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Ka nahele o Pa-ie-ie,[144] Ku'u po'e lehua iwaena konu o Mo-kau-lele;[145] 25 Me ka ha'i laau i pu-kaula hala'i i ka ua. Ke nana ia la e la'i i Hanakahi. Oni aku Hilo, oni ku'u kai lipo-lipo, A Lele-iwi, ku'u kai ahu mimiki a ka Malua.[146] Lei kahiko, lei nalu ka poai. 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 Wailu
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