Note 292 — CONTENTS. (continued 5)
Reading edition
That was when Kamehameha commenced the cultivation at Ualakaa;292 the chief was three years on Oahu; then he came to Lahaina. That was the time of the sounding reed,293 that is, a thinned stem of coconut leaf placed on a flat piece of wood which fitted in the mouth; or it may be fibrous lauhala, and so forth. After three years here, he returned to Hawaii.