Note 452 — XXXV.—THE HULA KILU
Reading edition
Footnote 452: (return) Pua ehu Kamaléna (yellow child). This exclamation is descriptive of the man’s visual impression on seeing the canoe with its crowd of passengers and paddlers, in the misty light of morning, receding in the distance. The kamaléna is a mountain shrub having a yellow flower.