t to Kauai and dwell on the knoll of Kalalea. But Kaopulupulu
declined the idea of flight. In the morning, ascending a hill, they
turned and looked back over the sea-spray of Waialua to the swimming
halas of Kahuku beyond. Love for the place of his birth so overcame
Kaopulupulu for a time that his tears flowed for that he should see
it no more.

Then they proceeded on their way till, passing Kaena Point, they
reached the temple of Puaakanoe. At this sacred boundary Kaopulupulu
said to his son, "Let us swim in the sea and touch along the coast
of Makua." At one of their resting-places, journeying thus, he said,
with direct truthfulness, as his words proved: "Where are you, my
son? For this drenching of the high priests by the sea, seized will
be the sacred lands (_moo-kapu_) from Waianae to Kualoa by the chief
from the east."

As they were talking they beheld the King's men approaching along
the sand of Makua, and shortly afterward these men came before them
and seized them and tied their hands behind their backs and took
them to the place of King Kahahana at Puukea, Waianae, and put them,
father and son, in a new grass hut unfinished of its ridge thatch,
and tied them, the one to the end post (_pouhana_) and the other to
the corner post (_poumanu_) of the house.

At the time of the imprisonment of the priest and his son in this new
house Kaopulupulu spake aloud, without fear of dire consequences,
so that the King and all his men heard him, as follows: "Here I am
with my son in this new unfinished house; so will be unfinished the
reign of the King that slays us." At this saying Kahahana, the King,
was very angry.

Throughout that day and the night following, till the sun was high
with warmth, the King was directing his soldiers to seize Kahulupue
first and put him to death. Obeying the orders of the King, they
took Kahulupue just outside of the house and stabbed at his eyes
with laumake spears and stoned him with stones before the eyes of
his father, with merciless cruelty. These things, though done by
the soldiers, were dodged by Kahulupue, and the priest, seeing the
King had no thought of regard for his child, spoke up with priestly
authority, as follows: "Be strong of breath, my son, till the body
touch the water, for the land indeed is the sea's."

When Kahulupue heard the voice of his father telling him to flee to
the sea, he turned toward the shore in obedience to these last words
to him, because of the atta