we shall lose our way and come to the sea once more."

"And thy mother is by the sea, by the bay of Kaumalapau. There
she gathers limpets on the rocks. She has dried a large squid for
thee. She has pounded some taro and filled her calabash with poi,
and would feed thee once more. She is not sick; but had I said she
was well, thy lord would not have let thee go; but now thou art on
the way to sleep with thy mother by the sea."

The poor weary girl now trudged on with a doubting heart. She glanced
sadly at her dread sire's moody eye. Silent and sore she trod the stony
path leading down to the shore, and when she came to the beach with
naught in view but the rocks and sea, she said with a bursting heart,
"O my father, is the shark to be my mother, and I to never see my
dear chief any more?"

"Hear the truth," cried Opunui. "Thy home for a time is indeed in the
sea, and the shark shall be thy mate, but he shall not harm thee. Thou
goest down where the sea god lives, and he shall tell thee that the
accursed chief of the bloody leap shall not carry away any daughter
of Lanai. When Kaaialii has sailed for Kohala then shall the chief
of Olowalu come and bring thee to earth again."

As the fierce sire spoke, he seized the hand of Kaala, and unheeding
her sobs and cries, led her along the rugged shore to a point eastward
of the bay, where the beating sea makes the rocky shore tremble beneath
the feet. Here was a boiling gulf, a fret and foam of the sea, a roar
of waters, and a mighty jet of brine and spray from a spouting cave
whose mouth lay deep beneath the battling tide.

See yon advancing billow! The south wind sends it surging along. It
rears its combing, whitening crest, and with mighty, swift-rushing
volume of angry green sea, it strikes the mouth of the cave; it drives
and packs the pent-up air within, and now the tightened wind rebounds,
and driving back the ramming sea, bursts forth with a roar as the
huge spout of sea leaps upward to the sky, and then comes curving
down in gentle silver spray.

The fearful child now clasped the knees of her savage sire. "Not there,
O father," she sobbed and wailed. "The sea snake (the _puhi_) has his
home in the cave, and he will bite and tear me, and ere I die, the
crawling crabs will creep over me and pick out my weeping eyes. Alas,
O father, better give me to the shark, and then my cry and moan will
not hurt thine ear."

Opunui clasped the slender girl with one sinewy arm, a