54 Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



Swollen and enlarged is the moss of Hanalei, 



Swollen is the moss in the eyes of the pointed clouds. 



The hand is uselessly broken in a mock fight between children, 



For the main fight is yet to come, 



Like the letting down of nets in a deep sea. 



When the pride of Hanalei'^'* is met. 



Thou art but a mere bud, he is a full grown cock. 



For the sea is ceaseless in its beating. 



Kauahoa, the pride of Hanalei, is here ; 



Kamalama, the pride of Kualoa, is risen ; 



Kawelo, the pride of Waikiki, is risen ; 



Kaelehapuna, the pride of Ewa, is risen ; 



Kalaumeki, the pride of Waianae, is risen.''" 



Let us then cease fighting and rest in the noon of the day. 



Put away the fighting, my brother. 



And leave me, your own kindred, 



For these are not the days for me to make myself known. ^' 



My companion in childhood's wanderings, 



My companion in stringing the lehua blossoms of Waikaee, 



Where you and I as boys did string them, 



A wreath for our older brother and lord.^* 



Say, Kanewahineikiaoha, •'"''' 



Throw up your pikoi''" 



To the top, to the very top. 



To the ridgepole of Hanalei. 



Arise thou, Hanalei. 



As soon as Kaiiewahineikiaoha heard the order of Kawelo in his chant, to throw 

 up the pikoi, she immediately threw it up, and Kawelo heard the noise of the ball as 

 it entangled in the top of the club. Kawelo then looked up, and, when he saw that 

 the pikoi was tangled, he continued chanting: 



Hanalei, the cold land, the wet land, 



The land where the end is. 



For Kauahoa, the stalwart youth of Hanalei, is here. 



Kauahoa replied: "This club will never spare you in the day of battle. You 

 have slain our men so that there are none left; how can you then expect this club to 

 spare you? As it has been your deal, you can see the result; and when it will be my 

 deal, I will see the result." 



In this reply by Kauahoa, Kawelo was filled with a great fear, but when his 

 mind went back to their childhood days and remembered how his kite got tangled up 

 with Kauahoa's kite and how Kauahoa's kite- broke away, and how Kauahoa was 



"Referring to Kauahoa in flattering vein to win him willing to wait for a later opportunity to announce his 



over from antagonism. power. 



"Of these five named celebrities, champions of their ''Recalling youthful cooperative acts for tlie pleasure 



respective districts. Kawelo's claim hails from recogni- of another, 



tion of his success at Waikiki over Kakuhihewa's strong ""Wife of Kawelo, whose aid lie invokes. 



"■ "Pikoi, an entangling weapon of oval shaped ball of 



"Perhaps reahzmg the tensity of the situation he is ^^^d wood, or stone, fastened to a small rope or cord. 



