s.
Bring them to my gum to be held fast.
Amen, it is finished.]

CHAPTER XVII

[Footnote 54: For the cloud sign compare the story of Kualii's battles
and in Westervelt's _Lepeamoa_ (Legends of Honolulu, p. 217), the fight
with the water monster.]

[Footnote 55: Of Hawaiians at prayer Dibble says: "The people were in
the habit of praying every morning to the gods, clapping their hands as
they muttered a set form of words in a singsong voice."]

CHAPTER XVIII

[Footnote 56: The three mountain domes of Hawaii rise from 13,000 to
8,000 feet above the sea, and the two highest are in the wintertime
often capped with snow.]

[Footnote 57: The games of _kilu_ and _ume_, which furnished the popular
evening entertainment of chiefs, were in form much like our "Spin the
plate" and "Forfeits." _Kilu_ was played with "a funnel-shaped toy
fashioned from the upper portion of a drinking gourd, adorned with the
_pawehe_ ornamentation characteristic of Niihau calabashes." The player
must spin the gourd in such a way as to hit the stake set up for his
side. Each hit counted 5, 40 scoring a game. Each player sang a song
before trying his hand, and the forfeit of a _hula_ dance was exacted
for a miss, the successful spinner claiming for his forfeit the favor of
one of the women on the other side. _Ume_ was merely a method of
choosing partners by the master of ceremonies touching with a wand,
called the _maile_, the couple selected for the forfeit, while he sang a
jesting song. The sudden personal turn at the close of many of the
_oli_ may perhaps be accounted for by their composition for this game.
The _kaeke_ dance is that form of _hula_ in which the beat is made on a
_kaekeeke_ instrument, a hollow bamboo cylinder struck upon the ground
with a clear hollow sound, said to have been introduced by Laamaikahiki,
the son of Moikeha, from Tahiti.]

CHAPTER XIX

[Footnote 58: In the story of Kauakahialii, his home at Pihanakalani is
located in the mountains of Kauai back of the ridge Kuamoo, where, in
spite of its inland position, he possesses a fishpond well stocked with
fish.]

[Footnote 59: The Hawaiian custom of group marriages between brothers or
sisters is clearly brought out in this and other passages in the story.
"Guard our wife"--_Ka wahine a kaua_--says the Kauai chief to his
comrade, "she belongs to us two"--_ia ia kaua_. The sisters of
Aiwohikupua call their mistress's husband "our husband"--_