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Pomander CoUcctioii of Hazvaiian folk-lore. 



Supposing p(.Tha|).s he was hniiorcd. 

 240. llis distinction was by the (wurd (.)f] 

 mouth only.'''* 



'J'hc liis^Ii chiefs .L;athered together ; 



Assenililed together all ancestral chiefs, 



r.reaking" the division of Laniakea.'""' 



The desire of the heart, the heir of Lono, 

 245. And Lonoapii indeed and Koohuki : 



Kaohuki indeed of Kalani, 



Grey-haired, rose up those ignorant 

 forefathers ; 



Brought up those fiery ancestors. 



Being provoked [they] yearned and 

 landed, rising up from there, 

 230. Piimauilani had numerous restrictions ; 



Restored are the tones proclaiming 

 Kanaloa 



Cultivating difficult narrow plantings 



Was the chief's cultivation of the land. 



Tightly drawn is the path of the sacred 

 place. 

 255. He established the custom of the kapu, 



One shelf'"' whereon the chief is i)laced. 



The royal sacred child wlm rules the land; 



Supjxirted and Ixjriie thniugli the chiefs 



Kahelekahi, ITema and Kahaipiilani,"' 

 260. Those [were] the chiefs of hope, 



Looking for the [welfare of the] land; 



The land of their rightful chief. 



Upright was the ruling by the honest chief ; 



He was an ancestral chief, 

 265. A man companionable with the people, 



Not a fat, unwieldy person of loose male ; 



A plausible, begging land-seeker"* 



^Vith short lock of uneven hair ; 



An uneven front hair caused by a 

 doubtful mind. 

 270. The backbiting, reproacliing, reviling food 

 spurner. 



The stubby, unjust steward, 



Treaclierous and evil minded, 



Knvious toward the people of Kulana ; 



They were the subjects of the chief. 

 275. .\]5preciated is the earned eating and 

 sleeping. 



240. 



245- 



265. 



I kuhi aku ai palia he hanohano, 

 Kona hanohano i ka waha wale no — e 

 Ohia hapukuia na 'lii nui ; 

 I'ukua na kupuna alii a jwu. 

 \Vahia ka paaku o Laniakea. 

 Ke ake paa i ka houpo, ka pua o 



^uno. 



O Lonoapii lioi, a Koohuki, 



Kaohuki hoi o Kalani, 



A ix)hina, kupu mai hoi kela mau kuinuia 



waawaa ; 

 L"lu mai hoi keia mau kupuna makomako. 



1 hoohaehaeia, e hae a pae, pii ae mai laila, 



250. Piimauilani, hoolau kapu mai, 



Hoola i ka iwi, ho'uouo ana Kanaloa no 

 Hoomahimahi mai ana, mahi ololi, 

 Ka mahi alii ia i ku i ka nioku. 

 I lilio i moe kuamoo o ke kapu, 



255. Moe kuamoo o ke kapu iaia, 



Hookahi haka e kau ai o ke alii, 



O ka moopinia alii i ku i ka moku. 



O kaikai o anamo kaa i ka lani, 



O Kahelekahi, o Hema, O Kahaipiilani. 



260. Ke alii na e lana, 

 E nana ka aina ; 

 Ka moku o ka lakou alii pono. 

 Pono no ka noho ana i ke alii pono, 

 He alii no mai ka paa ke alii. 

 He kanaka ano ma i paa a ke kanaka, 

 Aole ka malo, hemo uhauhalale, 

 Kukahipalu noi waiwai aina. 

 Ka aki pookole oho oioi ; 

 He (iho (lioi mua, makili haohao. 



270. Ka aki, ka nananui, ka akiaki ai kac, 

 Ka poupou kuene noho ino, 

 Ka noho ino opu kekee moa, 

 Ka huahua i ka poe o Kidana ; 

 Ka poe no ia nana ke alii. 



"5. E lea ai ka ai kuai kuai moe. 



"Appointed or proclaimed ; not hereditary. 



"A name signifying spacious heaven. 



"'One shelf or ledge indicating the chief rank or grade the child is entitled to. 



"Of these. Hema's is the only name on the standard genealogy list, and dates hack tliirty-four generations 

 from the suliject of this chant. Hema's mother was the famous Hinaiianaiakamalama, literally Hina-foster-child-of- 

 thc-moon. There was another son, named Kahai, which may he the one here referred to as Piilani. 



"This and some ten or more lines following, pictures a slovenly adventurer of the class (hat moved from place 

 to place, seeking to engraft himself, a parasite, upon some well-to-do, good-natured chief. 



