The kumu now grants special dispensation to the pupils to go forth that they may make good the results of the neglect of the person incident to long confinement in the halau. For days, for weeks, perhaps for months, they have not had full opportunity to trim hair, nails, or beard, to anoint and groom themselves. They use this short absence from the hall also to supply themselves with wreaths of fragrant maile, crocus-yellow ilima, scarlet-flaming lehua, fern, and what not. At the appointed hour the pupils, wreathed and attired like nymphs and dryads, assemble in the halau, sweet with woodsy perfumes. At the door they receive aspersion with consecrated water. The ai-lolo offering, cooked to a turn—no part raw, no part cracked or scorched—is brought in from the _imu_, its bearer sprinkled by the guard at the entrance. The kumu, having inspected the roast offering and having declared it ceremonially perfect, gives the signal, and the company break forth in songs of joy and of adulation to goddess Laka: _Mele Kuau_ Noho ana Laka I ka ulu wehi-wehi, Ku ana iluna i Mo’o-helaia,[33] Ohia-Ku[34] ouna o Mauna-loa.[35] Aloha mai Kaulana-ula[36] ia’u. 5 Eia ka ula la, he ula leo,[37] He uku, he modai, he kanaenae, He alana na’u ia oe. E Laka e, e maliu mai; E maliu mai oe, i pono au, 10 A pono au, a pono kaua. [Footnote 33: _Mo’o-helaia_. A female deity, a _kupua_, who at death became one of the divinities, _au-makua_, of the hula. Her name was conferred on the place claimed as her residence, on Mauna-loa, island of Molokai.] [Footnote 34: _Ohia-Ku_. Full name _ohia-ku-makua_; a variety of the ohìa, or lehua (pl. XIII), whose wood was used in making temple gods. A rough stem of this tree stood on each side near the _hala-pepe_. (See pl. III, also pp. 19–20.)] [Footnote 35: _Mauna-loa_. Said to be the mountain of that name on Molokai, not that on Hawaii.] [Footnote 36: _Kaulana-ula_. Full form _Kaulana-a-ula_; the name of a deity belonging to the order, _papa_, of the hula. Its meaning is explained in the expression _ula leo_, in the next line.] [Footnote 37: _Ula leo_. A singing or trilling sound, a _tinnitus aurium_, a sign that the deity Kaulanaula was making some communication to the one who heard it. “By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes.”] [Page 34] [Translation.]