Note 9 — PREFACE. (continued 4)

Upon their arrival home, they went to their mothers with the dead boy’s hands, and with their hair cut in the shape of a war helmet to show their grief9 for Kila. When they saw their mothers they fell down before them weeping and wailing. By the language used in their wailing, Hooipoikamalanai made out that their brother either was dead, or they were wailing for their father. So in order to be sure Hooipoikamalanai and her sister asked them: “Which one of you is it that has been injured?” The sons replied: “Kila has been eaten up by a shark. Upon arriving at the place where our father’s bones were laid, we prepared them, took them on to the canoe and we started on our return. When we reached the steep cliffs, where one has to swim to get around them, our canoe got turned over and Kila was attacked by a shark and all we could save of him were his hands which you now see.”