th the
snout turned up." Now, Kalelealuaka knew that they could not fill
the calabash if held this way, but he resorted to this artifice to
present the two young women from knowing of his miraculous flight to
the battle. As soon as the young women had got out of sight he hastened
to Waialua and arrayed himself in the rough and shaggy wreaths of _uki_
from the lagoons of Ukoa and of _hinahina_ from Kealia. Thus arrayed,
he alighted behind the lame marshal as he climbed the hill at Napeha,
slapped him on the back, exchanged greetings with him, and received a
compliment on his speed; and when asked whence he came, he answered
from Waialua. The shrewd, observant cripple recognized the wreaths
as being those of Waialua, but he did not recognize the man, for the
wreaths with which Kalelealuaka had decorated himself were of such a
color--brownish gray--as to give him the appearance of a man of middle
age. He lifted the cripple as before, and set him down on the brow of
Puowaina (Punch Bowl Hill), and received from the grateful cripple,
as a reward for his service, all the land of Waialua for his own.

This done, Kalelealuaka repeated the performances of the previous
battle. The enemy melted away before him, whichever way he turned. He
stayed his hand only when he had slain the captain of the host and
stripped him of his feather cloak and helmet, taking also his right
ear and little finger. The speed with which Kalelealuaka returned
to his home at Puuloa was like the flight of a bird. The spoils and
trophies of this battle he disposed of as before.

The two young women, Kalelealuaka's wives, turned the nozzle of the
water-gourd downward, as they were bidden, and continued to press it
into the water, in the vain hope that it might rise and fill their
container, until the noonday sun began to pour his rays directly upon
their heads; but no water entered their calabash. Then the younger
sister proposed to the elder to fill the calabash in the usual way,
saying that Kalelealuaka would not know the difference. This they did,
and returned home.

Kalelealuaka would not drink of the water, declaring that it had been
dipped up. At this the younger wife laughed furtively; the elder broke
forth and said: "It is due to the slowness of the way you told us
to employ in getting the water. We are not accustomed to the menial
office of fetching water; our father treated us delicately, and a
man always fetched water for us, and we always used