Fallen is flic Chief. 



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Canto II. 



40. Alas for them, now grieving in sadness ! 

 On all sides they grieve their loss : 

 They sit constant with heads bowed down ; 

 They sit with hands beneath their chins : 

 Thcv feed uiioii their grief and their sad- 



Pauku II. 



40. Nani' lakou e miminiihi- nei, 

 Ua mihi^ aku ua mihi niai, 

 Ua haakulou* wale ka no ho ana, 

 Ua kalele'^ na lima i ka auwac, 

 Ua ai" i ke ana i ke kenaa. 



45- 



50. 



They eat men as sweet food ; the thought 



of flight is their constant meat 

 The fire of death is kindled among them, — 



O thou Kalanimakna ! 

 Puna is dead ! Puna is dead ! Puna is 



tin-ice dead ! ! 

 The\- live in dying sighs, they gasp for 



breath ; 

 They catch their breath as in hiccough — 



the hiccough ends the breathing; 

 The iireath and breathing are gone, the 



s])irit has lied. 

 The)' have forsaken the place of the sun — 



the place of warmth ; 

 They have gone to darkness, to the place 



of cold ; 

 They have leaped into darkness, the place 



of shivering, 

 The sun is departed, the warmth is changed 



with desolation. 



45. Inai' i ka ia o kanaka, o ka ia man no ka 



hee: 

 Ua hoaa'* ia no ka make, e Kalanimakna e. 

 Make Puna'' e ! make Puna ! ! makemake 



Puna ! ! ! 

 Ua na'" ka noho ana, ke kaili nei ka nae, 

 Ua kaahiki mauliawa." ua kona mauliawa 



ke ea. 



50. L'a lilo'- ke ea me ka hanu, ua haalele 

 loa ke ahc > : 

 Maalele lakou''' i na la, i kahi niehana, 

 Lilo lak<ni i ka po i kahi anu ; 

 Kaa'* i ka hakapo i kahi koekoe, 

 Lilo ka la, ka mehana ia mehameha,^'^ 



This section describes first the state of the conquered people, including the district of the first section related 

 to Kau and Puna. 



'Nani, wonderful, very great. 



"Mimimihi, a poetic form expressing sadness, dejection, referring to Keoua and liis party. 



'Ua mihi, etc., same as above, universal sadness. 



'Haakulou, liaa for hoo, kulou. to bow down, to bend forward; they sit bowed over as in sorrow. 



'Kalele, to lean the head on the liand. 



'Ua ai, etc., they eat, i. e., enjoy grief and sadness; Hke the expression "the joy of grief." Kena is similar in 

 meaning to ana. 



"I nai i ka ai, this is a difficult verse to get into English ; / nai signifies to eat delicate food, i. e., to feed 

 leisurely, ai is vegetable food in distinction to ia animal food furtlier on in the verse; the meaning then may be, the 

 conquered ones are eating the f<jod of men, i. e., suffering tlicir calamities, undergoing their miseries, partaking of 

 their errors; and parallel with this it is poetical, added, they eat also understood, the ia, the animal food of flight, 

 i. e., they feed upon the food of misfortune, they eat also the stronger food [animal food] of overthrow. 



"Ua hoaa, Iw for lioo; the fire of death, i. e., a deadly fire is kindled, O tliou Kalanimakna, i. e., Kaniehanieha. 

 The expression implies a call upon the conqueror to show mercy to the miserable; see the pathetic kunentation in the 

 next lino. 



"Pima luake. etc., supposed lo be the expression of exnlt;ition of Kamehameha people. The reader will notice 

 the repetition of »ii//,-i' to so slrengthen and intensify the idea of the total overthrow of Puna. In other places the 

 word luakc applied on a person, army or nation, docs not luean absolute death, i. e., the cessation of life, )iut a help- 

 less state or condition, as the following line will show. i 



'"Ua na, etc., na, to be just alive, having a little breath left, they live just breathing; ke kaili nei, they gasp for 

 breath, iiac, the breath of one faint. 



"Ua kaahili, to struggle to obtain something, here it means to struggle for l>reath, to catch for breath ; mauli- 

 awa, the hiccough, in many diseases the last stage of life ; ua kona, to rush out as the breath in coughing. 



"Ua lilo, etc., ca, hanu, and alio are here used as synonymous. 



"Haalele lakou, i. e., the dead were assigned to the place of warmth, but in next line they are lost in cold night. 



"Kaa, to go away, to depart, they have gone to the resting place of night where chill dampness prevails. 



"Ia niehameha. this is undoubted a play upon the name of the conqueror, the light is gone, literally to desolate 

 places, tlie idea being that tlic comforts of life have forsaken the conquered and gone to Kamehameha. 



