[Footnote 227: _I waihona kapuahi kanaka ehá_. This verse presents grammatical difficulties. The word _I_ implies the imperative, a form of request or demand, though that is probably not the intent. It seems to be a means, authorized by poetical license, of ascribing honor and tabu-glory to the name of the person eulogized, who, the context leads the author to think, was Kekaulike. The island names other than that of Maui seem to have been thrown in for poetical effect, as that king, in the opinion of the author, had no power over Kauai, Oahu, or Hawaii. The purpose may have been to assert that his glory reached to those islands.] [Footnote 228: _Keawe enaena_. Keawe, whose tabu was hot as a burning oven. Presumably Keawe, the son of Umi, is the one meant.] [Footnote 229: _Naulu_. The sea-breeze at Waimea, Kauai.] [Footnote 230: _Hala-lii_. A sandy plain on Niihau, where grows a variety of sugar-cane that lies largely covered by the loose soil, _ke ko eli o Hala-lii_.] [Footnote 231: _Li’u-la_. The mirage, a common phenomenon on Niihau, and especially at Mana, on Kauai.] [Translation.] _Song_ (Distinct utterance) Wanahili bides the whole night with Manu’a, By trumpet hailed through broad Hawaii, By the white vaulting conch of Kiha— Great Kiha, offspring of Pii-lani, 5 Father of eight-branched Kama-lala-walu The far-roaming eye now sparkles with joy, Whose energy erstwhile shook mountains, The king who firm-bound the isles in one state, His glory, symboled by four human altars, 10 Reaches Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Hawaii the eld of Keawe, Whose tabu, burning with blood-red blaze, Shoots flame-tongues that leap with the wind, The breeze from the mountain, the Naulu. 15 Waihoa humps its back, while cold Mikioi Blows fierce and swift across Hala-li’i. It vaunts like a king at Kekaha, Flaunting itself in the sun’s heat, And lifts itself up in mirage, 20 Ghost-forms of woods and trees in Kekaha— Sweeping o’er waste Kala-ihi, Water-of-Lono; While the sun shoots forth its fierce rays— Its heat, perchance, reaches to Honua-ula. The mele next given takes its local color from Kauai and brings vividly to mind the experiences of one who has climbed the mountain walls _pali_, that buffet the winds of its northern coast. _Mele_