302 Fornandcr Collection of Hawaua\i Folk-lore. 



'"Pac made, that is, Kahaliaiia and companion landed, shriveled, cold ,-ind weak, tliis is the meaning of maele. 

 I ke ka honua signifies simply the shore for kaha honua, perhaps, or a poetic embellishment 



'■Kiui ka luhi, loosed, finished, etc., the fatigue, compassion for you — the people of Oahu. He set out to 

 go to Kauai, but the canoe being broken he was driven back and cast upon the shore of Oahu. 



"E kuu kaai kapu, O my sacred belt, kaai, same as k;ui, (he girdles of the chiefs were sacred. Liloa. a 

 chief of ancient time on Hawaii. 



'"The outer girdle, etc.. i k.i hala ia, tli.it is his offence, his afifliction perhaps ; kui papa, etc, "break the 

 board" seems to be an expression .applied to the stripping of a chief or a man of all bis property, honor, etc., i 

 ke au for aupuni. 



'°Noho i kai, he sits in solitude by the sea; Kamaaina aku la ka moana, /.(■., i or ma understood; he, the 

 warrior, sits a resident by the ocean. 



"Lonokaeho, an ancient warrior having the body of a conmion man Imt very strong; his epithet "lae waka- 

 waka" was because he had a forehead projecting very much like a general's hat and so also behind, with their 

 projections he whacked about in front and rear and laid men sprawling wherever he went. 



"Elua olua, you are two; elua maua, we are two; that is, the poet and the wife of Kahahana. 



"Paiha, to unite as several persons for travel, unite together in the path ye men of Apua, place where Kaha- 

 hana died. 



"O ko kaina ala, referring to their shadowed path revealed by the sun of Waianae. 



'"Kaiaulu, name of the pleasant sea-breeze at Waianae. At Maui the same breeze is called "an," at Kona, 

 Hawaii, it is called "eka." Ke oho o ka niu, the leaves (hairs) of the coconut. 



"Komo okoa, the gentle wind enters wholly into the house which is grateful for its warmth, overcoming the 

 chill of the mountain breeze which sleeps in the cold. 



"'I ka makani anu, in the cold wind, he waikaloa, the name of the cold wind. 



'"Loa, etc., long is the path to the traveler. 



"Hele hewa, i.e., Kahahana went astray, wandering in the Haleniano shrubbery of upper Wahiawa. 



""The poet here pictures the whispering wind and gathering clouds acting in sympathy lest the slumbering 

 stream be awakened. 



""Ka huakai hele, etc.. the caravan is ascending. 



"Uka lio, — lio, any place at a great distance ofif ; among the forest trees; also the place where the stars arc 

 placed in the horizon. 



"E ke alii, the poet speaks to the chief Kahahana or his departed spirit. 



"Lou, the instrument (a long pole with fixture at the end) for reaching and picking breadfruit; loua, is 

 the action of picking breadfruit with that instrument. 



"■'■Muo, the tender leaf-bud; Kahahana is called the tender bud of heaven, and deatli lias plucked him; loua. 

 for louia. 



"Ka lani lioikea, the chief is exhibited ; ka mea palia ia nei, this is what has. just been done. 



"Ka hiamoc kapu, etc., the sacred or forbidden sleep of niolopua. name of a sleep. Kumahana, the Oahu 

 chief immediately preceding Kahahana, was famous for his sleeping; when the people and lower chiefs came with 

 food or presents, he was always asleep, the people called his sleeping "niolopua he kapu." because everything belong- 

 ing to the high chief was kapu, and such sleeping was peculiar to him. — niolo. a nodding blossom, who slept 

 throughout the day. 



"'Moku i ke a'u. etc.. torn. rent, "pierced is my chief by the a'u," /. c, a large fish with a horn like the sword- 

 fish, which kills men. 



*'Ko kino loa — ko. genitive case, the length of whose body is like that of Kaiia- 



'""I anana ia, who was a fathom long, i. e., Kahahana, a puehu ka loa, and more too ; puehu is some indefinite 

 measure, above, a larger one. If one measures a fathom, or a yard, and some is over, they say he anana a puehu, 

 meaning there is some over. 



'"'Hoi ha, he oiaio, that indeed is the truth, even so, that is the length of the chief, i.e., of Kahahana. 



'""Like ole paha, or aole ona mea like, there is not his like. 



'"I loa ka lani, long time the chief, i moe i ke ala, lay in the road, that is, his dead body lay unburied. 



"'Moe oni ole ka lani, the chief lay without moving in the ea, dust, earth pulverized. 



'""Oia ke ea, that is, the dust of Kanenuhonua. an ancient chief of Ewa ; thus Kahahana is said to lie in the 

 dust of Kanenuhonua because the land mostly belonged to him. 



'""Huna aku la. hidden, concealed in the sky of heaven, i. e., his soul, while his body was defiled in the dust. 



"""Liua" is said when a person has lost a thing and he looks about, here and there, while the thing itself 

 lies all the while nearby; second, liua is when a person in diving under water by some means fills his mouth and 

 eyes full of water, so for a time, he sees things indistinctly; the latter applies here, liua hoi ka maka, dim were 

 the eyes in looking i k;i nalo loa, for lie was quite vanished. 



""Kiowaik.aala, name of ;i pond at Waianae, located in following lines. A poowai ; fountain or source upland 

 at Kalalau. 



'""Kou ino.i, these are lliy names from some supposed resenibkance or excellency iirobably. 



""Auwe kuu bn.i, Al.is! My companion; this is the language of the poet; the article "ke" before Koolau is 

 an anomaly unless ii luri' becomes a part of the name or has some other si.gnilication. 



'"Malanai, name of the trade-winds of or at Kailua. 



""Ke ahe wale, etc., ahe, to fan like peahi, which constantly fans the leaves (oho) of the uki, a plant resembl- 

 ing bulrushes; grows only on Oahu. 



