ther instance of
name-giving, applied to the bright clouds that seem to rest
on the horizon, especially to the west.]

[Footnote 515: _Nihoa_ (Bird island). This small rock to the
northwest of Kauai, though far below the horizon, is here
spoken of as if it were in sight.]

[Footnote 516: _Punohu_ A red luminous cloud, or a halo,
regarded as an omen portending some sacred and important
event.]

[Footnote 517: _Ua-koko_. Literally bloody rain, a term applied
to a rainbow when lying near the ground, or to a
freshet-stream swollen with the red muddy water from the wash
of the hillsides. These were important omens, claimed as
marking the birth of tabu chiefs.]

[Footnote 518: _Wai kau a Kane me Kanaloa_. Once when Kane and
Kanaloa were journeying together Kanaloa complained of
thirst. Kane thrust his staff into the pali near at hand, and
out flowed a stream of pure water that has continued to the
present day. The place is at Keanae, Maui.]

[Translation]

_The Water of Kane_

A query, a question,
I put to you:
Where is the water of Kane?
At the Eastern Gate
5 Where the Sun comes in at Hae-hae;
There is the water of Kane.

A question I ask of you:
Where is the water of Kane?
Out there with the floating Sun,
[Page 259] 10 Where cloud-forms rest on Ocean's breast,
Uplifting their forms at Nihoa,
This side the base of Lehua;
There is the water of Kane.

One question I put to you:
15 Where is the water of Kane?
Yonder on mountain peak,
On the ridges steep,
In the valleys deep,
Where the rivers sweep;
20 There is the water of Kane.

This question I ask of you:
Where, pray, is the water of Kane?
Yonder, at sea, on the ocean,
In the driving rain,
25 In the heavenly bow,
In the piled-up mist-wraith,
In the blood-red rainfall,
In the ghost-pale cloud-form;