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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 80 — CONTENTS. (continued 2)

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After their conversation the foetus passed on until it landed at Nuu;80 this place where it landed is at Kaupo; she walked on in the form of a human being. When Nuu looked he beheld a most beautiful woman. She kept right on until she met Puuomaiai;81 she also was a good-looking woman. Puuomaiai asked the stranger: “To where are you journeying?” The other replied: “Going along to places ahead of here.” Puuomaiai requested that they be friends, and they became such. She was received; they ate, and after being satisfied they went along. While they were going Manawainui82 voiced a chant, thus:

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