0) _Keawe-opala_. It was his thankless task
to create rubbish and litter by scattering the leaves of the
trees. (11) _Keawe-hulu_, a magician, who could blow a
feather into the air and see it at once become a bird with
power to fly away. (12) _Keawe-nui-ka-ua-o-Hilo_, a sentinel
who stood guard by night and by day to watch over all
creation. (13) _Keawe-pulehu_. He was a thief and served as
[Page 75] cook for the gods. There were gods of evil as well as of good
in this set. (14) _Keawe-oili_. He was gifted with the power
to convey and transfer evil, sickness, misfortune, and death.
(15) _Keawe-kaili_. He was a robber. (16) _Keawe-aihue_. He
was a thief. (17) _Keuwe-mahilo_. He was a beggar. He would
stand round while others were preparing food, doing honest
work, and plead with his eyes. In this way he often obtained
a dole. (18) _Keawe-puni-pua'a_. He was a glutton, very greedy
of pork; he was also called _Keawe-ai-pua'a_. (19)
_Keawe-inoino_. He was a sloven, unclean in all his ways.
(20) _Keawe-ilio_. The only title to renown of this
superhuman creature was his inordinate fondness for the flesh
of the dog. So far none of the superhuman heings mentioned
seemed fitted to the role of the Keawe of the text, who was
passionately fond of the sea. The author had given up in
despair, when one day, on repeating his inquiry in another
quarter, he was rewarded by learning of--(21)
_Keawe-i-na-'kai_. He was a resident of the region about the
southeastern point of Molokai, called _Lae-ka-Ilio_--Cape of
the Dog. He was extravagantly fond of the ocean and allowed
no weather to interfere with the indulgence of his penchant.
An epithet applied to him describes his dominating passion:
_Keawe moe i ke kai o Kohaku_, Keawe who sleeps in (or on)
the sea of Kohaku. It seems probable that this was the Keawe
mentioned in the twelfth and thirteenth lines of the mele.

The appellation _Keawe_ seems to have served as a sort of
Jack among the demigods of the Hawaiian pantheon, on whom was
to be laid the burden of a mongrel host of virtues and vices
that were not assignable to t