The first-born child of Koolau—
A legion of fiends is Koolau,
Eager for mischief, subtle of trick.
Coming to where the deep and narrow gorge of Ka-liu-wa’a valley opens out, Hiiaka discerned the nature-carved lineaments of her ancestor Kauhi ke-i-maka-o-ka-lani, as he was epitheted, a rocky form set in the pali, but veiled to ordinary sight by a fringe of ti and kukui. Its eye-sockets, moist with the dripping dew of heaven, gleamed upon her with a wondrous longing, which she answered in song:
O Kauhi ke i-maka[3] o ka lani,
O ka pali keke’e o halawa-lawa,[4]
O kuahiwi mauna pali poko, ke he’e ia,
E like la me Ka-liu-wa’a,
Ka pali ololo-é[5] o Puna i Hilo;
O ka hala o Manu’u-ke-eu,[6]