EMEKSOX] UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OF HAWAII 239 



upon it by the features of the landscape. One might ahnost say that 

 every cape and headLand imposed a new nomenclature upon the 

 breeze whose direction it influenced. He rarely contented himself 

 with using a broad and comprehensive term when he could match 

 the situation with a special form. 



The singer restricts her blame to charging her youthful lover with 

 an indiscreet exhibition of childish emotion. The mere display of 

 emotion evinced by the shedding of tears was in itself a laudable 

 action and in good form. 



This first reply of the woman to her youthful lover did not by any 

 means exhaust her armament of retaliation. When she next treats 

 of the affair it is with an added touch of sarcasm and yet with a 

 sang froid that proved it had not unsettled her nerves. 



Meic 



Ula Kala'e-loa « i ka lepo a ka niakaiii ; 

 Hooiui'auu'a na pua i Kalama-ula, 

 He hoa i ka la'i a ka maun — * 

 Maim ai ia i ka hoa laiikoua. 

 5 I keke laii-au'a ia e ka moe; 

 E kuhi aua ia lie Ivanaka e. 

 Oau no keia mai luna a lalo ; 

 Huna ke aloha, pe'e maloko. 

 Ike 'a i ka iiwe ana iho. 

 10 Pela lea hoa kauialii — 



He mve wale ke kamalii. 



[Translation] 

 So riff 



Red glows Kala'e through the wind-blown dust 

 That defiles the flowers of Lama-ula. 

 Outraged by the croak of this bird, 

 That eats of the aphrodisiac cane, 

 5 And then boasts the privileged bed. 

 He makes me a creature of outlaw : 

 True to myself from crown to foot-sole. 

 My love I've kept sacred, pent up within. 

 He flouts it as common, weeping it forth — 

 10 That is the way with a child-friend ; 

 A child just blubbers at nothing. 



To return to the description of the game, the player, having 

 uttered his vaunt in true knightly fashion, with a dexterous Avliirl 

 now sends his kiln spinning on its course. If his play is successful 

 and the kilu strikes the target on the other side at Avhich he aims, the 



" Kala'e-loa. The full name of the place on Molokai now known as Kala'e. 



''La'i a ka manu. Some claim this to he a proper name. Lo'i-a-ku-inanu, that of a plac 

 near Kala'e. However that may he. the poet evidently uses the phrase here in its etymo- 

 logical sense. 



