[Traditionary Stories].

[Relating to the Dead in Ancient Time] 570
[Story of the Ohelo] 576
[Indigenous Canes of Hawaii] 582
[Story of the Bambu] 588
[The Coconut] 590
[The Banana Field of Kahuoi and other Famous Places] 598
[The Stone Adze] 604
[History of the Awa] 606
[Building Canoes] 610
[The Maile] 614
[History of the Wiliwili] 618
[The Various Ohias of Hawaii] 620
[The Mat] 626
[About the Koa Tree] 630
[The Kapa of Hawaii in Olden Time] 636
[Construction of Houses in Hawaii nei] 640
[Methods of House Construction] 648
[Story of the Lauhala] 656
[Some Things in the Bible Similar to Some Things Done Here in Hawaii in the Olden Time] 658
[The Days and the Months] 662
[Concerning the Ti-Leaf] 668
[The Kukui Tree] 670
[An Account of the Breadfruit] 676
[Cultivation of the Taro; Ancient and Modern] 680
[A Story of Kamehameha] 688

[A Story of Kawelo].

CHAPTER PAGE
I. [Kawelo a Timid Youth—Learns Swimming, Fishing and Dancing—Covets the Wives of Aikanaka] 694
II. [Aikanaka Plans to be Avenged—Kawelo Moves to Oahu—Joins Makuakeke and Captures a Famous Fish—Obtains a New Wife and is Taught the Arts of Warfare] 696
III. [Kawelo is Called Back to Kauai to Aid his Parents—Aikanaka’s Forces Engage Him and Are Defeated—Kills His Brother Kauahoa] 700
IV. [Kawelo Loses His Wife to Aikanaka—Plot to Kill Kawelo and His Ulus—Kamalama, the Last Defender, Falls as He Calls Kawelo from Surfing—Kawelo Buries His Friend—Is Stoned to Supposed Death—His Half-sister Appointed Caretaker of the Body] 706
V. [Body of Kawelo Placed on the Structure for Decomposition—Kawelo Revives and is Aided by His Caretakers—They Agree to Resist the King’s Emissaries] 712
VI. [The King, Advised of the Refusal to Permit Inspection, Sends a Guard to Slay the Caretakers—Kawelo Assumes Defense of the Hill and Hurls Rocks upon the Guard till One Only Is Left to Tell the King of Their Destruction] 716

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FORNANDER COLLECTION
OF
HAWAIIAN ANTIQUITIES AND FOLK-LORE

THE HAWAIIANS’ ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THEIR ISLANDS AND ORIGIN OF THEIR RACE WITH THE TRADITIONS OF THEIR MIGRATIONS, Etc., AS GATHERED FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES

BY
ABRAHAM FORNANDER
Author of “An Account of the Polynesian Race”
WITH TRANSLATIONS EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES BY
THOMAS G. THRUM

Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

Volume V—Part I