428 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI (ETH. ANN. 33 
Through the night, sacred and dreadful, 
Oh, turn back! : 
Oh, turn back and have pity, 
Listen to my pleading, 
Me the littlest of your sisters. 
Why will you abandon, 
Abandon us 
In this desolation? 
You have opened the highway before us, 
After you we followed, 
We are known as your little sisters, 
Then forsake your anger, 
The wrath, the loveless heart, 
Give a kiss to your little ones, 
Fare you well! 
When his youngest sister raised this lamentation to Aiwohikupua, 
then the brother’s heart glowed with love and longing for his sister. 
And because of his great love for his little sister, he took her in 
his arms, set her on his lap, and wept. 
When Kahalaomapuana was in her brother’s lap, Aiwohikupua 
ordered the canoemen to paddle with all their might; then the other 
sisters were left far behind and the canoe went ahead. 
As they went, Kahalaomapuana was troubled in mind for her 
sisters. 
Then Kahalaomapuana wept for her sisters and besought Aiwohi- 
kupua to restore her to her sisters; but Aiwohikupua would not take 
pity on her. 
“Q Aiwohikupua,” said his sister, “I will not let you take me by 
myself without taking my sisters with me, for you called me to you 
before when we were at Paliuli, but I would not consent to your 
taking me alone.” 
And because of Aiwohikupua’s stubbornness in refusing to let his 
sister go, then Kahalaomapuana jumped from the canoe into the 
sea. Then, for the last time she spoke to her brother in a song, as 
follows: 
You go home and look, 
Look into the eyes, 
Into the eyes of our parents. 
Love to our native land, 
My kindred and our friends, 
I am going back to your little sisters, 
To my older sisters I return. 
