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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 16 — CONTENTS. (continued 5)

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Let us leave the two and go back to the parents of Kawelo, on Kauai. Whilst Kawelo’s parents remained in constant dread, some men journeyed here to Oahu to summon Kawelo. Their food on this voyage consisted of a few balls of popolo and a few fours of fleas. When they had arrived at the house of Kamalama, he asked: “What brings you two here?” “We came to fetch Kawelo. His father has been driven away16 by Aikanaka. That is why we came.”

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