Chapter XXXI: Canto IV

The whole land belongs to the chief, The chief holds the inland and the ocean; 100. For him is the night, for him the day, For him are the seasons, the winter, the summer, The months, the seven stars of heaven now present. All valuable property, above and below, The chief holds all fixed property; 105. All property that floats ashore, all fowls that light upon the land, The thick-shelled broad backed turtle, the dead whales cut up, And the annually appearing uhu. Let the chief live the highest! let him ever live a chief! Let him be borne along with honor among the short gods and the long gods, 110. Let him go forth fearlessly, the chief in possession of the island. Get up a dance, dance upon the dance-ground; Let the dancers rise and fall in ranks throughout the islands, As in going up and down along the tiresome road through Hilo, And passing on from ridge to ridge. 115. Spoiled meat are Kau and Puna. They early peck each other as broods of fowls; They early peck each other back and forth. Wonderfully they act! how shamefully they behave! Shame is their pleasure, how great their disappointment! 120. Alas for them; they are greatly disappointed. Much less shame to the crown had he fled to Kailua in Kona. There would be a less shame in that, but this shame exceeds the others; They exceed in badness, deafness arises with one accord. There was entire stubbornness, windy Kau was deaf at Keaa. 125. Treacherous is Puna at Leleapiki as seen at Nanawale. Hilo is making mischief at the sand of Kalalau. She is rendered powerless, Hilopaliku is bound with hands behind. She stands ashamed, she wanders a vagabond in the mountains; In the uplands of Laa, in Paoole. 130. Unsettled, the people only stay, liable to be driven off; Their bodies carried off, the land is useless; Cut up in patches, the people live by sufferance.