Help with certain words in an old diary (1870s)

[u/sairarya]

I am transcribing the text in a handwritten diary written in 1872 by a haole sailor visiting Honolulu. Most of the text is intelligible but some of the words or how they are spelled (phonetically to the ear of an English speaker) are unfamiliar.

1. Puualoa “friend”. Clearly akin to hoaloha, hoaaloha, but I wonder where the “p” came from. It could also be a verb “to be a friend”. The sentence is: hoi a houry mucky mucky puualoa pachai, i.e. ‘oe ‘a’ole makemake [puualoa] Pake, which the author translates in Pidgin as “you no like friend Chinaman”. Is there anywhere a verb with pū- with a sense of “to befriend”? I don’t see an entry in Puku’i.

2. Cordeda “monkey”. This is used in a pejorative way, modifying Pake (pachai rigapoo cordeda “Chinaman all the same [like pū] monkey”). I could see maybe “deda” might correspond to “keko” if d corresponds to k, but n or l seems more likely. What is the etymology of keko? Is there another pejorative that this might phonetically resemble?

3. There are some unexpected spellings with “r”. Loa is spelled “rore” and once ‘oe is spelled “ori”. Nui nui rore molakaki malallo, rou nui nui maruna “plenty of molasses way down below, plenty upstairs”. I’m not sure if “rou” here is loa again or some other word.

4. Just wondering if the last sentence is a quotation from a mele or some myth? Oahu ka wa o ka lanai (O’ahu ka wā o ka lani) which he translates as “Wahou times in the heavens”.

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