594 Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



The men: It comes, it comes, the sun, 



The fruit (hua) of the breadfruit is partly eaten, 

 The fruit (hua) of the potato is down below, 

 The fruit (hua) of the taro is down below, 

 The seed (hua) of the calabash is down below. 

 The egg (hua) of the bird is down below. 

 The fruit (hua) of the yam is down below. 



"Young man, you are beaten, for we have taken all the fruits of the earth, all, 

 there is none left." 



The boy: It comes, it comes, the sun. 



The fruit (hua) of the coconut is there above. 

 The fruit (hua) of the breadfruit is there above. 

 The fruit (hua) of the kukui nut is there above. 

 The fruit (hua) of the mountain apple is there above. 

 The fruit (hua) of the banana is there above, 

 The egg (hua) of the bird is there above. 



"Are these not fruits? They are." 



The men: There is my island, my island. 



The island to which my canoe sails, Kaula, 

 The island to which my canoe sails, Nihoa, 

 The island to which my canoe sails, Niihau, 

 Lehua, Kauai, Molokai, Oahu, 

 Maui, Lanai, Kahoolawe, 

 Molokini, Kauiki, Mokuhano, 

 Makaukiu, Mokapu, Mokolii. 



"You are beaten, young man, there are no islands left. We have taken up all 

 the islands that are to be found, there are none left." 



The boy: There is my island, my island, 



Mokuola,' where the food doth grow, 



Where the coconut doth grow, where the trees grow, 



Where the houses stand and the animals run. 



"There is an island for you. It is an island, it is in the sea." 



The men: Break a tooth and live. 

 The boy: Cut a joint and die. 

 The men: Knock out all his teeth and he will not die. 



Cut off the joint of the head, cut it, cut off the head. 



Cut off the shoulder joint, cut it, cut off the shoulder joint. 



Cut off the hip joint, cut it off. 



The contest was continued until the boy won out at the word joint (ki). The 

 men were then all killed and cooked in the umu and the bones were stripped of all their 

 flesh. Thus did he punish those who had caused the death of his father. 



^Mokuola, Coconut Island, Hilo, said to have been a place of refuge in ancient time, whereby its name "life isl- 

 and" obtains. 



