vine ancestry of the hero, carrying
also with it an idea of kinship with those to whom the tale is related,
which is not without its emotional value.

Geographical names, although not enumerated to such an extent in any of
the tales and songs now accessible, also have an important place in
Hawaiian composition. In the _Laieikawai_ 76 places are mentioned by
name, most of them for the mere purpose of identifying a route of
travel. A popular form of folk tale is the following, told in Waianae,
Oahu: "Over in Kahuku lived a high chief, Kaho'alii. He instructed his
son 'Fly about Oahu while I chew the _awa_; before I have emptied it
into the cup return to me and rehearse to me all that you have seen.'"
The rest of the tale relates the youth's enumeration of the places he
has seen on the way.

If we turn to the chants the suggestive use of place names becomes still
more apparent. Dr. Hyde tells us (_Hawaiian Annual_, 1890, p. 79): "In
the Hawaiian chant (_mele_) and dirge (_kanikau_) the aim seems to be
chiefly to enumerate every place associated with the subject, and to
give that place some special epithet, either attached to it by
commonplace repetition or especially devised for the occasion as being
particularly characteristic." An example of this form of reference is to
be found in the _Kualii_ chant. We read:

Where is the battle-field
Where the warrior is to fight?
On the field of Kalena,
At Manini, at Hanini,
Where was poured the water of the god,
By your work at Malamanui,
At the heights of Kapapa, at Paupauwela,
Where they lean and rest.

In the play upon the words _Manini_ and _Hanini_ we recognize some
rhetorical tinkering, but in general the purpose here is to enumerate
the actual places famous in Kualii's history.

At other times a place-name is used with allusive interest, the
suggested incident being meant, like certain stories alluded to in the
Anglo-Saxon "Beowulf," to set off, by comparison or contrast, the
present situation. It is important for the poet to know, for example,
that the phrase "flowers of Paiahaa" refers to the place on Kau, Hawaii,
where love-tokens cast into the sea at a point some 20 or 30 miles
distant on the Puna coast, invariably find their way to shore in the
current and bring their message to watchful lovers.

A third use of localization conforms exactly to our own sense of
description. The Island of Kauai is sometimes visible lying off to the
northwest of O