388 Forna^ider Collection of Haivaiian Folk-lore. 



Kailua with its dry waste wind," We had thought the battle was to be with- 



The wind sent by Henia, out 



455 Where the voice sounds weak- in its plead- Where we would indeed contend it. 



ings; But you return to the house-' with jealousy, 



The voice which is still ringing till it reaches As though the battens^ could resjjond; 

 Kalahuiniakani. 465 You show anger' to the mats, 



.Stand forth at the call, at the pleading; The bed covering, and the robes; 



Turn not a deaf ear. And call to the pillows in vain. 



By the birth of offspring,' That is not [the actions of] a man; 



460 The voice hath indeed gone forth. We are indeed the men. 



When Kapaahtilani reached that portion in hi.s chant where it says, "Stand forth 

 at the call, at the pleading; tttrn not a deaf ear," Ktialii was raised tip while still in 

 the netting/ As he was being held up, the soldiers of the two wings of his army also 

 stood up. When the warriors from Koolauloa looked about them and saw that Kualii 

 had a very large army, they nudged back and forth and remarked to one another: "The 

 priest* is indeed wise; here we are indeed surrounded by the enemy." At this same 

 time the chief warriors of the Koolattloa army were thinking of the trouble they had 

 gotten into. 



While Kualii was being held up in the koko, standing amidst his warriors, 

 Kapaahtilani still kept on chanting the mele of Kualii, never once stopping to rest, 

 from the time he began it until both armies met. When Kapaahtilani saw Kualii he 

 endeavored to find some one with whom he could compare Kualii, but try as he would 

 he was unable to find any one worthy of comparison except Keaweikekahialiiokamoku, 

 the king of Hawaii. The reason of this was because Kualii was compared to a god.' 

 When Kualii walked from Kahaluu to Waialua by way of the sea, the sea within the 

 reef would dry up. 



Keaweikekahialiiokamoku,'" on the other hand, when out fishing with his men 

 and ran out of water would turn salt water into fresh. When his paddlers became thirsty 

 they would tell Keawe: "Say, we are thirsty." The paddlers would then dip up the 

 sea and pour it into the canoe, and Keawe would get up from the covered seat between 

 the two canoes and sit in one of the seats ; then he would stretch out his legs in the sea 

 water that had been poured into the canoe, and the sea water would lose its saltness and 

 become fresh, and the paddlers would then use it for drinking purposes. This was the 

 reason why Kualii was compared to Keaweikekahialiiokamoku. 



Following is the mele to that effect: 



^Aiiea, making lazy; unnerving; characteristic of the robes, are incapable of responding to exhibitions of 



south wind, henia. anger. 



'i'alo, to call to one in the distance. ''Kauiiuia, provoked to anger, or jealousy. 



'Words uttered. Lines 461 to 465, the priest of the 'In his palanquin, 



opposing side calling to Ku to be merciful. = Referring to the self-styled priest Kapaaliulani. 



'Ku is urged to spare his wrath at home. 9 0r one having supernatural powers. 



\Aha, given here and in former versions, meaning a ^"k'ca-.vckfkahialiiokaiiioku, Keawe-a-certain -chief- 

 company of people, is thought by the context to be alio, of-the-land, who ruled Hawaii four generations preced- 

 the battens of the house, which, like the mat, kapa and jno- Kamehameha. 



