All that happened while I was in the forest. When I came back I went into the enclosure where the King’s canoes are sheltered. I stood there beside the great canoe that was painted red. I put my hands upon it, for then I greatly rejoiced in this work of my hands. I put my hands along the outrigger of the canoe. And then I looked down, and it seemed to me that I saw a hand stretched out from under the canoe.
I stooped down, and I looked under it. I saw two bodies with their hands outstretched. I drew them out, and I saw that they were the bodies of my sons. And when I looked upon them I knew that my sons had been slain by the King’s executioner.
I went away from the King’s house. I met many men, and I spoke to them, telling them of the terrible thing that the King had done to me. But each one I spoke to said: “Yes, such is Ku-pa, our King. He has not dealt with you harder than he has dealt with others.” And when they said this they looked at me; and I saw that their looks were hard, even as the King’s.
I went within my house, and I sat there thinking. To whom could I go for vengeance on the King? [[173]]Who would be powerful enough to avenge me upon Ku-pa? And then I thought of you, Kau-hu-hu. You would be able to avenge me, and no one else would be able. And so I made up my mind to go to you—even to go into the cavern where no man had ever ventured before,
I took a pig as an offering, and I went hurrying on my way; no man going into danger ever went so swiftly before.
Mo-e Mo-e heard no more of the story then. He stood up. The two who were guarding him were so startled that they did not lay hands on him. He took up the spear that was between them, and he went off.
Back to his wife’s he went, and he left the long spear with its edge of shark’s teeth in the house. “I will have to make another journey,” he said, “and if again anything should happen to me that will prevent my coming back, and if a son is born to us, and if he should want to go in search of me, give him the spear so that I may know him; and give him the name that I told you.”
He went to work in the fields again, and he worked day and night, and his wife’s brother Po-po-lo-au and her servant Po-o were astonished at the work he did. And then, on the very night that his son was born, Mo-e Mo-e fell asleep. He slept for ten days and for another ten days. His wife, her [[174]]brother, and her servant tried to waken him; all they could do could not waken Mo-e Mo-e, Then his wife shook him; she made noises; she poured water on his eyes, but still he slept. Then she said, “There is no doubt about it: Mo-e Mo-e is dead.”
She called her brother and her servant, and she said to them: “The Chief is dead. Wrap him up and carry him to the beach and cast him into the sea; that is the best that one can do for a dead man.” Her brother and her servant did as she ordered, and a wrap was put around Mo-e Mo-e, and then he was carried down to the beach and cast into the sea. Then Po-po-lo-au went home, and Po-o went home.
His wife’s name was Ka-le-ko’o-ka-lau-ae, and concerning her and her brother Po-po-lo-au and her servant Po-o a strange story is told. After they had left what they thought was the dead body of Mo-e Mo-e in the sea, Po-po-lo-au and Po-o went up the mountains to get timbers for the roofing of a house. They were far from home, and the night came on dark and rainy. Po-o wanted to go back to the house, but Po-po-lo-au would not return through the dark and the rain. Nothing would do him but that they should spend the night in a cave.