The allusions in this mele are to the mythical story that tells of Kane’s drinking, revels on the heights about Waipi’o valley; how he and his fellows by the noise of their furious conching disturbed the prayers and rituals of King Liloa and his priests, Kane himself being the chief offender by his blowing on the conch-shell Kihapú, stolen from Liloa’s temple of Paka’alana: its recovery by the wit and dramatic action of the gifted dog Puapua-lenalena. (See p. 131.) _Mele_ Ku e, naná e! Makole[421] o Ku! Hoolei ia ka lei,[422] I lei no Puapua-lenalena, 5 He lei hinano no Kahili,[423] He wehiwehi no Niho-kú[424] [Page 224] Kaanini ka lani,[425] uwé ka honua: A aoa aku oe; Lohe o Hiwa-uli,[426] 10 Ka milimili a ka lani. Noho opua i ka malámaláma Málama ia ka ipu.[427] He hano-wai no Kilioe,[428] Wahine noho pali o Haena. 15 Enaena na ahi o Kilauea,[429] Ka haku pali o Kamohoalii.[430] A noho i Waipi’o, Ka pali kapu a Kane. Moe ole ka po o ke alii, 20 Ke kani mau o Kiha-pú. Ukiuki, uluhua ke alii: Hoouna ka elele;[431] Loaa i Kauai o Máno, Kupueu a Wai-uli me Kahili; 25 A ao aku oe, aoa,[432] aoa a aoa. Hana e o Kaua-hoa,[433] Ka mea ū i o Hanalei, Hu’e’a kaua, moe i ke awakea, [Page 225] Kapae ke kaua o ka hoahanau![434] 30 Hookahi no pua o ka oi; Awili pu me ke kaio’e.[435] I lei no Puapua-lenalena. O ku’u luhi ua hiki iho la, Ka nioi o Paka’a-lana.[436] 35 A lana ka manao, hakuko’i ’loko, Ka hae mau ana a Puapua-lenalena, A hiki i Kuma-kahi,[437] Kahi au i noho ai, A hiki iho la ka elele, 40 Inu i ka awa kau-laau o Puna.[438] Aoa, he, he, hene! [Footnote 421: _Makole_. Red-eyed; ophthalmic.] [Footnote 422: The wreath, _lei_, is not for the god, but for the dog Puapua-lenalena, the one who in the story recovered the stolen conch, _Kiha-pú_ (verse 20), with which god Kane made night hideous and disturbed the repose of pious King Liloa (_Moe ole ka po o ke alii_, verse 19).] [Footnote 423: _Kahili_. Said to be the foster mother of Puapua-lenalena.] [Footnote 424: _Niho-kú_. Literally an upright tooth, was the name of the hill on which lived the old couple who were the foster parents of the dog.]