Note 1 — PREFACE. (continued 6)
Reading edition
When the attendants went before Kuula and Hina they (the latter) gave them fish which was a kahala.1 They told the attendants in a straightforward manner as follows: “You two go back and tell the king to rip open the fish, salt the meat, roast the bone in the underground oven, and when cooked eat it, because it is a swollen2 time.”