ster to come and try her bathing-place.

Kauawaahila afterward made some kalo patches, and people, attracted
by the water and consequent fertility of the place, came and settled
about, voluntarily offering themselves as vassals to the twins. More
and more kalo patches were excavated, and the place became a thriving
settlement. The spring became known as _Ka Punahou_ (the new spring),
and gave its name to the surrounding place.

About this time Kahaakea returned, and hearing of the persecutions to
which his beloved children had been subjected, killed Hawea and then
himself. Rocky Hill, the home of the children, was called after him,
and is known by that name to the present day. Hawea has ever since
then been a synonyme in the Hawaiian mind for a cruel stepmother.

The Mountain Mist and Waahila Rain afterward returned to the home of
their infancy, Kaala, where they would stay a while, occasionally
visiting Konahuanui and upper Manoa Valley, and may be met with in
these places at the present day.

They also occasionally visited Punahou, which was under their especial
care and protection; but when the land and spring passed into the hands
of foreigners, who did not pay homage to the twins, and who allowed
the springs to be defiled by the washing of unclean articles and by
the bathing of unclean persons, the twins indignantly left the place,
and retired to the head of Manoa Valley.

They sometimes pass swiftly over their old home on their way to Kaala,
or Konahuanui, and on such occasions will sometimes linger sorrowfully
for a few minutes about Rocky Hill. The rain-water pond of Kanawai is
now always dry, as the shrubs and bushes which supplied the food of the
twins favored of the gods have disappeared. Old natives say that there
is now no inducement for the gentle rain of the Uakiowao and Uawaahila
to visit those bare hills and plains, as they would find no food there.

XIII

OAHUNUI

_Mrs. E. M. Nakuina_

On the plateau lying between Ewa and Waialua, on the island of Oahu,
and about a mile off, and mauka of the Kaukonahua bridge, is the
historical place called Kukaniloko. This was the ancient birthplace of
the Oahu kings and rulers. It was incumbent on all women of the royal
line to retire to this place when about to give birth to a child,
on pain of forfeiting the rank, privileges, and prerogatives of her
expected offspring, should that event happen in a less sacred place.

The stones were still stand