even to this day. The backbone (_iwi kuamoo_) of this puhi is
still lying on the pahoehoe where Aiai killed it with the three ala
stones,--the rocky formation, about thirty feet in length, exactly
resembling the backbone of an eel. The killing of this puhi by Aiai
gave him fame among the people of Hana. Its capture was the young lad's
first attempt to follow his father's vocation, and his knowledge was
a surprise to the people.

After this event a man came over from Waiiau, Molokai, who was a _kahu_
(keeper) of the puhi. He dreamed one night that he saw its spirit,
which told him that his _aumakua_ (god) had been killed at Hana, so
he came to see with his own eyes where this had occurred. Arriving at
Wananalua he was befriended by one of the retainers of Kamohoalii,
the King of Hana, and lived there a long time serving under him,
during which time he learned the story of how the puhi had been caught
and killed by Aiai, the son of Ku-ula and Hinapukuia, whereupon he
sought to accomplish their death.

Considering a plan of action, he went one day to Ku-ula, without
orders, and told him that the King had sent him for fish for the
King. Ku-ula gave him but one fish, an ulua, with a warning direction,
saying, "Go back to the King and tell him to cut off the head of
the fish and cook it in the imu, and the flesh of its body cut up
and salt and dry in the sun, for 'this is Hana the _aupehu_ land;
Hana of the scarce fish; the fish Kama; the fish of Lanakila.' (_Eia
o Hana la he aina aupehu; o Hana keia i ka ia iki; ka ia o Kama;
ka ia o Lanakila_)."

When the man returned to the King and gave him the fish, the King
asked: "Who gave it to you?" and the man answered:

"Ku-ula."

Then it came into his head that this was his chance for revenge, so
he told the King what Ku-ula had said but not in the same way, saying:
"Your head fisherman told me to come back and tell you that your head
should be cut from your body and cooked in the imu, and the flesh of
your body should be cut up and salted and dried in the sun."

The King on hearing this message was so angered with Ku-ula, his head
fisherman, that he told the man to go and tell all his _konohikis_
(head men of lands with others under them) and people, to go up in the
mountains and gather immediately plenty of firewood and place it around
Ku-ula's house, for he and his wife and child should be burned up.

This order of the King was carried out by the konohikis and people
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