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A Hilo ail o, hoolulii ka k'liiia ; " 

 A Wai-luku la, i ka Lua-kanaka ; ^ 

 A Lele-iwi " la, au i ke kai: 

 A Pana-ewa,"^ 1 ka iilu-lehiia ; 

 5 A Ha-ili,'' i ke kula-niaiui ; 

 A .Alologai, 1 ke ala-kalii, 

 Ke kula o Kala'e.' wela i ka la ; 

 Maiiua-loa^ la, Ka-lua-ko'i.'' e; 

 Aa bala o Nlboa,' he uiapuna la; 

 10 A Ko'i-ahi -^ an, ka maile lan-lii la; 

 A Makna '•^ la, i ke one opio-pii),' 

 E liolu ana ke kai o-lalo ; 

 He waliine a-po'i-po"! '" e nolio ana, 

 A Kilauea," i ke awa nla. 



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At Hilo I rendezvoused with the lehua ; 

 By the Wailuku stream, near the rol)ber-den ; 

 Off cape Lele-iwi I swam in the ocean : 

 At Pana-ewa, mid groves of lehua : 

 5 At Ha-ili. a forest of flocking birds. 

 On Molokai I travel its one highway; 

 I saw the plain of Kala'e quiver with heat, 

 And beheld the ax-qnarries of Mauna-loa. 

 Ah, the perfume Niboa's pandanus exhales! 

 10 Ko"i abi, home of the small-leafed maile; 

 And now at Makua, lo, its virgin sand. 

 While ocean surges and scours on below. 

 Lo, a woman crouched on the shore by tiie sea, 

 In the brick-red bowl, Kilauea's bay. 



" Lehi'tu. A tree that produces the tufted scarlet flower that is sacred to the sortdess of 

 the hula, Laka. 



'' Laa-kunaka. A deep and dangerous crossing at the Wailuku river, which is said to 

 liave lieeii the cause of death by drowning of very many. Another story is that it was 

 once the hiding place of robbers. 



<" Leh-iwL The name of a cape at Hilo, near the mouth of the Wi\i-hiku river — water of 

 destruction. 



'' Pana-ewa. A forest region in Ola'a much mentioned in myth and poetry. 



« Haili. A region in Ola'a, a famous resort for bird-catchers. 



f Ka-lu'c. A beautiful place in the uplands back of Kaunakakai, on Molokai. 



» Mauna-loa. The mountain in the western part of Molokai. 



'' Ka-hia-ko'i. A place on this same Mauna-loa where was quarried stone suitable for 

 making the Hawaiian as. 



' Sihoa. A small land near Kalaupapa, Molokai, where was a grove of tine pandanus 

 t rees. 



' Ko'i-ahi. A small valley in the district of Waianae, Oahu, where was the home of the 

 small-leafed maile. 



'^ ilukiiu. A valley in Waianae. 



' One opio-pio. Sand freshl.v smoothed by an ocean wave. 



"• Apo'i-po'l. To crouch for the purpose, perhaps, of screening oneself from view, as one, 

 for instance, who is naked and desires to esc.-ipe observation. 



" Kilauea. There is some doubt whether this is the Kil.-iuea on Kauai or a little place of 

 the same name near cape Kaena, the westernmost point of Oahu. 



