[Footnote 517: _Ua-koko_. Literally bloody rain, a term applied to a rainbow when lying near the ground, or to a freshet-stream swollen with the red muddy water from the wash of the hillsides. These were important omens, claimed as marking the birth of tabu chiefs.] [Footnote 518: _Wai kau a Kane me Kanaloa_. Once when Kane and Kanaloa were journeying together Kanaloa complained of thirst. Kane thrust his staff into the pali near at hand, and out flowed a stream of pure water that has continued to the present day. The place is at Keanae, Maui.] [Translation.] _The Water of Kane_ A query, a question, I put to you: Where is the water of Kane? At the Eastern Gate 5 Where the Sun comes in at Hae-hae; There is the water of Kane. A question I ask of you: Where is the water of Kane? Out there with the floating Sun, [Page 259] 10 Where cloud-forms rest on Ocean’s breast, Uplifting their forms at Nihoa, This side the base of Lehua; There is the water of Kane. One question I put to you: 15 Where is the water of Kane? Yonder on mountain peak, On the ridges steep, In the valleys deep, Where the rivers sweep; 20 There is the water of Kane. This question I ask of you: Where, pray, is the water of Kane? Yonder, at sea, on the ocean, In the driving rain, 25 In the heavenly bow, In the piled-up mist-wraith, In the blood-red rainfall, In the ghost-pale cloud-form; There is the water of Kane. 30 One question I put to you: Where, where is the water of Kane? Up on high is the water of Kane, In the heavenly blue, In the black piled cloud, 35 In the black-black cloud, In the black-mottled sacred cloud of the gods; There is the water of Kane. One question I ask of you: Where flows the water of Kane? 10 Deep in the ground, in the gushing spring, In the ducts of Kane and Loa, A well-spring of water, to quaff, A water of magic power— The water of life! 45 Life! O give us this life! [Page 260] XLII.—GENERAL REVIEW