8o Pomander Collection of Hazvaiian Folk-lore. 



a word for us." The reason why the king said this was because while Pakaa had com- 

 mand of his canoe, it was liis custom to make a call on any canoe that made signals of 



this kind; hence the king being accustomed with this, ordered that the canoe be directed 

 for the small one. When the king's canoe drew near, Pakaa asked of his son: "Where 

 is the canoe of your master?" The boy replied: "It is here near us." "Then c^uestion 

 your master as to his reason of being here," said Pakaa. Kuapakaa then called out : 



Hold back there ! Hold back ! 



Be still there ! Be still ! 



Be calm there ! Be calm ! 



Gently there ! Gently ! 



The query, the question, whose the canoe? 



"To Keavvenuiaumi belongs the canoe." The boy again asked: "A canoe and 

 where is it going to?" "It is a canoe going in search of Pakaa." "Search for Pakaa, 

 what is Pakaa?" "A servant." At this Kuapakaa turned and said to his father: "I 

 thought you were a chief. I see that you are a servant. Well, what of that any way? 

 Supposing you are a servant. I am a chief on my mother's side and shall continue to 

 be so as long as I live in Molokai." Pakaa said to the boy: "Ask them again if he is a 

 real servant." Kuapakaa therefore asked: "Is he a real servant?" "No, he is not a 

 real servant, but a backbone,' a holder of the kahili and bearer of the king's calabash of 

 ointment."" By this answer the boy was satisfied that his father was, after all, of chiefly 

 grade; so he said to his father: "Your rank as a chief and my mother's position as a 

 chiefess, make me a chief of some importance and I shall live as such, here in Molokai." 



The chiefs under Keawenuiaumi, they being the six district chiefs, were the first 

 to come by. Before Kuapakaa spoke to the canoe of Keawenuiaumi, he first called each 

 of the six chiefs by name, in their order, for Pakaa had already instructed his son in 

 everything pertaining to them. 



Wahilani's was the first canoe, it being a beautifully made dotible one; Kuapakaa 

 asked his father as to its owner. The father answered : "That is the canoe of Wahilani, 

 the district chief of Kohala." Kuapakaa then chanted:' 



He is our chief of Kohala, Wahilani. 



He is not a chief by birth, he is a petty chief, 



One who played hide and seek in the sugar cane hills of Kohala. 



The fish of that land are the grasshoppers, 



On the leaf of the sugar cane, on the grass blade. 



It is a land without fish. 



And the food is the sweet potato. 



That is the fault found against the land. 



Wahilani is not a chief; 



Being a ruler of Kohala, 



He has been called a chief. 



'hi'ikuamoo, literally lizard backbone; a near attend- 'Kuapakaa seems to have been advised of the pecii- 



ant, one executing the orders of a high chief. Kiiamoo, liarities of each of these appointed, rather than hcredi- 



ancicnt name of the mountain paths, which usually fol- tary, chiefs, and treats them and their districts with 



lowed the ridges, hence the lizard back term. sarcasm in his several chants of greeting as tliey pass 



'Kakelc was an ointment composed of coconut oil, or "'"^ '" successive order, 

 pounded kukui-nuts and fragrant herbs, with which to 

 anoint the body. 



