the feather cape in which h& is wrapped, and eats nothing but
bananas, a bunch at a meal. The foster parents travel about Hawaii to
find a bride of matchless beauty for their favorite, and finally choose
Makolea, the daughter of Keauhou and Kahaluu, who live in Kona. Thither
they take the boy, leaving Paliuli forever, and this place has never
since been seen by man. The girl is, however, betrothed to Kakaalaneo,
king of Maui, and when her parents discover her amour with Kepakailiula
they send her off to her husband, who is a famous spearsman.
Kepakailiula now moves to Kohala and marries the pretty daughter of its
king. Two successive nights he slips over to Maui, fools the drunken
king, and enjoys his bride. Then he persuades his father-in-law,
Kukuipahu, to send a friendly expedition to Maui, which he turns into a
war venture, and slays the chief Kakaalaneo and so many men that his
father-in-law is obliged to put a stop to the slaughter by running in
front of him with his wife in his arms. He then makes Kukuipahu king
over Maui and goes on to Oahu, where Kakuhihewa hastens to make peace.
One day when Makolea is out surf riding, messengers of the king of
Kauai, Kaikipaananea, steal her away and she becomes this king's wife.
Kepakailiula follows her to Kauai and defeats the king in boxing. One
more contest is prepared; the king has two riddles, the failure to
answer which will mean death. Only one man knows the answers, Kukaea,
the public crier, and he is an outcast who has lived on nothing but
filth air his life. Kepakailiula invites him in, feeds, and clothes him.
For this attention, the man reveals the riddles, Kepakailiula answers
them correctly, and bakes the king in his own oven. The riddles are:

1. "Plaited all around, plaited to the bottom, leaving an opening.
Answer: A house, thatched all around and leaving a door."

2. "The men that stand, the men that lie down, the men that are folded.
Answer: A house, the timbers that stand, the battens laid down, the
grass and cords folded."

6. KAIPALAOA.

The boy skilled in the art of disputation, or _hoopapa_, lives in
Waiakea, Hilo, Hawaii. In the days of Pueonuiokona, king of Kauai, his
father, Halepaki, has been killed in a riddling contest with
Kalanialiiloa, the taboo chief of Kauai, whose house is almost
surrounded by a fence of human bones from the victims he has defeated in
this art. Kaipalaoa's mother teaches him all she knows, then his aunt,
Kalena