Note 96 — CONTENTS. (continued 2)

Puupehe was the child of Kapokoholua and Kapoiliili. On the island of Kaululaau96 lived the subject of this story, the champion of that past age. Let us glance briefly at the occupation of the parents. While they were living together the woman realized that she would obtain a beautiful fruit from her womb. The husband was a fisherman who used to go fishing for them, and he passed long periods at his occupation. One day Kapokoholua sailed out on the ocean in a canoe to fish. When he had gone Puupehe commenced a conversation from inside the mother’s womb. When Puupehe spoke the mother was startled from her sleep, and she wondered at this strange sound which she heard. She went to sleep again; the live one called out, “Say, my dear mother, do thou awake; father is dead.” The mother then realized that it was a human voice, but she could see no human being. She ran quickly and stood at the door of the house and looked round for the owner of the voice, but she could see no one; she thought, however, that it was her husband, but she was disappointed. She returned and sat in the house. The child voiced a chant thus: