Note 10 — Chapter XXX · WHAT HIIAKA SAW FROM THE HEIGHT OF POHA-KEA

Hiiaka’s voice had the precious quality of carrying her words and making them audible to a great distance, when she so willed. Her song, therefore, did not, on this occasion, waste itself in the wilderness of space. The caution it imposed had its effect. Lohiau and Wahine-oma’o calmed their passionate contentions and proceeded discreetly on their way. Having passed Kalae-loa,10 their canoe swung into that inverted arc of Oahu’s coastline, in the middle of which glisten, like two parted rows of white teeth, the coral bluffs that were the only guard at the mouth of Pearl Lochs.