The ranch exhausted their supplies and the king sent the workers the necessities of life including native medicine and food. This chant commorates this errand of mercy. The Kilauea was an interisland steamer that sailed during the 1860s thru the 1870s. Kama'ipu'upa'a was a female kahuna, expert in Hawaiian medicine and prophecy and a member of the King's household. She was reputed to be his mistress.
Olive leaves are the Christian symbol of peace.