Note 20 — PREFACE. (continued 5)
Reading edition
Waa naku seems to have been coupled erroneously in its rendition of “a canoe made of bulrushes.” Naku has several meanings, one of which, according to Andrews, is “a search, a pursuit after.” Using that term in this case would render it appropriately a “search canoe,” rather than an unseaworthy craft of rushes, nowhere else referred to in Hawaiian tradition. ↑