Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (Mythology) Collected And Translated From the Hawaiian
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The girls saw the strangers and with hearts full of hospitality cried: "O women strangers, stop at our house and eat. Here are dried fish and the kilu-ai [a-Uttle-cala- bash-full-of-poi, the native food]." It was all the food the girls had, but they offered it gladly. Hiiaka said: "One of us will stop and eat. Two of us will pass on. We are not himgry." The truth was that Wahine-omao of the Ught skin needed food like any one not possessing semi-divine powers. So Wahine-omao stopped and ate. She... saw that the girls were kupilikia (stirred-up-with- anxiety) and asked them why they were troubled. "Our father," they said, "went to the sea to fish in the night and has not returned. We fear that he is in trouble." Hiiaka heard the words and looked toward the 112 LEGENDS OF VOLCANOES sea. She saw the spirit of that man coming up from the beach with an ipu-holoholona (a-caIabash-for-carr3dng fish-lines, etc.) in his hands. She charged the girls to hsten carefully while she told them about their father, saying: "You must not let tears fall or wailing tones come into your voices.
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