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Ta Ku-huluhulumanu i ka Po, To Kubuluhulumanu, the eternal. 
Ia pale i ka Po, That you may banish the darkness. 
A puka i ke Ao, That we may enter the light. 
Owau, o Eleele, ka mea iaia ka mana, ‘To me, Eleele, give divine power. 
Homai he iki, Give intelligence. 
Homai he loaa nui, Give great success. 
Pii oukou a ke kuahiwi, Climb to the wooded mountains. 
A ke kualono, To the mountain ridges. 
Iio’a mai oukou i ka manu a pau, Gather all the birds. 
Hooili oukou iluna o ke kepau kahi e 3ring them to my gum to be held fast. 
pili ai, : 
Amama! Ua noa, Amen. it is finished. 
CHapter XVII 
™ Por the cloud sign compare the story of Kualii’s battles and in Westervyelt’s 
Lepeamoa (Legends of Honolulu, p. 217), the fight with the water monster. 
Of Hawaiians at prayer Dibble says: “The people were in the habit 
of praying every morning to the gods, clapping their hands as they muttered a 
set form of words in a singsong voice.” 
CuartTer XVIII 
The three mountain domes of Hawaii rise from 13,000 to 8,000 feet above 
the sea, and the two highest are in the wintertime often capped with snow. 
"The games of kilw and wme, which furnished the popular evening enter- 
tainment of chiefs, were in form much like our “Spin the plate” and ‘“ For- 
feits.”’ Kilu was played with ‘a funnel-shaped toy fashioned from the upper 
portion of a drinking gourd, adorned with the pawehe ornamentation charac- 
teristic of Niihau calabashes.” The player must spin the gourd in such a way 
as to hit the stake set up for his side. Bach hit counted 5, 40 scoring a game. 
Each player sang a song before trying his hand, and the forfeit of a hula 
dance was exacted for a miss, the successful spinner claiming for his forfeit 
the favor of one of the women on the other side. Unie was merely a method 
of choosing partners by the master of ceremonies touching with a wand, called 
the mile, the couple selected for the forfeit, while he sang a jesting song, 
The sudden personal turn at the close of many of the oli may perhaps be 
accounted for by their composition for this game. The kaeke dance is that 
form of hula in which the beat is made on a kaekeeke instrument, a hollow 
bamboo cylinder struck upon the ground with a clear hollow sound, said to have 
been introduced by Laamaikahiki, the son of Moikeha, from Tahiti. 
CHAPTER XIX 
In the story of Kauakahialii, his home at Pihanakalani is located in the 
mountains of Kauai back of the ridge Kuamoo, where, in spite of its inland 
position, he possesses a fish-pond well stocked with fish. 
©The Hawaiian custom of group marriages between brothers or sisters is 
clearly brought out in this and other passages in the story. ‘‘Guard our 
wife’”—Ka wahine a kawa—says the Kauai chief to his comrade, “she be- 
longs to us two”—ia ia kaua. The sisters of Aiwohikupua call their mis- 
tress’s husband ‘our husband ”—ha kakou kane. So Laieikawai’s younger 
sister is called the “ young wife ”’—iwahine opio—of Laieikawai’s husband, and 
her husband is called his punalwa, which is a term used between friends who 
have wives in common, or women who have common husbands. 
