A special relation seems to exist in Hawaiian story
between Kauai and the distant Puna on Hawaii, at the two extremes of the
island group: it is here that _Halemano_ from Kauai weds the beauty of his
dream, and it is a Kauai boy who runs the sled race with Pele in the famous
myth of _Kalewalo_. With the Kauakahialii tale (found in _Hawaiian Annual_,
1907, and Paradise of the Pacific, 1911) compare Grey's New Zealand story
(p. 235) of Tu Tanekai and Tiki playing the horn and the pipe to attract
Hinemoa, the maiden of Rotorua. In Malo, p. 117, one of the popular stories
of this chief is recorded, a tale that resembles Gill's of the spirit
meeting of Watea and Papa.]
[Footnote 19: These are all wood birds, in which form Gill tells us (Myths
and Songs, p. 35) the gods spoke to man in former times. Henshaw tells us
that the _oo_ (_Moho nobilis_) has "a long shaking note with ventriloquial
powers." The _alala_ is the Hawaiian crow (_Corvus hawaiiensis_), whose
note is higher than in our species. If, as Henshaw says, its range is
limited to the dry Kona and Kau sections, the chief could hardly hear its
note in the rainy uplands of Puna.
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