[385] Wahine-kapu, one of the female deities of the Pele family who had her seat on an eminence at the brink of the caldera of Kilauea which was reverenced as a tabu place.
[386] Mai O'olu-eä. O'olu-ea, as a place-name calls for a preposition in mai. O'olu-ea, however, contains within it a verb, olu, to be easy, comfortable, and as a verb olu decides the mai to be an adverb of prohibition. In this meaning the caution is addressed to Lohiau.
[387] Ahi-a-Laka, a land in Puna. The double sense, in which it is here used, gives it a reference to the fires of passion.
[389] The kilu, which gave name to the sport, was an egg-shaped dish made by cutting a coconut or small gourd from end to end and somewhat obliquely so that one end was a little higher than the other.
[390] Au-hula-ana. When the road along a steep coast is cut off by a precipice with the ocean tossing at its base, the traveler will often prefer to swim rather than make a wide inland detour. Such a place or such an adventure is called an au-hula or au-hula-ana.
[391] Laau ku'i, literally, spliced sticks; a ladder, or some contrivance of the sort to aid the traveler in climbing a pali.
[392] Lalo, below, to leeward; therefore to the west, meaning Lohiau, who came from the leeward island of Kauai.
[393] Manawa, the fontanelles; the heart and affections.
[395] Lehua-wehe, a land in Honolulu; here meaning Pele-ula herself.
[396] Moe-awakea, a hill in Puna; here used for its etymological signification--literally, to sleep at noontime--which is brought out in the translation.
[397] The ami was a vigorous action of the body, often employed by dancers. Its chief feature was a rotation of the pelvis in circles of elipses. Though sometimes used with amorous intent, it was not necessarily an attempt to portray sexual attitudes. The ami honua, or ami ku'u pau, was an exaggerated action of the same description.
[398] Kalukalu, a place in Puna which supported extensive forests of hala (pandanus), a tree whose sword-shaped leaves were edged with fierce thorns. In contrast with the smart they produced the poet adduces the delights of the wilds in his own island of Kauai, instancing the laua'e, a fragrant vine that abounds in its mountains.