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Fonuvidcr Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



680. 



685. 



690. 



695- 



700. 



At evening was seen some fruit of their 

 labors, 



The fat oopu, 



The okuhekuhe inhabiting streams, 



An offensive fish of an offensive pond. 



On the day following their disbelief, 



We took, with my chief. 



Took the authority with the land. 



The chief possessed the flat land, 



Possessing even to the shore. 



They had no land to be lorded over. 



Thou wilt lord the floats of sea moss 



On the sea- foam. 



Movable has become the district. 



Unstable is the land by those fleeing; 



Like mixed arrowroot the tongue is dis- 

 jointed. 



The dark paddle of the lips. 



The toasting mouth has arisen, 



The words of reply have passed, 



Wakea has become parent. 



Removed to the grassy nest. 



Thev are stripped in the mountain, 



1 luddling at the summit. 



Covered with leaf-joined garments, 



Twisting uneasily in the sand 



Like a worm wiggling in the dust. 



Dust was the warming garment 



Of the many composers here. 



675. Ke ahiahi, ike na hua iki"" alihi, 

 Ka oopu a kelekele,"' 

 Ke okuhekuhe moe wai, 

 la hauna la o hauna loko. 

 I ke la ae ka hoomaloka,"- 



680. Lawe maua"'' me ku'u alii, 



Lilo ke'a me ka aina. 



Lib ka honua ia kalani, 



Xee wale ana i kahakai, 



Aohe honua e haku*'* ai, 

 685. Haku oe i ka hua limukala,""' 



Iluna o ka huahua kai, 



Lla olewe"" ae la ka niuku, 



Olewa ae la ka aina na hehee. 



Me he pia lewa la ua kapeke ae la kc Icl 



690. Ka hoe uli'"* o ka lehelehe, 



L'a ala hilipa'"' ka waha. 



La hala ka hua i pane ai,^" 



la kaa makua o Wakea, 



Kaa i ka punana weuweu,'' 

 695. 1 lapapa wale i ka mauna, 



I'upue'- wale i ke kuahiwi, 



Aahu i ke kui lau hulu, 



Oni pakaawili'^ i ke one. 



Me he koe'^ la ka oni i ka lepu'"' — e - 

 700. He lepo ke kapa e mehana ai — la, 



O na kini haku mele nei. 



™By evening they saw some fruit of their toil. 



"'The Hilo chiefs are likened to slippery mud-fish, and the people to offensive products of unsavory ponds. 



"■-'Hoomaloka, sluggish, stupid, disbelief of Kamehameha's conquering power. 



"'Maua, we, the poet and his chief, became the victors and possessors of the hmd. 



"The defeated were completely dispossessed, nothing left them to lord it over, save the floats, tlie air pods of 

 the sea-moss, hua limukalaC"). 



""Olewa, unfixed, restless are the people, hence their flight. 



"'Their demoralization is pictured as a disjointed tongue of mi.xed arrow-root substance. 



"Hoe uli, another belittling reference to the tongue as a dark paddle. 



""Hilipa, while boastful, is applied to one given to vaporings on various subjects or persons. 



■"Reply has been made, nothing more can be said. 



"Punana, nest ; weuweu, grass or herbage, hence, a grassy nest. 



"Pupue is a shrugging or huddling of one's self, it may be from fear, or from cold; it refers also to a crouch- 

 ing attitude. 



"Oni pakaawili, a restless writhing as in pain, moving this way and that; kaawili, to twist or twmc aroimd 

 as a vine. 



"Me he koc, as a koc (an angle or earth worm) wriggles in the dirt, so does the people of Kau at llie rise 

 of Kamchameha. 



"Lepo the general term for dirt, earth, dust or ground, is here particularized as dust by the appended r-ii. 

 which is represented as the warming garment of the people of the district. At first this was thought to impl.v a 

 dusty section of country, in passing through which one would literally bathe m dust, as the saying is. Not having 

 had such an experience in our travels through Kail, it was evident that some characteristic of the district was used 

 here by the poet to belittle his opponents. Research revealed the following; r r- ■ ,u,. 



At Paiehaa, not far distant from Kaalualu, in olden time was a dust-pit known by the name of K.iumaia, that 

 was famous as a sport place for the youth of the district and even their elders, into which they won d cap fror^i 

 the side cliff, some ten or twelve feet high, and flounder about in its dust as if splashing around m a bathing poo 

 Tradition hath it that its dust was credited with possessing remedial <|ualnies and became m ™'^'-'-'.';ff " -"i^u n 

 asset to certain of the kahuna class. One such, on Kauai, directed a patient to go to Kau and leap itHo the dust-pil 

 of Kaumaia, which resulted in the poor dupe breaking both his legs m his jump. 



