_hau_ tree I have counted out
And found seven _hau_.
The _hau_ for the outriggers makes one,
The _hau_ for the joining piece makes two,
The _hau_ bark makes three,
The _hau_ wood makes four,
The _hau_ bush makes five,
The large _hau_ tree makes six,
The mountain _hau_ makes seven.

"Say, young man, you will have no _hau_, for we have used it all. There
is none left. If you find any more, you shall live, but if you fail you
shall surely die. We will twist your nose till you see the sun at
Kumukena. We will poke your eyes with the _Kahili_ handle, and when the
water runs out, our little god of disputation shall suck it up--the god
Kaneulupo."

Says the boy, "You full-grown men have found so many uses, you whose
teeth are rotten with age, why can't I, a lad, find other uses, to save
myself so that I may live. I shall search for some more hau, and if I
fail you shall live, but if I find them you shall surely die."

"Aina hau kinikini o Kona,
Na'u i helu hookahi hau,
A ehiku hau keu.
O Honolohau la akahi,
O Lanihau la alua
O Punohau la akolu,
O Kahauloa la aha,
O Auhaukea la alima,
O Kahauiki la aono,
Holo kehau i ka waa kona la ahiku."

A land of many _hau_ trees is in _Kona_
Out of a single _hau_ I have counted one,
And found seven _hau_.
Honolahau makes one,
Lanihau makes two,
Punohau makes three,
Kahauloa makes four,
Auhaukea makes five,
Kahaniki makes six,
The Kehau that drives the canoe at Kona makes seven.

(All names of places in the Kona district.)

"There are seven _hau_, you men with rotten teeth."]

[Footnote 5: Thomson says that the Fijians differ from the Polynesians
in their indifference to beauty in nature.]

3. ANALOGY: ITS PICTORIAL QUALITY

A second significant trait in the treatment of objective life, swiftness
of analogy, affects the Polynesian in two ways: the first is pictorial
and plays upon a likeness between objects or describes an idea or mood
in metaphorical terms; the second is a mere linguistic play upon words.
Much nomenclature is merely a quick picturing which fastens attention
upon the special feature that attracts attention; ideas are naturally
reinforced by some simple analogy. I recall a curious imported flower
with twisted inner tube which the natives call, with a characteristic
touch of daring drollery, "the intestines of the clergyman." Spanish
moss is named from a promin