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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 6 — Introductory material (continued 3)

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Kaulu then asked of Makalii: “Tell me the shark that swallowed my brother and also the place where the shark lives.” Makalii then looked, but he was unable to see anything below them, so he chewed some kukui nuts and blew the oily substance over the atmosphere beneath them which caused it to be clear and he was thus enabled to locate the shark which had swallowed Kaeha. Makalii then pointed him out to Kaulu at the same time saying: “It is the one overgrown6 with coral.”

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