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

Note 108 — A Lamentation for Kahahana.12

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“Liua” is said when a person has lost a thing and he looks about, here and there, while the thing itself lies all the while nearby; second, liua is when a person in diving under water by some means fills his mouth and eyes full of water, so for a time, he sees things indistinctly; the latter applies here, liua hoi ka maka, dim were the eyes in looking i ka nalo loa, for he was quite vanished. ↑

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