d
contention, a time when there was much paddling and sailing
about and canoe-fleets, often manned by warriors, traversed
the great ocean in every direction. It was then that Hawaii
received many colonists from the archipelagoes that lie to
the southward.

_Mele_

(Ko'i-honua)

Wela Kahiki, e!
Wela Kahiki, e!
Wela aku la Kahiki;
Ua kaulu-wela ka moku;
[Page 74] 5 Wela ka ulu o Hawaii;
Kakala wela aku la Kahiki ia Olopana,[189]
Ka'u wahi kanaka;
O ka hei kapu[190] o Hana-ka-ulani,[191]
Ka hei kapu a ke alii,
10 Ka hoo-mamao-lani,[192]
Ke kapu o Keawe,[193]
A o Keawe
Ke alii holo, ho-i'a i kai, e-e!

[Footnote 189: _Olopana_. A celebrated king of Waipio valley,
Hawaii, who had to wife the famous beauty, Luukia. Owing to
misfortune, he sailed away to _Kahiki_, taking with him his
wife and his younger brother, Moikeha, who was his
_puna-lua_, settling in a land called _Moa-ula-nui-akea_.
Olopana probably ended his days in his new-found home, but
Moi-keha, heart-sick at the loss of Luukia's favors, came
hack to Hawaii and became the progenitor of a line of
distinguished men, several of whom were famous navigators.
Exactly what incident in the life of Olopana is alluded to in
the sixth and preceding verses, the traditions that narrate
his adventures do not inform us.]

[Footnote 190: _Hei kapu_. An oracle; the place where the high
priest kept himself while consulting the deities of the
_heiau_. It was a small house erected on an elevated platform
of stones, and there he kept himself in seclusion at such
times as he sought to be the recipient of communications from
the gods.]

[Footnote 191: _Hana-ka-ulani_. A name applied to several
_heiau_ (temples). The first one so styled, according to
tradition, was built at Hana, Maui, and another one at
Kaluanui, on Oahu, near the famous valley of Ka-liu-wa'a.
These heiau are said to have been built by the gods in the