It is plainly seen that this blow-hole has been closed by human hands.

There still remains a little opening through which the water hisses to the height of thirty or forty feet.
Kaleikini closed at Kohala, on the shore of Nailima, a volcanic mouth like that of Ka'u.
On the heights of Honokane, he silenced the thunders of a water-fall by changing its course.

At Maui Hikina, he secured the foundations of the hill of Puuiki, which the great tides had rendered unstable.

To do this, he put into the caverns of Puuiki a huge rock, which stopped the tumults of the sea, and put an end to the trembling of the hill.
For these feats of strength, and many others like them, Kaleikini was called _Kupua_--Wizard.[D] DOCUMENTS ON THE PROVINCE OF PUNA.
According to common tradition, the district of Puna was, until two centuries ago, a magnificent country, possessing a sandy soil, it is true, but one very favorable to vegetation, and with smooth and even roads.

The Hawaiians of our day hold a tradition from their ancestors, that their great-grandparents beheld the advent of the volcanic floods in Puna.