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""'Imo aku la, etc., as we would say, in the twinkling of an e\'e, he was gone. 



""Lele Uli e, etc. ; five lines from this point are a short specimen of prayer to the god Laka. Petition and ador- 

 ation are said to be united. 



'"Kaili aina is the common expression respecting one dying suddenly without any previous sickness. 



"''Ooki, cut or marked, i ke one kapu, in the forbidden sand of Kaha ; kaha, abbreviation of kahakai, sea-beach. 



""Pouli ka ua, dark was the rain ; moku pawa, "pawa" is the dark cloud or the sky that looks dark by contrast 

 when the beams, rays of the sun first appear. The "pawa" is the darkness whether in sky or cloud that is broken 

 away by and appears over the light. 



""Lcle hoopoo, etc., "hoopoo" used mostly poetically, headforemost, careless of consequences, as when one 

 in battle determines not to run, and rushes into the fight, or when one determines to speak to the chief, he rushes on, 

 speaks, life or death; so the rain fell upon the lauhala trees. 



""I ke poo, etc., upon the heads of the hala (pandanv.s) of Hanau, name of some small place probably. 



""Hanau mai, brought forth ke akua oleic, the speaking god. 



'"Akua pahulu, was the god who could carry people off in their sleep if they had eaten certain dried fish 

 (amaama and weke). If a person in eating had his mouth smeared and should hear these words: "Oia hoi, oia hoi," 

 or "liohe, hoha", and fall asleep, he would be sure to be carried away and laid in another place, without however be- 

 ing killed. 



""'Kaha aku nei, etc., kaha, sea beach, side of a river; Kama, name of a land. 



°'"Lei o jMoopuali, wreath or crown of Moopuali ; Kama and Moopuali are names of places not now known. 

 -"Alii o ke kai ahua moku. chief of the high swelling sea ; kai ahua moku signifies kai mimiki, when the sea 

 swells and flows over the land ; moku, refers to the breaking down of homes, fences, etc- 



™'0 ka moku o Maakaina, even the land of Maakaina. 



""'Kaina for kaikaina, kaina oe, thou the younger brother, the older that, of the chief. 



""Ilaila ka ike, etc., there is knowledge indeed and righteousness. 



""'O'u man kaikunane (used here in place of hoa, companions) ; hoomau hele loa, constant in traveling onward. 



""Aia laua ihea, refers perhaps to Kahahana and his friend. [Lines 239 to 253 inclusive are supposed to be 

 additions and do not belong to the original. Andrew's notes include them, as above, as also the following addition 

 to the Kanikau of Kahahana marked "incerto anctor." Ed.] 



"°°Kaia na for kaiana ; ka to dip as in bailing water, (he motion of the hand in bailing water or in fanning. The 

 kalana (district or county) is being fanned, e luhe ana, it is lulling by the calms, "luhe" is to hang pendulous like the 

 large branches of trees when no wind. 



"'°Pua ia kae ; pua here signifies to dive, kae signifies the border or edge ; pona is the lower cavity of the eye- 

 brow, between the brow and the ball of the eye, the under part of the arch. Pona waa is the arch or circle of ca- 

 noes in some sorts of fishing. 



""Hoo — ka pali, is implied, smooth is the cliff; niania i ka la, smoothed by the sun. 



"'"Hoi koana, diminishing ; when wind or rain has been powerful and diminishes to its regular standing, it is 

 said to hoi koana, return to its littleness again. Laiewaha, name of a place in Kona, near Kau, Hawaii. 



"'"Hoowaha keiki, etc., waha, also hoo, to seize one's property and carry it off before his eyes. Pohu, calm, 

 but what the whole means is not clear. 



■"A ai pili ; a ai, a negative, aole, aohe, a oe, etc. 



""Kauna, a contraction of Kaunanamauna on the boundary line between Kona and Kau. 



"'"A oi na; oi is like ai in the foregoing line, na to assuage, still, quiet. It [the calm] is not still, /. r., there is no 

 calm on accoimt of the winds of Kau. 



"''Ke haaino mai la, has reference to tlie disaster of a boisterous wind, the squally conditions, it may be of 

 Kahaanaweli, name of a place. 



"'*Weliweli, anything dreadful or causing fear. 



•'"Ka ino o na Puuapelc, at Piliwale, likely had reference to an explosive volcanic eruption at that place, and 

 would make the following lines clear. 



""I halihali mai ka ia'u, which was indeed broughtto me; a waiho kaluia haalele, and outside of the house 

 left there. 



""'Haalele i makaulia. "left for liis fear" — fear of the a lava stones. 



"""Ke a lau make ihi, stones having edges like the adz, or spear ; ihe, very sharp. 



""He ihe, a spear ; ke ae, name of an east wind, a child of Kau. 



'"'Ke hoo — etc., the wind scares him. 



""E hoi ana, etc., I am returning i ka malino, in the calm. 



"■"I ka pawapawa ; pawa is the surface of a garden patch that one has smoothed all over, so a smooth surface of 

 the sea, pawapawa, very smooth. Ahaaha. root not found, relating to a calm or smoothness of surface. Niki- 

 niki, onionio, spotted as the sun in a calm. 



~'I naoa past for naoia — nao, naonao, to reach after, to take, reached after. 



"'Ka maawe ala, the faint track, a ka waa, of the canoe, e hele nei o ke kai coursing on the sea. 



"'""It is said any vegetables thrown into the sea in Puna never fail to come ashore at Kau, hence, the sea is red, 

 covered with tlie blossoms of the lehua, and the noni. 



'"'"Lolohili is to go crookedly, zigzag, along a great distance — characteristic of the Kawaihae road. 



^'A Kawaihae, on arrival at Kawaihae, "ua" implied, ha'e na ukana, the baggage is broken. 



