What love to our cottage-homes, now vacant, As one climbs the mount of Entreaty! We call, We voice the welcome, invite you to enter. The hill of Affliction out there is the cold. Another fragment that was sometimes used as a password is the following bit of song taken from the story of Hiiaka, sister of Pele. She is journeying with the beautiful Hopoe to fetch prince Lohiau to the court of Pele. They have come by a steep and narrow path to the brink of the Wai-lua river, Kauai, at this point spanned by a single plank. But the bridge is gone, removed by an ill-tempered naiad (witch) said to have come from Kahiki, whose name, Wai-lua, is the same as that of the stream. Hiiaka calls out, demanding that the plank be restored to its place. Wai-lua does not recognize the deity in Hiiaka and, sullen, makes no response. At this the goddess puts forth her strength, and Wai-lua, stripped of her power and reduced to her true station, that of a _mo’o_, a reptile, seeks refuge in the caverns beneath the river. Hiiaka betters the condition of the crossing by sowing it with stepping stones. The stones remain in evidence to this day. _Mele Kahea_ Kunihi ka mauna i ka la’i e, O Wai-ale-ale[59] la i Wai-lua, Huki a’e la i ka lani Ka papa au-wai o ka Wai-kini; 5 Alai ia a’e la e Nou-nou, Nalo ka Ipu-ha’a, Ka laula mauka o Kapa’a, e! Mai pa’a i ka leo! He ole ka hea mai, e! [Translation.] Password—Song Steep stands the mountain in calm, Profile of Wai-ale-ale at Wai-lua. Gone the stream-spanning plank of Wai-kini, Filched away by Nou-nou; 5 Shut off the view of the hill Ipu-ha’a, And the upland expanse of Ka-pa’a. Give voice and make answer. Dead silence—no voice in reply. In later, in historic times, this visitor, whom we have kept long waiting at the door, might have voiced his appeal in the passionate words of this comparatively modern song: [Footnote 59: _Wai-ale-ale_ (Leaping-water). The central mountain-mass of Kauai.] [Page 41] _Mele Kahea_[60]