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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

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They lived there tilling the soil. Pualii had two large potato patches which remain to this day; they are called Namakaokapaoo.4 When the potatoes were ripe Pualii made a vow that when the head5 of an ulua6 fish and the potatoes were roasted, and Pualii had first eaten thereof, then the potatoes would be free, and that his wife and others could eat thereof. Therefore Pualii went down to Honouliuli to catch the fish to be eaten together with the potato.

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