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Fornandcr Collection of Hazvaiian Folk-lore. 



Tahiti, land of the far-reaching ocean, 

 Land where Olopana dwelt. 



Within is the land, outside is the sun; 

 Indistinct is the land when approaching. 

 Perhaps you have seen it ? 



1 have surely seen Tahiti, 



A land with a strange language is Tahiti. 

 The people of this place ascended up 



To the very backbone of heaven; 

 They trampled and looked down below. 

 Kanakas (men of our race) are not in Tahiti. 

 One kind of men is in Tahiti — the haole;' 

 He is like a god, 

 I am like a man, 

 Ku is a god. 



It is made plain by tlie song or mele that Knalii had met the foreigners at that 

 time, because his knowledge of them is proved nowadays and foreigners are living 

 here in these days. And here is the stanza of the song on that subject: 



"I have surely seen Tahiti, 

 A land with a strange language is Tahiti." 



It is true the langtiages and voices of the foreigners are strange and are not 

 like ours, and on this account it seems plain that Kualii had met and had knowledge 

 of the foreigners at that time. 



'The haole, or foreigner, is generally understood to refer to a white person unless it is qualified. 



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