Note 1 — A Lamentation for Pe’ape’a.1
Reading edition
The subject of this chant was one of the sons of Kamehameha-nui (king of Maui succeeding Kekaulike), and met with fatal injuries by the explosion of a keg of gunpowder at the Kauiki hill fort, Hana. He was removed to Honokohau, in the Kaanapali district, where he shortly afterward died from his wounds, in 1794. This is the burden of the lament. ↑