and coconuts, and arrive in four months more at Lalakeenuiakane, the land of Queen Namakaokahai.  The queen is guarded by four brothers in bird form, Kanemoe, Kaneapua, Leapua and Kahaumana, by two maid servants in animal form, and by a dog, Moela.  The whole party is reduced to ashes at the shaking of the queen’s skirt, except the hero, who escapes and by his good looks and quick wit wins the friendship of the queen’s maids and her brothers.  When he approaches the queen he must encounter certain tests.  The dog he turns into ashes; to befriend him the maids run away and the bird brothers transform themselves into a rock, a log, a coral rock, and a hard blue rock, in order to hide themselves.  He escapes poisoned food set before him.  Then he worships each one by name, and they are astounded at his knowledge.  The queen therefore takes him as her husband.  She is part human, part divine; the moon is her grandfather, the thunder-and-lightning-bolt is her uncle.  Aukelanuiaiku must know her taboos, eat where she bids him, not come to her unless she leads him in.

The bird Halulu with feathers on her forehead, called Hinawaikolii, who is the queen’s cousin, carries the hero away to her nest in the cliff, but he kills her with his ax, and her mate, Kiwaha, lets him down on a rainbow.

The two live happily.  Their first child is to be called Kauwilanuimakehaikalani, “the lightning seen in a rainstorm,” and for him sugar cane, potato, banana and taro are tabooed.  The queen can return to life if cut to pieces; can turn herself into a cliff, a roaring fire, and a great ocean; and has the power of flight.  All her tricks the queen and her brothers teach to the hero.  Then she sends him with her brothers to meet her relatives.  He goes ahead of his guides, encounters Kuwahailo, who sends against him two bolts of fire, Kukuena and Mahuia, and two thunder rocks, Ikuwa and Welehu, all of which he wards off like a puff of wind.  Next they meet Makalii and his wife, the beautiful Malanaikuaheahea.

The next adventure is after the water of life with which to restore the brothers to life.  The first trip is unsuccessful.  Instead of flying in a straight line between the sky (lewa) and space (nenelu—­literally, mud) the hero falls into space and is obliged to cling to the moon for support.  Meanwhile his wife thinks him dead and has summoned Night, Day, Sun, Stars, Thunder, Rainbow, Lightning, Water-spout, Fog, Fine rain, etc., to mourn for him.  Then, through her supernatural knowledge she hears him declare to the moon, her grandfather, Kaukihikamalama, his birth and ancestry, and learns for the first time that they are related.  On the next trip he reaches a deep pit, at the bottom of which is the well of everlasting life, the property of Kamohoalii.  It is guarded by two maternal uncles of the hero, Kanenaiau and Hawewe and a maternal aunt, Luahinekaikapu, the sister of the lizard grandmother, who is blind.  The hero steals the bananas she is roasting, dodges her anger, and restores her sight.  She paints up his hands to look like Kamohoalii’s and the guards at the well hand him the gourd Huawaiakaula with its string network called Paleaikaahalanalana.  The rustling of the lama trees, the loulou palms and the bamboo, as Aukelenuiaiku retreats, wakens Kamohoalii, who pursues; but with a start of one year and six months, the hero can not be overtaken.