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Nobo i ka uka o Ka-liu-wa'a ; " 

 30 Ku'u wa"a ia ho'i i Kahiki. , 



Pau ia ike aua ia Hawaii, 



Ka aina a ke Akua i hiki luai ai, 



I noho malihini ai i ua moku o Hawaii. 



Malihiui oe, malihini au, 

 35 Ko'i maka nui, ike ia na jjae ojniaa. 



A pepelu, a pepelii, a pepelu 



Ko ia la huelo ! pili i ka leuiu ! 



Hu! hu! bu! bu ! 



Ka-bakii-ma'a-lani ^ kon inoa ! 

 4U A e o luai oe, e Kane-boa-laui. 



Ua noa. 



[Translation] 

 Song 



Ax of broadest edge I'm bight; 



The island groups Tve visited, 



Islands of Mala-la-walu, 



Seat of Ka-maulu-a-niho, 

 5 Grandam of Kama, the swine-god. 



I have seen Pi'i-lani's glory, 



Whose fame spreads over the islands. 



Enamored was I of Pele; 



Her beauty holds court at the fire-pit, 

 10 (iiven to ravage the plains of Puna. 



Mischievous son of Ku, and of Hina, 



Whose cloud-bloom hangs in ether, 



The pig-shaped cloud that shadows Haupu. 



An impulse comes to return to Kahiki — 

 15 The chains of the pit still gall me, 



The tabu cliff of Ka-nioho-alii, 



The mount that is ever ablaze. 



I thought to have domiciled with ber; 



Was driven away by mere shame — 

 20 The shameful abuse of the goddess ! 



(4o thou, go I — a truce to the shame. 



It was your manners that shamed me. 



Free to you was the house we lived in. 



These were the deeds of Broad-edged-Ax, 

 25 Who has seen the whole group of islands. 



Olopana's firstborn am I, 



JS'ursed in the arms of Ku-ula ; 



« Ka-liu-wa'a. The bilge of the canoe. This is the name of a deep and narrow valley 

 at Hauiila, Koolau, Oahu, and is well worth a visit. Kama-pua'a, hard pressed by the 

 host of his enemies, broke through the multitude that encompassed him on the land side 

 and with his followers escaped up this narrow gorge. When the valley came to an 

 abrupt end before him. and he could retreat no farther, he reared up on his hind legs 

 and scaled the mountain wall ; his feet, as he sprang up, scored the precipice with 

 immense hollowed-out grooves or flutings. The Hawaiians call these «■«'« from theu- 

 resemblance to the hollow of a Hawaiian canoe. This feat of the hog-god compelled 

 recognition of Kama-pua'a as a deity ; and from that time no one entered Ka-liu-wa'a 

 valley without making an offering to Kama-pua'a. 



'' Ka-haku-ma'a-lani. A name evidently applied to Kama-pua'a. 



