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When he had collected enough warriors, he put to sea with a fleet of light canoes. Hardly had he left the shore of Oahu, when the marine monster, Apukohai, met him an evil omen. He was but the precursor of another monster, Uhumakaikai, who could raise great waves and capsize canoes.
Then he pays a tribute to those who have woven the net he is going to use to capture the monster of the sea. Before spinning its fibres, they made libations, and offered sacrifices of hogs, fowls, etc. Kawelo refers to all this in his song. After having exterminated Uhumakaikai, the conqueror sailed unmolested toward Kauai, to defeat his other enemies.
In the sixteenth verse of this second canto Kawelo invokes the owl, which the Hawaiians regarded as a god. It is easy to understand, after this, the invocation that Kawelo made to Pueo when he found himself in combat with the terrible Uhumakaikai. In the third canto Kawelo endeavors to destroy the monster.
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