Note 22 — A Lamentation for Kahahana.12
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The grass, land, etc., are brown by the summer sun. Makalii is the name of a single month, it applies to the hottest; it is also the name of a whole season of six months. Ke oho, grass likened to the hair; kukai, dipped frequently in the sea. It is said that persons made their hair brown by frequent bathing in the sea. Here ke oho kukai is the brown grass of Mauuenaena, a plain east of Waikiki. ↑