Note 21 — Introductory material

When the chief Kapepeekauila heard the words of Moi, he sent his swiftest messengers, Kolea and Ulili,21 to fly and look for Kana and Niheu. When the two came to the harbor of Punahoa, in Hilo, a place adjoining Kaipalaoa, where Kana was then living, Kolea said to Ulili: “Say, let us fly away up high so as to be out of the reach of Kana, and from up there, call out to him.” The two then flew away up high and at a point directly over the place where Kana was sleeping, they called out to Kana. When Kana heard the call he reached up with his hands, while still lying down, but did not catch them, though the effects of the wind caused by the hands of Kana made them swing away in haste, and in doing this they fell down on the hill of Haupu in Molokai. When the two birds came in the presence of Kapepeekauila, they told of the man with such long arms that they reached into the heavens, and that they barely escaped death. When the chief heard the report of the two birds, he sent Kolea and Ulili to go and tell Keauleinakahi,22 his warrior who had charge of the ocean.