Note 49 — PREFACE.
Reading edition
This is how the song runs that Makuakaumana49 chanted at Tahiti, when he and Paao went to get a new chief for Hawaii nei, because all the old chiefs of Hawaii had sinned, Kapawa50 being the king of Hawaii at that time, he being of the fortieth generation from the time of Opuukahonua. When Makuakaumana and company were nearing the beach in the harbor of Moaulanuiakea51 then Makuakaumana chanted to Lonokaeho, the priest of that place: