ut the whole Hawaiian group.,

Kupa had a priest named Kamalo, who resided at Kaluaaha. This priest
had two boys, embodiments of mischief, who one day while the King
was absent on a fishing expedition, took the opportunity to visit his
house at the heiau. Finding there the _pahu kaeke_ [8] belonging to
the temple, they commenced drumming on it.

Some evil-minded persons heard Kamalo's boys drumming on the Kaeke
and immediately went and told Kupa that the priest's children were
reviling him in the grossest manner on his own drum. This so enraged
the King that he ordered his servants to put them to death. Forthwith
they were seized and murdered; whereupon Kamalo, their father, set
about to secure revenge on the King.

Taking with him a black pig as a present, he started forth to enlist
the sympathy and services of the celebrated seer, or wizard, Lanikaula,
living some twelve miles distant at the eastern end of Molokai. On the
way thither, at the village of Honouli, Kamalo met a man the lower
half of whose body had been bitten off by a shark, and who promised
to avenge him provided he would slay some man and bring him the lower
half of his body to replace his own. But Kamalo, putting no credence
in such an offer, pressed on to the sacred grove of Lanikaula. Upon
arrival there Lanikaula listened to his grievances but could do
nothing for him. He directed him, however, to another prophet, named
Kaneakama, at the west end of the island, forty miles distant. Poor
Kamalo picked up his pig and travelled back again, past his own
home, down the coast to Palaau. Meeting with Kaneakama the prophet
directed him to the heiau of Puukahi, at the foot of the _pali_, or
precipice, of Kalaupapa, on the windward side of the island, where
he would find the priest Kahiwakaapuu, who was a _kahu_, or steward,
of Kauhuhu, the shark god. Once more the poor man shouldered his pig,
wended his way up the long ascent of the hills of Kalae to the pali of
Kalaupapa, descending which he presented himself before Kahiwakaapuu,
and pleaded his cause. He was again directed to go still farther along
the windward side of the island till he should come to the _Ana puhi_
(eel's cave), a singular cavern at sea level in the bold cliffs between
the valleys of Waikolu and Pelekunu, where Kauhuhu, the shark god,
dwelt, and to him he must apply. Upon this away went Kamalo and his
pig. Arriving at the cave, he found there Waka and Moo, two kahus
of the shark god. "