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audience, who have kept silence till now, break forth in applause, and 

 his tally-keeper proclaims his success in boastful fashion: 



on 



A iiweuwe ke ko'e u ke kae : 

 Puehuehu ka la, komo inoiuu : 

 Kakia, kahe ka ua ilalo. 



[Translation] 



Now wriggles the worm to its goal ; 

 A tousling ; a hasty encouuter ; 

 A grapple; clown falls the rain. 



It is now the winner's right to cross over and claim his forfeit. 

 The audience deals out applause or derision in unstinted measure; 

 the enthusiasm reaches fever-point when some one makes himself the 

 champion of the game by bringing his score up to ten, the limit. The 

 play is often kept up till morning, to be resumed the following night." 



Here also is a mele, which tradition reports to have been cantil- 

 lated by Hiiaka, the sister of Pele, during her famous kiln contest 

 with the Princess Pele-ula, which took place at Kou — the ancient 

 name for Honolulu — on Hiiaka's voyage of return from Kauai to 

 her sister's court at Kilauea. In this affair Lohiau and Wahine- 

 oma'o contended on the side of Hiiaka, while Pele-ula was assisted 

 by her husband, Kou, and by other experts. But on this occasion the 

 dice were cogged : the victory was won not by human skill but by the 

 magical power of Hiiaka, who turned Pele-ula's kilu away from the 

 target each time she threw it, but used her gift to compel it to the 

 mark when the kilu was cast by herself. 



Melc 



Ku'u hoa mai ka makani kuehu-kapa o Kalalau,* 

 Mai na pali ku'i ' o Makua-iki, 

 Ke lawe la i ka hakajf^ a lilo ! 

 A lilo o-e, la ! 

 5 Ku'u kane i ka uhu ka'i o Maka-pu'u, 

 Huki iluna ka Lae-o-ka-laau ; ^ 

 Oia pali makua-ole f olaila. 

 Ohiohi ku ka pali o Ulamao, e-e ! 

 A lilo oe, la ! 



" The account above ciiven is largely based on David Malo's description of the game 

 kilu. In his confessedly imperfect list of the hulas he does not mention the hula kilu. 

 This hula was, however, included in the list of hulas announced for performance in the 

 programme of King Kalakaua's coronation ceremonies. 



^ Ka-lalau (in the translation by the omission of the article ka, shortened to Lalau). 

 A deep cliff-bound valley on the windward side of Kauai, accessible only at certain times 

 of the year by boats and by a steep mountain trail at its head. 



« Pali ku'i. Ku'i means literally to join together, to splice or piece out. The cliffs 

 tower one above another like the steps of a stairway. 



'' Haka. A ladder or frame such as was laid across a chasm or set up at an impassable place 

 in a precipitous road. The windward side of Kauai about Kalalau abounded in such places. 



" Lae-o-ka-laau. The southwest point of Molokai. on^which is a light-house. 



f Makua-ole. Literally fatherless, perhaps meaning remarkable, without peer. 



