have, besides the land I gave thee in Kohala, all that thou shalt
ask of Lanai. Its great valley of Palawai shall be thine; and thou
shalt watch my fishing grounds of Kaunolu, and be the Lord of Lanai."

"Hear, O King," said Kaaialii. "I gave to Kaala more of my life in
loving her, and of my strength in seeking for her than ever I gave
for thee in battle. I gave to her more of love than I ever gave to my
mother, and more of my thought than I ever gave to my own life. She
was my very breath, and my life, and how shall I live without her? Her
face, since first I saw her, has been ever before me; and her warm
breasts were my joy and repose; and now that they are cold to me, I
must go where her voice and love have gone. If I shut my eyes now I see
her best; therefore let me shut my eyes forevermore." And as he spoke,
he stooped to clasp his love, said a tender word of adieu to Ua, and
then with a swift, strong blow, crushed in brow and brain with a stone.

The dead chief lay by the side of his love, and Ua wailed over
both. Then the King ordered that the two lovers should lie side by
side on a ledge of the cave; and that they should be wrapped in tapas
which should be brought down through the sea in tight bamboos. Then
there was great wailing for the chief and the maid who lay in the cave;
and thus wailed Ua:

"Where art thou, O brave chief?
Where art thou, O fond girl?
Will ye sleep by the sound of the sea?
And will ye dream of the gods of the deep?
O sire, where now is thy child?
O mother, where now is thy son?
The lands of Kohala shall mourn,
And valleys of Lanai shall lament.
The spear of the chief shall rot in the cave,
And the tapa of the maid is left undone.
The wreaths for his neck, they shall fade,
They shall fade away on the hills.
O Kaaialii, who shall spear the uku?
O Kaala, who shall gather the na-u?
Have ye gone to the shores of Kahiki,
To the land of our father, Wakea?
Will ye feed on the moss of the cave,
And the limpets of the surf-beaten shore?
O chief, O friend, I would feed ye,
O chief, O friend, I would rest ye.
Ye loved, like the sun and the flower,
Ye lived like the fish and the wave,
And now like the seeds in a shell,
Ye sleep in your cave by the sea.
Alas! O chief, alas! O my friend,
Will ye sleep in the cave evermore?"

And thus Ua wailed, and then was borne away by her brother t