Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula

by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

I ulana ia e ke A’e,

Ka naku loloa.

Hea mai o Kawelo-hea, [³⁹⁴]

Nawai la, e, ke kapu?

No Náhi-éna-éna.

Ena na pua i ka wai,

Wai au o Holei.

Footnote 392:[ (return) ] Punawai o Maná. A spring of water at Honuapo, Hawaii, which bubbled up at such a level that the ocean covered it at high tide.

Footnote 393:[ (return) ] Ka ohai o Mapépe. A beautiful flowering shrub, also spoken of as ka ohai o Papi’o-huli, said to have been brought from Kahiki by Namaka-o-kaha’i.

Footnote 394:[ (return) ] Kawelo-hea. A blowhole or spouting horn, also at Honuapo, through which the ocean at certain times sent up a column of spray or of water. After the volcanic disturbance of 1868 this spouting horn ceased action. The rending force of the earthquakes must have broken up and choked the subterranean channel through which the ocean had forced its way.