13.  KALAEHINA

The younger brother of Kalaepuni can throw a canoe into the sea as if it were a spear, and split wood with his head.  He proves his worth by getting six canoes for his brother out of a place where they were stuck, in the uplands of Kapua, South Kona, Hawaii.  He makes a conquest of the island of Maui; its king, Kamalalawalu, flees and hides himself when Kalaehina defies his taboo.  There he rules until Kapakohana, the strong usurper of Kauai, wrestles with him and pushes him over the cliff Kaihalulu and kills him.[1]

14.  LONOIKAMAKAHIKE

Lonoikamakahike was king of Hawaii after Keawenuiaumi, his father, 64 generations from Wakea.  According to the story, he is born and brought up at Napoopo, Hawaii, by the priests Loli and Hauna.  He learns spear throwing from Kanaloakuaana; at the test he dodges 3 times 40 spears at one time.  He discards sports, but becomes expert in the use of the spear and the sling, in wrestling, and in the art of riddling disputation, the hoopapa.  He also promotes the worship of the gods.  While yet a boy he marries his cousin Kaikilani, a woman of high rank who has been Kanaloakuaana’s wife, and gives her rule over the island until he comes of age.  Then they rule together, and so wisely that everything prospers.

Kaikilani has a lover, Heakekoa, who follows them as they set out on a tour of the islands.  While detained on Molokai by the weather, Lonoikamakahike and his wife are playing checkers when the lover sings a chant from the cliff above Kalaupapa.  Lonoikamakahike suspects treachery and strikes his wife to the ground with the board.  Fearful of the revenge of her friends he travels on to Kailua on Oahu to Kekuhihewa’s court, which he visits incognito.  Reproached because he has no name song, he secures from a visiting chiefess of Kauai the chant called “The Mirage of Mana.”  In the series of bets which follow, Lonoikamakahike wins from Kakuhihewa all Oahu and is about to win his daughter for a wife when Kaikilani arrives, and a reconciliation follows.  The betting continues, concluded by a riddling match, in all of which Lonoikamakahike is successful.

But his wife brings word that the chiefs of Hawaii, enraged by his insult to her person, have rebelled against him, only the district of Kau remaining faithful.  In a series of battles at Puuanahulu, called Kaheawai; at Kaunooa; at Puupea; at Puukohola, called Kawaluna because imdertaken at night and achieved by the strategy of lighting torches to make the appearance of numbers; at Kahua, called Kaiopae; at Halelua, called Kaiopihi from a warrior slain in the battle; finally at Puumaneo, his success is complete, and Hawaii becomes his.

Lonoikamakahike sails to Maui with his younger brother and chief counsellor, Pupuakea, to visit King Kamalalawalu, whose younger brother is Makakuikalani:  In the contest of wit, Lonoikamakahike is successful.  The king of Maui wishes to make war on Hawaii and sends his son to spy out the land, who gains false intelligence.  At the same time Lonoikamakahike sends to the king two chiefs who pretend disaffection and egg him on to ruin.  In spite of Lanikaula’s prophecy of disaster, Kamalalawalu sails to Hawaii with a fleet that reaches from Hamoa, Hana, to Puakea, Kohala; he and his brother are killed at Puuoaoaka, and their bodies offered in sacrifice.[1]