Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-12-08

10 him, Are you then annoyed with n
Have ! displeased you in any way?' lie OF
IN SAID, " Why, what could you haze done II
be would displease me2'
ID lie kept on his way She following. d.
.e Waihi hIl they came to large stone
u Aihualama, when he turned abruptly al
d facing the young girl, looked at her with
NJ expression Of mingled longing and hate.
J., last with deep sigh he said, you a
a beautiful, my bctrothed, but as you have be,
y false YOU must die.
The young girl looked up in surprise
these strange words, but saw only hatred an
deadly purpose in Kauhi's eyes. so she sal,
u ] had TO die, why did not you Kill me ,
home, so that my people could have burie
my bones; but you brought me to the vii
wood and who will bury mc2 Gfyou think
have been false to you, why don't you PROV
it before believing it2'
But kauhi would not listen to her appeaI
and perhaps it only served to remind him q
what he considered was his great loss, and h,
struck her across the temples with the beov,
bunch OF hala nuts he had broken of at NAH
naul, and which he had been holding all IN,
time
The blow killed the girl instantly and Kauhi
hastily dug hole under the side Of the rock
and buried her, when he started down the
valley towards Waikiki.
As soon as he was gone, large owl who
was god and relative Of Kahalaopuna's and
VINO had followed her from home, Immediately
set to work to dig the body out, which done.
he brushed the dirt carefully off with his wings
ana breathing into the nostrils Of the girl re.
stored her to life. He rubbed his face against
the bruse in the temple and it healed immed.
ately. kauhi had not advanced very far on his
way homeward when he heard the voice oil
hahaIaopuna singing lament for his unkind.
ness and beseeching him to believe her or at
least to prove his accusation.
knnhi, hearing her voice, returned, and see.
ng the owl flying above her, recognised the
means OF her resurrection, and going up to the
;lf' ordered her to follow him. They went up
he side of the ridge which divides Manoa
Valley from Nuuanu. 1t was hard work for
he tenderly nurtured young girl 10 climb up
ne steep mountain ridge through thorny
angie oil underbrush at one time, and at
MOTHER cinging against the bare face of the
oekS holding ON to swinging vines for support
>auhi never offered to assist her. but kept ON
mead, only looking back occasionally to see
nat she followed. When they arrived a, the
cry summit 1.-The divide She was all scratched
nj bruised and her pau in tatters. Seating
erseii on stone to regain her breath she
'ked kauhi where they were going. lie never
nswered' but struck her again with the hala
'ahch' killing her instantly as before. lie then
ng hole near where she lay, buried her. and i,
ar'ed Tor Waikiki, by way Of the Kakea ,
dye He was no sooner out of SIGHT than ,b,.
VI again scratched the dirt away and restored :,
&c girl as before. Again she sang song Of i,
We and regret for her lovers anger. and !,
eaded with him To lay aside his suspicious mr.
owe them. kauhi on hearing her voc.
anu returned, and orders her TO follow him ri
ieh 'hey descended into the Nuuanu Valley =.
Naniakapupu, crossed over ON to the Wac.
II ridge where he again kills and buries the >,
lh'nl glrI, who is again restored by the owl. IN
neh he is on his way back as before, she =,
Is song wherein she describes the perils ,s
= d''heui'ies OF the way traversed by them -,
! ends by plcadinr. for r-v s---N,.'~',f the I'M
known fault. The wretched man on hearing
her voice again, was very angry, and his re
peaied acts OF cruelty and the suffering en-
dured 10y the girl, far from softening his heart
only served to render him more brutal, and Ia
eNtincuish what little spark of kindly feeling
he nigh, have had originally His only
thought was to kill her for good, and thus OBJ.
tain some satisfaction for his wasted poi and
ish. lie returned to her, and ordered her as
usual to follow him, and started for Kilohana
at the head of kalili Valley, where he again
Killed her She is again restored by the owl,
and makes her resurrection known by singing
TO her worthless lover who this time takes
her across guches, ravines, and plains till they
arrive at Pohakea on the Eva slope of the
kaala mountains, where he kills and buries
her under large koa tree. The faithful owl
tried to seape the dir, away so as to get a,
the body Of the girl, but his claws BECAME
entangled in the numerous roots and rootl.ls
which Kauhi had been careful not TO cut
away. The more the owl scratched the more
deeply tangled he got, and finally with bruised
claws and fuiiled feathers he had to give up