592 Fornander Collectioti of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



The hau for the outrigger makes one, 

 The hau for the iako makes two. 

 The bark of the hau makes three, 

 The wood of the hau makes four. 

 The bush of the hau makes five, 

 The large hau tree makes six, 

 The hau on the mountain makes seven. 



"Say, young man, you will have no hau, for we have used it all and none is left. 

 If you find any more, you will live; but if you fail, you will surely die." 



We will twist your nose. 



Making the sun to appear as though in mourning. 



We will poke your eyes with the handle of the kahili. 



And when the water runs out 



Our small god in the profession of hoopapa will suck it up. 



The god Kaneulupo. 



The boy then said: "Since you full-grown men have found so many uses, you, 

 whose teeth are yellow with age, why can't I, a boy, find other uses? I, the youngster, 

 must find it for my own good and furthermore so that I may live. I shall search for 

 some more hau and if I fail you will live; but if I find some more use of the word, I 

 will kill you all." 



I will twist your noses, 



Making the sun to appear as though in mourning. 



I will poke your eyes with the top end of the kakili, 



And when the water runs out 



My small god in the profession of hoopapa will suck it up. 



The god Kanepaki. 

 The men: We have asked, the answer is yet to come. 



It is for you to answer. 



It is for us to listen. 

 The boy: Say, ye gods, eat up the eyes. 



Of the men who are in this contest. 



Eat up all the eyes. 



"The boy then chanted back further uses of the word hau." 



A land of many hau trees is Kona. 



I have counted [out of] one hau tree 



And have found seven hau. 



Honokohau makes one, 



Lanihau makes two, 



Puuohau makes three, 



Kahauloa makes four, 



Auhaukea makes five, M 



Kahauiki makes six, 1 



The kehau, which drives the Kona canoe, makes seven. 



"There are seven hau, ye men with the yellow teeth." 



At this Kalanialiiloa said: "You have indeed found some more hau. I had thought 

 that these people had them all, but I see they did not have them all. Take the boy as 

 a friend; be friends." The instructors replied: "No, perhaps that is all he knows." 



