The young men started for Mokuleia by way of Kaika, near the place
where salt was made a few years ago. Being strangers, they were in
doubt about the true way, when a meteor (_hoku kaolele_) appeared and
went before them, showing them how to escape the quicksands. After
crossing the river they went on to Mokuleia as directed by Kaneaukai,
and found the wooden idol in the hut of the two old men. They
shouldered it, and taking as much dried fish as they could carry,
returned by the same way that they had come, arriving at home about
midnight.

The next day the two old kahunas set up the wooden idol in the same
inclosure with the stone representative of Kaneaukai. The wooden
image has long since disappeared, having been destroyed, probably,
at the time Kaahumanu made a tour of Oahu after her conversion to
Christianity, when she issued her edict to burn all the idols. But
the stone idol was not destroyed. Even during the past sixty years
offerings of roast pigs are known to have been placed before it. This
was done secretly for fear of the chiefs, who had published laws
against idolatry.

Accounts differ, various narrators giving the story some embellishments
of their own. So good a man as a deacon of Waialua in telling the
above seemed to believe that, instead of being a legend it was true;
for an old man, to whom he referred as authority, said that one of
the young men who went to Mokuleia and brought the wooden idol to
Waimea was his own grandfather.

An aged resident of the locality gives this version: Following the
placement of their strangely found stone these two men dreamed of
Kaneaukai as a god in some far-distant land, to whom they petitioned
that he would crown their labors with success by granting them a
plentiful supply of fish. Dreaming thus, Kaneaukai revealed himself to
them as being already at their shore; that the stone which they had
been permitted to find and had honored by setting up at Kehauapuu,
was himself, in response to their petitions; and since they had
been faithful so far, upon continuance of the same, and offerings
thereto, they should ever after be successful in their fishing. As if
in confirmation of this covenant, this locality has ever since been
noted for the periodical visits of schools of the anae-holo and kala,
which are prevalent from April to July, coming, it is said, from Ohea,
Honuaula, Maui, by way of Kahuku, and returning the same way.

So strong was the superstitious belief