After giving them these instructions he proceeded to the opposite bank of the river and sat down at the edge of the water directly facing the wind. The boys in the meantime proceeded to the windward at a point right opposite their father. The oldest boy then set his canoe down in the water and steered it for the desired point, but it missed the mark, as it sailed off in another direction. The second boy then set his canoe down in the water and it, too, missed the mark. The third and fourth boys also took their turns and they too failed to hit the desired mark. Then Kila, the youngest son of Moikeha, took his canoe and set it down in the water and it sailed directly to his father and passed between his thighs. When his brothers saw that their youngest brother had won they became very angry and from then on they tried to devise some way of killing him. Some time after this his older brothers enticed him to go and play at shooting arrows, [116] but as their parents were aware of the fact that they had no love for their youngest brother, their father did not allow Kila to accompany them. The older brothers then coaxed him and pretended to be kind to him in every way possible, but their father, Moikeha, would not allow him to go along with them. At last, when it was almost time for Kila to undertake his trip to Tahiti, to bring Laamaikahiki, Moikeha then thought of giving him the desired permission to accompany his older brothers. Upon deciding that he would do this Moikeha told Kila: “My son, I am not going to keep you away from your brothers any longer. You can now accompany them. It is possible that the journey you are to undertake may take you away from them altogether, so you may now accompany them wherever they go. After the kapu days of the temple are ended, in the following days you shall then sail for Tahiti.” Kila then replied: “You must not permit me to accompany my brothers for I might get killed. I think you ought to provide them with a god so that they will fear the god and in that way prevent them from killing me. Then I think it will be safe for me to accompany my brothers.” When Moikeha saw that the boy had used good judgment in the matter, he called his sons together and told them that they must now have a god. Upon hearing this the boys would not consent to such a proposition. At this Moikeha approved of Kila’s discretion and therefore refused to allow him to accompany his brothers in their excursions. Shortly after this Moikeha proceeded to get everything in readiness for Kila’s voyage to Tahiti as was formerly planned by him. Before he set out for Tahiti, Moikeha advised him as follows: “When you sail from here, go by way of Oahu, and don’t fail to call on your aunts; they are living on the side of Oahu facing Molokai. If you call they will not mistake you for a stranger.”