I iho lakou, e hana kakou i na mea e holo ana maloko o na wai akea o ka
moana, ame na manu e lele ana maluna o ka honua i hoohua nui mai la na
wai i ne holo e ola ana, i hoohua nui ia mai e na hunahuna liilii o na
wai. O na mea nui ame na mea liilii, oia na ia nunui ame na ia liilii,
na manu o ka lewa, na mea nui ame na mea liilii. Ua hooko is keia mau
mea apu. Nana aela lakou a ua maikai. O ka elima ia o na kau.

They said "Let us make things that swim in the wide waters of the sea
and birds to fly over land that has borne much fruit, let the waters
live with swimming things, made fruitful by the tiny drops of water. Let
there be big things and little things, that is, the fish big and little,
birds of the air big and little." All these things were fulfilled. They
looked and it was good.

So did the great gods of Hawaii - Kana, Lono and Ku speak.

Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii

HAWAII'S ENDANGERED WATERBIRDS , USFWS, Honolulu, Hawaii, l968, 32 pages

Aloha, E. Kridler, Sequim, Wa.