The last and only mention found of its performance in modern times was in the year 1847, during the tour, previously mentioned, which Kamehameha III made about Oahu. The place was the lonely and romantic valley of Waimea, a name already historic from having been the scene of the tragic death of Lieutenant Hergest (of the ship _Dædalus_) in 1792. _Mele_ Auwe! pau au i ka manó nui, e! Lala-kea[418] niho pa-kolu. Pau ka papa-ku o Lono[419] I ka ai ia e ka manó nui, 5 O Niuhi maka ahi, Olapa i ke kai lipo. Ahu e! au-we! A pua ka wili-wili, A nanahu ka manó,[420] [Page 222] 10 Auwe! pau au i ka manó nui! Kai uli, kai ele, Kai popolohua o Kane. A lealea au i ka’u hula, Pau au i ka manó nui! [Footnote 418: _Lala-kea_. This proper name, as it seems once to have been, has now become rather the designation of a whole class of man-eating sea-monsters. The Hawaiians worshiped individual sharks as demigods, in the belief that the souls of the departed at death, or even before death, sometimes entered and took possession of them, and that they at times resumed human form. To this class belonged the famous shark Niuhi (verse 5).] [Footnote 419: _Papa-ku o Lono_. This was one of the underlying strata of the earth that must be passed before reaching _Mílu_, the hades of the Hawaiians. The cosmogony of the southern Polynesians, according to Mr. Tregear, recognized ten _papa_, or divisions. “The first division was the earth’s surface; the second was the abode of Rongo-ma-tane and Haumia-tiketike; ... the tenth was Meto, or Ameto, or Aweto, wherein the soul of man found utter extinction.” (The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, by Edward Tregear, F.R.G.S., etc., Wellington, New Zealand, 1891.)] [Footnote 420: Verses 8 and 9 are from an old proverb which the Hawaiians put into the following quatrain: A pua ka wiliwili, A nanahu ka manó; A pua ka wahine u’i, A nanahu ke kanawai. [Translation.] When flowers the wiliwili, Then bites the shark; When flowers a young woman. Then bites the law.