Note 62 — CONTENTS. (continued 3)

In sailing Apua sat on the manu62 of the canoe and directed its course properly. On their voyage the canoe was filled with coral rock for the purpose of deceiving. While they were floating outside Kaulaku spied the canoe. He suspected they were canoes seeking to buy food. He also thought they did not, on account of the storm. Therefore, Kaulaku showed them a banana. Apua saw that and he bowed his head and spoke to his people, “Show them a coral.” They picked up a large, coarse, red coral rock and showed it. It did look like a ripe banana outside, and Apua again said, “Tell them that what you have is banana; it has grown and sprouted, leaves have shot forth, and it has borne fruit; the fruit has been left in Hawaii.” And when Kaulaku heard this he said to his people, “Say, they are saying that that is banana, and that they have it at Hawaii.” They therefore threw out the fruit, the tree, the leaves and the suckers; the others got them, for they were sorely beset with hunger.