Note 15 — CONTENTS.

Before he was placed in the imu, however, he said to his children: “You two wait until the imu is lighted, and when the smoke ascends,15 should it break for the Oloalu mountains, that indicates the path; move along; and where the smoke becomes stationary, that indicates where you are to reside. Also, do not think of any other woman for a wife; let the daughter of Puuhele and his wife be your wife. With that wife you will live well, and your bones be cared for.” Then the priest was cast into the oven and the opening closed up tightly. The smoke arose and darkened the sky; for six days did the smoke darken the sky before the fire in the imu gave out. But after the priest had been in the imu for two days, he reappeared and sat by the edge of the imu unknown to any one; the chief thinking all the time that he was dead; but it was not so.