. Legends of old Honolulu . was caught by the othersharks and tossed over and over until he plungedhead first into a deep hole in the coral. There hethrashed his great tail about, but only forced him-self farther in so that he could not escape. The surf-riders were greatly frightened whenthey saw the company of sharks swimmingswiftly outside the coral reef—but they werenot afraid of Pehu. They went out to the holeand killed him and cut his body in the body they found hair and bones,showing that this shark had been destroyingsome of their people. They took the pieces of the body o
. Legends of old Honolulu . was caught by the othersharks and tossed over and over until he plungedhead first into a deep hole in the coral. There hethrashed his great tail about, but only forced him-self farther in so that he could not escape. The surf-riders were greatly frightened whenthey saw the company of sharks swimmingswiftly outside the coral reef—but they werenot afraid of Pehu. They went out to the holeand killed him and cut his body in the body they found hair and bones,showing that this shark had been destroyingsome of their people. They took the pieces of the body of thatgreat fish to Pele-ula (near the present corner 58 LEGENDS OF HONOLULU of Nuuanu and Beretania Streets). There theymade a great oven and burned the pieces. The place where he stuck fast in the coral isprobably still known by the fishermen of Waikikiand is not far from the Moana Hotel beach. Ka-ehu passed on toward Hawaii as a knight-errant, meeting many adventures and punishingevil-minded residents of the great teqn-u-i^ Htl THE LEGENDARY ORIGIN OF KARA 59 IXTHE LEGENDARY ORIGIN OF KAPA DR. BRIGHAM, the director of the BishopMuseum in Honolulu, well says, Kapa(or tapa) is simply ka, the, and pa, beaten, orthe beaten thing. The cloth used for centuries by the Hawai-ians and some other Polynesians was thebeaten thing resulting from beating the innermucilaginous bark of certain trees into pulp andthen into sheets which could be used for cloth-ing or covering. The letters k and t have from timeimmemorial been interchangeable among theHawaiians, therefore the words kapa andtapa have both been freely used as thename of the ancient wood-pulp cloth of theHawaiians. The old people said that in the very long agotheir ancestors did not have anything like thekapa cloth which has been known for manycenturies. They said also that there was nokapa maoli, meaning that there was nothing innature which provided clothing or little reference is made in the legends to th
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