He went back, and he lived for a while under the cruel King who had destroyed his children and amongst the hard people that the King ruled over. He began to put together the offering for Kau-hu-hu the Shark-God; and by the time he had got all the black pigs and all the white fowl and all the red fish, the new moon had come.
He took his offering to the temple enclosure; he left the black pigs and the white fowl and the red fish within, and he stood upon the black stones, and he looked towards the mountains of La-na-i.
He heard the King beating upon his drum: it was to summon all his people to him. He heard the sound of the drum, but he did not go towards the King’s house; he stood upon the black stones that made the temple enclosure, and he watched and he waited, moveless as the stone that he stood on. Louder and louder beat the King’s drum. The people all gathered at his house. Then Ka-ma-lo saw a speck of cloud over the mountains of La-na-i. He watched, and he saw it coming nearer and nearer. He left the place that he had been watching from, and he went to the beach.
As he went he saw the crowd of people that were gathered together by the King’s drum. They called to him, but he went past them. He came to the beach, and he pushed but in his canoe.
When he looked back he saw that the end of the rainbow was now resting on the temple enclosure, [[181]]and he knew that the Shark-God had set a guard on the offering that he had left there. The cloud was coming nearer, and it was growing bigger and bigger as it came. It made a darkness over all the land.
Ka-ma-lo paddled beyond the reef, and he went far out to sea. Out of the darkness that covered the land there came a fearful storm: down poured the rain; the trees in the forest cracked and broke; the rivers suddenly filled up; as they rushed into the valley, trees, houses, and men were swept away and out to sea. Ka-ma-lo, in his canoe, saw the red-covered drum of the King go floating by. That was the end of Ku-pa and his people. And if the spear that this young man holds in his hands be the same spear that I had when we were in the temple enclosure the day I told you the beginning of the story, that spear is the only thing that has come out of his kingdom.
Ka-le-lea then spoke up and said: “Yes, this is the spear you carried on that occasion, for my father, Mo-e Mo-e, heard you tell the beginning of that story; he related it to my mother, who told it to me. And now I am seeking him; I am seeking that man, for he is my father.” “If you are seeking the man who slept while we brought him to the temple and slept there while we were making the preparations to sacrifice him, you have not far to go,” said the men. “We have seen him since, and we [[182]]know where he is.” “And where is he?” asked the boy. “The man planting taro there,” said the man, “is no other than he; he is O-pe-le, who came to be called Mo-e Mo-e.”
Then the boy called out to the man who was planting taro in the field, “Say, your rows of taro are crooked.” The man looked at his rows, and then he began to straighten them. But no matter how he straightened them, the boy would call out the same thing. Then the man said to himself: “How strange this is! Here I have been doing this work night and day, and my rows were never made crooked before. Now it seems that I cannot make them straight.” Thereupon he quit working and went to the edge of the patch where the boy was standing, the great spear in his hands. “Whose offspring are you?” said he, when he looked at the boy and looked at the spear. “Yours,” said the boy, “yours and Ka-li-ko’o-ka-lau-ae’s.” “What name have you?” said the man. “I am Ka-le-lea,” said the boy. “You have found me, my son,” said Mo-e Mo-e.
And thereupon the two went into the house.
The boy who came to Mo-e Mo-e, Ka-le-lea, is also known in our stories; in them he is called “The Mari Who Was Bold in his Wish,” and when you have lighted some more ku-kui nuts I will tell you how he came to get that name.