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The 'I' in the fourteenth line is, most probably, to be taken of the duke of Kau, who may have recited the piece on occasion of the sacrifices, in the hearing of the assembled princes and lords. Now is he making a progress through his states; May Heaven deal with him as its son! Truly are the honour and succession come from it to the House of Kau. To his movements All respond with tremulous awe.
According to Sze-mg Khien the marquis of Khung had slandered the lord of Kau, who was president of the states of the west, to Kau-hsin, the king of Shang, and our hero was put in prison. His friends succeeded in effecting his deliverance by means of various gifts to the tyrant, and he was reinstated In the west with more than his former power.
Having accepted the act, it only made him the more anxious to promote the good of the state, and thus he made his brother more glorious by showing what advantages accrued from his resignation and withdrawal from Kau. virtue left nothing to be dissatisfied with, He received the blessing of God, And it was extended to his descendants.
The speaker in this piece is, by common consent, king Khang. The only question is as to the date of its composition, whether it was made for him, in his minority, on his repairing to the temple when the mourning for his father was completed, or after the expiration of the regency of the duke of Kau. The words 'little child, according to their usage, are expressive of humility and not of age.
Three miles from Nanomaga is a submerged reef, marked on the chart as the Grand Coral Reef, but known to the natives as Tia Kau, "the reef." It is in reality a vast mountain of coral, whose bases lie two hundred fathoms deep, with a flattened summit of about fifty acres in extent, rising to within five fathoms of the surface of the sea.
4 Ying ta observes that the man had never divined about the matter, and said that he had done so only to complete the process of seduction. of Kau, near the present Lo-yang, and called 'the eastern capital. Meetings of the princes of the states assembled there; but the court continued to be held at Hao till the accession of king Phing in B.C. 770.
The favouring appointment was from Heaven, Giving the throne to our kin Wan, In the capital of Kau. The lady-successor was from Hsin, Its eldest daughter, who came to marry him. Heaven is here represented as arranging for the fulfilment of its purposes beforehand. The name of the state was Hsin, and it must have been near the Hsia and the Wei, somewhere in the south-east of the present Shen-hsi.
Shang-fu, one of Wu's principal leaders, encouraged him at the battle of Mu with these words. 4 That is, the duke of Kau. and autumn he is not remiss; His offerings are all without error . To the great and sovereign God, And to his great ancestor Hau-ki, He offers the victims, red and pure They enjoy, they approve, And bestow blessings in large number. The filial descendant
Now Puuanuhe, the much-dreaded lizard-woman, made her home on the shores of the Kau desert, and to her ears had come the wonderful story of Maui's kite, fanning an already hot jealousy of the young demi-god and his doings. Puuanuhe was the only creature of those days who had fiery red hair, and her temper was none the less caloric.
Then the Hall came, and the whaleboat carried him on board. The after-part of the ship was full of Haoles who had been to visit the volcano, as their custom is; and the midst was crowded with Kanakas, and the forepart with wild bulls from Hilo and horses from Kau; but Keawe sat apart from all in his sorrow, and watched for the house of Kiano.
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