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In the mean time, Liloa had grown old, and Akahikameainoa, deeming the moment had arrived, invested Umi with the royal malo, the niho palaoa, and the lei, emblems of power, which high chiefs alone had the right to wear. "Go," said she to him then; "go, my son, present yourself at Waipio to King Liloa, your father.
The spot where she hid them is known to this day as Huna na niho, the hiding place of the teeth. Liloa then held his court at Waipio in all the splendor of the time. The palace was made merry night and day by the licentious motions of the dancers, and by the music of the resounding calabashes.
"Uritaata," he said; "I never saw one before, but I have read in my school-book that they have those dogmen in French colonies." Uri means dog and taata man, and the compound name was that which sprang to the lips of the Tahitians on seeing a monkey, just as they called the horse puaa horo fenua, the pig that runs on the earth, and the goat, horo niho, the pig with horns.
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