ntrol over mundane
affairs and events. So when Hawea began to persecute her stepchildren,
the spirit of their own mother would assist and protect them.

The persecutions of the stepmother at last became unendurable
to the twins. She not only deprived them of food, clothing, and
water, but subjected them besides to all sorts of indignities and
humiliations. Driven to desperation, they fled to Konahuanui, the
mountain peak above the Pali of Nuuanu; but were soon discovered
and driven away from there by the cruel Hawea. They then went to the
head of Manoa Valley. The stepmother was not at all pleased at their
getting out of the way of her daily persecutions, and searched for
them everywhere. She finally tracked them by the constant appearance
of rainbows at the head of Manoa Valley, those unfailing attendants
of rain and mist. The children were again driven away and told to
return to Kaala, where they would be constantly under her eye; but
they ran and hid themselves in a small cave on the side of the hill
of Kukaoo, whose top is crowned by the temple of the Menehunes. Here
they lived some time and cultivated a patch of sweet potatoes, their
food at this time being grasshoppers and greens. The greens were the
leaves and the tender shoots of the popolo, aheahea, pakai, laulele
and potato vines, cooked by rolling hot stones around and among them
in a covered gourd. This is called the _puholoholo_.

When their potato tubers were fit to be eaten, the brother (Waahila
Rain) made a double _imu_ (oven), having a _kapu_, or sacred side,
for his food and a _noa_, or free side, for his sister. The little
cave that was their dwelling was also divided in two, a sacred and a
free part, respectively, for brother and sister. The cave can still
be seen, and the wall of stone dividing it in two was still intact
a few years ago, as also was the double imu. In olden times it was
tabooed to females to appear at any eating-place of the males.

When their crops were fairly ripe, the stepmother found them again,
and drove them away from their cave, she appropriating the fruit
of their labors. The children fled to the rocky hills just back of
Punahou, where they found two small caves, which the brother and
sister occupied, respectively, as dwellings. The rolling plains and
small ravines of the surrounding country, and of what was later known
as the Punahou pasture, were not then covered with manienie grass, but
with the indigenous shrubs and b