to fade away, and Lehuanui started up, shivering with
fear. He hardly knew whether he had been dreaming or had actually seen
an apparition of his little sons. He had no doubt they were dead, and
as he remembered all the talk and innuendoes about the King's supposed
reasons for visiting the strangers and the enforced cessation of those
visits at the urgent request of the high priest and the chiefs, he
came to the conclusion that the King had expressed a desire for fish
in his presence only to send him out of the way. He reasoned that no
doubt the King had noticed the chubby forms and rounded limbs of the
little lads, and being debarred a chance of partaking surreptitiously
of human flesh, had compelled his servants to kill, cook, and serve
up his own nephews. In satisfying his depraved appetite, he had also
got rid of two who might become formidable rivals; for it was quite
within the possibilities that the priests and chiefs in the near
future, should he be suspected of a desire for a further indulgen