Ardently desirous of seeing his country peopled, he was melancholy, and shed torrents of tears on the mountain Mou-na-ROA, because he had no offspring; and his loving wife, the beautiful goddess Opuna, was not in a situation to console him.
"A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2"
Otto von Kotzebue
When the letter was brought to Ximenes at ROA he was dangerously ill.
"The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria"
Eleanor E. Tremayne
While she was standing on the bank, Tuna-ROA, "the long eel," saw her.
"Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina"
W. D. Westervelt