Note 22 — CONTENTS

Halemano and his brother-in-law, Kumukahi, then lived together, after Kamalalawalu had left them, for over eighty days, during which time Kamalalawalu never once met them, so the thought of returning to Kohala sprung up in Halemano’s mind. While on his way back [to Kohala], as he passed through the shrubbery at Keakui he saw the maile22 as it grew on the ohia trees, so he sat down to make himself a maile wreath. As he was thus busily stripping,23 Kamalalawalu stood behind him and took hold of one corner of Halemano’s mantle while tears welled up in her eyes.24 Halemano then turned around and saw it was his wife, at which he wept and said: “You, my wife, of the parched plains of Kumanomano and of the waterless wastes of Lihue! How strange of you! I thought that when I came with you [to your home] that you would be true to me; but I see you are not.”