Footnote 249:[ (return) ] Makua-iki. Literally “little father,” a name given to an overhanging pali, where was provided a hanging ladder to make travel possible. The series of palis in this region comes to an end at Milo-lii.
Footnote 250:[ (return) ] The Malua was a wind, often so dry that it sucked up the moisture from the land and destroyed the tender vegetation.
Footnote 251:[ (return) ] Panaewa was a woodland region much talked of in poetry and song.
Footnote 252:[ (return) ] Hopoe was a beautiful young woman, a friend of Hiiaka, and was persecuted by Pele owing to jealousy. One of the forms in which she as a divinity showed herself was as a lehua tree in full bloom.
[Translation.]
Song
Malua, fetch water of love,
Give drink to this mamane bud.
The birds, they are singing ecstatic,
Sipping Panaewa’s nectared lehua,