The Kalo natives felt that Hula and Kerepunu got the most tobacco and tomahawks, and that their share was small indeed.
After it is freed from acridity by baking, the kalo is pounded until reduced to a kind of paste which is eaten cold, under the name of poi.
More than thirty varieties of kalo are cultivated on the Hawaiian Islands, most of them requiring a marshy soil, but a few will grow in the dry earth of the mountains.
Poi is a paste made of the tuberous root of the kalo (Colocasia antiquorum, var.
In Algeria, a kind of kalo is cultivated under the name of chou caraibe, whose tubers are larger, but less feculent.
The most northern island of the group, Kauai, is as often pronounced as if it began with a T, and Kalo is usually Taro.
We were so hemmed in that it was difficult to dismount, but I bound some wild kalo leaves round my feet, and managed to get over some broken rock to a knoll, from which I obtained a superb view of the wonderful cleft.
Canoes glide along it, brown-skinned men wade down it floating bundles of kalo after them, and strings of laden horses and mules follow each other along its still waters.
Near the Anuenue Fall we stopped at a native house, outside which a woman, in a rose-coloured chemise, was stringing roses for a necklace, while her husband pounded the kalo root on a board.
The men do whatever hard work is done in cultivating the kalo patches and pounding the kalo.
They brought me a kalo leaf containing a number of living freshwater shrimps, and were quite surprised when I did not eat them.
The kalo root is an ovate oblong, as bulky as a Californian beet, and it has large leaves, shaped like a broad arrow, of a singularly bright green.
The melon and kalo patches represent a certain amount of spasmodic industry, but in most other things the natives take no thought for the morrow.
Hard by was the wagon and the horse, and, after the usual initiatory amazement at being accosted in the kalo jib, or black language, had been survived, we settled down into conversation.
Wales and Birmingham, or in the Kalo tem or Black Country.
In the goodness of our hearts we even offered to give him lessons in the kalo jib, or black language.
It is inhabited by the Bulaa, Babaka, Kamali, andKalo tribes, which all speak dialects of one language.
Commanding the mouth of the Vanigela River, the people of Kalo absorb the trade with the interior; and their material prosperity is said to have rendered them conceited and troublesome.
Kauawaahila afterward made some kalo patches, and people, attracted by the water and consequent fertility of the place, came and settled about, voluntarily offering themselves as vassals to the twins.
She remembered and heeded the warning during those years, but one day, her husband and all their men having gone to Manoa to cultivate kalo (Colocasia antiquorum), she was left alone with her maid servants.
More and more kalo patches were excavated, and the place became a thriving settlement.
The puro beng is a fino mush, if you will have the kalo jib!
When Mother Cockleshell ceased he poured out a flood of the kalo jib with much gesticulation, and in a voice which boomed like a gong.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kalo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
