again the next day
only to meet the same luck. The parents of the boy who had befriended
Aiai were in this fishing party, in obedience to the King's orders,
but they got nothing for their trouble. Aiai, seeing them go down
daily to Haneoo, asked concerning it, and was told everything; so he
bade his friend come with him to the cave where he had stayed after
his father's house was burned. Arriving there he showed the stone
fish god, Pohaku-muone, and said: "We can get fish up here from this
stone without much work or trouble."

Then Aiai picked up the stone and they went down to Lehoula, and
setting it down at a point facing the pond which his father had made
he repeated these words: "O Ku-ula, my father; O Hina, my mother,
I place this stone here in your name, Ku-ula, which action will make
your name famous and mine too, your son; the keeping of this ku-ula
stone I give to my friend, and he and his offspring hereafter will
do and act in all things pertaining to it in our names."

After saying these words he told his friend his duties and all things
to be observed relative to the stone and the benefits to be derived
therefrom as an influencing power over such variety of fish as he
desired. This was the first establishment of the _ko'a ku-ula_ on
land,--a place where the fisherman was obliged to make his offering
of the first of his catch by taking two fishes and placing them on
the ku-ula stone as an offering to Ku-ula. Thus Aiai first put in
practice the fishing oblations established by his father at the place
of his birth, in his youth, but it was accomplished only through the
mana kupua of his parents.

When Aiai had finished calling on his parents and instructing his
friend, there were seen several persons walking along the Haneoo beach
with their fishing baskets and setting them in the sea, but catching
nothing. At Aiai's suggestion he and his friend went over to witness
this fishing effort. When they reached the fishers Aiai asked them,
"What are those things placed there for?"

They answered, "Those are baskets for catching hinaleas, a fish that
our King, Kamohoalii, longs for, but we cannot get bait to catch the
fish with."

"Why is it so?" asked Aiai.

And they answered, "Because Ku-ula and his family are dead, and all
the fish along the beach of Hana are taken away."

Then Aiai asked them for two baskets. Having received them, he bade
his friend take them and follow him. They went to a little pool nea