Volume 6 / Part 2 — Kaumualii.
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Carries the spray of the surf high,
Their love grew for they were constantly together.
Heavy raindrops falling in the sea till calm;
The sea becomes calm, it is very still.
Like the moon down at Mokuoloe
That precipice which reaches to Nuuanu.
How can he propagate love.
Even reddening the outside of the house;
Which blows from Halawa to Honouliuli. 25.
Near-falls to man; the man fell
Thus offering path-difficulties to travelers, 35.
Travelers from Kona going Koolauward,
And those traveling from Koolau going to Kona.
From Malailua to Nahuina it is raining; 40.
Gird on the loin cloth for rain traveling;
In going to Kona, at Kawalanakoa drop the ti-leaves,
Open up the bundles of the travelers,
Going from Kona to Ewa.
Of Waikiki in Kona is the man. 50.
Inhabiting the uplands of Kanaha,
The rain approaches the pili, (grass).
Tearing up bananas and leaves of trees, 60.
The breadfruit, the coconut, the wauke.
From Puako to Moalii.
There is dust outside as well as inside the house,
Hilo rain beats furiously from the heavens, 80.
Ohia and pandanus were two attractions.
They glitter and glisten, they glisten indeed;
The lava has become rock;
Dreadful is Puna on account of the goddess;
Unsatisfied with the pandanus of Kaimu
She ate till plentiful was the lava of Puna;
The rocks on the lava plain of Maukele.
[She] is moving on to Kalapana,
To the place where the lehua grows;
In no season is the fire assuaged,
It is the master of that district; 110.
Consuming the district of the uplands of Kaliu
And from there straight down to Puna’s shore.
The sea is also kapued for Hoalii: 115.
The rain at Hanakahi along Hilo’s sea-beach.
The body of the tree-fern is weighted with water,
The tree-fern of Ku weighted down by much water
Which lasts above in the mountain,
The water carries the wood, scattering, 130.
To the sand of Waiolama, where it is gathered until the house is full.
Slippery is the ground by the winter rains;
The old residents of Hilo are accustomed
To go in and out, in and out. 140.
Going up, coming down, up and down,
Wearisome is Laupahoehoe and Honolii. 145.
Not [only] for Wailuku; at Pueo a path crosses to Piihonua
For Kaa, for Kapailanaomakapila,
From Kaipalaoa [the] tears reach Kilepa,
[Causing] the fluttering of the ti-leaf cloak. 150.
Thatch it again with the ie-ie vine.
In the rain, in the cold, in the cold one is discouraged thereby.