g, looked behind him and saw the man running
with it; and as he neared him he dropped it before him, and told him
of Lono's misfortune, Kamakanuiahailono then returned, gathering on
the way the young popolo seeds and its tender leaves in his garment
(_kihei_). When he arrived at the place where the wounded man was
lying he asked for some salt, which he took and pounded together with
the popolo and placed it with a cocoanut covering on the wound. From
then till night the flowing of the blood ceased. After two or three
weeks had elapsed he again took his departure.

While he was leisurely journeying, some one breathing heavily
approached him in the rear, and, turning around, there was the chief,
and he asked him: "What is it, Lono, and where are you going?"

Lono replied, "You healed me; therefore, as soon as you had departed I
immediately consulted with my successors, and have resigned my offices
to them, so that they will have control over all. As for myself,
I followed after you, that you might teach me the art of healing."

The _kahuna lapaau_ (medical priest) then said, "Open your mouth." When
Lono opened his mouth, the kahuna spat into it, [6] by which he
would become proficient in the calling he had chosen, and in which
he eventually became, in fact, very skilful.

As they travelled, he instructed Lono (on account of the accident
to his foot he was called Lonopuha) in the various diseases, and the
different medicines for the proper treatment of each. They journeyed
through Kau, Puna, and Hilo, thence onward to Hamakua as far as
Kukuihaele. Prior to their arrival there, Kamakanuiahailono said
to Lonopuha, "It is better that we reside apart, lest your healing
practice do not succeed; but you settle elsewhere, so as to gain
recognition from your own skill."

For this reason, Lonopuha went on farther and located in Waimanu,
and there practised the art of healing. On account of his labors here,
he became famous as a skilful healer, which fame Kamakanuiahailono and
others heard of at Kukuihaele; but he never revealed to _Kaalaenuiahina
ma_ (company) of his teaching of Lonopuha, through which he became
celebrated. It so happened that _Kaalaenuiahina ma_ were seeking an
occasion to cause Milu's death, and he was becoming sickly through
their evil efforts.

When Milu heard of the fame of Lonopuha as a skilful healer, because
of those who were afflicted with disease and would have died but for
his treatment, he sent h