In the fifth year, at the end of the first quarter, Kaonohiokala went
away to do his work below.
At that time virtue departed far from the mind of Kaonohiokala and he
fell into sin.
Now at this time, when he met his sisters, the prophet and his _punalua_
and their wife (Laielohelohe), Kaonohiokala began to redistribute the
land, so he called a fresh council.
And to carry out his evil purpose, he transferred his sisters to be
guards over the land called Kealohilani, and arranged that they should
live with Mokukelekahiki and have charge of the land with him.
When some of his sisters saw how much greater the honor was to become
chiefs in a land they had never visited, and serve with Mokukelekahiki
there, they agreed to consent to their brother's plan.
But Kahalaomapuana would not consent to return to Kealohilani, for she
cared more for her former post of honor than to return to Kealohilani.
And in refusing, she spoke to her brother as follows: "My high one, as
to your sending us to Kealohilani, let them go and I will remain here,
living as you first placed me; for I love the land and the people and am
accustomed to the life; and if I stay below here and you above and they
between, then all will be well, just as we were born of our mother; for
you broke the way, your little sisters followed you, and I stopped it
up; that was the end, and so it was.
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