Note 4 — Introductory material

At about this time it was customary for the people to gather at Wailua to join in and to witness the different athletic sports. One day while the different games were going on, the shouts and yells to encourage the different contestants were heard by Pikoiakaalala. He therefore asked his father Alala: “Say, Alala, what is the cause of that shouting down at Wailua?” “They are playing olohu,”4 answered Alala. “What is that?” asked Pikoiakaalala. “It is played in this way: there are two contestants playing; when one has rolled his stone disk farther than the other’s, the multitude would shout. That is the noise you hear.” Pikoiakaalala then asked: “Let me go and witness the games?” “You cannot go and see them until after today,” said Alala. After this the multitude shouted again. When Pikoiakaalala heard the commotion, he again asked Alala, this being the second time: “What is that renewed shouting down there?” “They are playing at a game called pahee.5 When the stick thrown by one contestant slides farther than the one thrown by the other the people would yell.” “I must go down,” said Pikoiakaalala. Alala refused, saying: “You cannot go.”