30 Nana Pu’u-eo[147] e! makai ka iwi-honua,[148] e!
Puna-hoa la, ino, ku, ku wau a Wai-akea la.
[Footnote 127: _Olelo_. To speak, to converse; here used
figuratively to mean that the place is lonely, has no view of
the ocean, looks only to the sky. “Looks that commerce with
the sky.”]
[Footnote 128: _Ku-kani-loko_. A land in Waialua, Oahu, to
which princesses resorted in the olden times at the time of
childbirth, that their offspring might have the distinction
of being an _alii kapu_, a chief with a tabu.]
[Footnote 129: _Hale_ House; a familiar euphemism of the human
body.]
[Footnote 130: _Kea-au_. An _ahu-pua’a_, small division of
land, in Puna adjoining Hilo, represented as sheltering Hilo
on that side.]
[Footnote 131: _Waiakea_. A river in Hilo, and the land through
which it flows.]
[Footnote 132: _Hana-kahi_. A land on the Hamakua side of Hilo,
also a king whose name was a synonym for profound peace.]
[Footnote 133: _Olo-kea_. To be invited or pulled many ways at
once; distracted.]
[Footnote 134: _Lele-iwi_. A cape on the north side of Hilo.]
[Footnote 135: _Maka-hana-loa_. A cape.]
[Footnote 136: _Kaele-papa_. A large, round, hollowed board on
which to pound taro in the making of poi. The poi-board was
usually long and oval.]
[Footnote 137: _Kaele_. In this connection the meaning is
surrounded, encompassed by.]
[Footnote 138: _Waiau_. The name given to the stretch of
Wailuku river near its mouth.]
[Footnote 139: _Moku-pane_. The cape between the mouth of the
Wailuku river and the town of Hilo.]
[Footnote 140: _Wai-anue-nue_. Rainbow falls and the river that
makes the leap.]
[Footnote 141: _Kolo-pule-pule_. Another branch of the Wailuku
stream.]
[Footnote 142: _Pili-kau_. To hang low, said of a cloud.]
[Footnote 143: _Haili_. A region in the inland, woody, part of
Hilo.]
[Footnote 144: _Pa-ieie_. A well-wooded part of Hilo, once much
resorted to by bird-hunters; a place celebrated in Hawaiian
song.]
[Footnote 145: _Mokau-lele_. A wild, woody region In the
interior of Hilo.]
[Footnote 146: _Malua_. Name given to a wind from a northerly
or northwesterly direction on several of the islands. The
full form is Malua-lua.]
[Footnote 147: _Pu’u-eo_. A village in the Hilo district near
Puna.]
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