Note 10 — Introductory material (continued 4)

Pupuhuluena upon seeing the men moved on until he was quite close to them. He then took up a kukui nut, chewed it up and blew the substance upon the surface of the sea10 which enabled him to clearly see the bottom. As he looked down he saw the fish entering the mouth of the net, let down by Ieiea and Poopalu, so he called out: “Say, the fish have gone into your net.” “You are telling a lie. We are looking down and we don’t see any fish going in.” The reason why Ieiea and Poopalu did not see the fish was because they were chewing the sea-bean (mohihi) and blowing the juice on the surface of the sea which did not render the sea smooth, so they were unable to see the bottom very clearly. The place where they had their net was not very deep. Pupuhuluena, however, kept on calling to haul up the net till at last Ieiea and Poopalu thought they would haul up the net, when to their surprise they discovered it was full of fish. When Ieiea and Poopalu saw that Pupuhuluena had something they did not have they requested some kukui nut; so Pupuhuluena gave some of his nuts to the fishermen and they threw away their sea-beans. These two fishermen kept some of the nuts and when they arrived home they planted some. This is how the kukui11 was first introduced into the districts of Kona and Kau.