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 other refuse of food was cast, telling him that when he saw eight great breakers roll in successively from the sea, Kauhu was returning.

Kama lay quietly for a long time, but at last the eight rollers appeared breaking in over the rocks, and as the eighth huge wave burst into foam the shark-god appeared, assuming a human form of frightful aspect as he touched the land. He had not been ashore a moment before he began sniffing round, and said, “I smell the flesh of a man.” The guardian monsters derided this, and persisted that it was impossible that they would have allowed such a desecration of the god’s temple. But Kauhu replied, “There is a man somewhere here. I smell him. If I can find him I will crunch him up, and I will destroy you two also.” He searched high and low all over the place without finding what he sought, never suspecting the hiding place in a