"Twice you have saved my life and my people, Kenni. I am your man. You must not go away. For the thought of my little son who is dead I will give up eating man. I will become a nation."
"And you will answer for the rest?"
"I will answer for the rest. If any man eats man I will kill him."
Ha'o kept his word, and so, in the death of his little son, the foundations were laid in Kapaa'a, and the black cloud broke once more in blessing.
CHAPTER XXIV
GAIN OF LOSS
With a clean bill of health, and Ha'o as supreme chief anxious to become a nation, and therefore ready to follow the white men's ideas, matters began to progress rapidly.
The first thing to be done, as soon as the men could be spared from hospital work, was to get rid of the Blackbirders.
Captain Cathie, vehemently backed up by Aunt Jannet, would even now have made short work of them.