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Ponwiufcr CoUcciion of Ilaivailan Pnlk-Iore. 



THE PARENTS WONDERED. 



While the parents were at their work cultivating, the father thought of the 

 children, and said to the mother: "Go and see to our children." As the mother 

 went along and called out, there was no response from them. She hunted here and 

 there in the banana field, but couldn't find them. Then she raised her voice in wailing 

 at the loss of their children, and chanted this chant : 



Beloved is tiie great noisy water of the country. 

 Swirling along as it strikes Kukuikee ; 

 Divided is the water as it descends the face of the cliff, 

 Pounding and foaming is the water at Kauamaiui, etc. 



Kahuoi heard her lamenting for the children, so when she ceased he asked: 

 "Why are you wailing in that reciting'" fashion?" "Why, indeed! Our children have 

 been taken by water!" Her husband answered: "Do not mind, they have been taken 

 by their grandparents." The ditches which the children dug were named Waiohonu, 

 that was the name of the brother's, and Kahawaikukae was the name of the sister's 

 ditch. 



There are other matters, but that is the story concerning the banana field, and 

 how the famous places were designated. In the eastern portion of this field of bana- 

 nas stands a large stone, and it is called Pohakuhaele.'' This stone was called by 

 that name because of the wanderings of the person referred to above. Piikea'* 

 brought it from Hawaii and left it there, and it is there today. In the northern por- 

 tion of the banana field are the canes of Piimaiwaa.'" They are there to this day. 

 The banana plants from this field were planted in many other places, some of them 

 on Hawaii, but I do not know their story. Some of them on Oahu, some on Kauai, 

 and that is the curly banana of Kaualehu;-" but the explanations concerning these 

 fields and persons I know not. I have given the story of the field of bananas as it 

 has been told me by older people. Another thing: it is thought that this banana was 

 brought from Kahiki by Ahuimaiaapakanaloa,-' one of the brothers of Pele. That is 

 perhaps where Kahuoi got his banana, and yet again it may have been his own. 



D. K. Kanakea. 



THE STONE ADZE. 



The adze' is a stone made into such an instrument. This is the adze of the 

 olden time, before the days of our grandparents. It must be prepared skilfully, and 



"He tnvc hcht was the recitation, in wailing, of the 

 virtues and reminiscences of the one mourned for. 



''Pohnkii, stone ; hade, to go or come ; hence, wander 

 mn stone. 



"Piikea was the Princess of Hana who was sought 

 and won hy proxy as wife of Umi, of t^awaii, subse- 

 quently enlisting his aid in defense of Iter injured 

 hrother's cause, they invaded the district and captured 

 tlie supposed impregnable fortress of Kauiki. 



'"Piimaiwaa was one of Umi's famous warriors ; the 

 one who captured Kauiki. 



'"This name, signifying battle of hundreds of tliou- 

 .sands, may have been given to commemorate the above 

 event. 



"'Ahui-maia-apa-Kanaloa, so divided, becomes the 

 "mischievous Kanaloa's bunch of bananas" ; Kaualoa, 

 one of the principal deities of Hawaiian mythology, 

 though not noted for bencticent gifts. .Another ilivisioii, 

 such as .Ahui-maia-a-pakanaloa, makes it the "l)anana 

 bunch of Pakanaloa." 



'This was tlic important hewing and carving instru- 

 ment of early Hawaiians, made from the linest and 

 hardest of clingstone, and of various sizes for the work 

 designed, whether for quarrying rock, telling trees and 

 shaping them for canoes, for house construction, surf- 

 lioards, carving of idols, etc., for it was axe, adze, 

 chisel, gouge and plane to the patient workman. 



