Note 4 — CONTENTS (continued 5)
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Maiauhaalenalenaupena was a very great deceiver and often deceived the peddlers4 and appropriated their goods without giving anything in return. The way he did this was as follows: In the winter, when the sea was very rough and the wind and rain lasted for months at a time, upon seeing the people from the uplands coming down to the beach with food, sugar-cane, bananas, gourds and other things, he would take up his fish nets and paddle and place them in his canoe, then push out the canoe, into the sea, and would then return and proceed to dry out the nets, making believe that he had just returned from fishing. This was how he came by the name of Maiauhaalenalenaupena.5