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Foniander Collection of Haivaiian Folk-lore. 



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60. 



From Malailua to Nahuina it is raining; 

 Soughing and whifiling alx)Ut,-- the wind 



reaches not Kahua, 

 At Kahuawai, at Kahuawai, the bundle is 



large,-" 

 Gird on the loin cloth for rain traveling: 

 Tuck'"' up the skirts of the rain-traveling 



women of Koolau, 

 Cover with ti-Ieaves-" the loin clnth of 



the men 

 In going to Kona, at Kawalanakoa drop 



the ti-leaves, 

 Open up the bundles of the travelers, 

 Gird-" on the skirts of the women 

 Going from Kona to Ewa. 

 Of Waikiki in Kona is the man. 

 Like a man^" is your love which 



possesses me. 

 When you look^'' around it is sitting there. 

 Kauaula^^ is a rain in the mountain 

 Inhabiting the uplands of Kanaha, 

 The fierce wind as the rumbling'"' of 



thunder in the mountain. 

 There it is the uplands-'^' of Ilahakea, 

 The rain approaches the ])ili. (grass). 

 The rain"* and the wind moves seaward ; 

 Moving to cause damage, the mischievous 



wind-"' 

 Tearing up bananas and leaves of trees, 

 The breadfruit, the coconut, the wauke. 

 Nothing remains^" through the destructive 



march of the wind, 



40. A Malailua i Nahuina ka ua, 



lolo, iolo ku ole ka makani i Kahua. 

 I Kahuawai, i Kahuawai mnui i ka opeope. 

 Hume ka malo o ka liuakai hele ua, 

 Palepale ke kapa o ka wahine hele ua 

 o Koolau, 



45. Puolo huna i ka lauki ka malo o ke kanaka. 

 Hele Kona a Kawalanakoa lu ka lauki, 

 W'ehewehe kai opeope o ka luiakai, 

 Kakua ke kapa o ka wahine pa-u. 

 Hele Kona o Ewa. 



50. Ke Kona o Waikiki ke kanaka. 



Me he kanaka la ko aloha e noho nei, 

 Kaalo ae no e noho mai ana. 

 Kauaula ka ua noho i uka 

 Noho i uka o Kanaha. 



55. Ka makani nu me he hakikili la a noho 

 i ka uka, 

 Ai la i uka o Hahakea. 

 Hooneenee ana ka ua i ke pili, 

 O ka ua o ka makani haele i kai, 

 Ke kii e kalohe eu ka makani. 



60. Pau ka maia, ka lau o ka laau, 

 Ka ulu, ka niu, ka wauke, 

 .\ohe koe i ka hoonaikola ia e ka makani, 



"'Iolo, iolo, to vibrate, whiffle about as an irregular wind, kn ole. but it does not reach Kahua, tlie Honolulu 

 plains southeast of Punchbowl. 



''At Kahuawai the bundles, opeope, are to be coyered up, nunu, and the malo for rain travel put on; i.e., the 

 company that travels in the rain take off their best garments. 



'"Palepale, to fell or work one's way in thick grass or among a nniltitude of people ; here it means to tuck up a 

 skirt when traveling in the rain, hele ua, Koolau's people go in tlie rain. 



"In journeying at such times a man ties up out of sight, puolo huna, in ti leaves {CordyUnc tcnniiialis) his 

 malo, for fear of getting it wet and girds himself with the leaves till reaching Kona, where at Kawalanakoa, now 

 Kawananakoa, just above the cemetery in Nuuanu, they would be tlirown away and the proper garments assumed. 



'"Gird, bind on or adjust, kakua, as a woman her skirt, pa-u. 



"Me he kanaka, etc., as man's love so is thine now. 



"To look at, ke alo, to look here and there. 



"Kauala, name of a wind and rain in one of the valleys back of Lahaina. hence the name of that ridge, Kanaha, 

 which lies above. 



"Nu, to roar as the wind, hakikili, the rumbling of thunder after the first report. 



"There in the uplands of Hakakea, name of a place north of Lahainaluna over both brooks and extending to the 

 top of the hill. 



'"The rain moves upon, hooneenee, the grass; the rain of the wind moves seaward. 



"The wind comes to do mischief, kalohe. damaging plants, etc. 



'"Nothing remains, aohe koe; hoonaikola. to triumph over, to rejoice in one's destruction, aikola meaning noth- 

 ing is left tliat is not triumphed over liy the wind. 



