hey wrapped
her in bright new kapa. They placed upon her garlands of the fragrant
_na-u_ (gardenia). They prepared her for burial, and were about to
place her in the burial ground of Manele, but Makakehau prayed that
he might be left alone one night more with his lost love. And he was
left as he desired.

The next day no corpse nor weeping lover were to be found, till after
some search Makakehau was seen at work piling up stones on the top of
the lone sea tower. The wondering people of Lanai looked on from the
neighboring bluff, and some sailed around the base of the columnar
rock in their canoes, still wondering, because they could see no
way for him to ascend, for every face of the rock is perpendicular
or overhanging. The old belief was, that some _akua_, _kanekoa_, or
_keawe-manhili_ (deities), came at the cry of Makakehau and helped
him with the dead girl to the top.

When Makakehau had finished his labors of placing his lost love in
her grave and placed the last stone upon it, he stretched out his
arms and wailed for Puupehe, thus:

"Where are you O Puupehe?
Are you in the cave of Malauea?
Shall I bring you sweet water,
The water of the mountain?
Shall I bring the uwau,
The pala, and the ohelo?
Are you baking the honu
And the red sweet hala?
Shall I pound the kalo of Maui?
Shall we dip in the gourd together?
The bird and the fish are bitter,
And the mountain water is sour.
I shall drink it no more;
I shall drink with Aipuhi,
The great shark of Manele."

Ceasing his sad wail, Makakehau leaped from the rock into the boiling
surge at its base, where his body was crushed in the breakers. The
people who beheld the sad scene secured the mangled corpse and buried
it with respect in the kupapau of Manele.

XVII

AI KANAKA

A LEGEND OF MOLOKAI

_Rev. A. O. Forbes_

On the leeward side of the island of Molokai, a little to the east of
Kaluaaha lies the beautiful valley of Mapulehu, at the mouth of which
is located the _heiau_, or temple, of Iliiliopae, which was erected
by direction of Ku-pa, the Moi, to look directly out upon the harbor
of Ai-Kanaka, now known as Pukoo. At the time of its construction,
centuries ago, Kupa was the _Moi_, or sovereign, of the district
embracing the _Ahupuaas_, or land divisions, of Mapulehu and Kaluaaha,
and he had his residence in this heiau which was built by him and
famed as the largest througho