pent up within.
He flouts it as common, weeping it forth--
10 That is the way with a child-friend;
A child just blubbers at nothing.

[Footnote 464: _Kala'e-loa_. The full name of the place on
Molokai now known as Kala'e.]

[Footnote 465: _La'i a ka manu_. Some claim this to be a proper
name, _La'i-a-ka-manu_, that of a place near Kala'e. However
that may be the poet evidently uses the phrase here in its
etymological sense.]

To return to the description of the game, the player, having
uttered his vaunt in true knightly fashion, with a dexterous
whirl now sends his kilu spinning on its course. If his play
is successful and the kilu strikes the target on the other
[Page 240] side at which he aims, the audience, who have kept silence
till now, break forth in applause, and his tally-keeper
proclaims his success in boastful fashion:

_Oli_

A uweuwe ke ko'e a ke kae;
Puehuehu ka la, komo inoino;
Kakia, kahe ka ua ilalo.

[Translation]

Now wriggles the worm to its goal;
A tousling; a hasty encounter;
A grapple; down falls the rain.

It is now the winner's right to cross over and claim his
forfeit. The audience deals out applause or derision in
unstinted measure; the enthusiasm reaches fever-point when
some one makes himself the champion of the game by bringing
his score up to ten, the limit. The play is often kept up
till morning, to be resumed the following night.[466]

[Footnote 466: The account above given is largely based on
David Malo's description of the game kilu. In his confessedly
imperfect list of the hulas he does not mention the hula
kilu. This hula was, however, included in the list of hulas
announced for performance in the programme of King Kalakaua's
coronation ceremonies.]

Here also is a mele, which tradition reports to have been
cantillated by Hiiaka, the sister of Pele, during her famous
kilu contest with the Princess Pele-ula, which took place at
Kou--the ancient name for Honolulu--on Hiiaka's voyage of