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hamelia III. This iiiele is reckoned as belonging to the ordinary 

 repertory of the liiila ; but to which particular form of the dance it 

 Avas devoted has not been learned : 



Melc 



Ua oua o Kane i ka awa ; 



Ua kau ke kelia * i ka ultina ; 



Ua hi'o-lani * i ka inoeua. 



Kipti mai la i ke kapa o ka noe. 

 5 Noe-noe iia liokti o ka laiii — 



Imo-imo mai la i ka po a'e-a'e. 



Maliana-lua ^ iia kukui a Lanikaula,^ 



He kaula no Kane.® 



Meha na pali o Wai-pi'o 

 10 I ke kani man o Kilia-pu ; 



A ono ole ka awa a ke alii 



I ke kani man o Kiha-pti; 



Moe ole kona po o ka Hooilo ; 



Ulnhua, a nlulina, 

 15 I ka mea nana e buli a loaa 



I kela knpua ino i ka pali, 



Olali la, a olali. 



[Trauslation] 

 Song 



Kane is drunken with, awa ; 



His head is laid on the pillow ; 



His body stretched on the mat. 



A trumpet sounds through the fog, 

 5 Dimmed are the stars in the sky; 



When the night is clear, how they twinkle! 



Lani-kaula's torches look double, 



The torches that burn for Kane. 



Ghostly and drear the walls of Waipio 

 10 At the endless blasts of Kiha-pu. 



The king's awa fails to console him ; 



'Tis the all-night couching of Kiha-pu. 



Broken his sleep the whole winter ; 



Downcast and sad, sad and downcast, 

 15 At loss to find a brave hunter 



Shall steal the damned conch from the cliff. 



Look, how it gleams [through the fog] I 



<• Keha is an elegant expression for the side of the head. 



''Hi'o-lani, literally to turn the side to heaven, is a classic expression of refinement. 



« Maliana-lua, literally to see double, was an accepted test of satisfactory drunkenness. 

 It reminds the author of an expression he once heard used by the comedian Clarke in 

 the play of Toodles. While in a maudlin state from liquor he spoke of the lighted candle 

 that was in his hand as a " double-barreled candle." 



'' Lani-kuula was a prophet who lived on Molokai at a place that still bears his name. 

 He had his residence in the midst of a grove of fine kukui trees, the remnants of which 

 remain to this day. Torches made from the nuts of these trees were supposed to be of 

 superior quality and they furnished the illumination for the revelries of Kane and his 

 fellows. 



« He kaula no Kane. A literal translation would be, a prophet of Kane. 



