Note 1 — CONTENTS (continued 3)

Kamapuaa had two forms, that of a human being and that of a hog.1 His home was at Kaliuwaa,2 in Kaluanui, Koolauloa. Olopana3 was the king of Oahu at this time. It was Kamapuaa’s custom to go and steal the chickens from Olopana’s lands at Kapaka, at Punaluu, and at Kahana. In one night all the chickens in these different places would be taken. On one of these expeditions, just before daylight while on his way home he met Kawauhelemoa,4 a supernatural being who had the form of a chicken, who enticed him on until he was discovered by the guards of Olopana. When Olopana heard that it was Kamapuaa that was robbing the hen roosts he sent word to all the people from Kahana to Kaluanui to go after Kamapuaa and bring him on their backs to his presence. The people who were sent on this mission numbered about eight hundred. When they came to Kamapuaa, they took him and bound him with ropes, then placed him on a pole5 and carried him to Punaluu. When his grandmother, Kamaunuaniho, saw this, she called out in a chant composed in honor of Kamapuaa,6 as follows: