Note 258 — A Wakea Creation Chant.

I lania, to lay before a fire to dry. Those who practiced keeping and training game cocks, kept them just before the fight on roosts over a low fire of coals to strengthen them and make them fierce; hale uahi was the smoke house where these cocks were set in training. Kani, to sound, kani eena, to sound roughly, as starched paper, rattled as starched cloth; so the feathers of these trained cocks sounded. ↑