Note 49 — Introductory material (continued 2)

The brother leaped forward and covered her mouth, saying: “Keep quiet, and don’t you cry; where is your husband?” “He is in front.” “Let me get him;” and Koi went and woke him up. The brother-in-law recognized Koi, the first time in a long while, and ran forward to cry, but his mouth was covered up, “lest our children awake.” They went out and met his sister, when Koi said: “Listen, you two. I have come to meet you two, and have brought our lord to be hidden by us. With you two and myself alone the bones of our lord will be concealed, and his brother-in-law’s secret burying-place shall be the place of concealment.” Koi and his brother-in-law then selected the secret burial-place belonging to his brother-in-law, because he was the boy of the precipitous cliffs. They then took ropes, and fire sticks and kindlings and all other necessaries together with the corpse of Umi-a-Liloa, and went up to the place of hiding49 where the koae was wont to hover.50 Many were the stories given out, but not authenticated, that the brother-in-law of Koi was rolled down the precipice and killed for fear of his disclosure.