6i4 I'oniaiidcr Collection of Ifazcaiiatt Folk-lore. 



dream they should not go up. Here is anotlier important thing: on going u]) and 

 reaching the forest, if they should hear the the «/«/«"' (Hawaiian crow), the idea of 

 building the canoe [from that particular log] should be abandoned, because it is evi- 

 dent to them that the tree is rotten inside. If they do not hear anv noise from birds 

 until they come to the canoe tree, those priests would feel very glad. 



Here is one ])rayer upon cutting the trunk and its branches: "Hew mountain- 

 ward, hew seaward; hew thither, hew hither. Pick out, O Sun, a C()m])etent canoe 

 builder. Witness, ye heavens! witness, ye earth, the hewing of our canoe!" 



'Phen would these men begin cutting the tree until it falls. If the canoe is for 

 fishing ])ur])()ses, a different petition is offered for the hewing of that canoe tree. If 

 it is intended for sale, another prayer is used at its felling. There are also separate di- 

 visions in the prayer for cutting off the branches, the trunk, for shaping it, for haul- 

 ing it down to the beach, for the construction and for launching it into the sea. The 

 onl\- trouble is 1 do not know them. 



Kauwenagi.u. 



TI-IE MAILE. 



The maile' is a vine which grows here in Hawaii. I think it is one of the 

 plants brought from far-off Kahiki ; it grows plentifullv in our mountains. It grows 

 amongst forest trees, shrubs and other creeping vines. It runs and entwines in shady 

 places with other fragrant plants of the ujiper regions of our mountain forests. 



W?IERE IT NOW GROWS. 



The maile grows in the mountains, in the valleys, on hills, bv the side of streams 

 u]) in the mountains, in unfrequented places in the mountains, in the tall forests, on 

 side hills and on green hills. Some places show only scant growth : at other places it 

 is plentiful. It does not grow in dry j^laces, on rocky lands, on ])lains, or at the sea 

 beach. But only far up in the mountains where the fog settles all the time in the 

 wilderness. 



VARIETIES. 



I know of only two varieties of maile, but they are the same in bcautv and 

 fragrance. Here are also some of the famous places where thev grow. i. The inailc 

 kit lioinia (stands on earth). The maile ku honua grows in all the places I have men- 

 tioned above ; it is a creeping vine. But I wish to tell you of what I know at my place, 

 because when 1 asked my friends, they had a different explanation about the maile ku 

 honua on the mountains of the different islands of our grou]). This maile has leaves 

 somewhat round, though some are long, but not very small and slender like the maile- 

 laulii,- but more like the orange leaves. In the forests of my place, when the maile 

 first comes up, it has one stem and one branch; the branch, slender and young, 



"The elepaio (Chasiciiil'is saiidii'iclicnsis) is the gen- 'Maile f.lly.via olk'ucforwiis) , Hawaii's fragrant ever- 



crally credited agent for detecting defective koa trees, green. 



""' lli>;' ■■''•''■■'■ ■'Mailel.udii, small-leaved maile. 



