Note 87 — PREFACE. (continued 5)
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Just then the thought of his blunder occurred to Maliu, and he said to his priest companion that, according to the augury which applied to him, “An overthrow will be the result of this neglect of the deity, an event the like of which was never seen before.” The matter was therefore reported by Maliu to Hewahewa, the high priest of Kamehameha. On hearing of it Hewahewa remarked: “There will be an overthrow in the future; no greater reverses will ever occur than the one forthcoming; hillock places in the land will become ravines; the cliffs table lands; the smooth faces of the steep precipices will become settlements.”87