in the form of a lizard; still further, such a convulsion of
nature may have been used to figure the arrival of some warlike band who
peopled Hawaii, perhaps settling in this very Hilo region and forcing
their cult upon the older form of worship.

CHAPTER XVI

[Footnote 51: The _ieie_ vine and the sweet-scented fern are, like the
_maile_ vine, common in the Olaa forests, and are considered sacred
plants dedicated to ceremonial purposes.]

[Footnote 52: The fight between two _kupua_, one in lizard form, the
other in the form of a dog, occurs in Hawaiian story. Again, when
Wahanui goes to Tahiti he touches a land where men are gathering coral
for the food of the dead. This island takes the form of a dog to
frighten travelers, and is named Kanehunamoku.]

[Footnote 53: The season for the bird catcher, _kanaka kia manu_, lay
between March and May, when the _lehua_ flowers were in bloom in the
upland forest, where the birds of bright plumage congregated, especially
the honey eaters, with their long-curved bill, shaped like an insect's
proboscis. He armed himself with gum, snares of twisted fiber, and tough
wooden spears shaped like long fishing poles, which were the _kia manu_.
Having laid his snare and spread it with gum, he tolled the birds to it
by decorating it with honey flowers or even transplanting a strange tree
to attract their curiosity; he imitated the exact note of the bird he
wished to trap or used a tamed bird in a cage as a decoy. All these
practical devices must be accompanied by prayer. Emerson translates the
following bird charm:

Na aumakua i ka Po,
Na aumakua i ka Ao,
Ia Kane i ka Po,
Ia Kanaloa i ka Po,
Ia Hoomeha i ka Po,
I ko'u mau kapuna a pau loa i ka Po.

Spirits of darkness primeval,
Spirits of light,
To Kane the eternal,
To Kanaloa the eternal,
To Hoomeha the eternal,
To all my ancestors from eternity.

Ia Ku-huluhulumanu i ka Po,
Ia pale i ka Po,
A puka i ke Ao,
Owau, o Eleele, ka mea iaia ka mana,
Homai he iki,
Homai he loaa nui,
Pii oukou a ke kuahiwi,
A ke kualono,
Ho'a mai oukou i ka manu a pau,
Hooili oukou iluna o ke kepau kahi e pili ni,
Amama! Ua noa.

To Kuhuluhulumanu, the eternal.
That you may banish the darkness.
That we may enter the light.
To me, Eleele, give divine power.
Give intelligence.
Give great success.
Climb to the wooded mountains.
To the mountain ridges.
Gather all the bird