Note 1 — Chapter XXXI · HIIAKA VISITS PELE-ULA AT KOU—THE HULA KILU

To return to our narrative: to this hamlet of Pele-ula, such as it was in the days of Arcadian sweetness—if not of light—Hiiaka and her select company now enter as the honored guests of a woman distinguished alike for her beauty, her spiritual subtility and insight—she was a makaula—and for her devotion to pleasure. One of her chief diversions, naturally enough, was the hula, especially that form of the dance which was used in connection with that risqué entertainment, the kilu.1