Footnote 377:[ (return) ] Nihoa. A small land near Kalaupapa, Molokai, where was a grove of fine pandanus trees.
Footnote 378:[ (return) ] Ko’i-ahi. A small valley in the district of Waianae, Oahu, where was the home of the small-leafed maile.
Footnote 379:[ (return) ] Makua. A valley in Waianae.
Footnote 380:[ (return) ] One opio-pio. Sand freshly smoothed by an ocean wave.
Footnote 381:[ (return) ] Apo’i-po’i. To crouch for the purpose, perhaps, of screening oneself from view, as one, for instance, who is naked and desires to escape observation.
Footnote 382:[ (return) ] Kilauea. There is some doubt whether this is the Kilauea on Kauai or a little place of the same name near cape Kaeua, the westernmost point of Oahu.
In the next mele to be given it is evident that, though the motive is clearly Hawaiian, it has lost something of the rugged simplicity and impersonality that belonged to the most archaic style, and that it has taken on the sentimentality of a later period.
Mele
E Manono la, e-a,