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

Note 80 — A Lamentation for Kahahana.12

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The outer girdle, etc., i ka hala ia, that is his offence, his affliction perhaps; kui papa, etc., “break the board” seems to be an expression applied to the stripping of a chief or a man of all his property, honor, etc., i ke au for aupuni. ↑

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