Note 63 — CONTENTS. (continued 3)

Taro was also shown them. They did for that as in the first place; they indicated that it has grown and sprouted; it has leaved out and it has borne fruit and the fruit was still at Hawaii: the shore people therefore threw the taro into the sea, and those on the canoe gathered them up. They did this until everything was gathered by those on the canoe, the plants and the leaves and put them in the canoes. Afterwards the shore people brought a tall tree which they stood in the sand, its trunk and its leaves. That plant in Hawaii nei is called Halapepe.63 When Apua saw this he instructed his men to erect on a canoe a large plant with branches resembling the coconut. They told the shore people that it was a coconut; that it had grown and sprouted, leaved and had borne fruit in Hawaii. Because they said this the halapepe was thrown into the sea, and they got it and put it into the canoes. The canoes were loaded with eatables, trunks and leaves when they landed in Hawaii nei.