Note 269 — CONTENTS. (continued 5)

There are two places where breadfruit is to be found. 1. At Kaawaloa, Kona, Hawaii. Man was the origin of the breadfruit of that place. Before his death he had said to his children: “If I die, both of you watch the tree that may grow at the door of our house; its fruit shall be your food; the hands and hairs are the roots of that breadfruit tree, the legs are its branches, the testicle is the fruit thereon.” At that time that was the food that saved this whole family. At the time the forty thousand gods and the four hundred thousand gods saw the fruit of this breadfruit tree, they went and plucked it and tried to eat it green, but it was not palatable; they then tried cooking it on hot coals and found it relishable. They spoke to Kane and Kanaloa269 of the sweetness of this fruit; to which they replied that the fruit was no other than the testes of a certain man who is now dead. At this they vomited until they were exhausted; they started to vomit in Kona and continued through the mountains till they reached Waipio. That is why the breadfruit trees became so plentiful, at that time, because the gods vomited on their way through the mountains, hence its wide spread.