legend, giving the name, however,

     Aukelenui-a-Iku

    , and adding to it the account of the hero’s journey to the place where the water of life was kept (

     ka-wai-ola-loa-a-Kane

    ), his obtaining it and therewith resuscitating his brothers, who had been killed by drowning some years before. Another striking similarity is that furnished to Judge Fornander in the legend of

     Ke-alii-waha-nui

    : “He was king of the country called Honua-i-lalo. He oppressed the Menehune people. Their god Kane sent Kane-apua and Kaneloa, his elder brother, to bring the people away, and take them to the land which Kane had given them, and which was called

     Ka aina momona a Kane

    , or

     Ka one lauena a Kane

    , and also

     Ka aina i ka haupo a Kane

    . The people were then told to observe the four Ku days in the beginning of the month as

     Kapu-hoano

    (sacred or holy days), in remembrance of this event, because they thus arose (

     Ku

    ) to depart from that land. Their offerings on the occasion were swine and goats.” The narrator of the legend explains that formerly there were goats without horns, called

     malailua

    , on the slopes of Mauna Loa on Hawaii, and that they were found there up to the time of Kamehameha I. The legend further relates that after leaving the land of Honualalo, the people came to the

     Kai-ula-a-Kane

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