EMEH.soNj UNWKITTEN LITEKATUKE OF HAWAII 209 



Ka ohai o ^Mapi'iR'," 

 15 Ka luoena we"u-wo"n, 



I ulaiia ia e ke A'e, 



Ka uakii loloa. 



Hea uiai o Kawelo-hca/' 



Nawai la, e, ke kaimV 

 20 No Nalii-ena-eiia. 



Ena iia pua i ka wai. 



Wai an o Holoi. 



I 'rr.msliitionl 

 Sony 



A eulogy foi- the princess, 



For Xalii-ena-eiia a name ! 



Chief among women ! 



She soothes the cold wind with her Hanie — 

 5 A peace that is mirrored in calm, 



A wind that sheddeth rain ; 



A tide that flowed long ago; 



The water-spring of Mana, 



Life-spring for the people, 

 10 A fount where the lapping dog 



Barks at the ineomiTig wave, 



Drifting si»ra.v on the bloom 



Of the sand-sprawling ili-au 



And tlie scarlet flower of ohai, 

 15 On the wind-woven mat of wild grass. 



Long naku, a springy mattress. 



The spout-horn. Kawelo-hea, 



Asks, Who of right has the tabuV 



The princess Niilii-ena-ena ! 

 20 The flowers glow in the pool. 



The bathing pool of Holei ! 



Tliis inele inoa — uame-song- or eulooy — Avas composed in celebra- 

 tion of the lamented princess, Nahienaena, avIio, before she was 

 misled by evil influences, was a mo.st attractive and proinisin<r 

 character. She was the daughter of Keopuolani and younger sistei- 

 of Kamehameha HI, and came to her untimely death in lSo(). The 

 name v/as compounded from the words na, the, ahi. fires, and 

 enaSna, hot, a meaning which furnishes the motive to the mele. 



" Ka ohni o Mai)ctte. A lieaiitifiil flowering shrub, also spoken of as l:ii ohai o PapVa- 

 huU, said to have been brought from Kahiki by Namaka-o-kaha'i. 



'' Kairclo-hea. A blowhole or spouting horn, also at Honuapo, through which the ocean 

 at certain times sent up a column of spray or of water. After the volcanic disturl)ancc 

 of 1868 this spouting horn ceased action. The rending force of the earthqualses must 

 have broken up and clicked the subterranean channel through which the ocean had forced 

 its way. 



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