Note 8 — Introductory material
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Liloa then proceeded to tell the people how he met the mother of Umi and how he lived with her for some days, saying: “When we went to dedicate the temple, and I one day returned without my loin cloth and I had on a ti-leaf loin cloth, you said that I was crazy; but today you see that here is my loin cloth, my necklace of whale’s tooth and my war club. I left these things for my son, who is here.”8 At the end of the king’s address they then knew that Umi was the son of Liloa.