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So long as they had money, they would not work for fifty dollars a month, and when their money was gone, they would work for ten. ``What do you do here, Mr. Mannini? said the captain. ``Oh! we play cards, get drunk, smoke, do anything we're a mind to. ``Don't you want to come aboard and work? ``Aole! aole make make makou i ka hana. Now, got plenty money; no good, work.
So long as they had money, they would not work for fifty dollars a month, and when their money was gone, they would work for ten. "What do you do here, Mr. Mannini?" said the captain. "Oh, we play cards, get drunk, smoke do anything we're a mind to." "Don't you want to come aboard and work?" "Aole! aole make make makou i ka hana. Now, got plenty money; no good, work. Mamule, money pau all gone.
This privilege gave them an immense and dangerous influence in private life, whence the Hawaiian proverb: The priest's man is inviolable, the chief's man is the prey of death, Aole e make ko ke kahuna kanaka, o ko ke 'lii kanaka ke make. The kahuna, being clothed with supreme power in the exercise of his functions, alone could designate the victim suitable to appease the anger of the gods.
We used to tell him that he ate Captain Cook, and lost his teeth in that way. That was the only thing that ever made him angry. He would always be quite excited at that; and say "Aole!" Me pikinini small so high no more! My father see Captain Cook! Me no!"
The proverb says of this: Aole e nalo ana na iwi o ke 'lii kolohe; e nalo loa na iwi o ke 'lii maikai The bones of a bad chief do not disappear; those of a good chief are veiled from the eyes of all the world. The high chiefs, before death, made their most trusty attendants swear to conceal their bones so that no one could discover them.
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