EMERSON] UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OF HAWAII 61 



10 Ha'i lau-wili mai ka nahele. 



Nanalu, kahe waikahe o Wai-luku; 



Hohonii Waiaii," ualo ke poo o ka lae o ISIoku-pane ;* 



Wai iilaula o Wai-auue-uiie ; " 



Ka-wowo niii i ka wai o Kolo-pule-pule ;"* 

 15 Haliiln i lia-ku'i, ku me he uahi la 



Ka pua o ka wai ua o-aka 1 ka lani. 



Eleele Hilo e, pano e, i ka ua ; 



Okakala ka liulu o Hilo i ke auu ; 



Pili-kau <^ mai Hilo ia ua loa. 

 20 Pali-ku laau ka uka o Haili/ 



Ka lae ohi'a e kope-kope, 



Me he aha moa la, ka pale pa laau, 



Ka uahele o Pa-ie-ie,'' 



Ku'u po"e lehua iwaena konu o Mo-kau-lele;^ 

 25 Me ka ha'i laau i pu-kaula hala'i i ka ua. 



Ke uana ia la e la'i i Hanakahi. 



Oui aku Hilo, oni ku'u kai lipo-lipo, 



A Lele-iwi, ku'u kai ahu mimiki a ka Malua.* 



Lei kahiko, lei nalu ka poai. 

 30 Nana Pu'u-eo,^' e ! makai ka iwi-houua,* e ! 



Puua-hoa la, ino, ku, ku wau a Wai-akea la. 



[Translation] 



Stanza 3 



(With distinct utterance) 



Kea-au shelters, Waiakea lies In the calm, 

 The deep peace of King Hana-kahi. 

 Hilo, of many diAersions, swims in the ocean, 

 'Tween Point Lele-iwi and Maka-hana-loa ; 

 5 And the village rests in the bowl. 

 Its border surrounded with rain — 

 Sharp tvom the sky the tooth of Hilo's rain. 

 Trenched is the land, scooped out by the downpour — 

 Tossed and like gnawing surf is Hilo's rain — 

 10 Beach strewn with a tangle of thicket growth ; 

 A billowy freshet pours in Wailuku ; 

 Swoll'n is Wai-au, flooding the point Moku-pane; 

 And red leaps the water of Anue-nue. 

 A roar to heaven sends up Kolo-pule. 



" ^yaiall. The name given to the stretch of Wailuku river near its mouth. 

 '' M oka-pane. The cape between the mouth of the Wailuku river and the town of Hilo. 

 <■ ^yai-(tnuc-n\le. Rainbow falls and the river that makes the leap. 

 ^ Kolo-i)i(le-pi(lc. Another branch of the Wailuku stream. 

 <'■ Pili-kau. To hang low, said of a cloud. 

 f Haili. A region in the inland, woody, part of Hllo. 



« Pa-ieie. A well-wooded part of Hilo, once much resorted to by bird-hunters ; a place 

 celebrated in Hawaiian song. 



* Mokau-lele. A wild, woody region in the interior of Hilo. 



* Malua. Name given to a wind from a northerly or northwesterly direction on several 

 of the Islands. The full form is Malua-lua. 



^ Pu'u-eo. A village in the Hllo district near Puna. 



^ Iiii-honua. Literally a bone of the earth: a projecting rock or a shoal; if in the 

 water, an object to be avoided by the surf-rider. In this connection see note o, p. 36. 



