I'm about halfway through Blu's
I'm about halfway through Blu's Hanging and I probably won't say much about it until I'm done. But I will add that I'm also having a little trouble now and then with the vocabulary. The problem with Kualono's Mamaka Kaiao dictionary is that it covers just the Hawaiian language. The characters in Blu's Hanging, on the other hand, are speaking the Hawaiian Pidgin English, which I guess borrows syntax and vocabulary from some of the other languages spoken on the islands over time. I went to Yahoo! and ran a search on "Hawaiian pidgin," and it brought up about half a dozen pages, some of which have limited glossaries of pidgin words. Check it out and see what you can find if you need help.