Pomander Collection of Hawaiian I'olk-lorc. 



^~,. The H.^lit (if (lay is passed to the parent 



chief and his people : 

 ( )ne onh' parent now rules over the island. 

 Let the chief live to extreme old age; 

 I. el the chief li\e till his spirit dies: 

 Till the signs nf his death shall pass from 



the land : 

 do. Till the sign of death shall pass from his 



district of Hilo. 

 Ililo is in a state of dying: — even Waia- 



kea : 

 Hilo is thrown down the precipice of death ; 

 Hilo has a deathly flight : — Hilo in dying, 



is twisted as a rope : 

 The mountain part of lliln is dead, this 



part wails for death : 

 65. Even n(jw dead: — Hilo is really dead, — 



has disappeared in thick darkness. 



55. Lilo ke ao"' ia Kalanimakua ma ; 



Xoho hookalii'" makua i luna o ka moku : 

 Kau i ka puaneane"^ ola kc alii, 

 ( )la ka lani i kona haili make,''-' 



1 ka haili make o kona aina, 



Oo. 1 ka haili-" make o kona moku o Hilo: 

 He ano make-' o Hilo — Waiakea : 

 Lumia-- Hilo i kaulu o ka make, 

 Lele-^ make Hilo, hilo ka make ana o Hilo, 

 Make Hilopaliku,-"' ke uwe mai o Hilo nei 

 make, 



65. .\ia niake-a- '-make l(ja 1 lilo, nalo i ka 

 polioia. 



C.VXTo HI. 



The divisions of Hawaii are lost, — gone 



to the chief. 

 Small now indeed is Hawaii, grasped in 



the hollow of the hand : 

 He is holding it fast, fluttering in his 



right hand. 

 Thou shalt soon see the shadow of one 



seizing land. 



P.\UKU HI. 



]\Iake na moku' ia ka lani, 



Uuku- wale no Hawaii i lomia i ka polio 



o ka lima, 

 Kapauu" ana i ka akau ; 

 E ike' oe auanei i ke .\kamahaoaina,''' 



"Lilo, the light of day is gone to the father chief. 



"Noho hookahi, one parent, i. e., Kamchameha, over all Hawaii. 



"Kau i ka puaneanc, f>uancanc is here put for very long life. As the saying: "Let the king live forever." 

 Note the figurative description of those lands ended at 1. 54. The poet now speaks of Kanieliamcha and ihe sub- 

 jection of Hilo. 



"Ola, etc., let the chief live; e haili make, a sign or symptom of his deaih, synonymous witli tlie preceding 

 verse — a prayer of the poet for the long life of Kamehamcha. 



""I ka haili, etc., these lines express the blessings of the poet upon tlie con(iueror. 



"He ano make, Hilo is under sentence of death, i. e., already as dead. Waiakea is the representative place 

 of Hilo. 



"Lumia for tuiiiiia, to he pressed together, to be thrown down or into confusion. 



■*Lele, etc., Hilo means to twist as a rope or string. 



"Hilo paliku, the north or largest part of Hilo is cut up with palis or ravines; she cries or wails in death. 

 Ililo paliku was tlie north part; Hilo nei, where the poet or the contjueror was, i. e., the south part wails also. 



"'Aia make a, tlie 1; is emphatic, even now dead; i ka poli oia, in a distant place of suffering, a place of dark- 

 ness. 



'Xa mcpku, the six divisions or districts, the dead divisions of the island gone to the chief; lilo understood, 

 they have become the property of the chief, i. e., Kamehamelia. In this place, as in many others, the word make 

 does not mean dead absolute, but bereft of power, political life. 



■'Uuku, etc., Hawaii is of small consequence ; lomia for loiniia, grasped or compressed in the hand of Kamcha- 

 meha. 



'Kapauu, to hold firmly as one holds a slippery fish ; akau, lima understood, right hand. 



'E ike. etc., thou slialt soon see, the poet addresses the enemies of Kameh.-uneha : the singular for the ])lural. 

 Ye shall. 



'Akamahaoaina, an epithet of Kamehanieha ; the literal meaning is, ye shall see the shadow of one sei>;ing land. 



