206 BUREAU OF AAIEKIC'AX KTllNOLOGY [bull. :!.S 



A palu'i ka naau no Pa-iti'-o." 



A pa 'a ka mano. 

 10 IIopu i ka lima. 



Ai pakalii, e, i ka nahele,'' 



xVlawa a'e na nlu kani o I.eiwalo. 



E noho ana Kolea-kani '" 



Ka pii'na i ka I'wa-lua ; 

 15 Oha-oM lei i ka uiakaui. 



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'Tis Kahipa, with pendnU)Us breasts; 

 How they swing to and fro, see-saw ! 

 The teeth of Lani-wahine gape — 

 A truce to upper and lower jaw ! 

 5 From I^ihiie we look upon Ewa ; 



There swam the monster. Miko-lo-16\i. 

 His bowels torn out by l'a-pi"-i). 

 The shark was caught in grip of the hand. 

 Let each one stay himself with wild herbs, 

 10 And for comfort turn his hungry eyes 

 To the rustling trees of I.ei-walo. 

 Hark! the whistling-plovt^r — her old-time seat. 

 As one climl>s the hill from Echo-glen. 

 And cools his brow in the breeze. 



The thread of interest that holds together the separate pictures 

 conipo.sing this mele is slight. It will, perhaps, give to the Avhole a 

 more definite meaning if we recognize that it is made up of snap- 

 shots at various objects and localities that presented themselves to 

 one passing along the old road from Kahilku, on Oahu, to the high 

 land Mdiich gave the tired traveler his first distant view of Honolulu 

 before he entered the winding canj^on of Moana-lua. 



" I'a-pi'-o. A shark of moderate size, but of great activity, that fought against Miko-lo- 

 li'iu. It entered his enormous mouth, passed down into his stomach, and there phiyed 

 havoc with the monster, eating its way out. 



''Ai pakatii, c, i ka nahclr. The company represented by the poet to be .iourneying pass 

 through an uninhabited region barren of food. The poet calls upon them to satisfy their 

 hunger by eating of the edible wild herbs — they abound everywhere in Hawaii — at the 

 s:ime time representing them as casting longing glances on the breadfruit trees of Ijei- 

 walo. This was a grove in the lower levels of Ewa that still survives. 



<■ KoUa-kani. A female kKiJini — witch she might be called now — that had the form of a 

 plover. She looked after the thirsty ones who passed along the road, and benevolently 

 showed them where to find water. By her example the people of tlye district are said to 

 have been induced to give refreshment to travelers who went that way. 



