Chapter 33

Like a forest rising abruptly Out of the ocean, Is Kauai, with flowery lehua; Grand but ungrateful land, Without friends or dear ones for Kawelo. They have put to death Maihuna, As also Malei, my mother. They have cast from a great pali Both of them! Were they birds To fly thus in the air? Love to you, oh my ancestors: To you, Au and Aaloha, To you, Aua and Aaloa, Aapoko and Aamahana, Aapoku and Aauopelaea, Who died by the hand of Aikanaka.

Maihuna was the father of Kawelo, and Aikanaka was his first cousin. The latter put to death all the family of Kawelo, after having employed them, with the other inhabitants of Kauai, in collecting the stones which were to repulse his cousin. It was before the great battle of Wailua that Kawelo's family was put to death.

In the last canto the hero reproaches his friends for abandoning him in the day of danger. At the sight of his old friends, whose bodies he had pierced with many wounds in punishment, he cries: "Where are those miserable favorites?" He had transfixed them with his lance--that lance made, he says, for the day of battle.

He compares Aikanaka to a long lance because of his power; he reproaches him with having betrayed himself, who was comparatively but a little lance--a little bit of wood (_laau iki_); then he ironically remarks that Kauai is too small an island for his conquered friends.

PAHA UMIKUMAMAKAHI.

Auhea iho nei la hoi Ua mau wahi hulu alaala nei Au i oo aku ai I ka maka o ke keiki A Maihuna? He ihe no ka la kaua. Pau hewa ka'u iu Me kau ai, Pau hewa ka hinihini ai A ka moamahi. Komo hewa ko'u waa Ia lakou. O lakou ka! ka haalulu I ka pohaku i kaa nei, Uina aku la i kahakaha ke one, Kuu pilikia i Honuakaha. Makemake i ka laau nui, Haalele i kahi laau iki. He iki kahi kihapai Ka noho ka! i Kauai, Iki i kalukalu a Puna. Lilo Puna ia Kaheleha Lilo Kona ia Kalaumaki, Lilo Koolau ia Makuakeke, Lilo Kohala ia Kaamalama, Lilo Hanalei ia Kanewahineikialoha. Mimihi ka hune o Kauluiki ma. Aloha na pokii i ka hei wale.