A similar diversity marks the plant and sea
life--only in animal, bird, and especially insect life, are varieties
sparsely represented.
Most of the action of the story takes place on the four largest
islands--on Oahu, where the twins are born; on Maui, the home of Hina,
where the prophet builds the temple to his god; on Hawaii, where lies
the fabled land of Paliuli and where the surf rolls in at Keaau; and on
Kauai, whence the chiefs set forth to woo and where the last action of
the story takes place. These, with Molokai and Lanai, which lie off Maui
"like one long island," virtually constitute the group.
Laie, where the twins are born, is a small fishing village on the
northern or Koolau side of Oahu, adjoining that region made famous by
the birth and exploits of the pig god, Kamapuaa. North from Laie
village, in a cane field above the Government road, is still pointed out
the water hole called Waiopuka--a long oval hole like a bathtub dropping
to the pool below, said by the natives to be brackish in taste and to
rise and fall with the tide because of subterranean connection with the
sea. On one side an outjutting rock marks the entrance to a cave said to
open out beyond the pool and be reached by diving.
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