Note 2 — CONTENTS (continued 2)

At the second request made by Punia of his mother, he went on down until he arrived directly over the lobster cave; there he saw Kaialeale2 and the other sharks asleep. Punia then called: “I wonder if that great shark called Kaialeale is still asleep. If he is I can dive down and come up at that point over yonder where I will get two lobsters, and my mother and I will have something to eat with our potatoes in the uplands.” While Punia was talking to Kaialeale the rest of the sharks woke up. Kaialeale then said to the other sharks: “Let us watch and see where Punia dives, then we will dive in after him.” Punia had a stone in his hand while he was talking which he threw out beyond the point where he spoke about diving to get the lobsters. When the stone struck the water the sharks made a dive for the place leaving the cave of lobsters unguarded. Punia then dove down and secured two lobsters and then addressed the sharks: “Here there, Punia has gone down and he has two lobsters, giving him something to live on. This will keep my mother and myself alive. It was the first shark, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the eighth, the ninth, the tenth, it was the eleventh shark that told me what to do, the one with the thin tail. He was the one that told me what to do.” When Kaialeale heard this from Punia, he ordered all the sharks to come together and get in a row. He then proceeded to count them, and sure enough there were ten of them, then he looked for the one with the thin tail. When he found the one he said: “So it was you that told Punia what to do. You shall die.” After this shark was killed, Punia called out: “So you have killed one of your own kind.” After this Punia returned home to his mother.