the rat family of Wailua, Kauai, who change
into human beings. The sisters marry men of note. Pikoiakaalala wins in
his first attempt to float the _Koieie_ board, then follows it down the
rapids and swims to Oahu. Here he beats Mainele, the champion rat
shooter, by summoning the rats in a chant and then shooting ten rats and
one bat at once. Then he defeats him in a riddling contest in which the
play turns upon the word rat. On Hawaii the king, Keawenuiaumi, wants
the birds shot because they deceive his canoe builders and prevent any
trees from being felled. Pikoiakaalala succeeds in shooting them by
watching their reflection in a basin of water.

8. KAWELO

When Kawelo is born to Maihuna and Malaiakalani in Hanamaulu, Kauai, the
fourth of five children, the maternal grandparents foresee that he is to
be a wonder, and they offer to bring him up at Wailua, where Aikanaka,
the king's son, and Kauahoa of Hanalei are his companions. Later the
parents take him to Oahu, where Kakuhewa is king, and live at Waikiki,
where Kawelo marries Kanewahineikiaoha, daughter of a famous warrior,
Kalonaikahailaau, from whom he learns the art of war. Fishing he learns
from Maakuakeke. On his parents' return to Kauai they are abused of
their property, and summon Kawelo to redress their wrongs. He sends his'
wife to fetch the stroke Wahieloa from his father-in-law, who heaps
abuse upon the son-in-law, not aware that Kawelo hears all his derisive
comments through his god Kalanikilo. A fight follows in which the
son-in-law knocks out the old man and proves his competence as a pupil.
The Oahu king furnishes a canoe in which Kawelo sets out for Kauai with
his wife, his brother, Kamalama, and other followers, of whom Kalaumeki
and Kaeleha are chief. On Kauai he and his brother defeat all the
champions of Aikanaka, with their followers, one after the other,
finally slaying his old playmate Kauahoa, this with the aid of his wife,
who tangles her _pikoi_ ball in the end of his opponent's war club.

In the division of land that follows this victory Kona falls to his
brother and Koolau and Puna to his two chief warriors. But Kaelehu
visits Aikanaka at Hanapepe, falls in love with his daughter, and
persuades himself that he could do better by taking up the cause of the
defeated chief. Knowing that Kawelo has never learned the art of dodging
stones, they bury him in a shower of rocks, beat him with a club, and
leave him, for dead. He revives w