Giving up his share of power, he departed from Waipio with his two _aikane_, and retired into the mountains, where he gave himself up to bird-catching.
Hakau then reigned alone, and ruled according to his fancy.

Abusing his authority, he made himself feared, but, at the same time, detested by his people.

He brought upon himself the censure of the chief attendants of his father, whom he provoked by all sorts of humiliations and insults.

If he saw any one of either sex remarkable for good looks, he had them tattooed in a frightful manner for his good pleasure.
Meanwhile Umi, who had a taste for savage life, had taken leave of his favorites, and wandered alone in the midst of the forests and mountains.
One day, when he descended to the shore at Laupahoehoe, in the district of Hilo, he fell in love with a woman of the people, and made her his companion without arousing a suspicion of his high birth.

Devoting himself, then, to field labor, he was seen sometimes cultivating the ground, and sometimes going down to the sea to fish.
By generous offerings, he knew how to skillfully flatter an old man named Kaleihokuu, an influential priest, who at last adopted him as one of his children.