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SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
abandoned the Island in a boat of peculiar shape, leaving 
a hope, or rather belief, that at some future time he should 
return. The song and prophecy, for the translation of 
which we are indebted to the American missionaries, are as 
follow: 
0 BONO AKUA. 
1. Eono, Etooah * of Hawaii, in ancient times, resided 
with his wife at Ivarakakooa. 
2. The name of the goddess, his love, was Kaikirani- 
Aree-Opuna. They dwelt beneath the steep rock. 
S. A man ascended to the summit, and from the height 
thus addressed the spouse of Eono : 
4. “ O Kaikiranee-Aree-Opuna, your lover salutes you: 
keep this—remove that: one will still remain.” 
5. Eono overhearing this artful speech, killed his wife 
with a hasty stroke. 
6. Sorry for this rash deed, he carried to a morai the 
lifeless body of his wife, and made great wail over it. 
7. He travelled through Hawaii in a state of frenzy, 
boxing with every man he met. 
8. The people astonished said, “ Is Eono entirely mad?” 
He replied, “ I am frantic on her account, I am frantic with 
my great love.” 
* Etooah or Akua—the same word pronounced either way by the natives, 
and spelt both ways by foreigners—the natives now write Akua. 
