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20 Pe'e ov ;i nalo loa ; 



Ua nalo na Pele. 



E bua'i e, bua'i e, liua'i, 



O Ku ka mabn luii akea ! " 



Iho i kai o ka Mllo-holn : ^ 

 25 Auaii uiehana i ka wai o kc Akna. 



Ke a e, ke a mai la 



Ke abi a ka Wabine. 



E biila e, e bula e. e bnla e ! 



E buhl mai oukoii ! 

 30 T'a iioa no Manamana-ia-kaln-r-a, 



Puili kna, piiili alo: 



ITolo i kai, bolo 1 nka, 



Holo i ka iiia o Pele — 



He Akua ai pobaku no Puna. 

 35 O Pi,'' o Pa,'" nbini mai ana, 



O Pele i ka Ina. 



A noa ! 



[Translation] 



Black crabs are climbing, 



Crabs from tbe great sea. 



Sea tbat is darkling. 



Black crabs and gray crabs 

 5 Scuttle o'er tbe reef-plate. 



Billows are tumbling and lasbing. 



Beating and surging nigb. 



Seasbells are crawling np; 



And lurking in boles 

 10 Are tbe eels o-fi and o-I. 



But taste tbe moss akjlbakaba, 



Kabiki ! bow tbe sea rages ! 



Tbe wild sea of Kane ! 



Tbe pit-god bas come to tbe ocean, 

 15 All consuming, devouring 



By heaps tbe delicate sbellfisb : 



Lashing tbe mount, lasbing tbe sea. 



Lurking place of tbe goddess. 



Pray bide yourself wholly : 

 20 Tbe Pele women ai-e bidden. 



Burst forth now ! burst forth I 



Ku with spreading column of smoke ! 



Now down to tbe grove Milo-bolu ; 



Bathe in waters warmed by tbe goddess. 

 25 Behold, they burn, behold, they burn 1 



" O Ku la mnhn iiiii al-ca. The Hawaiians have come to troat this phrase as one word, 

 an epithet applied to the sod Ku. In the author's translation it is treated as an ordi- 

 nary phrase. 



" Milo-hohi. A grove of milo trees that stood, as some affirm, about that natural basin 

 of warm water in Puna, which the Hawaiians called Wai-wcla-Kela. 



'^ Pi, Pa. Those were two imaginary little beings who lived in the crator of Kilauea. 

 and who declared their presence by a tiny shrill piping sound, such, perliaps, as a stick of 

 green wood will make when burning. Pi was active at such times as the fires were 

 retreating, Pa when the fires were rising to a full head. 



