The author has already hinted at the form and character of the entertainments with which hula-folk sometimes beguiled their professional interludes. Fortunately the author is able to illustrate by means of a song the very form of entertainment they provided for themselves on such an occasion. The following mele, cantillated with an accompaniment of expressive gesture, is one that was actually given at an awa-drinking bout indulged in by hula-folk. The author has an account of its recital at Kahuku, island of Oahu, so late as the year 1849, during a circuit of that [Page 130] island made by King Kamehameha III. This mele is reckoned as belonging to the ordinary repertory of the hula; but to which particular form of the dance it was devoted has not been learned: _Mele_ Ua ona o Kane i ka awa; Ua kau ke kéha[281] i ka uluna; Ua hi’o-lani[282] i ka moena. Kipú mai la i ke kapa o ka noe. 5 Noe-noe na hokú o ka lani— Imo-imo mai la i ka po a’e-a’e. Mahana-lua[283] na kukui a Lanikaula,[274] He kaula no Kane.[285] Meha na pali o Wai-pi’o 10 I ke kani mau o Kiha-pú; A ono ole ka awa a ke alii I ke kani mau o Kiha-pú; Moe ole kona po o ka Hooilo; Uluhua, a uluhua, 15 I ka mea nana e huli a loaa I kela kupua ino i ka pali, Olali la, a olali. [Translation.] _Song_ Kane is drunken with awa; His head is laid on the pillow; His body stretched on the mat. A trumpet sounds through the fog, 5 Dimmed are the stars in the sky; When the night is clear, how they twinkle! Lani-kaula’s torches look double, The torches that burn for Kane. Ghostly and drear the walls of Waipio 10 At the endless blasts of Kiha-pú. The king’s awa fails to console him; ’Tis the all-night conching of Kiha-pú. Broken his sleep the whole winter; Downcast and sad, sad and downcast, 15 At loss to find a brave hunter Shall steal the damned conch from the cliff. Look, how it gleams [through the fog]! [Footnote 281: _Kéha_ is an elegant expression for the side of the head.] [Footnote 282: _Hi’o-lani_, literally to turn the side to heaven, is a classic expression of refinement.]