Note 11 — CONTENTS (continued 6)
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As Peapea was standing between the Maui and Oahu ranks, he commenced to give battle. He pursued11 the numerous warriors of Kahahana, and when they were caught by him, they were crushed (breaking in his hands as a brittle twig by the destroyer, was his treatment of the men). Likewise were those on the right hand and on the left. Thus he pressed upward until he encountered the poe,12 and they were standing in a circle. (The meaning of the word “poe”: a very great number of men, ranging from two laus to a mano, equivalent to eight hundred or more.)