He came to it. Before the cavern was the great sea. Inside of it were Mo-o and Waka, the Shark-God’s watchmen.
When they saw a man hurrying up to the cavern with a squealing pig upon his shoulders, Waka and Mo-o shouted to him to go back. But Ka-ma-lo came right up to them. “Our lord is away,” they said, “and it is lucky for you, O man, that he is away. Fly for your life, for he will soon return.” Ka-ma-lo would not go. He put down on the ground the pig which he had brought.
Waka and Mo-o ran here and there, beseeching Ka-ma-lo to go away. The man would not go. “I have brought this pig as an offering to the Shark-God,” he said, “and I will speak to him even if afterwards he destroy me.” “It is now too late for you to get away,” said Waka, “for, lo, our lord returns.” “Hide yourself in the cavern; tie up your pig, and perhaps when our lord sleeps you will be able to get away,” said Mo-o. They tied the pig, and they covered it up with seaweed; Ka-ma-lo went into the cavern and hid behind one of the rocks.
A great rolling wave came to the cavern; another came, and then another. With the eighth roller the Shark-God came out of the ocean. Ka-ma-lo looked out and saw him. And when he looked upon him he trembled and drew himself farther into the depths of the cavern. [[169]]
The Shark-God transformed himself. He was now in the shape of a man, but he was taller and broader than any two men that Ka-ma-lo had ever seen. He came within the cavern, and Ka-ma-lo saw that he had still one mark of the shark upon him: on his back and between his great shoulders there were, as if made with tattoo, the lines of a shark’s opened mouth.
When he came within, Kau-hu-hu began to sniff. “I smell a man, a man,” he said. Ka-ma-lo quaked with terror: the Shark-God, with his great height and breadth, seemed fearful to the man.
And still he moved about the cavern, and Mo-o and Waka, his watchmen, ran this way and that way, striving to get him to give up his search. There was a squealing outside. Kau-hu-hu stopped and ordered his watchmen to bring to him the thing that squealed. They went outside and came back with Ka-ma-lo’s pig.
“A pig!” sniffed the Shark-God. “Then there must be a man about. Where is he?”
Then, in their terror, the two watchmen pointed to where Ka-ma-lo had hidden himself. The Shark-God put down his two big hands and drew the man up.
“Man, I will eat you,” said the Shark-God.