Note 33 — CONTENTS (continued 5)

Kamalalawalu, on hearing this, said to Kauhiakama: “We shall perish; we can not be saved. I thought your report was true, but it is not so.33 By whom have you been taught that the house is a thing that stands without dwellers. Why! The house is erected, the men live therein. Woe betide us that we perish by your report. Alas! How great is the love of the wife and the children who will fail to see this corpse, or that [I] see them not.”