Note 3 — Introductory material

At the close of the above conversation Liloa instructed Akahiakuleana as follows: “You live on, and should you give birth to a boy, give him the name of Umi, but if you should give birth to a girl name her on your side.” Akahiakuleana then said to Liloa: “What tokens are you to leave behind in order that you may know that the child belongs to the king?” When Liloa heard this he gave her his loin cloth, his necklace of whale’s tooth and his war club, and then said: “Here are the tokens for our child.3 When it is full grown give these things to the child as his.” Akahiakuleana assented to this, took them from the king and passed them over to her maid servant who would take charge of them. Liloa then went out and tied together some dried ti-leaf and girded them around his loin as a loin cloth; and returned to his house. When Liloa arrived at the house, his attendants said to him: “You had on a real loin cloth when you went away, and here at this time you have on a ti-leaf loin cloth.”