CHAPTER XI
HIIAKA HAS VARIOUS ADVENTURES—THE SHARK MAKAU-KIU
At one stroke, the benign action of the heavenly powers had freed a fair land from a pestilential mo’o band, disinfected it of the last shred and fragment of their carcases and ushered in a reign of peace in the wooded parks and tangled forests of Pana-ewa. Hiiaka could afford to celebrate her victory by recuperating her powers in well-earned repose. While she thus lay in profound sleep on the purified battle-field, her two companions busied themselves in preparing such simple refreshment as the wilderness afforded. The piece de resistance of this dinner of herbs was luau, the favorite food of the Pele family.
When the women had finished the task of collecting, sorting, making into bundles and cooking the delicate leaves of kalo, Hiiaka still slept. Paú-o-pala’e thereupon took her station at the feet of her mistress and chanted the dinner-call in the form of a gentle serenade:
E ala, e ala, e!
E ala, e Hika’a-lani;
E ala, e Ke-ho’oilo-ua-i-ka-lani;
E ala, e Ho’omaú,
Wahine a Makali’i, la!
E ala, e!