Crossword-Solution: PUPU 4 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

After ablutions, before partaking of their simple breakfast, the company stand before the altar and recite a tabu-removing prayer, accompanying the cantillation with a rhythmic tapping of feet and clapping of hands: _Pule Hoonoa_ Pupu we’uwe’u e, Laka e! O kona we’uwe’u ke ku nei.

BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 38 PLATE XII [Illustration: PUPU-KANI-OE, POETICALLY STYLED KAHULI HAWAIIAN TREE-SHELLS (ACHATINELLA)] _Kahuli_ is a fanciful name applied to the beautiful and unique genus of tree-shells (Achatinella), plate XII, that inhabit the Hawaiian woods.

All heads are lifted, all eyes are directed heavenward or to the altar, and the hands with a noiseless motion keep time as the voices of the company, led by the kumu, in solemn cantillation, utter the following prayer: [Page 128] _Pule Hoo-noa no Laka_ Pupu we’u-we’u[273] e, Láka e, O kona we’u-we’u e ku-wá;[274] O Ku-ka-ohia-Laká,[275] e; Laua me Ku-pulu-pulu;[276] 5 Ka Lehua me ke Koa lau-lii; O ka Lama me Moku-halii, Kú-i-kú-i[277] me ka Hala-pepe; Lakou me Lau-ka-ie-ie, Ka Palai me Maile-lau-lii.

They sent a big pupu platter up to her room with a dish of poi and a hollow pineapple filled with rum.

The Leaf-of-the Morning-Glory saw that the young chiefess liked this, so she went out and found Pupu-kani-oi (the singing land-shell), whose home was on the leaves of the forest trees.