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

Note 9 — He Kanikau i Kona Uhane.

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I, or my people, have perhaps eaten as an ungodly person, i.e. without prayer or thanks which was universal in ancient times; they have eaten sacrilegiously under me, as in the next line the ia answers for the passive, and the accented u renders it, literally, it has been eaten wickedly by them here under me. ↑

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