Note 15 — CONTENTS (continued 6)

When he fell in the crevice, he was struck on the forehead with a paddle by the fishermen, and on account of this fact the title of that famous law, the “mamalahoa,”15 was derived, which prevailed until the days of Kamehameha III, the interpretation of which being that old men and old women might lie down in the road without being ruthlessly killed,16 or robbed of their belongings.