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

Note 51 — PREFACE. (continued 5)

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If a child was born in Kaaona,51 if a boy he would be much sought after by women and favored in all his works. Ruling chiefs would be his associates and he would be a general favorite among them. As the name of the month indicates, so were the acts of the man; such a person was called: “The intoxicating shrub of Makalei”52 (which was a favorite intoxicant plant of the fishes).

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