y a distance. This offer was refused and reply given according to
instruction. Ihuopalaai sat thinking for some time and then told him to
return home, saying: "You take the road on the Kona side of the island;
do not sit, stay, nor sleep on the way till you reach your own house."

The man started as directed, and Ihuopalaai asked Ku-ula to send fish
for his sister, and while the man was journeying homeward as directed
a school of fish was following in the sea, within the breakers. He
did not obey fully the words of Ihuopalaai, for he became so tired
that he sat down on the way; but he noticed that whenever he did so
the fish rested too. The people seeing the school of fish went and
caught some of them. Of course, not knowing that this was his supply,
he did not realize that the people were taking his fish. Reaching home,
he met his wife and told her he had brought no fish, but had seen many
all the way, and pointed out to her the school of anae-holo which was
then resting abreast of their house. She told him it was their supply,
sent by Ihuopalaai, his brother-in-law. They fished, and got all they
desired, whereupon the remainder returned by the same way till they
reached Honouliuli where Ihuopalaai was living. Ever afterward this
variety of fish has come and gone the same way every year to this day,
commencing some time in October and ending in March or April.

Expectant mothers are not allowed to eat of the anae-holo, nor the
aholehole, fearing dire consequences to the child, hence they never
touch them till after the eventful day. Nor are these fish ever
given to children till they are able to pick and eat them of their
own accord.

MYTH OF THE HILU

The hilu is said to have once possessed a human form, but by some
strange event its body was changed to that of a fish. No knowledge of
its ancestry or place of origin is given, but the story is as follows:

Hilu-ula and Hilu-uli were born twins, one a male and the other a
female. They had human form, but with power to assume that of the fish
now known as hilu. The two children grew up together and in due time
when Hilu-uli, the sister, was grown up, she left her brother and
parents without saying a word and went into the sea, and, assuming
her fish form, set out on a journey, eventually reaching Heeia,
Koolaupoko. During the time of her journey she increased the numbers
of the hilu so that by the time they came close to Heeia there was so
large a school that