10 A Ko'i-ahi[378] au, ka maile lau-lu la;
A Makua[379] la, i ke one opio-pio[380],
E holu ana ke kai o-lalo;
He wahine a-po'i-po'i[381] e noho ana,
A Kilauea[382], i ke awa ula.

[Translation]

_Song_

At Hilo I rendezvoused with, the lehua;
By the Wailuku stream, near the robber-den;
Off cape Lele-iwi I swam in the ocean;
At Pana-ewa, mid groves of lehua;
5 At Ha-ili, a forest of flocking birds.
On Molokai I travel its one highway;
I saw the plain of Kala'e quiver with heat,
And beheld the ax-quarries of Mauna-loa.
Ah, the perfume Nihoa's pandanus exhales!
10 Ko'i-ahi, home of the small-leafed maile;
And now at Makua, lo, its virgin sand,
While ocean surges and scours on below.
Lo, a woman crouched on the shore by the sea,
In the brick-red bowl, Kilauea's bay.

[Footnote 369: _Lehua._ A tree that produces the tufted scarlet
flower that is sacred to the goddess of the hula, Laka.]

[Footnote 370: _Lua-kanaka._ A deep and dangerous crossing at
the Wailuku river, which is said to have been the cause of
death by drowning of very many. Another story is that it was
once the hiding place of robbers.]

[Footnote 371: _Lele-iwi._ The name of a cape at Hilo, near the
mouth of the Wai-luku river;--water of destruction.]

[Footnote 372: _Pana-ewa._ A forest region in Ola'a much
mentioned in myth and poetry.]

[Footnote 373: _Haili._ A region in Ola'a, a famous: resort for
bird-catchers.]

[Footnote 374: _Ka-la'e._ A beautiful place in the uplands back
of Kaunakakai, on Molokai.]

[Footnote 375: _Mauna-loa._ The mountain in the western part of
Molokai.]

[Footnote 376: _Ka-lua-ko'i._ A place on this same Mauna-loa
where was quarried stone suitable for making the Hawaiian
ax.]

[Footnote 377: _Nihoa._ A small land near Kalaupapa, Molokai,
where was a grove of fine pandanus trees.]

[Footnote 378: _Ko'i-ahi._ A small valley in the district