To gladden the heart of travel:
You’ll bring joy to these barren wastes
Of Ka-pala-ili-ohi.—
These creatures, sublime in their misery,
Sit shelterless, wasted, forlorn.
At this the women spoke up and said: “Our bodies are wasted only from our passionate love for our husbands. When they were taken from us we refused food.”
Hiiaka was indignant at such folly and left them to their fate. Their way still continued for some distance through a barren region and Hiiaka again alluded in song to the barrenness of the land and the misery of the women who suffered their bodies to waste away:
Kui na apiki lei hele
O Ka-maló, e:
Akua heahea i ke kaha o Iloli.