ent to any such summary
proceedings, but questioned Kalei in regard to her fearful
offspring. The grieved and frightened mother told everything in
connection with the paternity and bringing up of the child, and with
the warning given by the dread sea-father.

Umi considered that the great sea god Kamohoalii was on the whole a
beneficent as well as a powerful one. Should the relatives and mother
of that shark god's son be killed, there would then be no possible
means of checking the ravages of that son, who might linger around
the coast and creeks of the island, taking on human shape at will,
for the purpose of travelling inland to any place he liked, and then
reassume his fish form and lie in wait in the many deep pools formed
by the streams and springs.

Umi, therefore, ordered Kalei and her relatives to be set at liberty,
while the priests and shark kahunas were requested to make offerings
and invocations to Kamohoalii that his spirit might take possession
of one of his _hakas_ (mediums devoted to his cult), and so express
to humanity his desires in regard to his bad son, who had presumed to
eat human beings, a practice well known to be contrary to Kamohoalii's
design.

This was done, whereupon the shark god manifested himself through a
haka, and expressed his grief at the action of his wayward son. He
told them that the grandfather was to blame for feeding him on animal
flesh contrary to his orders, and if it were not for that extenuating
circumstance, he would order his son to be killed by his own shark
officers; but as it was, he would require of him that he should
disappear forever from the shores of Hawaii. Should Nanaue disregard
that order and be seen by any of his father's shark soldiers, he was
to be instantly killed.

Then the shark god, who it seems retained an affection for his human
wife, exacted a promise that she and her relatives were to be forever
free from any persecutions on account of her unnatural son, on pain
of the return and freedom from the taboo of that son.

Accordingly Nanaue left the island of Hawaii, crossed over to Maui,
and landing at Kipahulu, resumed his human shape and went inland. He
was seen by the people, and when questioned, told them he was a
traveller from Hawaii, who had landed at Hana and was going around
sightseeing. He was so good looking, pleasant, and beguiling in his
conversation that people generally liked him. He was taken as _aikane_
by one of the petty chiefs