Lonoikamakahike, desiring to view “the trunkless tree Kahihikolo,” puts his kingdom in charge of his wife and sails for Kauai.  Such are the hardships of the journey that his followers desert him, only one stranger, Kapaihiahilani, accompanying him and serving him in his wanderings.  This man therefore on his return is made chief counsellor and favorite.  But he becomes the queen’s lover, and after an absence on Kauai, finds himself disgraced at court.  Standing without the king’s door, he chants a song recalling their wanderings together; the king relents, the informers are put to death, and he remains the first man in the kingdom until his death.  Nor are there any further wars on Hawaii until the days of Keoua.

[Footnote 1:  One of the most popular heroes of the Puna, Kau, and Kona coast of Hawaii to-day is the kupua or “magician,” Kalaekini.  His power, mana, works through a rod of kauila wood, and his object seems to be to change the established order of things, some say for good, others for the worse.  The stories tell of his efforts to overturn the rock called Pohaku o Lekia (rock of Lekia), of the bubbling spring of Punaluu, whose flow he stops, and the blowhole called Kapuhiokalaekini, which he chokes with cross-sticks of kauila wood.  The double character of this magician, whom one native paints as a benevolent god, another, not 10 miles distant, as a boaster and mischief-maker, is an instructive example of the effect of local coloring upon the interpretation of folklore.  Daggett describes this hero.  He seems to be identical with the Kalaehina of Fornander.]

15.  KEAWEIKEKAHIALII

This chief, born in Kailua, Kona, has a faithful servant, Mao, who studies how his master may usurp the chief ship of Hawaii.  One day while Keaweikekahialii plays at checkers with King Keliiokaloa, Mao approaches, and while speaking apparently about the moves of the game, conveys to him the intelligence that now is the time to strike.  Mao kills the king by a blow on the neck, and they further slay all the 800 chiefs of Hawaii save Kalapanakuioiomoa, whose daughter Keaweikekahialii marries, thus handing down the high chief blood of Hawaii to this day.

[Footnote 1:  Mr. Stokes found on the rocks at Kahaluu, near the heiau of Keeku, a petroglyph which the natives point to as the beheaded figure of Kamalalawalu.]

16.  KEKUHAUPIO

One of the most famous warriors and chiefs in the days of Kalaniopuu and of Kamehameha, kings of Hawaii, was Kekuhaupio, who taught the latter the art of war.  He could face a whole army of men and ward off 400 to 4,000 spears at once.  In the battle at Waikapu between Kalaniopuu of Hawaii and Kahekili of Maui, the Hawaii men are put to flight.  As they flee over Kamoamoa, Kekuhaupio faces the Maui warriors alone.  Weapons lie about him in heaps, still he is not wounded.  The Maui hero, Oulu, encounters him with his sling; the first stone misses, the god Lono in answer to prayer averts the next.  Kekuhaupio then demands with the third a hand-to-hand conflict, in which he kills Oulu.