ahu. At this side of the island rises the Waianae range
topped by the peak Kaala. In old times the port of entry for travelers
to Oahu from Kauai was the seacoast village of Waianae. Between it and
the village of Waialua runs a great spur of the range, which breaks off
abruptly at the sea, into the point Kaena. Kahuku point lies beyond
Waialua at the northern extremity of the island. Mokuleia, with its old
inland fishpond, is the first village to the west of Waialua. This is
the setting for the following lines, again taken from the chant of
_Kualii_, the translation varying only slightly from that edited by
Thrum:

O Kauai,
Great Kauai, inherited from ancestors,
Sitting in the calm of Waianae,
A cape is Kaena,
Beyond, Kahuku,
A misty mountain back, where the winds meet, Kaala,
There below sits Waialua,
Waialua there,
Kahala is a dish for Mokuleia,
A fishpond for the shark roasted in ti-leaf,
The tail of the shark is Kaena,
The shark that goes along below Kauai,
Below Kauai, thy land,
Kauai O!

The number of such place names to be stored in the reciter's memory is
considerable. Not only are they applied in lavish profusion to beach,
rock, headland, brook, spring, cave, waterfall, even to an isolated tree
of historic interest, and distributed to less clearly marked small land
areas to name individual holdings, but, because of the importance of the
weather in the fishing and seagoing life of the islander, they are
affixed to the winds, the rains, and the surf or "sea" of each locality.
All these descriptive appellations the composer must employ to enrich
his means of place allusion. Even to-day the Hawaiian editor with a nice
sense of emotional values will not, in his obituary notice, speak of a
man being missed in his native district, but will express the idea in
some such way as this: "Never more will the pleasant _Kupuupuu_
(mist-bearing wind) dampen his brow." The songs of the pleading sisters
in the romance of _Laieikawai_ illustrate this conventional usage. In
_Kualii_, the poet wishes to express the idea that all the sea belongs
to the god Ku. He therefore enumerates the different kinds of "sea,"
with their locality--"the sea for surf riding," "the sea for casting the
net," "the sea for going naked," "the sea for swimming," "the sea for
surf riding sideways," "the sea for tossing up mullet," "the sea for
small crabs," "the sea of many harbors," etc.

The most complete example of