Also compare with "Rolling Down to Old Mohee" in the DT.

No one seems to have pointed this out, but on Capt. James Cook's map of the Sandwich Islands, Maui is spelled Mohee.

Oahu is Woahoo and the Big Island of Hawai'i is Owhyhee. These were the common pronunciations of the English and Americans who visited the Islands before the era of the missionaries and a more scholarly approach was taken to the language. The glottal stop was difficult for the sailors.