Note 3 — CONTENTS (continued 2)

Punia thus continued deceiving the sharks until all were killed except Kaialeale. After this Punia hewed out two sticks each a yard long; he next procured the two necessary sticks,3 a hard and a soft one, to make fire; then he procured some charcoal and kindling wood; then he prepared some food, salt, an opihi4 shell and put all these things into a bag. With this [bag] Punia proceeded to the beach and when he got directly over the cave, where Kaialeale was sleeping, he called out: “If when I dive down Kaialeale should bite me and I die and my blood should come to the surface, then my mother will see it and I shall come to life again. But if when I dive, Kaialeale should open wide his mouth so that I am swallowed whole, I shall die and will never be able to come to life again.” While Punia was talking, Kaialeale was listening, and he said to himself: “I will not bite you for you might come to life again. I shall open my mouth wide enough for you to walk in. So this is the time when I shall kill you. Yes, you shall die; nothing will save you.” Punia then dove down with his bag, when Kaialeale opened his mouth and Punia walked in. As soon as Punia got into the mouth it tried to close up, but Punia took the two sticks he had hewed out and stood them up which kept the mouth open. He then rubbed the two sticks and when the fire was started he placed on the coals; he next took out his opihi shell and began to scrape the inside of the shark and after he had a ball of meat he proceeded to cook it and when cooked he sat down and with his potatoes he made his meal, while the shark was swimming here and there through the ocean. This scraping hurt the shark so much that he could not keep still; he was forced to go here and there. Punia was carried around in the shark for about ten days, when at last the shark began to grow weak and it made its way back toward land, arriving outside of Kona, at a place called Alula, directly out of Hiiakanoholae. Punia on the other hand became bald, from being in its belly; the work of the rascal.