The god rides the waves, sails about the island;
The host of little gods ride the billows;
Malau takes his seat;
One bales out the bilge of the craft.
Who shall sit astern, be steersman, O, princes?
Pele of the yellow earth.
The splash of the paddles dashes o’er the canoe.
Ku and his fellow, Lono,
Disembark on solid land;
They alight on a shoal.