When his crops were nearly ripe and ready to be
eaten he again fell into his customary deep sleep, and when he awoke
he found that the people of the land had eaten up all his crops.

Then he flew away to a place called Kapapakolea, in Moanalua, on Oahu,
where he set out a new plantation. Here the same fortune befell him,
and his time for sleep came upon him before his crops were fit for
eating. When he awoke, his plantation had gone to waste.

Again he moves on, and this time settles in Lihue, Oahu, where for
the third time he sets out a plantation of food, but is prevented
from eating it by another interval of sleep. Awakening, he finds his
crops overripe and wasted by neglect and decay.

His restless ambition now carries him to Lahuimalo, still on the
island of Oahu, where his industry plants another crop of food. Six
months pass, and he is about to eat of the fruits of his labor,
when one day, on plunging into the river to bathe, he falls into
his customary trance, and his lifeless body is floated by the stream
out into the ocean and finally cast up by the waters on the sands of
Maeaea, a place in Waialua, Oahu.

At the same time there arrived a man from Kauai in search of a human
body to offer as a sacrifice at the temple of Kahikihaunaka at Wailua,
on Kauai, and having seen the corpse of Kaopele on the beach, he asks
and obtains permission of the feudal lord (_Konohiki_) of Waialua
to take it. Thus it happens that Kaopele is taken by canoe to the
island of Kauai and placed, along with the corpse of another man,
on the altar of the temple at Wailua.

There he lay until the bones of his fellow corpse had begun to fall
apart. When six moons had been accomplished, at midnight there came a
burst of thunder and an earthquake. Kaopele came to life, descended
from the altar, and directed his steps toward a light which he saw
shining through some chinks in a neighboring house. He was received
by the occupants of the house with that instant and hearty hospitality
which marks the Hawaiian race, and bidden to enter ("_mai, komo mai_").

Food was set before him, with which he refreshed himself. The old
man who seemed to be the head of the household was so much pleased
and impressed with the bearing and appearance of our hero that he
forthwith sought to secure him to be the husband of his granddaughter,
a beautiful girl named Makalani. Without further ado, he persuaded
him to be a suitor for the hand of the girl, and while