Note 3 — PREFACE.
Reading edition
Opuukahonua (given also in places as Opukahonua) signifies “budding earth”, and it is coincident that the account of the islands’ birth is narrated by such a personification. In like manner the further tradition of their origin is appropriately sung by Kahakuikamoana, “the roar or boom of the sea”, while the version by Pakui, signifying “added on; joined”, deals with the traditional development of the group. ↑