Note 77 — CONTENTS (continued 3)
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Kahikiula then faced Kaneiki and without so much as a warning Kaneiki fell on Kahikiula with his war club and struck him to the ground. As he fell Kaneiki jumped on him to make sure of his death, but Kamapuaa spoke up: “Let me finish him, you go on forward.” Kamapuaa then said to Kahikiula:77 “Say, you are almost dead.” “Yes, I am almost dead; the young man struck me but once and I am laid low.” Kamapuaa again said: “You look as though you were my father and that I was your son.” Kahikiula replied: “I have no other child,78 but one, that is Kahikihonuakele.”79 Kamapuaa said to him: “Crawl from here until you meet Makalii and the others in the mountains and there make your home.”