of the place, who gave his own sister for
wife to Nanaue. The latter made a stipulation that his sleeping house
should be separated from that of his wife, on account of a pretended
vow, but really in order that his peculiar second mouth might escape
detection.

For a while the charms of the pretty girl who had become his wife
seem to have been sufficient to prevent him from trying to eat human
beings, but after a while, when the novelty of his position as a
husband had worn off, and the desire for human flesh had again become
very strong, he resumed the old practice for which he had been driven
away from Hawaii.

He was eventually detected in the very act of pushing a girl into the
sea, jumping in after her, then turning into a shark, and commencing
to devour her, to the horror of some people who were fishing with
hook and rod from some rocks where he had not observed them. These
people raised the alarm, and Nanaue seeing that he was discovered,
left for Molokai where he was not known.

He took up his residence on Molokai at Poniuohua, adjoining the ahupuaa
of Kainalu, and it was not very long before he was at his old practice
of observing and accosting people, giving them his peculiar warning,
following them to the sea in his human shape, then seizing one of
them as a shark and pulling the unfortunate one to the bottom, where
he would devour his victim. In the excitement of such an occurrence,
people would fail to notice his absence until he would reappear
at some distant point far away from the throng, as if engaged in
shrimping or crabbing.

This went on for some time, till the frightened and harassed people
in desperation went to consult a shark kahuna, as the ravages of the
man-eating shark had put a practical taboo on all kinds of fishing. It
was not safe to be anywhere near the sea, even in the shallowest water.

The kahuna told them to lie in wait for Nanaue, and the next time
he prophesied that a person would be eaten head and tail, to have
some strong men seize him and pull off his kapa mantle, when a shark
mouth would be found on his back. This was done, and the mouth seen,
but the shark-man was so strong when they seized him and attempted to
bind him, that he broke away from them several times. He was finally
overpowered near the seashore and tightly bound. All the people then
turned their attention to gathering brush and firewood to burn him,
for it was well known that it is only by being totally cons