In a while they saw birds approaching the ship—four birds. Au-ke-le, remembering what his mo-o grandmother had told him, knew that these were the Queen’s brothers. They came and lit on the yards, and asked of those below what they had come for. Au-ke-le told his brothers to say that they had not come to make war and that they had come on a voyage of sight-seeing. His brothers would not say this; instead they cried out to the birds, “Ours is a ship to make war.” The birds flew back; they told their sister Na-maka that the ship had come to make war. Then the Queen put on her war-skirt and went down to the shore.
“Four birds … came and lit on the yards, and asked of those below what they had come for.”
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Au-ke-le knew that all in the canoe would be destroyed. He took up his calabash that had the Magic in it, and he threw it into the sea. As he did this he saw the Queen standing there with her war-skirt on. She took up her feathered standard and shook it in the air. Au-ke-le sprang from the ship and swam after the floating calabash. Then the ship and all who were on it disappeared: Na-maka the Queen made a sign, and they were seen no more.
And now Au-ke-le was left on the land that his grandmother had told him about—the land of Ka-la-ke’e-nui-a-Kane, where the stars rest on the tops of the mountains. He brought the calabash that had his Magic in it and the skirt of feathers that his mo-o grandmother had given him, and he rested under a tree by the sea-shore.
The dog that was called Mo-e-la, the Day Sleeper, smelt his blood and barked. And, hearing her dog bark, Na-maka the Queen came out of her house and called to her four bird-brothers: “You must go and find out what man of flesh and blood my dog is barking at.” But her four brothers, being sleepy, said, “Send your two women-servants and let us rest.” So the Queen sent her two women-servants to find out what the dog was barking at. “And if it be a creature of flesh and blood, kill him,” said the Queen.
Then the two servants went towards the shore [[53]]where Au-ke-le was resting. But his Magic told him what was coming and what he should do. “When they come you must call the servants by their names, and they will be so abashed at a stranger’s knowing them that they will not know what to do.”
So when the Queen’s two women-servants came before him Au-ke-le called out, “It is U-po-ho and it is Hua-pua-i-na-nea.” The two servants were so abashed because their names were known to this stranger that they stood there looking at each other.
Then Au-ke-le called them to him, and they came, and they sat near him. He asked them to play the game that is played with black and white stones. He moved the stones, and as he moved them he chanted, and his chant was to let them know who he was.