Note 35 — CONTENTS. (continued 6)

Whilst they were engaged with comparative comfort in their special calling, spear practice, thereafter an idea occurred to the king, Aikanaka, to destroy35 them all; and he said to the wife of his younger brother whom he had brought: “Say, you woman whom I have taken by my own hands!” “What is it?” the wife answered. “How is it; is it possible for me to defeat Kawelo and his ulu adherents?” She replied: “If you want to kill my husband and his ulus, here is the only way to insure death: Should you wish the death of the ulus first, then proclaim that all the people gather together to perform the Friday36 tasks; and no man shall stay away during that time you have so decreed, and he who defaults will suffer death. Thereby the ulus will be killed,37 and afterwards my husband. Furthermore, however, I have instructed my husband: all things were taught him, except one, and that is fighting with stones, which art I38 did not teach him. But if he should come out unscathed from that death-dealing method, what a great pity would it then be that our bones should be allowed to bleach in the sun.” The other remarked: “Does he know what he has in store?” Soon after this, Aikanaka summoned all the men to assemble; no man should stay back, and if any was absent from the king’s call, death would be the penalty. Let us leave the proclamation of the king and turn aside to the ulus of Kawelo. What are they doing now?