[44] Huakai, the ridge of white foam on the top of a surf when it breaks, hence the white foaming surfs of Kauahui. [↑]
[45] I hui ia paha oe, thou (i.e., Kahahana) art united, perhaps; e moe mai la, he will sleep with you. [↑]
[46] A manawaohua, the sickness of dogs when they refuse all food except grass and leaves—applies to people when they have no appetite—i ka makani. Kahahana even loathed the breezes that fanned him. Pahola, mahola, the motion of the hands in spreading a cloth or kapa, hence the blowing of the Kaunulau wind which was to neutralize that which made Kahahana sick. [↑]
[47] E ku, let down the stone as an anchor, that the canoe be roped, i.e., fastened. [↑]
[48] I ka pali la oe; to the cliff, thou; to the salt plain; a directing command, with what follows, of the course of a departing soul. Alia—a salt pond—on Oahu, was the place where the souls of the dead were supposed to descend to the nether world. [↑]
[49] Kinimakalehua at the Maomao trees was one of the places where Kahahana hid himself. This is probably the same as mao (Gossypium tomentosum). [↑]
[50] Kinimakalehua was a small headland between Kahauiki and Leina a ka Uhane, a place where in former times the priests prayed and made offerings to the gods for the reception of the spirits before they leaped into Sheol. [↑]
[51] Kahahana and friends are here called kanaka. [↑]
[52] A hiki moano ka lehua. Moano, a pale red color until the lehua (soldier) becomes red, i.e., until they (Kahahana and his friend) should die. [↑]
[53] Ke koa i kau i ka la, the soldier (Kahahana) should be stretched out dead. [↑]