Rest, O Sun! Let the wind fly Before the face of the clouds.
Rest, O Sun! Return, O Ocean of the mighty waters; Great is thy tumult! Sun rest here.
Rest, O Sun! I will cast my net At the first headland; I shall catch the wind.
I will cast my net At the second headland; I shall catch a tempest.
I will cast forth my net At the third headland; I shall get the south wind.
I will cast forth my net At the fourth headland; I shall take above, below, Land and sea-- I shall take Uhumakaikai.
At a single word of Hina He shall fall; hard pressed Shall be the neck of Uhumakaikai.
In the sixteenth verse of this second canto Kawelo invokes the owl, which the Hawaiians regarded as a god.

In extreme perils, if the owl made its cries heard, it was a sign of safety, as the voice of this bird was sacred; and more than once has it happened that men, destined to be immolated on the altar of sacrifices as expiatory victims, have escaped death merely because the owl (_Pueo_) was heard before the immolation.

It is easy to understand, after this, the invocation that Kawelo made to Pueo when he found himself in combat with the terrible Uhumakaikai.
In the third canto Kawelo endeavors to destroy the monster.

He commences by saying that he, a chief (_ka lani_), does not disdain to work as a simple fisherman.

Then he pays a tribute to those who have woven the net he is going to use to capture the monster of the sea.