TRANSLATION

Fly, Lani-loa, fly in the calm.

At the moaning of Moa’e,[2]

Mist veils the mountain walls.

The breakers roll ever below,

While Ocean climbs to the hills.

They passed through the lands of Laie, Malae-kahana and Keana and at Kahipa they saw the crouching figures of Punahe’e-lapa and Pahi-pahi-alua, who stole away into the shelter of the pandanus groves without deigning to give them any salutation. At this show of disrespect, Hiiaka called out:

Komo i ka nahele ulu hinalo,

Nahele hala o Po’o-kaha-lulu;

Oia nahele hala makai o Kahuku.