Volume 6 / Part 2 — Legend of Kana and Moi.

Moi was the priest of Kapeepee,

Here is the fault of this chief,

He took the wife of Hoakalanileo,

The father of Kana.

Then Moi slept in spirit; 5.

He saw Niheu coming towards him

With a wooden pike,

And brandishing his mantle, but did not turn away.

Kana thereupon called to him from heaven,

Bidding him turn thither. 10.

Thereafter that man thrust his hands

And turned his mantle the other side out,

Wherefore Moi dreaded this man

Lest he should push the mountain down.

Then Moi awoke with a shiver 15.

And said unto the chief, chanting forth:

Heedest thou the prediction?

Who is the chief deaf at the hidden language,

In the dream of me, the priest, in the day time?

The land flees, the frames are thrown into confusion. 20.

Yield my younger brother, for the drums stand in line,

The fences are being overleaped, the unus are being given to destruction;

The moi is being lifted to the altar whereon is the banana of Palila.

The sun has risen above the mountain;

It rose, with eyes like the moon in brightness. 25.

In his view he fled,

As if the eyes belonged to the aloa.

The earth was lightened [by his eyes],

The fowls quarreled in the night.

The great moving body that conquered through reinforcement. 30.

It’s being so the land was heated.

The coconut grove is by the sea;

The kalo patch is in the upland;

The fish-pond of Molokai is in front.

The coconut of Mauluku, of Mauluko. 35.

Of Kaluaaha, of Kaluakanaka, of Kaluakahiko,

Of Mapulehu, of Mapuna, of Pukoo, of Pukooiki, of Pukoonui,

The four Pukoos are all enumerated.

Rushed, rushed is the current by Hoakalanileo.

Nihoa is a land whereto the soldier returned, 40.

Kapeepee, the warrior of Haupu.

Ye above, fight not longer,

Lest ye be dead and defeated,

The heavenly multitude are all conquered;

They have all been struck down. 45.

They all rose up;

They are all knocked down;

They are all killed.

The mist cloud has appeared,

Should a cloud be seen, ’tis on Molowekea. 50.

If the girdle was seen ’twas at Haupu,

The bosom was at Kalawao,

The back was at Helaniku.

Kana traversed the golden sand of Kane:

Hooila is this season. 55.

Mokapu arose and his train saw him to be a man.

The end of it.

The kingdom became Nua’s

According to the dream of the priest.

’Tis the first instance where cowardice was felt; 60.

Haupu is trembling as if with cold.