Note 17 — PREFACE. (continued 5)

Late in the evening the people of Kau heard the beating of a drum together with the notes of a kaeke17 flute, which startled them and they rushed out to see where these sounds came from. When they got outside they saw that these sounds came from aboard of a double canoe. Upon seeing this the people remarked: “It is the canoe of the god Kupulupulu. These sounds came from that canoe.” When the people heard that it was Kupulupulu’s canoe they prepared food and swine as offerings to the god. As soon as it was daylight the next day the canoe and the people on it were seen, and the people ashore cried out: “Ye makers of the sounds, here is food and swine; they are offerings for the god.”