Note 17 — CONTENTS (continued 7)

Uma went on to Mahiki,17 a place between Waimea and Hamakua, where he met an old man sitting in the road, at a resting place in the Hill of Moeawa (Puu o Moeawa). He saluted Uma, and Uma did the same to him. He then took a smoke from his pipe, handing it to Uma after an interval. And while Uma was smoking the old man pushed the back of the pipe, but it did not go down because Uma was on the look-out, and therefore did not receive the misfortune intended for him. Uma, however, had in a loop of his girdle some salt which he threw in the eyes of the old man. And while he was rubbing his eyes which were burning Uma threw the pikoi at end of a three-foot cord, which encircled and held the man fast, and his limbs were broken in pieces. Uma then went on his way.