Me ka ha’i laau i pu-kaula hala’i i ka ua.
Ke nana ia la e la’i i Hanakahi.
Oni aku Hilo, oni ku’u kai lipo-lipo,
A Lele-iwi, ku’u kai ahu mimiki a ka Malua. [146]
Lei kahiko, lei nalu ka poai.
Nana Pu’u-eo [147] e! makai ka iwi-honua, [148] e!
Puna-hoa la, ino, ku, ku wau a Wai-akea la.
Footnote 127:[ (return) ] Olelo. To speak, to converse; here used figuratively to mean that the place is lonely, has no view of the ocean, looks only to the sky. “Looks that commerce with the sky.”
Footnote 128:[ (return) ] Ku-kani-loko. A land in Waialua, Oahu, to which princesses resorted in the olden times at the time of childbirth, that their offspring might have the distinction of being an alii kapu, a chief with a tabu.
Footnote 129:[ (return) ] Hale House; a familiar euphemism of the human body.