THE LANGUAGE OE HAWAII. 
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illusion of a reappearance of their Savior, to which many 
still cling after long association with the whites. 
It so happened that words that came to the natives through 
the medium of beings believed to be associated with the Gods 
were taken to represent better things than they originally 
designated. 
Special Descriptive Terms.- —The Hawaiian is a child of 
nature. Nothing can exceed the vividness with which nat¬ 
ural things are portrayed. Almost every conceivable wind 
has a special name. Kona is a wind from the southwest; 
hoolna, a strong north wind ; ea , the sea breeze at Lahaina; 
ulumano , a violent wind at night on the west side of Hawaii; 
mumuJcu, a wind blowing between two mountains; kiu , a 
northwest wind at Hana Kaupo; hau, a land breeze that 
blows at night; and so on almost indefinitely. Notice that 
special terms are given to local winds. Just how the sea 
breeze at Lahaina differs from that at other places does not 
appear; nevertheless ea applies to this locality and to none 
other. 
Every day of the month has its special name. They count 
by nights and not by days. Po akahi means the first night, 
i. e., Monday, po alua, the second night, or Tuesday, and so 
on. There are six different words meaning to carry ; ten to 
express the different ways of standing; twenty that apply to 
various positions of sitting. This shows with what vivid 
imagery the Hawaiian describes the actions of every day life. 
Here are a few examples of shades of meaning for the word 
carry: 
hali, to carry, in general. 
auamo, to carry on the shoulder with a stick. 
JcaH Ica’i, to carry in the hands. 
Mi, to carry, as a child in the arms. 
hoi, to carry on a stick between two men. 
haawi, to carry on the back, etc., etc., etc. 
When the missionaries came to translate the Bible they 
met an unexpected difficulty. It was necessary to decide 
