582 Fornander Collection of Hazvaiian Folk-lore. 



for a kahuna to cure lier illness. They found the kahuna. Kuniakaohuohu/* and they 

 asked him for medicine: "Say, please give us some medicine for our daughter, because 

 she is very ill. The kahuna replied: "\'ou two can not get my medicine until you have 

 given me something as a sacrifice for my sacred medicine, then would your daughter 

 ])e cured." So they got the daughter, and had the medicine applied to her, thinking 

 that that would cure the child; but it did not. What the lying kahuna did killed her. 



When the daughter died she grew right into this ohelo plant, and it was thrown 

 here and there until it grew all over Hawaii. That is how the ohelo was derived; it 

 started from Kauai. 



Another version is this: There were two women; one had sore eyes and one 

 was lame. Because they were continually being reviled they felt ashamed, and they 

 killed each other. These women when living, used to play a game whereby pebbles 

 were thrown up; two pebbles, three pebbles, etc.; and while throwing up the pebbles, 

 a chant would be recited, thus : 



Seize, seize the ohelo, food of the birds, 



Tlie food chased aljoiit in the wikls of Puna, etc. 



After these women were killed the red-eyed woman became the red ohelo, and 

 the lame woman became the creeping ohelo. 



This is what has been told me; it may be that others have something more con- 

 cerning this subject of the ohelo. 



Jos. K. Kaiiei,e Jr. 



INDIGENOUS CANES OF HAWAII. 



In the olden time the sugar-canes were different; they were not like the sugar- 

 canes which we now see. Therefore, the subject of our inquiry concerns the indige- 

 nous canes* of Hawaii. We had better consider the names of these canes, the reasons 

 for assigning these names to the different varieties of canes, and the explanations re- 

 lating to them. Here are the names of the old canes of Hawaii nei. 



The first cane: the name of this cane is Laukona.'- There were two men, Pii- 

 kea and Aulii. Piikea asked Aulii : "What is the name of this cane?" Aulii gave his 

 name : "The name of this cane is Laukona ; its leaf has long white stripes ; that is why 

 it is called Laukona." Piikea disagreed with him on that name. He said its name 

 was Pumaia. They quarreled a great deal over the name of this cane, and Aulii won. 



The second cane: the name of this cane is Papaa."' so given because of a certain 

 land being called Kopapaa, and this was derived from Jtoopaapaa (quarreling). This 

 cane is of a dark color when young, and when it is ri])e the dark color changes to red; 

 its rind is hard when the cane is eaten. 



'"Ku-niakn-olniolui, larKC, lioavy-eyed Kn ; a name ap- 'Laiikona is one of the several ribbon-canes. The 



plviiiK more as niK- of i1k- cliaracteristic titles of the god name means Kuna leaf, and may have reference to a 



Kn, tlian that of /.■ii/i»//ii (priest). strong, nnyielding natnre of the leaf rather than its 



Canes of Havk-aii : white stripes. 



'Sugar-cane (Saccluiniiii officinannii) v.as tonnd in- 'Papaa is a purple cane, 

 digenous in tliesc islands by Cook on his arrival. 



