522 Pomander Collection of Hazuaiian Folk-lore. 



ami his forces] ran to the ])lacc of refuge for safety; when the Hawaii forces com- 

 menced to climb, stones were rolled down on them ; thus Kahekili escaped from the 

 great spear of Kamehameha; thus the Maui forces escaped. 



VEGETATION ON THIS HILL. 



A great variety of plants and trees grow on this hill, llere are some of them: 

 the ulei,° the lehua," the creeping akia,' the small-leaved koa,* the fragrant maile," the 

 ever-shaded fern, the mule-kick ])ala,"' the guava," the rabbit's foot (that is the pres- 

 ent name; in the olden times it was called rat's foot'-), and so forth. You will add 

 what are omitted. 



ANIMALS ON THIS HILL. 



There are plenty of wild turkeys'" on this hill, turkeys which are not cared for 

 by man, and which simi)ly wander about. They are called wild. There are some cat- 

 tle and horses running on this hill which belong to the teachers of this seminary; there 

 are none for the pu])ils, only for the teachers. AMiy is it that the pupils of this school 

 are not allowed to keep horses for themselves? Perhaps it is because they favor'* the 

 white men; they can't be Hawaiians, else they would recognize their own. 



Till-: FAMOUS WIND OF THIS HJ1,L. 



'I'he famous wind is the Kauaula. This wind blows along the eastern side of 

 this hill. It is a wind made famous by the bards of the olden times ; here are a few 



lines of a song: 



Kauaula is pretending- the wind of Ulupau, 

 [That it is] the rain of Kaawaawa, 

 [Thus causing] cahn at Boston, etc. 



There are a number of other things not enumerated. Vou will supply those. 



S. P. Kanoa. 



THE FLOOD IN HAW^AII IN THE OLDEN TIMES. 



I SOUGHT for some one who could tell me about the Flood in the olden time 

 here in Hawaii, and I learned some bits of information concerning the said Flood 

 from an old man whose number of vears approaches seventy-two, from the time of 

 Kamehameha II to the ]M-esent.' There are, howe\-er, two divisions which I will ex- 

 plain: first, concerning the one who brought the Flood; second, concerning the sea of 

 Kahinalii. 



'L'Ici (Ostcoinclcs anthyUidifolia), a fine-grained "Guava (Psidinin guaycn'a), of wild growth on all 



hard wood, furnishing choice arrows or small spears. the islands. 



'Lehua (Mctrosidcros I'olyiiiorf'lui), a variety of the '"Rat's foot (Lycoj^odiiiin icniuuin), a desiral)le ever- 



ohias, a good serviceable wood. green for house decoration. 



''.Ikiii ( irihclroriiiiii foclidii), -d low shrul). '"Turkeys were inlroducod from Chile in 1815 hy 



"Koa— .small-leafed— (.;,-,i<-m A' ()<M, a forest IrcT fur- Capt.'iin John Meek, 



nishing an excellent cabinet wood. ".\'» ka l>Ui liaoir, an expression implyin,t> a leaning 



"Made (Alyxia alivacfonnis), a fragrant twinin.- towards, or preference to, the foreigner, 



slirub, much used for leis and decorations. 'The writer is astray in his chronology, as the time 



'"Pala fern (Marattia Doughuii). The tcku huki of Kamehameha H, when this essay was written, was 



(nnilc kick) variety has not become so known. J."st aboul, fifty years. The hgure given was most 



likely his informant s age. 



