ka kakou
kane_. So Laieikawai's younger sister is called the "young
wife"--_wahine opio_--of Laieikawai's husband, and her husband is called
his _punalua_, which is a term used between friends who have wives in
common, or women who have common husbands.]

[Footnote 60: The Hawaiian flute is believed to be of ancient origin. It
is made of a bamboo joint pierced with holes and blown through the nose
while the right hand plays the stops. The range is said to comprise five
notes. The name Kanikawi means "changing sound" and is the same as that
given to Kaponohu's supernatural spear.]

CHAPTER XX

[Footnote 61: At the accession of a new chief in Hawaii the land is
redistributed among his followers.]

[Footnote 62: The names of Malio and Halaaniani are still to be found in
Puna. Ellis (1825) notes the name Malio as one of three hills (evidently
transformed demigods), which, according to tradition, joined at the base
to block an immense flow of lava at Pualaa, Puna. Off the coast between
Kalapana and Kahawalea lies a rock shaped like a headless human form and
called Halaaniani, although its legend retains no trace of the Puna
rascal.]

CHAPTER XXI

[Footnote 63: The _huia_ is a specially high wave formed by the meeting
of two crests, and is said to be characteristic of the surf at
Kaipalaoa, Hawaii.]

[Footnote 64: Kumukahi is a bold cape of black lava on the extreme
easterly point of the group. Beyond this cape stretches the limitless,
landless Pacific. Against its fissured sides seethes and booms the swell
from the ocean, in a dash of foaming spray. Piles of rocks mark the
visits of chiefs to this sacred spot, and tombs of the dead abut upon
its level heights. A visitor to this spot sees a magnificent horizon
circling the wide heavens, hears the constant boom of the tides pulling
across the measureless waters. It is one of the noteworthy places of
Puna, often sung in ancient lays.]

CHAPTER XXII

[Footnote 65: The name of Laieikawai occurs in no old chants with which
I am familiar. But in the story of _Umi_, the mother of his wife,
Piikea, is called Laielohelohe. She is wife of Piilani and has four
children who "have possession on the edge of the tabu," of whom Piikea
is the first-born, and the famous rival chiefs of Maui, Lonopili, and
Kihapiilani, are the next two; the last is Kalanilonoakea, who is
described in the chant quoted by Fornander as white-skinned and wearing
a white loin clo