il of some Hawaiian pathfinder who, after
beating about the bush, finally had to acknowledge that the
path had become so much overgrown since he last went that way
that he could not find it.

The Arabs have a hundred or more words meaning
sword--different kinds of swords. To them our word sword is
very unspecific. Talk to an Arab of a sword--you may exhaust
the list of special forms that our poor vocabulary compasses,
straight sword, broadsword, saber, scimitar, yataghan,
rapier, and what hot, and yet not hit the mark of Ms
definition.

_Mele_

Haku'i ka uahi o ka lua, pa i ka lani;
Ha'aha'a Hawaii, moku o Keawe i hanau ia.
Kiekie ke one o Malama ia Lohiau,
I a'e 'a mai e ke alii o Kahiki,
5 Nana i hele kai uli, kai ele,
Kai popolo-hu'a a Kane,
Ka wa i po'i ai ke Kai-a-ka-Mna-lii,
Kai nu'u, kai lewa.

Hoopua o Kane i ka la'i;
10 Pa uli-hiwa mai la ka uka o ke ahi a Laka,
Oia wahine kihene lehua o Hopoe,
Pu'e aku-o na hala,
Ka hala o Panaewa,
O Panaewa nui, moku lehua;
15 Ohia kupu ha-o'e-o'e;
Lehua ula, i will ia e lie ahi.
A po, e!

Po Puna, po Hilo!
Po i ka uahi o ku'u aina.
20 Ola ia kini!
Ke a mai la ke ahi!
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[Translation]

_Song_

A burst of smoke from the pit lifts to the skies;
Hawaii's beneath, birth-land of Keawe;
Malama's beach looms before Lohian,
Where landed the chief from Kahiki,
5 From a voyage on the blue sea, the dark sea,
The foam-mottled sea of Kane,
What time curled waves of the king-whelming flood.
The sea up-swells, invading the land--

Lo Kane, outstretched at his ease!
10 Smoke and flame o'ershadow the uplands,
Conflagration by Laka, the woman
Hopoe wreathed with flowers of lehua,
Stringing the pandanus fruit.
Screw-palms tha