The man came up on the beach. He was worn with much travel, and he was white and old-looking. He heard the cry that was sent to the waves and the winds, and he cried back an answer: [[41]]
“It is Lu-pe, yes, Lu-pe,
The eldest brother;
And I am here.”
He knew Hina-of-the-Sea. He took her and her child in his canoe, rejoicing that his long search was over at last and that he had a sister again. He took her and her child to one of the Islands which he had discovered.
And there Hina-of-the-Sea lived happily with her eldest brother, Ma-ui Mua, and there her child grew up to manhood. The story of her eldest brother’s search for Hina is not told in Hawaii nei, and one has to go to Kahiki-mo-e to hear it. But in Hawaii nei they tell of a beautiful land that Ma-ui the Skillful came to in search of some one. It is the land, perhaps, that his brother and sister lived in—the beautiful land that is called Moana-liha-i-ka-wao-ke-le.
How Ma-ui strove to win Immortality for Men.
Would you hear the seventh and last of great Ma-ui’s deeds? They do not tell of this deed in Hawaii nei, but they tell of it in Kahiki-mo-e. The last was the greatest of all Ma-ui’s deeds, for it was his dangerous labor then to win the greatest boon for men—the boon of everlasting life.
He heard of the Goblin-goddess who is called Hina-nui-ke-po, Great Hina-of-the-Night. It is she [[42]]who brings death on all creatures. But if one could take the heart out of her body and give it to all the creatures of the earth to eat, they would live for ever, and death would be no more in the world.