Note 5 — Hoolea ia Liholiho.
Reading edition
Certain high rank chiefs were entitled to the prostration of the people. Such chiefs usually went abroad at night, or if in the daytime a herald went before him with a flag, calling out “kapu moe,” whereupon all the people prostrated. The same observance held when his food or other belongings was carried by; all had to prostrate themselves on penalty of death.—(Malo’s Antiquities.) ↑