CHAPTER II. MOIKEHA’S RESIDENCE ON KAUAI AND HIS DOINGS. After Moikeha had taken Hooipoikamalanai and Hinauu to be his wives, he became the king of Kauai, after the death of his father-in-law. Moikeha had five children with his two wives, all boys. Following is the genealogy of that generation: HUSBAND. WIFE. CHILD. { Umalehu. { Hooipoikamalanai. { Kaialea. Moikeha. { { Kila. { { Hinauu. { Kekaihawewe. { Laukapalala. In this genealogy of Moikeha his issue is seen to have continued until the reign of Manookalanipo, who became the ancestor of the chiefs of Kauai and Niihau. But none of those who know anything of this genealogy can produce a direct line with any degree of accuracy. After the events stated above, Moikeha assigned himself to the task of making his wives and children happy, giving his undivided attention to the bringing up of his boys, and in this way Moikeha thought no more of Luukia. Some time after this, Moikeha’s thoughts were carried back to his son Laamaikahiki, his child with Kapo, and he began to have a yearning desire to see Laamaikahiki. So at a given time he called his five sons together and said to them: “I am thinking of sending one of you boys to go to your elder brother and bring him to Hawaii.” Upon hearing the wish of their father, the boys became greatly excited and they all spoke out: “Let me go! Let me go!!” and so on. This was carried on for some time. When Moikeha saw that his sons were excited and were so worked up that there was much contention among them, he devised a way of giving them a test at something, to determine who should go to Tahiti. Upon deciding what the nature of the test was to be, he called his sons to him and said: “I have decided to give you a test, and the boy who shall excel over the others, he shall be the one to go and bring your brother.” He then took the boys to the river in the order of their birth. But before this he told his sons: “Let each of you bring his ti-leaf canoe [115] and sail it across the river, each one to have but one trial, and under no condition are you to have a second trial. The one whose canoe shall come between my thighs, that boy shall be the one to go and bring your brother.”