IT WAS IN 1866 that Eliza Maguire first heard these stories from old Hawaiians on her father s Huehue Ranch in the Kona district of the island of Hawai i. Many years later she translated them into English. First published in 1926, they are simple tales of Kekaha, the barren, desolate section of North Kona thats often ravaged by Pele, the Volcano Goddess.