Crossword-Solution: HALA 4 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The ancient crone was making a dearest-loved _lei_ (wreath) of the fruit of the _hala_ which is the screw-pine or pandanus of the South Pacific.

Not the real first one, but the tuning up that preceded it.” I nodded, with eyes and face mirthful of appreciation, and Prince Akuli, with another apprehensive glance at the old _wahine_ and her half-made _hala lei_, returned to his tale of the bones of his ancestors.

And this is because you are of my race and service, and because you have honoured me this day with your mats to sit upon and your thrice-blessed and thrice-delicious _lei hala_.” He turned to me a weary and sceptical eye, saying: “And if I die to-morrow, not alone will the lawyers contest my disposition of my property, but they will contest my benefactions and my pensions accorded, and the clarity of my mind.

With welcome relief on his face, he removed the _lei hala_ from his neck, and, with a sniff and a sigh, tossed it into concealment in the thick _lantana_ by the side of the road.

Those, he directed to call vpon Iesus, these, vpon Hala: both parts he enioyned to bicker coragiously, and egged them onward with the enticement of rewards.