![]() ![]() No sooner was he out of the canoe than the fishermen whisked out the hidden paddles and pulled away, never even pausing to look back until they had reached the shore. Keawe-ahu was an excellent swimmer suspecting nothing, he plunged in without a word. One claimed that he had a bad cold, the other had rheumatism. Of course the thing to do was to jump overboard and secure them, but this the fishermen were unwilling to do. ![]() The impetus of the canoe left the paddles away behind. At length when they were so far out that the land was misty and dim in the distance, at a preconcerted signal the two fishermen giving the canoe a vigorous spurt which shot it forward, let the paddles slip from their hands. They went far out, trying their luck at various places, but always assured that it would be better farther out. On a suitable occasion the chief Keawe-ahu was invited to go out fishing, and on his acceptance the old fisherman and his assistant manned the canoe, taking care to hide at either end of the canoe under the little deck and the fishing gear, a couple of extra paddles. ![]() There was once a chief called Keawe-ahu who lived in Kona, Hawaii, who by his exacting disposition and harshness with which he treated his people, won their everlasting hatred.īut the more they complained the more vigorous and exacting became his treatment, until his people made up their minds that they couldn’t stand it any longer and began to cast about for some way to get rid of him. How this came about was somewhat as follows: Some now living claim to have seen it, and one man at least is said to have visited it and lived there for years. This appears at times on the ocean fertile green slopes with valleys and streams, and uplands towering up into a cloud-capped summit. Hawaiians recognize a Floating Island, or an Illusory Land which they call “Ka aina a Kane-huna-moku,” (the land of island-hiding-Kane.) ![]()
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