The Princess of Manoa And Other Romantic Tales From the Folk Lore of Old Hawaii
The Princess of Manoa And Other Romantic Tales From the Folk Lore of Old Hawaii
Emily Foster Day
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Then Kekaha, a goddess whose jealousy of the beautiful Pele made her wicked, took the form of an Amazon, and mingling with the warriors, told them of a wonderful country far to the north, where the gold lay under the open sky, and prom- ised to lead them there. 35 The Story of the Eight Islands Malia was loath to leave Pele, but the counsel of the lesser chiefs at last prevailed, for one morn- ing when Pele had waited at their trysting-place and he did not come, she wandered on down through the... forest, watching and listening. When at last she reached the place where the camp had been, she saw the shore strewn with the disorder of a hasty flight; but the whole fleet of canoes had passed beyond the horizon. Pele sank on the sand, and the wind lifting her long black hair, covered her with it as with a mourning veil. For a long time she sat there unheeding; the fires in the mountains smoldered to a dull glow and almost died out, and still she sat unmoving. Then in the darkness of the night her mother came up out of the sea and spoke to her.
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