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
Kalcala.]

[Footnote 41: _Kalai._ An archaic word meaning forty.]

[Footnote 42: _Hooka._ 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-a_ 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-po._ 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-pa._ 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: _Kakala._ Rough, heaped up, one wave overriding
another, a chop sea.]