Note 19 — PREFACE.

A priest then picked up the ieie fern and a white girdle. Standing up he addressed19 some words to the ieie fern, supplicating the gods thus: “The malo, malo; the ieie, ieie; the lightning, this is the ieie. O Ku, O Lono, O Kane, O Kanaloa, give safety to your attendant, and to all the chiefs, and to all the people and all the priests.” The priest then discontinued his supplicating the ieie. The rest of the priests then arose, about forty or more of them, praying to and praising the god, the noise of their praises ringing through the day. The people then raised the feather-gods aloft, the attendants marching in a circle before the eyes of the people, with the idols in their hands. This was a form of praise by all the people.