200 Poniaiidcr CoUccf'wn of Hmvaiian Polk-lorc. 



PAHEE. 



A piece of wood is made out of koaic, itlci, o'a. niauiaiic. haiiila. or uliitilti. 

 Some spears are a fathom and a half long, some four and one-half feet (hailima) ^* 

 some a 3'ard, and so on. The tracks where the game is played are roughly formed, 

 some being forty fathoms long, others two times forty fathoms. For a very powerful 

 man a track five times forty fathoms long is necessary. Ten counts are required to 

 w'in. Goods are all lost. The betting sometimes is continued until the girdle at the waist 

 is lost also, and the loser stands stark naked; then the game ceases. 



OLOHU. 



A yellow stone, square-hewn, rounded like a shot, but without corners on the 

 edges. A course two times forty fathoms is required to ])lay ololiu."'' The best course, 

 however, is the one at Kohala, Hawaii, called Hinakahua. That is the most noted course 

 to this day. 



SWINGING. 



A rope eight fathoms long, sometimes ten fathoms and over, is fastened to a coco- 

 nut tree. It makes a long high swing."" At the time of swinging, the person swinging, 

 either man or woman, is decently apparelled. Two persons pull the swing, \\lien the 

 swing has oscillated high the rider chants to make the swinging more enjoyable. The 

 owner of the swing has stipulated that a chant must be sung during the swinging. This 

 is the manner of chanting : 



At Kaula, the border of Koolau ; 



Separated is the Koolau, separated is precipitous llilo. 

 The Hoohia and the Moae arise. 

 The Moae which plows the sea and makes it billowy. 

 The sea is billowy and boisterous by the wind, 

 The billows are tempestuous, the waves being active. 

 Majestically stands the sun reflected through tiie sea-spray; 

 ■ The sea-spray wliich mounts the cliffs of Okalakala, 

 The ends of the tempest. 

 The food of life is saved by the wind. 

 The iihu of Hanalailai is caught in the calm. 

 The tree-belted cliffs of Kealakehe kowca 

 Are frowned upon by the breeze. 

 In time breaking the crest thereof. 



After this chanting the assembly is quiet, not a nuu-mur being heard, then another 

 chant is sung: 



"Hailima, a measure of length not now used. ""The Hawaiian swing was a single rope of plaited 



-'■Olohu. name of a game, as also the stone with which vine, not the loop swing with which all are familiar, 



it was played on Oahn and on Maui. On other islands Its name, kozmli, is from the runnnig vme koali (Ifo- 



the stone' was termed ulii and the game was called '""' tubcrcnhita) whicli furnished a convenient and 



maika The point of the game was to roll the stone strong cordage by the braiding together of several 



the greatest distance on a prepared course. Emerson, strands. The swinging was not done by pushing, but by 



in his notes on this game in Malo's .-\ntiquities, sug- 'wf persons in opposite directions pulling alternately 



gests that the old time use of immature breadfruit, on ropes affixed to the cross piece seat of the swing, 

 gave its name, i(/i(, to the stone designed for the special 

 purpose. 



