Note 25 — CONTENTS. (continued 2)

After they had lived for some time there was born to them a daughter, Waialani, a beautiful and a good woman, better even than her mother. After they had lived together for three years, she told her parents that she would go and bring Malulani from Lanai. This was agreeable to the parents. As she went over to Hawaii, Hiiaka said to Pele, “Say, here comes our niece.” Pele replied, “Whose niece is she? Why should I accord her recognition?” And this matter became a source of serious quarrel between the two. When the niece arrived at the mouth of the crater, at the place called Akanikolea, and looked down, she noticed her aunts quarreling. And because Pele was very angry she lighted the fire which filled the crater. Hiiaka feared the niece might die. So she went to get her brother, Ahuimaiapakanaloa,25 living in Nuumealani, the only one who could appease Pele. When the brother arrived the fire subsided. Then the niece went down, and when she noticed the banana26 was ripe she reached out and ate some. Thus she journeyed until she got down to the bottom, the fire meanwhile receding until it disappeared in the mouth of Pele. And when Pele recognized their niece, she said, “I thought you would die, because I did not recognize you, but I see your younger aunt was correct in telling me that you are our niece.”