About this region has gathered the mysterious
lore of the spirit world. "Fear to do evil in the uplands of Puna,"
warns the old chant, lest mischief befall from the countless wood
spirits who haunt these mysterious forests. Pele, the volcano goddess,
still loves her old haunts in Puna, and many a modern native boasts a
meeting with this beauty of the flaming red hair who swept to his fate
the brave youth from Kauai when he raced with her down the slope to the
sea during the old mythic days when the rocks and hills of Puna were
forming.
_Footnotes to Background of the Story_
[Footnote 1: _Kuakoa_, iv, No. 31, translated also in _Hawaiian Annual_,
1912, p. 101; Daggett, p. 70; Fornander, II, 272.]
[Illustration: MAUNA KEA IN ITS MANTLE OF SNOW (HENSHAW)]
LAIE I KA WAI
A HAWAIIAN ROMANCE TRANSLATED FROM THE HAWAIIAN TEXT OF S.N. HALEOLE
(PRINTED IN HONOLULU, 1863)[1]
[Footnote 1: Title pages.
(_First edition_.) The story of _Laie-i-ka-wai_, The Beauty of
Pali-uli, the Woman-of-the-Twilight. Composed from the old stories of
Hawaii. Written by S.N. Haleole, Honolulu, Oahu. Published by Henry W.
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