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O kakai * malo hoaka,* 

 5 O ka malo kai," malo o ke alii. 

 E ku, e hume a paa i ka malo. 



E ka'lka'i'* ka la i ka papa o Halepo;'' 

 A pae o Halep6 i ka nalu. 

 Ho-e'e i ka nalu mai Kahiki;^ 

 10 He ualu Wakeaji' ualu bo'ohua.'* 



Haki opu'ii ^ ka nalu, liaki kua-pa.^' 



Ea mai ka makakai'^ be'e-ualu, 

 Kai he'e kakala ' o ka moku, 

 Kai-ka o ka nalu nui, 

 15 Ka liu'a o ka nalu o Hiki-au.'" 

 Kai he'e-ualu i ke awakea. 



Ku ka puna, ke ko'a i-uka. 

 Ka makaM o ka nalu o Kuhibewa." 

 Ua o ia," uoha ka papa ! 

 20 Noha, Maui, nauweuAve, 

 Nauweuwe, uakelekele. 



Nakele ka ili o ka i lie'e-kai. 

 Lalilali ole ka ili o ke akamai ; 

 Kahilibili ke kai a ka he'e-ualu. 

 25 Ike'a ka nalu nui o Puna, o Hilo. 



[Translation] 

 A Name-Song, a Eulogy (for Naihe) 



The huge roller, roller that surges from Kona, 

 Makes loin-cloth fit for a lord ; 

 Far-reaching swell, my malo streams in the wind; 

 Shape the crescent malo to the loins — 

 5 The loin-cloth the sea, cloth for king's girding. 

 Stand, gird fast the loin-cloth ! 



"Kakai. An archaic word meaning forty. 



'> HouJca. A crescent; the name of the second day of the month. The aUusion is to 

 the curve (downward) of a large number (kakai) of malo when' hung on a line, the 

 usual way of keeping such articles. 



'^ Malo kai. The ocean is sometimes poetically termed the vialo or jja-i'i of the naked 

 swimmer, or hather. It covers his nakedness. 



<* Ka'ika'i. To lead or to carry ; a tropical use of the word. The sun is described as 

 leading the board. 



" Hale-p6. In the opinion of the author it is the name of the board. A skilled Ha- 

 waiian says it is the name given the surf of a place at Napoopoo, in Kona, Hawaii. The 

 action is not located there, but in Puna, it seems to the author. 



' Kahiki. Tahiti, or any foreign country ; a term of grandiloquence. 



" Wakea. A mythical name, coming early in Hawaiian genealogies ; here used in ex- 

 aggeration to show the age of the roller. 



'' Ho'ohna. Applied to a roller, one that rolls on and swells higher. 



* Opu'u. Said of a roller that completes its run to shore. 



^ Kua-pd. Said of a roller as above that dies at the shore. 



*= Maka-kai. The springing-up of the surf after an interval of quiet. 



' Kakdla. Rough, heaped up, one wave overriding another, a chop sea. 



"* Hiki-ai'i. Said to be the name of a temple. 



"■ Knhihcua. Full name Ka-kuhi-hcwa, a distinguished king of Oahu. 



" ia. Meaning that the board dug its nose into the reef or sand. 



