Footnote 266:[ (return) ] Lehua. See plate XIII.
Footnote 267:[ (return) ] Ka-ulua. The name of the third month of the Hawaiian year, corresponding to late January or February, a time when In the latitude of Hawaii nature does not refrain from leafing and flowering.
Footnote 268:[ (return) ] Haumea. The name applied after her death and apotheosis to Papa, the wife of Wakea, and the ancestress of the Hawaiian race. (The Polynesian Race, A. Fornander, 1, 205. London, 1878.)
Footnote 269:[ (return) ] It is doubtful to whom the expression “makua-kane” refers, possibly to Wakea, the husband of Papa; and if so, very properly termed father, ancestor, of the people.
Footnote 270:[ (return) ] Manu o Kaáe (Manu-o-Kaáe it might be written) is said to have been a goddess, one of the family of Pele, a sister of the sea nymph Moana-nui-ka-lehua, whose dominion was in the waters between Oahu and Kauai. She is said to have had the gift of eloquence.
Footnote 271:[ (return) ] Pe-káu refers to the ranks and classes of the gods.
Footnote 272:[ (return) ] Pe-ka-naná refers to men, their ranks and classes.
