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himself conscience-bound to set himself in opposition to the amuse- 

 ments, sports, and games of his people, and he was unable, apparently, 

 to see in them any good whatsoever. Malo was a man of uncom- 

 promising honesty and rigidity of principles. His nature, acting 

 under the new influences that surrounded him after the introduction 

 of Christianity, made it impossible for him to discriminate calmly 

 between the good and the pernicious, between the purely human and 

 poetic and the depraved elements in the sports practised by his people 

 during their period of heathenism. There was nothing halfway 

 about Malo. Having abandoned a system, his mature compelled him 

 to denounce it root and branch. 



The first mele here offered as an accompaniment to this hula can 

 boast of no great antiquity ; it belongs to the middle of the nineteenth 

 century, and was the product of some gallant at a time when princes 

 and princesses abounded in Hawaii : 



Mele 



Aole i manao ia 



Kahi wai a o Alekoki. 



Hookobu ka ua i uka. 



Noho inai la i Nuuanu. 

 5 Anu-anu, makehewa au 



Ke kali ana i-laila. 



Ka ino' paha ua paa 



Kou manao i aue'i, 



All i hoomalu ai. 

 10 Hoomalu oe a malu ; 



Ua malu keia kiuo 



Mamuli a o kou leo. 



Kau uui aku ka manao 



Kahi wai a o Kapena. 

 15 Pani'a paa ia mai 



Na manowai a o uka ; 



Aliu wale na ki'owai, 



Na pa pa -hale o luna. 



Maluua a'e no wau, 

 20 Ma ke kuono liilii. 



A waho, a o Mamala, 



Hao mai nei ehu-ehu ; 



Pulu au i ka huna-kai, 



Kai heahea i ka ili. 

 25 Hookahi no koa uui, 



Nana e alo ia ino. 



Ino-ino mai nei luna, 



I ka hao a ka makani. 



He makani ahai-lono ; 

 30 Lohe ka luna i Pelekane. 



ia pouli nui 



Mea ole i ku'u manao, 



1 o, i a-ne'i au, 



Ka piina la o Ma'ema'e, 



