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

Note 2 — He Kanikau no Lono-opio.

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Name of a discomforting wind. Its first part, kia, is the name of a strong trade wind at Honuaula. At Hana the name applies to the northwest wind. This might indicate it as belonging to Maui, but it is not found among those named by Kuapakaa as released from his wind-gourd Laamaomao, as given in Memoirs, Vol. V, pp. 92–102. ↑

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