. Légendes de Ma-ui--un demi-dieu de Polynésie . consterné pour Maui. Encore et contre sa voix sortit de la grotte. Il a percé à travers les tempêtes et les nuages qui ont assisté à Kunas au bord d'elle. Il a balayé le côté de la grande montagne. Il a traversé le canal entre les îles d'Hawaï et Maui. Son angoisse frappa le côté de la grande montagne Haleakala, où Maui avait lancé ses lassos autour du soleil et compellinghimi pour aller plus lentement. Lorsque Maui entendit Hinasdry pour de l'aide se faisant l'écho de clifif à falaise et à travers les ravins, il a sauté à la fois pour se précipiter à son aide. Certains le disent

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. Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia . alled for Maui. Again and againher voice went out from the cave. It pierced throughthe storms and the clouds which attended Kunas at-tack upon her. It swept along the side of the greatmountain. It crossed the channel between the islandsof Hawaii and Maui. Its anguish smote the side ofthe great mountain Haleakala, where Maui had beenthrowing his lassoes around the sun and compellinghimi to go more slowly. When Maui heard Hinascry for help echoing from clifif to cliff and throughthe ravines, he leaped at once to rush to her assistance. Some say that Hina, the goddess, had a cloud ser-vant, the ao-opua, the warning cloud, which roseswiftly above the falls when Hina cried for aid andthen, assuming a peculiar shape, stood high above thehills that Maui might see it. Down the mountain heleaped to his magic canoe. Pushing it into the seawith two mighty strokes of his paddle he crossed thesea to the mouth of the Wailuku river. Here even tothe present day lies a long double rock, surrounded 150. Wailuku River, the Home of Kuna. by the waters of the bay, which the natives call Kawaa o Maui, The canoe of Maui. It represents toHawaiian thought the magic canoe with which Mauialways sailed over the ocean more swiftly than anywinds could carry him. Leaving his canoe, Mauiseized the magic club with which he had conqueredthe sun after lassoing him, and rushed along the drybed of the river to the place of danger. Swinging theclub sw^iftly around his head, he struck the dam hold-ing back the water of the rapidly-rising river. Ah! Nothing can withstand the magic club. Thebank around one end of the dam gives way. The im-prisoned waters leap into the new channel. Safe isHina the goddess. Kuna heard the crash of the club against the stonesof the river bank and fled up the river to his home inthe hidden caves by the pools in the river bed. Mauirushed up the river to punish Kuna-mo-o for thetrouble he had caused Hina. When he camie to theplace wh

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