Note 55 — CONTENTS.

While this child was yet in the womb, and its parents realized that there was a child, on one day when the sky was clear, the mountains were green, and the sea no longer reverberated in its breaking, some men went out on canoes to fish for uhu.55 Arriving at the fishing grounds, they saw a handsome child diving from the precipice into the water. He was given chase; he ran and hid in the waterfall at Makamakaole;56 the water fell from above, but back of that was dry; he waited there and finally came out thinking to get back to the mother’s womb; but he was again seen and again pursued. He ran and entered the house. Hina was making kapa.