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[Translation] 



Stanza 2 



A mackerel sky, time for foul weather ; 

 The wind raises the dust — 

 Thy couch is a-drip with the rain ; 

 Open the door, let's trench about the house : 

 n Koolau, land of rain, will shoot green leaves. 

 I dread the cold of the uplands. 

 An adventure that of long ago. 



The poem above given from beginning to end is figurative, a piece 

 of fai'-fetched, enigmatical symbolism in the lower plane of human 

 nature. 



Pauku 3 



Hoe Puna i ka wa'a po-lolo'« a ka ino; 

 Ha-nke-uke i ka wa o Koolau : 

 Eha e ! eha la ! 



Eha i ku'i-ku'i o ka Ulu-mauo.^ 

 5 Ha la 'e ka walu-ihe a ke A'e,'' 

 Ku iho i ku'i-ku'i a ka Ho-li'o ; "^ 

 Hana ne'e ke kikala o ko Hilo Kini. 

 Ho'i lu'u-lu'u i ke one o Hana-kahi,« 

 I ka po-lolo' ua wahine o ka lua : 

 10 Mai ka lua no, e ! 



[Translation] 



Stanza 3 



Puna plies paddle night-long in the storm ; 

 Is set back by a shift in the weather. 

 Feels hurt and disgruntled ; 

 Dismayed at slap after slap of the squalls; 

 5 Is struck with eight blows of Typhoon : 



Then sniit with the lash of the North wind. 

 Sad. he turns back to Hilo's sand-beach : 

 He'll shake the town with a scandal — 

 The night-long storm with the hag of the pit, 

 10 Hag from Gehenna ! 



" Po-lolo. A secret word, like a cipher, made up for the occasion and compounded of 

 two words, po, night, and loloa, long, the final « of loloa being dropped. This form 

 of speech was called kcpakcixt, and was much used hy the Hawaiians in old times. 



i" Ulu-mnno. A violent wind which blows by night only on the western side of Hawaii. 

 Kamehamoha with a company of men was once wrecked by this wind off Nawawa ; a 

 whole village was burned to light them ashore. (Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, 

 by Lorrin Andrews.) 



« Walu-ihe a Ke A'e. The A'e is a violent wind that is described as blowing from dif- 

 ferent points of the compass in succession ; a circular storm. Wahi-ihc — eight spears — • 

 was a name applied to this same wind during a certain portion of its circuitous range, 

 covering at least eight different points, as observed by the Hawaiians. It was well 

 fitted, therefore, to serve as a figure descriptive of eight different lovers, who follow 

 each other in quick succession in the favors of the same wanton. 



«' Ho-li'o. The name of a wind, but of an entirely different character from those above 

 mentioned. 



^ Hnna-kahi. (See note /, p. GO.) 



