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On the same principle, why should they not apply the term folklore 

 to the myths and stories that make up the body of Roman and Greek 

 mythology ? The present author reserves the term folklore for appli- 

 cation to those unappropriated scraj)s of popular song, story, myth, 

 and superstition that have drifted down the stream of antiquity and 

 that reach us in the scrap-bag of popular memory, often bearing in 

 their battered forms the evidence of long use. 



Mele 



Hiki mai, hiki mai ka La, e. 

 Aloha wale ka La e kaii uei, 

 Ala malalo o Ka-wai-hoa, " 

 A ka lalo o Kaiial, o Lehua. 

 5 A Kauai an, ike i ka pali ; 

 A Milo-lii ^ pale ka pali loloa. 

 E kolo aua ka pali o Makua-iki; <' 

 Kolo o Pu-a, lie keiki, 

 He keiki makua-ole ke uwe nei. 



[Translation] 



Song 



It has come, it has come ; lo the Sim ! 

 How I love the Sun that's on high ; 

 Below it swims Ka-wai-hoa, 

 On the slope inclined from Lehua. 

 5 On Kauai met I a pali, 



A beetling cliff that bounds Milo-lii, 

 And climbing up Makua-iki, 

 Crawling up was Pua, the child. 

 An orphan that weeps out its tale. 



The writer has rescued the following fragment from the waste- 

 basket of Hawaiian song. A lean-to of modern verse has been 

 omitted; it was evidently added witliin a generation: 



Mele 



Malua,*^ ki'i wai ke aloha, 

 Hoopulu i ka liko mamane. 

 Uleuleu mai na manu, 

 Inu wai lehua o Panaewa,^ 

 5 E walea ana i ke ouaona, 

 Ke one wall o Ohele. 



" Kfiirnihoa. The southern point of Niihau, which is to the west of Katiai. the evident 

 standpoint of tlie poet, and therefore " below " Kauai. 



''Milo-lii. A valley on the northwestern angle of Kauai, a precipitous region, in which 

 travel from one point to another by land is almost impossible. 



'' Makiin-iki. Literally " little father," a name given to an overhanging pali, where was 

 provided a hanging ladder to make travel possible. The series of palis in this region 

 comes to an end at Milo-lii. 



" The Mnhia was a wind, often so dry that it sucked up the moisture from the land 

 and destroyed the tender vegetation. 



« Panaewa was a woodland region much talked of in poetry and song. 



