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pelled by some bright and fortunate rays, that would 
pierce its blackness, and scatter it abroad. 
It was the eye of the powerful chief Nahi which had 
fallen on Kinau, and he had even sought a private inter- 
view with her, and declared his passion ; but she reso- 
lutely refused to listen to his advances for a moment. 
“ What!” said the haughty erie, “ do you refuse to listen 
to the voice of Nahi your chief? Daughter of my neigh- 
bour, tremble !— let tears, as salt as the waters of the 
ocean, fall quick and fast from thy earth-bound eye ! 
refuse to listen to the voice of Nahi, and the volcano of 
Waikukii shall consume the blood of Tuanoa, as the 
shark of the ocean devours the newly-hatched turtle !” 
“O great Nahi , 59 answered Kinau, 6 ‘ suffer your 
neighbour’s daughter to return the love of Tuanoa, 
whose love, like mine, burns as the fire of the volcano, 
which the waters of the ocean cannot quench.” 
a Tremble,” exclaimed the erie, “ daughter of Kua~ 
kini, and the beloved of Tuanoa ! go from the presence 
of Nahi, and let there be no more said !” 
Kinau went from his presence with trembling limbs 
and palpitating heart ; she knew the disposition of Nahi ; 
cruel and vindictive in the extreme, he spared nothing 
to obtain the object of his washes. He had committed 
many crimes for which he had often been reproved by 
the late king, and several of the chiefs. The people 
were also disgusted with his tyrannical behaviour ; and 
these things combined, caused him to be more careful of 
his conduct than he had been in the earlier part of his 
government. Kinau was also well aware of the same, 
