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

Note 80 — CONTENTS (continued 3)

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After the departure of Kahikiula, up came Kahikihonuakele, the oldest brother of Kamapuaa. At sight of the new arrival, Kamapuaa said to Limaloa: “There is your man.” Limaloa replied: “I shall be killed for he is a young man.” Kamapuaa replied: “It is because I know he is not strong is the reason why I ask that you take him.” Limaloa then stood up facing Kahikihonuakele and struck him with his club, felling him to the ground. Limaloa then jumped on his opponent to make sure that he was dead, but Kamapuaa spoke up: “Go on forward, I will finish him.” After Limaloa had departed, Kamapuaa took hold of Kahikihonuakele and worked over him80 until he was restored to consciousness, when Kamapuaa said to him: “You are helpless; one stroke of the young man’s club laid you low. You look as though you were my older brother, and I your younger brother.” Kahikihonuakele replied: “I have no other younger brother. My two younger brothers81 are dead. One was killed by Pele and the other hung himself.” Kamapuaa said to Kahikihonuakele: “Crawl from here until you find Makalii and the others.”

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