Keep off! Keep off!" they shouted. "This place is
kapu. No man can enter here, on penalty of death."

"Death or life," answered he, "it is all the same to me if I can
only gain my revenge for my poor boys who have been killed." He then
related his story, and his wanderings, adding that he had come to
make his appeal to Kauhuhu and cared not for his own life.

"Well," said they to him, "Kauhuhu is away now fishing, but if he
finds you here when he returns, our lives as well as yours will pay
the forfeit. However, we will see what we can do to help you. We
must hide you hereabouts, somewhere, and when he returns trust to
circumstances to accomplish your purpose."

But they could find no place to hide him where he would be secure from
the search of the god, except the rubbish pile where the offal and
scrapings of taro were thrown. They therefore thrust him and his pig
into the rubbish heap and covered them over with the taro peelings,
enjoining him to keep perfectly still, and watch till he should see
eight heavy breakers roll in successively from the sea. He then would
know that Kauhuhu was returning from his fishing expedition.

Accordingly, after waiting a while, the eight heavy rollers appeared,
breaking successively against the rocks; and sure enough, as the eighth
dissolved into foam, the great shark god came ashore. Immediately
assuming human form, he began snuffing about the place, and addressing
Waka and Moo, his kahus, said to them, "There is a man here." They
strenuously denied the charge and protested against the possibility
of their allowing such a desecration of the premises. But he was
not satisfied. He insisted that there was a man somewhere about,
saying, "I smell him, and if I find him you are dead men; if not,
you escape." He examined the premises over and over again, never
suspecting the rubbish heap, and was about giving up the search when,
unfortunately, Kamalo's pig sent forth a squeal which revealed the
poor fellow's hiding-place.

Now came the dread moment. The enraged Kauhuhu seized Kamalo with
both hands and, lifting him up with the intention of swallowing him,
according to his shark instinct, had already inserted the victim's
head and shoulders into his mouth before he could speak.

"O Kauhuhu, before you eat me, hear my petition; then do as you like."

"Well for you that you spoke as you did," answered Kauhuhu, setting
him down again on the ground. "Now, what have you to say? Be quick
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