ove of Kapeepeekauila for Hina, and he said, "No
war dare touch Haupu; behold, it is a hill, growing even to the
heavens." And he sent the _kolea_ (plover) squad to desecrate the
sacred locks of Niheu; for the locks of Niheu were _kapu_, and if
they should be touched, he would relinquish Hina for very shame. So
the kolea company sailed along in the air till they brushed against
the sacred locks of Niheu, and for very shame he let go his mother
and struck at the koleas with his rod and hit their tail feathers and
knocked them all out, so that they remain tailless to this day. And
he returned to the edge of the shore, while the koleas bore off Hina
in triumph.

When Niheu reached the shore, he beat his forehead with stones till
the blood flowed; a trick which Kana perceived from on board the
canoes. And when Niheu went on board he said, "See! we fought and I
got my head hurt."

But Kana replied, "There was no fight; you did it yourself, out of
shame at your defeat."

And Niheu replied, "What, then, shall we fight?"

"Yes," said Kana, and he stood up.

Now, one of his legs was named Keauea and the other Kaipanea, and as
he stood upon the canoes, he began to lengthen himself upward until
the dwellers on top of Haupu exclaimed in terror, "We are all dead
men! Behold, here is a great giant towering above us."

And Kapeepeekauila, seeing this, hastened to prune the branches of
the kamani tree (_Calophyllum inophyllum_), so that the bluff should
grow upward. And the bluff rose, and Kana grew. Thus they strove,
the bluff rising higher and Kana growing taller, until he became
as the stalk of a banana leaf, and gradually spun himself out till
he was no thicker than a strand of a spider's web, and at last he
yielded the victory to Kapeepeekauila.

Niheu, seeing the defeat of Kana, called out, "Lay yourself along to
Kona, on Hawaii, to your grandmother, Uli."

And he laid himself along with his body in Kona, while his feet rested
on Molokai. His grandmother in Kona fed him until he became plump and
fat again. Meanwhile, poor Niheu, watching at his feet on Molokai,
saw their sides fill out with flesh while he was almost starved with
hunger. "So, then," quoth he, "you are eating and growing fat while
I die with hunger." And he cut off one of Kana's feet for revenge.

The sensation crept along up to his body, which lay in Kona, and Kana
said to his grandmother, Uli, "I seem to feel a numbness creeping
over me."

And she a