EMEKSON] UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OP HAWAII 101 



Pu-a ia lalo o Hala-li'i," 

 Me he alii, alii, la no ka hele i Kekaha, 

 Ka hookiekie i ka li'u-la,^ 

 Ka hele i ke alia-lia la, alia ! 

 20 Alia-lia la'a-laau Kekaha. 



Ke kaha o Kala-ihi, Wai-o-lono. 

 Ke olo la ke pihe a ka La, e ! 

 Ke uu la paha i Houiia-ula. 



[Translation] 



Song 



(Distinct utterance) 



Wanahili bifles the whole night with Manu'a, 



By trumpet hailed through broad Hawaii, 



Ry the white vaulting conch of Kiha — 



Great Kiha, offspring of Pii-lani, 

 5 Father of eight-branched Kania-lala-walu. 



The far-roaming eye now sparkles with joy, 



Wliose energy erstwhile shook mountains, 



The king who firm-bound the isles in one state, 



His glory, symboled by four human altars, 

 10 Reaches Kauai, Oahu, Maui, 



Hawaii the eld of Keawe, 



Whose tabu, burning with blood-red blaze. 



Shoots flame-tongues that leap with the wind, 



The breeze from the mountain, the Naulu. 

 15 Waihoa humps its back, while cold Mikioi 



Blows fierce and swift across Hala-li'i. 



It vaunts like a l<ing at Kekaha, 



Flaunting itself in the sun's heat, 



And lifts itself up in mirage, 

 20. Ghost-forms of woods and trees in Kekaha — 



Sweeping o'er waste Kala-ihi, Water-of-Lono ; 



While the sun shoots forth its fierce rays — 



Its heat, perchance, reaches to Honua-ula. 



The mele next given takes its local color from Kauai and brings 

 vividly to mind the experiences of one who has climbed the mountain 

 walls, pali, that buffet the winds of its northern coast. 



Mele 

 Kalalau, pali eku i lia makani ; 

 Pu ka Lawa-kua,^ hoi man i Kolo-kini ; 

 Nu a anahulu ka pa ana i-uka — 

 Anahulu me na po ken elua. 



" Hala-lii. A sandy plain on Niihau, where grows a variety of sugar-cane that lies 

 largely covered by the loose soil, fee feo eli o Hala-lii. 



>> Li'u-la. The mirage, a common phenomenon on Niihau, and especially at Mana, on 

 Kauai. 



<■ Lawa-kua. A wind in Kalalau that blows for a time from the mountains and then, 

 it is said, veers to the north, so that it comes from the direction of a secondary valley, 

 Kolo-liini, a branch of Kalalau. The bard describes it as continuing to blow for twelve 

 nights before it shifts, an instance, probably, of poetic license. 



