Note 104 — CONTENTS. (continued 3)

In going up the mountain a woman should not go along; that would be wrong. Should a woman go along, the canoe would be cracked. Arriving at the place where the koa selected for hewing into a canoe stands, a fire is kindled in the imu104 for the things already prepared. When the fire is kindled a man gets a chip of the koa and burns it in the imu; when all the things are cooked prayers are offered to the canoe-building gods: to Kupulupulu,105 Kumokuhalii, Kuolonowao, Kupepeiaoloa, Kuhooholopali, Kupaaikee, Kanealuka, and various others; then would he eat of some of these things and throw some away for the gods. And when all these things have been attended to, the tree is ready to be cut.