"The author of the mele was a Hawaiian named John Meha, who died some years ago."
"-- The composer of the music and the author of the mele was a Hawaiian named John Meha, of the Hawaiian Band, who died some ten years ago, at the age of 40 years."
"Some parts of this mele, which is a love-song, have defied the author's most strenuous efforts to penetrate their deeper meaning."