90 Fornandcr Collection of Hawaiian folk-lore. 



The heavens are cloudless, 



The shrubs are without moisture, 



The clouds have returned to the mountains, 



The wind has returned to Kumukahi, 



The pointed clouds have returned to Awalua, 



The soft breezes are wafting over the waves, 



The canoes have gone, a raging surf has arisen. 



The canoes have gone to the windy cape. 



The sea and the water have returned to Manawainui, 



Whence is the storm to come as predicted by the boy? 



At this, Lapakahoe asked of the boy: "Who gave you such knowledge?" The 

 boy replied: "Such learning is common with the small boys of this land of Molokai.""' 

 Lapakahoe said: "Such knowledge was not imparted to you from any one else, not even 

 by Kahikiokamoku,"' the king's favorite friend; there are only two of us who have ac- 

 quired such knowledge, myself and my elder brother," Pakaa. We composed those lines 

 in honor of our master Keawenuiaumi." Lapakahoe then asked of the boy: "If you 

 know the whereabouts of Pakaa above here, you must tell us." "There is no such man 

 here, but we have heard that he is living on Kaula" [replied the boy]. This ended La- 

 pakahoe's remarks and he thought that the information given by Keawenuiaumi, relat- 

 ing to Pakaa as living on Kaula, was the truth after all. This information was given 

 in a dream. 



The sailing masters then called out to the paddlers, those in front and in the rear, 

 to go ahead ; btit Lapakahoe countermanded the order, for he was interested in the boy. 

 When Pakaa saw that the canoe was preparing to leave, he requested the boy to con- 

 tinue chanting. 



The pointed clouds have become fixed in the heaven. 



The pointed clouds grow quiet like one in pains before childbirth. 



Ere it comes raining heavily, without ceasing. 



The umbilicus of the rain is in the heaven, 



The streams will yet be swollen by the rain, 



The roar of thunder, the shock of the earthquake, 



The flashing of the lightning in the heaven. 



The light rain, the heavy rain. 



The prolonged rain, the short rain. 



The rain in the winter comes slanting, 



Taking the breath away, pressing down the hair, 



Parting the hair in the middle. 



One sleeps doubled up, one sleeps with the face up. 



When anger rises, the hand acts tardily. 



Trouble has overcome thee, stubborn master. 



See, ye sailing inasters, it has come; 



Trouble will overtake you in mid ocean, 



"A rather characteristic reply to denote superiority of "The brother Lapakahoe detects traces suggestive of 



intellect. Pakaa that leads him to assume authority over the sail- 



"Kahikiokamoku, an epithet probably of Pakaa's for ''iS masters, in liopes of further light on the object of 



his efficient stewardship. 'Ii^'T search. 



