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A ua aona " mai nei bo oiwi e. 

 10 He mea e wale an e noho aku nei la. 

 Nolio. 

 O ka noho kau a ka mea waiwai ; 



kan ka i'a a haawi ia mai. 

 Oli-oli an ke loaa ia oe. 



15 A pela ke ahi o Ka-maile,^ 



He alnaln liewa a'e la ka maliliiui, 

 Knknni hewa i ka ili a kan ka nli, e; 

 Kan ka uli a ka mea aloha, e. 



[Translation] 



Song 

 CANTO IV 



1 will not chase the mirage of Mauii, 

 That man-fooling mist of god Lima-loa, 

 Which still deceives the stranger — 



And came nigh fooling me — the tricksy water ! 

 5 The mirage of Mana is a frand; it 



Wantons with the witch Koolan. 



A friend has tnrned up at Wailna, 



Changefnl Kawelo, with gills like a fish, 



Has power to bring Inck in any qneer shape. 

 10 As a stranger now am I living, 



Aye, living. 



Yon ilaunt like a person of wealth, 



Yonrs the fish, till it conies to my book. 



I am blest at receiving from yon : 

 15 Like fire-sticks flnng at Ka-maile — 



The visitor vainly chases the l)rand : 



Fool! be bnrns bis flesh to gain the red mark, 



A sign for the girl he loves, oho ! . 



Mele 



PALE V 



(Ai-ha'a, a he Ko'ihonna paba) 



Kanhna Kn, ka Lani, i-loli ka mokn ; 

 Ilookobi ke kua-koko o ka Lani; 

 He kna-koko, pu-koko i ka honna ; 

 He kna-koko kapn no ka Lani ; 



"Aona. A word of doubtful meaning; according to one it means lucky. That ex- 

 pounder (T P ) says it should, or might be, hnona ; he instances the phrase 



itvi paoa, in which the word paoa has a similar, but not identical, form and means lucky 

 bone. 



*" Kd-maile. A place on Kauai where prevailed the custom of throwing firebrands down 

 the lofty precipice of Nuololo. This amusement made n fine display at night. As the 

 fire-sticks fell they swayed and drifted in the breeze, making it difficult for one standing 

 below to premise their course through the air and to catch one of them before it struck 

 the ground or the water, that being one of the objects of the sport. When a visitor had 

 accomplished this feat, he would sometimes mark his flesh with the burning stick that 

 ho might show the brand to his sweetheart as a token of his fidelity. 



