ku
stream.]

[Footnote 142: _Pili-kau_. To hang low, said of a cloud.]

[Footnote 143: _Haili_. A region in the inland, woody, part of
Hilo.]

[Footnote 144: _Pa-ieie_. A well-wooded part of Hilo, once much
resorted to by bird-hunters; a place celebrated in Hawaiian
song.]

[Footnote 145: _Mokau-lele_. A wild, woody region In the
interior of Hilo.]

[Footnote 146: _Malua_. Name given to a wind from a northerly
or northwesterly direction on several of the islands. The
full form is Malua-lua.]

[Footnote 147: _Pu'u-eo_. A village in the Hilo district near
Puna.]

[Footnote 148: _Iwi-honua_. Literally a bone of the earth: a
projecting rock or a shoal; if in the water, an object to be
avoided by the surf-rider. In this connection see note _e_,
p. 36.]

[Translation]

STANZA 3

(With distinct utterance)

Kea-au shelters, Waiakea lies in the calm,
The deep peace of King Hana-kahi.
Hilo, of many diversions, swims in the ocean,
'Tween Point Lele-iwi and Maka-hana-loa;
5 And the village rests in the bowl,
Its border surrounded with rain--
Sharp from the sky the tooth of Hilo's rain.
Trenched is the land, scooped out by the downpour--
Tossed and like gnawing surf is Hilo's rain--
10 Beach strewn with a tangle of thicket growth;
A billowy freshet pours in Wailuku;
Swoll'n is Wai-au, flooding the point Moku-pane;
And red leaps the water of Anue-nue.
A roar to heaven sends up Kolo-pule,
[Page 62] 15 Shaking like thunder, mist rising like smoke.
The rain-cloud unfolds in the heavens;
Dark grows Hilo, black with the rain.
The skin of Hilo grows rough from the cold;
The storm-cloud hangs low o'er the land.
20 A rampart stand the woods of Haili;
Ohi'as thick-set must be brushed aside,
To tear one's way, like a covey of fowl,
In the wilds of Pa-ie-ie--
Lehua growths mine--h