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coining to the place where the dilYerent vines had tangled up her way, struggled on, 

 tearing her pau and other garments and receiving scratches all over her Ijody. At this 

 Kawelu chanted her love to Hiku in the following lines: 



Hiku is climbing the heights, 



As the branches of the trees are hindering my way. 



It is being pressed down by the rain, 



The flowers have fallen down below, 



The flowers rejected by Kanaloa. 



I,et me have some of the flowers that I may string me a wreath, 



The flowers that we two have indulged in ; 



l''(ir \nu have imhilged, liiku, in the love of a sister. 



Kawelti we]H hitter tears tipon finding herself thus ahandoned, and after a while 



again chanted : 



Kawelu shall lienceforth live in llanakaumalu, 

 Kawelu shall henceforth live in Hanakaumaln, 

 Where the koolau winds waft there below, 

 Stringing the blossoms of the koii.'- 



For my companion hath now become my idol to he carried stand- 

 ing and at my breast," 

 For I shall henceforth belong there below. 



In this chant of Kawelu she voiced her intention of giving up the idea of again 

 looking for Hiku, her lover, and of going home and strangling herself, and thereby go 

 down to dwell with Milu* in the under world, as in the last line of her plaint. 



Hiku continued on his way until he arrived at his parents', where he again lived 

 with them. His love for the vanished twilight of Kona,'' Kawelu, however, kept grow- 

 ing stronger and ever stronger, until it was more than he could bear. He finally de- 

 cided to return to Kawelu as soon as he could forget her ill treatment of him. 



Kawelu after voicing her intent returned home and said to her attendants: "I 

 am going to sleep and I don't want you to wake me up, nor to hear any disturbances. I 

 shall awaken when I feel like it." Upon entering the house she laid down as though 

 to sleep and strangled herself to death. After a day and a night had gone by, the peo- 

 ple began to grow restless about Kawelu, so they opened the door and entered the hotise. 

 Upon looking at Kawelu they saw her tongue hanging out; she was quite dead. 



The people mourned for her many days, the people of Kona joining in, for they 

 all loved Kawelu. After the time of mourning was ended the people went tip to the 

 mountains for timbers, for the purpose of building a house in which to place her corpse. 

 While on this mission some of the people went up as far as the place where the parents 

 of Hiku were living, and they were asked as to the object of their mission. They re- 



'Kou (Cordia subcordata), a tree, now rare, furnish- ancient chief noted for his wickedness while on earth, 



ing a furniture wood of high grade from which cala- Hawaiian mythology lias placed him lord of the lower 



bashes and other food utensils were made. regions to whose dominions departed spirits go. The 



'Hiialu conveys the impression of carrying one in a realm uf Milu is generally assigned to the west. (An 



fondling manner, as a child in the arms of its mother. drews' Dictionary.) 



Wc'*-, to lift up: (7/0, the front, or breast, hence, to carry '/,,„;,, ^oi7/ o Kona: literally, seUing twilight of 



m the arms and on the bosom. (Andrews Dictionary.) Kona, may be taken as a complimentary phrase to his 



*Milu, god of Hades who dwelt beneath the sea; an lost love of Kona. 



