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Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

CHAPTER XIII
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Liloa said to the woman: "If you bring into the world a man-child, it shall belong to me; if a girl, it shall be yours.
I leave with you as tokens of my sovereign will my _niho palaoa_ (whale's tooth), and my _lei_.

Conceal these things from all eyes; they will one day be a souvenir of our relation, a proof of the paternity of the child who shall be born from our loves." That would, indeed, be an unexceptionable testimony, for by the law of kapu a wife could not, under pain of death, approach her husband while in her courses.

The soiled malo and the time of the child's birth would give certain indications.
Akahikameainoa carefully concealed the royal tokens of her adultery, saying nothing to any one, not even to her husband.

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.
Besides a considerable troop of servants, he had in attendance priests (kahuna), prophets (kaula), nobles, and his only son, Hakau.

The palace was made merry night and day by the licentious motions of the dancers, and by the music of the resounding calabashes.
Nine moons after her meeting with the king, Akahikameainoa gave birth to a man-child, which she called Umi, and brought up under the roof of her husband, who believed himself the father.


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