Ku ka puna, ke ko’a i-uka.
Ka makahá o ka nalu o Kuhihewa.[54]
Ua o ia,[55] nohá ka papa!
20 Noná Maui, nauweuwe,
Nauweuwe, nakelekele.
Nakele ka ili o ka i he’e-kai.
Lalilali ole ka ili o ke akamai;
Kahilihili ke kai a ka he’e-nalu.
25 Ike’a ka nalu nui o Puna, o Hilo.
[Footnote 38: Naihe. A man of strong character, but not a
high chief. He was horn in Kona and resided at Napoopoo. His
mother was Ululani, his father Keawe-a-heulu, who was a
celebrated general and strategist under Kamehameha I.]
[Footnote 39: Mahiehie. A term conferring dignity and
distinction.]
[Footnote 40: Onaulu-loa. A roller of great length and
endurance, one that reaches the shore, in contrast to a
_kakala_.]
[Footnote 41: _Kalai._ An archaic word meaning forty.]
[Footnote 42: _Hoaka._ A crescent; the name of the second day
of the month. The allusion is to the curve (downward) of a
large number (kakai) of malo when hung on a line, the usual
way of keeping such articles.]
[Footnote 43: _Malo kai._ The ocean is sometimes poetically
termed the _malo_ or _pa-á_ of the naked swimmer, or bather.
It covers his nakedness.]
[Footnote 44: _Ka’ika’i._ To lead or to carry; a tropical use
of the word. The sun is described as leading the board.]
[Footnote 45: _Hale-pó._ In the opinion of the author it is
the name of the board. A skilled Hawaiian says it is the name
given the surf of a place at Napoopoo, in Kona, Hawaii. The
action is not located there, but in Puna, it seems to the
author.]
[Footnote 46: _Kahiki._ Tahiti, or any foreign country; a term
of grandiloquence.]
[Footnote 47: _Wakea._ A mythical name, coming early in
Hawaiian genealogies; here used in exaggeration to show the
age of the roller.]
[Footnote 48: _Ho’ohua._ Applied to a roller, one that rolls
on and swells higher.]
[Footnote 49: _Opu’u._ Said of a roller that completes its run
to shore.]
[Footnote 50: _Kua-pá._ Said of a roller as above that dies
at the shore.]
[Footnote 51: _Maka-kai._ The springing-up of the surf after
an interval of quiet.]
[Footnote 52: _Kakála._ Rough, heaped up, one wave overriding
another, a chop sea.]
[Footnote 53: _Hiki-au._ Said to be the name of a temple.]
[Footnote 54: _Kuhihewa._ Full name _Ka-kuhi-hewa_, a
distinguished king of Oahu.]
[Footnote 55: _O iu._ Meaning that the board dug its nose
into the reef or sand.]
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