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on one side and let Ina fall into the water. Ina was so angry that she beat the fish, and the marks of the beating show like stripes on that species of fish even at this day. Then she essayed her journey on several other kinds of fish, but they were none of them strong enough to bear her beyond the reef. Discouraged at her repeated failures she was nearly relinquishing her idea of leaving home when a large shark appeared and presented his back to her as a conveyance. Ina took two coco-nuts with her as provisions, and when the shark had swam along for several hours, Ina, feeling thirsty, tried to break one of the nuts on the shark′s forehead. The shark was so vexed with her that it dived and left poor Ina afloat at the mercy of the waves. The king of all sharks, a huge fish, now made his appearance, and, inducing Ina to get on his back, started for Sacred Isle. The girl saw what looked like eight canoes coming, but they turned out to be sharks which wished to devour her. Ina screamed loudly, and the King-shark asked her what was the matter. She told him the cause of her terror, and he told her to call out to them that their king would tear them to pieces if they came near or molested her in any way. She cried out the message to the ferocious creatures