Ka Moolelo Oiaio o Ko John Kaelemakule Ola Ana - Helu 11 / The True Story of John Kaelemakule’s Life - Number 11
Transcription
O na maunu e lawaia ia ai keia ia ke ahi ma ke koa lawaia ahi o Haleohiu ame na koa lawaia e ae no kela ano ia, oia no ka opelu kaokoa, a opelu paha i hana paio ia ame ka io no hoi o ke aku. I kekahi manawa nele loa no i ka maunu no ka lawaia ana i keia ano ia alaila, ua lawaia ia no ka weke-ala ao ka weke lao ame ka io hiu no hoi o ke ahi loaa mua ana i kekahi manawa. Ua paio ia no hoi o kekahi poe lawaia ka maunu pa-io o ka Poou, ka moi ame ka pa-io o ke akule hou.
I ka lawaia ana i keia ano ia ahi, a pa-ola mau ke ahi ma ka opelu kaokao, alaila, e hoao ia ana ka opelu pa-io, a ia hoololi ana i kekahi manawa e holo ana ke ahi ma kela hoololi ana mai ka opelu kaokao ai ka opelu i paio ia.
I na no e holo ole ke ahi mamuli o keia hoololi ana i ke ano maunu au a lawaia ai, ae a ola no ka ai ana mai e ke ahi, alaila, he kulana paoa maoli no paha kou ia la lawaia. Ai kekahi manawa mamuli o keia ano paka-laki ma ka lawaia ana, alaila, e noonoo ana ka lawaia i keia kumu o ka paoa maoli o ka lawaia ana, ao ka hoohuli no ia o ka lawaia i ka lawaia i ka noonoo ana no ka mea pili i ka noho hale ana o kona ohana i ka manawa o ka lawaia ana o ka mea lawaia. Oia hoi ua malama ole paha ka noho hale i ka rula o ka noho Hoomalu ana ma ka hale i ka manawa o ka lawaia ma ke koa lawaia, ua hele kamailio wale aku paha i kekahi mau kauhale, au hewa paha ka noho ana o ka ohana ma ka hale. O ke kumu o keia kuhikuhi wale ana aku o ka paki o ka lawaia i ka poe noho o kauhale, oia no ke ano ai kupaianaha ana mai o ka ia ahi, oia hoi e ai ana i kau maunu a haalele wale iho la no, a holo aku la i kekahi poe lawaia okoa.
E hoopa ae ana i kau maunu a hole ia mai la ka makau mai, a ia aku la i ka makau a kekahi lawaia okoa aku. Aole wale keia ano noonoo o ka poe lawaia no keia manawa wale iho nei no aka, o ke kanawai lawaia no ia mai na kupuna lawaia mai o keia lahui, a mai na alii lawaia mai no hoi i ko lakou manawa. A oia ke kumu nui a ka lawaia e papa ai i kona ohana, e noho malie i kauhale, a mai hele hele wale aku ma ko hai kauhale e noke ai i ke kamailio holoholo olelo ai, ae hoopaapaa wale aku paha me kekahi poe okoa aku. E maluhia ka noho ana o ka wahine, ao na keiki nunui hoi a ka lawaia, ae maluhia hoi ka noho ana ma ka hale o ka lawaia, aole hoi e hana ia na hana inu wai awaawa i ka manawa o ka lawaia i ke koa hi-ahi.
Translation
The bait used to fish for this ʻahi at the ʻahi fishing grounds of Haleohiʻu and the fishing grounds of that type of fish was a whole ʻōpelu, or perhaps a morsel of ʻōpelu on the hook or the meat of the aku. Sometimes there was not enough bait to fish this way, and that is when they fished with the weke ʻula and the weke lāʻō or sometimes the tail fin meat of ʻahi which had been previously caught. Some fishermen actually baited hooks with a chunk of poʻou, moi, or a chunk of fresh akule.
When fishing for this type of ʻahi fish, and the ʻahi does not take the whole ʻōpelu, then they try a chunk of ʻōpelu, and sometimes when the approach is altered the ʻahi will swim from the whole ʻōpelu to the chunk of ʻōpelu.
If the ʻahi does not chase due to this switch of bait you use for fishing, and the ʻahi doesn’t bite, then you may just be having bad luck fishing that day. Sometimes, because of this bad luck in fishing, the fisherman will try to figure out why the fishing has been so unlucky, and so the fisherman turns to thinking about things related to the home conditions of his family at the time the fisherman is fishing. For example, perhaps the members of the household did not follow the rule of remaining peaceful at home during the time the fisherman is at the fishing grounds, and instead they went to gossip at some other households; the lifestyle at home had become unruly. The reason that the fisherman would blame the people at home was because of the strange feeding pattern of the ʻahi, that they would bite at the bait and then leave it there, then they would go to other fishermen.
They take to your bait and tear it from the hook, then they go to the hook of another fisherman. This was not purely the thinking of fisherman of only these times, but it was the fishing rule from the time of the fishing elders of these people and the fishing chiefs of their time. That was the main reason the fisherman restricted his family telling them to reside peacefully at home, and not to go about to others houses and to gossip or argue with some other people. The woman should reside peacefully, and matured children of the fisherman should do the same and they should not do anything that results in bitter waters while the fisherman is at the ʻahi fishing grounds.
Citation:
Kaʻelemakule Sr., John. “Ka Moolelo Oiaio o Ko John Kaelemakule Ola Ana - Helu 11” [The True Story of John Kaelemakule’s Life - Number 11]. Translated by Manakō Tanaka and M. Puakea Nogelmeier. Ka Hoku o Hawaii. Feb. 26, 1929, vol. 22, no. 37, p. 4. Institute of Hawaiian Language Research and Translation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2019.
Original article retrieved from Ka Hoku o Hawaii in Papakilo Database.
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