Note 87 — CONTENTS. (continued 3)

Kahuoi heard her lamenting for the children, so when she ceased he asked: “Why are you wailing in that reciting87 fashion?” “Why, indeed! Our children have been taken by water!” Her husband answered: “Do not mind, they have been taken by their grandparents.” The ditches which the children dug were named Waiohonu, that was the name of the brother’s, and Kahawaikukae was the name of the sister’s ditch.