anky, he will go down in
the gale like a banana tree." "Like the _ea_ banana that takes long to
ripen," is the quick reply. Compare also the derisive chants with which
Kuapakaa drives home the chiefs of the six districts of Hawaii who have
got his father out of favor, and Lono's taunts against the revolting
chiefs of Hawaii.]

[Footnote 27: The idiomatic passages "_aohe puko momona o Kohala_,"
etc., and (on page 387) "_e huna oukou i ko oukou mau maka i ke aouli_"
are of doubtful interpretation.]

[Footnote 28: This boast of downing an antagonist with a single blow is
illustrated in the story of _Kawelo_. His adversary, Kahapaloa, has
struck him down and is leaving him for dead. "Strike again, he may
revive," urge his supporters. Kahapaloa's refusal is couched in these
words:

"He is dead; for it is a blow from the young,
The young must kill with a blow
Else will the fellow go down to Milu
And say Kahapaloa struck frim twice,
Thus was the fighter slain."

All Hawaiian stories of demigods emphasize the ease of achievement as a
sign of divine rather than human capacity.]

CHAPTER V

[Footnote 29: Shaking hands was of foreign introduction and marks one of
the several inconsistencies in Haleole's local coloring, of which "the
deeds of Venus" is the most glaring. He not only uses such foreign
coined words as _wati_, "watch," and _mare_, "marry," but terms which
are late Hawaiian, such as the triple canoe, _pukolu_, and provision
boat, _pelehu_, said to have been introduced in the reign of Kamehameha
I.]

[Footnote 30: Famous Hawaiian boxing teachers kept master strokes in
reserve for the pupils, upon whose success depended their own
reputation. These strokes were known by name. Compare Kawelo, who before
setting out to recapture Kauai sends his wife to secure from his
father-in-law the stroke called _wahieloa_. The phrase "_Ka ai a ke kumu
i ao oleia ia oukou_" has been translated with a double-punning meaning,
literal and figurative, according to the interpretation of the words.
Cold-nose's faith in his girdle parodies the far-fetched dependence upon
name signs common to this punning race. The snapping of the end of his
loin cloth is a good omen for the success of a stroke named
"End-that-sounds"! Even his supporters jeer at him.]

[Footnote 31: Few similes are used in the story. This figure of the
"blood of a lamb," the "blow like the whiz of the wind," the _moo_
ploughing the earth with