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Fornander Collectioti of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



Calm' is the sea by the land, 

 Taken up is the sea in the hand. 



225 Dressed^ is the hair with the sea, 

 Red is the hair with very salt^ sea. 

 Softened is the hair in the great sea,-* 

 Brown is the hair^ with the foamy sea. 

 Rich is the soup'' of the hog, 



230 Fat is the soup of the dog. 

 Dainty the soup of the fowl. 

 Fragrant the soup of the mullet, 

 Strong the soup of the palani.'' 

 The sea for surf-riding is at Kahaloa,'* 



235 The sea for casting the net is at Kalia, 

 The sea for going naked'' is at Mamala, 

 The sea for swimming is at Kapuuone, 

 The sea for surf - riding sideways '° is at 



Makaiwa, 

 The sea for kicking up mullet" is at Keehi, 



240 The sea for small crabs'- is at Leleiwi, 

 The sea of many harbors'^ is at Puuloa, 

 A sea that blows up nehu and lala,"* 

 Is the sea of Ewa so calm; 

 The great Ewa [lands] of Laakona.'s 



245 Ku''' holds up the rain in the heaven. 



The mottled'" sea of Heeia, 



The sea for spearing hee is at Kapapa, 



The sea that calls'^ is at Kualoa, 



The sea that wears away is at Kaaawa, 

 250 The wild sea'" is at Kahana. 



Paao-° left open the sea, 



Paao is seen in the waterfall. 



The great one is known from below Kona, 



He is the great" one from below Kona." 

 255 A handle, an axe, the cord, the cover;-^ 



Take it, bind it, wind it round, ^^ 



And cut down the foundations of Tahiti. 



While it rains at Hilo 



The rain-clouds at Maheleana are in con- 

 flict's with one another, 

 260 Else it will rain on the people. 



For there the rain is till it ceases; 



A long day-*" in the wind, 



Cramped is'' the traveler by the rain. 



Mahiki causes struggling^^ with its muddy 

 hills; 

 265 There Mahiki causes him to fall. 



While Kapaaliulani was chanting this .section of the mele Kualii's chief officer 

 remarked to the king : "Why are we delaying this battle? Why not let us fight out 

 this small battle?" Kamakaaulani, the brother of Kapaahulani, then spoke to the chief 

 oflEcer: "Let us perhaps delay the battle. I hear the king's name is being mentioned; 



^Miha, the calm in the lee of the land. 



-k'iki, the stiff way of dressing the hair called keo- 

 liopukai, the one-time stylish waterfall; olio — lauoho. 



^K'ai lilt, the sea in hollows on the rocks. 



*A'ai loa, the great or open sea; the long swell of the 

 ocean. 



^Lelo, bleached to reddish brown. Kai kea, foamy sea. 



''Kuhinia, savory richness. Lines 229 to 233 are a play 

 upon the word kai in its double meaning of salt water 

 and gravy. 



^Palani, sturgeon ( Teuthis matoides), a kind of strong- 

 tasting fish. 



'Kakaloa at Waikiki. The localities mentioned here 

 follow one another Ewa-wards from Waikiki. 



''Kohana, naked. Mamala, the entrance to Honolulu 

 harbor. The natives often traveled along the reef, es- 

 pecially in time of war, to avoid their enemies on the 

 land. Coming to the break in the reef at Mamala they 

 were obliged to swim across. 



'°A'(?/;a, to move sideways as the shying of a horse. 

 The bending surf of Makaiwa, Kauai, is famed in song 

 and story. 



"A'a anae, mullet {Mugi! cephaliis) scoop net. 



^'Alamihi, a small crab. 



"Indicative of the various arms comprising the Pearl 

 Harbor lochs. 



^'Nehu, silversides {Adierina )\ lala, small bait fish. 



^^Laakona, a chief of Ewa; a district embracing many 

 lands. 



"Kualii. 



", Ipiikapiika, many-colored; suggested by the varied 

 hues in Kaneohe waters abreast of Heeia. 



"D/iaiki, applied to the fisherman lifting up his head 

 often when looking down as he fished. 



"'A/iiii, wild; also name of a wind, fitting naturally 

 to a wild sea condition at Kahana. 



-°K'ai Paao, sea of Paao, another name for Kaia- 

 kahinatii, the flood. Also called kai a ka huiu manu 

 — birds lost all their feathers in the flood. 



"Hiwa, applied to what is sacred and hidden; hiwa- 

 liiwa. 



'"'Kona, a term for the lower regions of the earth. 



^^ Different parts of the ancient Hawaiian stone adze. 



"Hoa, to wind around in order to fasten. Latialaiia, 

 to bind; compare the same term for a spider. 



"^K'uee >ici iia opita, clouds in conflict. Maheleana, 

 the place off the east point of Hawaii where the trade 

 wind divides and becomes an east wind down the Hama- 

 kua coast, and N.N.E. down that of Puna; hence the 

 name. 



^''The long days of summer marked by steady trades. 



-''Haiki, narrow, cramped; suffering occasioned by 

 the rain. 



-'Hakookoo, strive, struggle. 



