[3] Kili-opu, a name descriptive of a wind and rain-shafts that, plunging into the water, made as little splash as a skillful diver. [↑]
[4] Pu’e. This word is here used in an unusual sense to mean cold. [↑]
[5] Hanehane, the shrill, seemingly far-off, wailing of a ghost; ghostly. [↑]
[6] Pololei, an archaic name applied to the land shell, now known as pupu-kanioi. This was supposed to utter a delicate trilling cry similar to that of the cricket. [↑]
[7] Lima-loa, the god Mirage. [↑]
[8] Wawae-nohu, the name given to a red cloud seen at sunset in the west from Mana, Kauai. [↑]
[9] Ka-halau-a-ola, literally, the hall of health. The more commonly used appellation Mauli-ola, was both the name of a deity and of a mystical place. One may infer from their use that Halau-a-ola meant rather a sort of house-of-refuge, a place of security from the attack of an enemy, while Mauli-ola had in view a mystical, beatific, condition. The former is illustrated in the line describing Kama-pua’a’s escape from Pele’s onslaught:
Noho ana Kama-pua’a i ka Halau-a-ola.
Kama-pua’a finds refuge in the hall of life.
[10] Hala-aniani, a small lake of fresh water in a cave at Haena, in which the writer has bathed. [↑]