That is a fine imaginative touch in which the poet illustrates the power of the human hand to kindle love in one that is cold-hearted, as if he had declared the hand itself to be not only the wreath-maker, but the very wreath that is to encircle and warm into response the unresponsive loved one, _I lei hooheno no ke aloha ole_ (verse 12). Differences of physical environment, of social convention, of accepted moral and esthetic standards interpose seemingly impassable barriers between us and the savage mind, but at the touch of an all-pervading human sympathy these barriers dissolve into very thin air. _Mele_ Kahiki-nui, auwahi[257] ka makani! Nana aku au ia Kona, Me ke kua lei ahi[258] la ka moku; Me ke lawa uli e, la, no 5 Ku’u kai pa-ú hala-ká[259] I ka lae o Hana-maló;[260] Me he olohe ili polohiwa, Ke ku a mauna, Ma ka ewa lewa[261] Hawaii. 10 Me he ihu leiwi la, ka moku, Kou mauna, kou palamoa:[262] Kau a waha mai Mauna-kea[263] A me Mauna-loa,[263] Ke ku a Maile-hahéi.[264] 15 Uluna mai Mauna Kilohana[265] I ka poohiwi o Hu’e-Hu’e.[265] [Footnote 257: _Auwahi_ (a word not found in any dictionary) is said by a scholarly Hawaiian to be an archaic form of the word _uwahi_, or _uahi_ (milk of fire), smoke, _Kahiki-nui_ is a dry region and the wind (_makani_) often fills the air with dust.] [Footnote 258: _Kua lei ahi_. No Hawaiian has been found who professes to know the true meaning of these words. The translation of them here given is, therefore, purely formal.] [Footnote 259: _Pa-ú halaká_. An expression sometimes applied to the hand when used as a shield to one’s modesty; here it is said of the ocean (_kai_) when one’s body is immersed in it.] [Footnote 260: _Hana-maló_. A cape that lies between Kawaihae and Kailua in north Kona.] [Footnote 261: _Ewa lewá_. In this reading the author has followed the authoritative suggestion of a Hawaiian expert, substituting it for that first given by another, which was _elewa_. The latter was without discoverable meaning. Even as now, given conjectures as to its meaning are at variance. The one followed presents the less difficulty.]