The plover said nothing but began to sing... "Calling to the world, calling all plovers to come quickly. From the East, the West, the North, the South, Come quickly and save me." As the bird sang, a high wind blew in from the East, it blew from the West, from the North, from the South. The flapping of a hundred thousand wings. All the plovers came and the whole sky was dark. "See," said the little plover, "I told you there are more plovers than whales."

Me ka 'olelo 'ole i oli ai ke kolea. "Ke kahea 'ia nei na kolea, E lele mai. E hui pu mai. E 'akoakoa mai. Mai ka Hikina, mai Kumuhana, mai ka "Akau a ka Hema. E kako'o mai ia'u." Ika manu e himeni ana, pa maila no ka makani mai ka Hikina, pa maila ka makani mai Kumuhana, mai ka 'Akau, a me ka Hema. He kini a manomano 'o ka upa'i 'ana o na 'eheu o na manu, a hiki mai na kolea a pau. He po'ele ka lewa. "Ea," i 'i aku ai ke kolea li'ili'i. "Ua ha'i au ia 'oe, 'oi aku ka nui o na kolea ma mua o na kohola."

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