Note 259 — A Wakea Creation Chant.

Ohiohi, variegated, many colored, as the feathers of a cock; me he hoe panoa, a kind of paddle found on Kauai, the wood was variegated with many colors; me he puu kauila, name of a heavy, hard red-wood. Where a heap of war instruments lay piled together there was a singular appearance; ka io, the mass, the heap. So Kamehameha appeared. ↑