Note 6 — PREFACE. (continued 2)
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The names of these successors to Pakaa may be significant of their scheming characters, Hookele meaning a steerer; a director of a vessel’s course; one, Hookeleihilo being toward Hilo and the other Hookeleipuna being toward Puna, as if, possibly, to wean the king from his natural leanings toward Kona, his birthplace, as it was that of Pakaa also. ↑