Kula. Here
he met his sister, Koai, but had only time to say, _"Aloha oe!"_
(Alas for you!) and then ran on to the shore. His younger brother had
just landed from his fishing-canoe, and had hastened to his house to
provide for the safety of his family, when Kahawali arrived. He and
his friend leaped into the canoe, and with his broad spear paddled
out to sea. Pele, perceiving his escape, ran to the shore and hurled
after him, with prodigious force, great stones and fragments of rock,
which fell thickly around but did not strike his canoe. When he had
paddled a short distance from the shore the _kumukahi_ (east wind)
sprung up. He fixed his broad spear upright in the canoe, that it
might answer the double purpose of mast and sail, and by its aid he
soon reached the island of Maui, where they rested one night and then
proceeded to Lanai. The day following they moved on to Molokai, thence
to Oahu, the abode of Kolonohailaau, his father, and Kanewahinekeaho,
his sister, to whom he related his disastrous perils, and with whom
he took up his permanent abode.

V

HIKU AND KAWELU

_J. S. Emerson_

Not far from the summit of Hualalai, on the island of Hawaii, in
the cave on the southern side of the ridge, lived Hina and her son,
the _kupua_, or demigod, Hiku. All his life long as a child and a
youth, Hiku had lived alone with his mother on this mountain summit,
and had never once been permitted to descend to the plains below to
see the abodes of men and to learn of their ways. From time to time,
his quick ear had caught the sound of the distant _hula_ (drum) and
the voices of the gay merrymakers. Often had he wished to see the
fair forms of those who danced and sang in those far-off cocoanut
groves. But his mother, more experienced in the ways of the world,
had never given her consent. Now, at length, he felt that he was a
man, and as the sounds of mirth arose on his ears, again he asked
his mother to let him go for himself and mingle with the people
on the shore. His mother, seeing that his mind was made up to go,
reluctantly gave her consent and warned him not to stay too long,
but to return in good time. So, taking in his hand his faithful arrow,
_Pua Ne_, which he always carried, he started off.

This arrow was a sort of talisman, possessed of marvellous powers,
among which were the ability to answer his call and by its flight to
direct his journey.

Thus he descended over the rough clinker lava and through