kumu, aided by a pupil, stood and played on the niau-kani,
straining the cantillations through the reed-protected
aperture, while the olapa, girls, kept time to the music with
the movements of their dancing,

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_Mele_

E pi'i ka wai ka nahele,
U'ina, nakolo i na Molo-kama;[286]
Ka ua lele mawaho o Mamala-hoa.
He manao no ko'u e ike
5 I na pua ohi'a o Kupa-koili,[287]
I hoa kaunu no Manu'a-kepa;[288]
Ua like laua me Maha-moku.[289]
Anapa i ke kai o Mono-lau.[290]
Lalau ka lima a noa ia ia la,
10 I hoa pili no Lani-huli.[291]
E huli oe i ku'u makemake,
A loa'a i Kau-ka-opua.[292]
Elua no pua kau
A ka manao i makemake ai.
15 Hoohihi oe a hihi
I lei kohu no neia kino.
Ahea oe hiki mai?
A kau ka La i na pali;[293]
Ka huli a ka makani Wai-a-ma'o,[294]
20 Makemake e iki ia ka Hala-mapu-ana,
Ka wai halana i Wai-pa.[295]

NOTE.--The proper names belong to localities along the course
of the Wai-oli stream.

[Footnote 286: _Molokama_ (more often given as _Na Molo-kama_).
The name applied to a succession of falls made by the stream
far up in the mountains. The author has here used a
versifier's privilege, compressing this long word into
somewhat less refractory shape.]

[Footnote 287: _Kupa-koili_. A grove of mountain-apples, _ohia
ai_, that stand on the bank of the stream not far from the
public road.]

[Footnote 288: _Manu'a-kepa_. A sandy, grass-covered meadow on
the opposite side of the river from Kupa-koili.]

[Footnote 289: _Maha-moku_. A sandy beach near the mouth of the
river, on the same bank as Manu'a-kepa.]

[Footnote 290: _Mono-lau_. That part of the bay into which the
river flows, that is used as an anchorage for vessels.]

[Footnote 291: _Lani-huli_. The side of the valley Kilauea of
Wai-oli toward which the river makes a bend before it enters
the ocean.]

[Footnote 292: _Kau-ka-o