Note 14 — PREFACE. (continued 5)

On the night following the day when the proclamation was issued calling the people together, the night before the day when the sacrifices were to be offered in the temple, the king and his chief priests and the people connected with the chief priests came to recite their prayers in the mua house. From the beginning of the recital of the prayers until midnight everything went off smoothly without a single hitch. After midnight and along the hours before dawn, Kunaka, Kila and the chief priest entered the kapu house and joined in the recital of the prayer called Oneoneohonua.14 Toward morning the note of a mud-hen was heard, when the chief priest immediately informed the king and Kila: “Our prayer has been interrupted. Here we are with daylight almost upon us, when the recital of the prayer would end and everything would be satisfactory. Therefore there will be no sacrifice for the altar today.” Kila, on the other hand, had known that there would be some interruption in the recital of the prayers that night, because he did not think Kaialea would be killed.