 An unidentified queen identified it as a "Spanish man of war", recalling the alleged arrival of a Spanish galleon.Mary Pukui interpreted this as "very large double canoe", from ʻAu[hau]-waʻa-l[o]a-lua.However, Pukui may have been referring to the Portuguese man o' war, which Hawaiians called ʻAuwaʻalalua.