Now all that Ni-he-u could see of his brother was his legs, and he saw them grow thinner and thinner as the days passed and Kana had no food. Ni-he-u knew that Kana was starving. He shouted up to him, “Lie over towards Kona, towards the house of Uli, our grandmother, and she will give you something to eat.”
It took three days for the words that Ni-he-u shouted to reach Kana. At last he heard the words, and he stooped over the sea and over the mountain He-le-a-ka-la. (It was then that he made the groove in the mountain that is there to this day.) And so he reached to Kona, and he put his head down at his grandmother’s door.
There he stayed until Uli rose up in the morning. She went outside, and there she saw Kana, her grandson. She began to feed him. She fed him, and she fed him, and she fed him. He got fat in his body, and then the fatness of his body began to reach down into his legs. Ni-he-u saw the fatness coming [[146]]on the legs that were in the canoe where he watched and waited.
Ni-he-u watched the legs getting fatter and fatter. But still he had to wait, for his brother was doing nothing. Then he became angry, and he made a cut in one of Kana’s legs.
It was three days before the numbness of this cut reached up to Kana’s head. At last it came to him, and then he spoke to his grandmother about it. “It is because your brother Ni-he-u is angry with you because you have not remembered him or your mother, but stay here all the time feeding yourself, and he has made a cut in your leg.” Then his grandmother said, “The hill keeps towering up, but if you rise up above it, and then stoop over and break off the flipper on the right side (for the hill is really a turtle, as I have told you), and then stoop over and break off the flipper on the left side, it will not be able to rise up any more, and you will then be able to conquer it.”
When he heard that said, Kana arose once more. He extended himself up. He towered over Hau-pu. Then he stooped over, and he reached down, and he broke off the flipper that was on the right side. Again he stooped over, and he broke off the flipper that was on the left side. And when these two flippers were broken off the power went out of Hau-pu. It rose no more. Then Kana stepped on the hill, and it broke to pieces. The pieces fell into the sea. They [[147]]were left there in the forms of rocks and little hills. There they are to this day, and that is all that is left of the hill that carried off Hina.
The Chief Pe-pe’e was conquered, for he had no power after his hill was destroyed. Kana and Ni-he-u took back their mother in the canoe, and she lived ever afterwards with her own husband in her own house. But Kana did not live there. He went to stretch himself in the long house that went from the mountains to the edge of the sea. And this ends the story of Kana’s victory over the hill Hau-pu. [[149]]
The Me-ne-hu-ne.
Ka-u-ki-u-ki—that was the name of the Me-ne-hu-ne who boasted to the rest of his folk that he could catch the Moon by holding on to her legs; Ka-u-ki-u-ki, the Angry One.