As Mokukelekahiki and his companion approached the house where the
lizard was sleeping, then said Kihanuilulumoku to Kahalaomapuana, "When
those men get here who are flying toward us, then I will throw you out
and land you on Kaeloikamalama's neck, and when he questions you, then
tell him you are a child of theirs, and when he asks what our journey is
for, then tell him."
Not long after, Mokukelekahiki and Kaeloikamalama thundered at the door
of the house.
When the lizard looked, there stood Kaeloikamalama with the digging
spade called Kapahaelihonua, The Knife-that-cuts-the-earth, twenty
fathoms its length, four men to span it. Thought the lizard, "A
slaughterer this." There was Kaeloikamalama swinging the digging spade
in his fingers.
Then Kihanuilulumoku lifted his tail out of the water, the sea swelled,
the waves overwhelmed the cliffs from their foundations as high waves
sweep the coast in February; the spume of the sea rose high, the sun was
darkened, white sand was flung on the shore.
Then fear fell upon Kaeloikamalama and his companion, and they started
to run away from before the face of the lizard.
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