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broke the network of strings that held the gourd. This network was called Palea- 

 ikaahalanalaua.' After doing all this, Aukelenuiaiku began on his flight out of the 

 hole, flying in a direction away from his grandaunt, Luahinekaikapu. But the grand- 

 aunt saw all this, and so she wept for her sister, Kamooinanea and her brother Lonoi- 

 koualii. She then recited the following mele, one of love for her sister: 



"I thought it was at Napili, 

 On the road by which Kaneniakua came, 

 The lord, the crown ^ of Kuliliikaua. 

 Lono is human indeed, 



For he has at times caught Ulaula, the fire, 

 And has fought against Kuluheiua, 

 Killed the heavy rain 

 And routed the rain drops, 

 The fine rain, 

 The continuous rain 

 That fell constantly at Kainakalana, 

 Adjoining the forest belt^ of Maui, 

 Headwaters^ of Ikumailani. 

 There is a season, a season of endearment, 

 A season, a season when they become parted. 

 Cut the navel and its cord is severed. 

 Art thou the one? Awake, O Lono ! 

 The earth above here is thine, O Kane, 

 Where the waters are drawn up from the ocean, 

 And are again sprinkled by lyonowaimakua. 

 O ye rains ! O ye rains ! ! 

 How I grieve for you two as you drift by, 

 How I long for the wind that blows the fine rain of Kuaihelani." 



While she was weeping and chanting the mele, Aukelenuiaiku was still flying. 

 On this return flight he got tangled in the lama trees and the sound of the broken 

 lama was carried below to the ears of Kamohoalii. When Kamohoalii heard the .sound 

 he woke up from his sleep and listened, trying to ascertain the cause of the sound, but 

 after listening for two months no further sound reached him there below. Aukelenui- 

 aiku on the other hand continued on with his flight until he again got tangled up with 

 the loulu palm leaves, and again the sotmd was carried down below to Kamohoalii. 

 After getting out of the loulu grove he continued on with his flight until he got into 

 the bamboo grove, and the sotmd of the breaking of the bamboo was carried down to 

 Kamohoalii. By this time Atikelenuiaiku had reached the top of the hole. 



^ Palea-i-ka-aha-lana-lana, lit. protected by the bind- to the demi-god of that name ; hulu, when applied to a 



ing cord. person being the hair of the body, not of the head, 



"A'a lauoho o Kuliliikaua, ht. the hidr of Kulilii- which is lauoho. 



kaua, must be a figurative expression, as is hulu o Maui ■'The literal translation of this line, bearing out its 



in line 12. connection with the rainy region of Kamakalana, 



^Hitlu Maui is thought here to be figurative of the strangely enough, gives it the name of Ikumailani, the 



forest belt of Maui, the island, since it is not applicable kindly brother of Aukele. 



