[Footnote 220: _Pu kau kama_. The conch (pu) is figured as the herald of fame. _Kau_ is used in the sense of to set on high, in contrast with such a word as _waiho_, to set down. _Kama_ is the word of dignity for children.] [Footnote 221: _Pu leina_. It is asserted on good authority that the triton (_pu_), when approached in its ocean habitat, will often make sudden and extraordinary leaps in an effort to escape. There is special reference here to the famous conch known in Hawaiian story as _Kiha-pu_. It was credited with supernatural powers as a _kupua_. During the reign of Umi, son of Liloa, it was stolen from the _heiau_ in Waipio valley and came into the hands of god Kane. In his wild awa-drinking revels the god terrified Umi and his people by sounding nightly blasts with the conch. The shell was finally restored to King Umi by the superhuman aid of the famous dog Puapua-lena-lena.] [Footnote 222: _Kiha-nui a Piilani_. Son of Piilani, a king of Maui. He is credited with the formidable engineering work of making a paved road over the mountain palis of Koolau, Maui.] [Footnote 223: _Kauhi kalana-honu’-a-Kama_. This Kauhi, as his long title indicates, was the son of the famous king, Kama-lala-walu, and succeeded his father in the kingship over Maui and, probably, Lanai. Kama-lala-walu had a long and prosperous reign, which ended, however, in disaster. Acting on the erroneous reports of his son Kauhi, whom he had sent to spy out the land, he invaded the kingdom of Lono-i-ka-makahiki on Hawaii, was wounded and defeated in battle, taken prisoner, and offered up as a sacrifice on the altar of Lono’s god, preferring that death, it is said, to the ignominy of release.] [Footnote 224: _I-olena_. Roving, shifty, lustful.] [Footnote 225: _Kanaka hoali mauna_. Man who moved mountains; an epithet of compliment applied perhaps to Kiha, above mentioned, or to the king mentioned in the next verse, Kekaulike.] [Footnote 226: _Ku’i hono i ka moku_. Who bound together into one (state) the islands Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Kahoolawe. This was, it is said, Kekaulike, the fifth king of Maui after Kama-lala-walu. At his death he was succeeded by Kamehameha-nui—to be distinguished from the Kamehameha of Hawaii—and he in turn by the famous warrior-king Kahekili, who routed the invading army of Kalaniopuu, king of Hawaii, on the sand plains of Wailuku.]