translation of halow cultus

[hzenk at PDX.EDU]

> One last drop in a sinking ship,
> perhaps what the rescuer said was,
>  'hiyu kultus' referring to the sinking boat or helpless situation.
>   'very worthless'
> Scott
>

I thought quite a bit about this one, and Scott's take is pretty close to mine. 
If "halow" is indeed to be read as CW hilu 'gone, nothing', the only way it
makes sense to me is as an exclamation:

hilu!, kEltEs!  'gone!  destroyed!' (freely translating kEltEs 'worthless').

Of course, there's no guarantee that what the guy actually said was accurately
reported.  Henry

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